Wednesday Jan 25, 2012 by mike
Extracurricular Screenprinting
We've been feeling creative and crafty lately as we've been working on pieces to include in our ongoing, everchanging Working Title art show happening right NOW at CO Exhibitions. Wes and Ben were looking through our hallway and found an old screen we exposed, what, like 5 years ago? with an image I put together of Jim Belushi rockin' an Ol Dirty Bastard tribute version of his famous COLLEGE sweatshirt. We ended up printing a run of those sweatshirts and they were awesome.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2011 by mike
Record Cases!
Announcing the first in what will hopefully be a long and fruitful line of home furnishings from us here at Burlesque. We all teamed up to put together these handsome record cases. Read More
Wednesday Dec 7, 2011 by mike
A Visit to Harmen Liemburg's Studio
I first found out about Dutch graphic artist and screenprinter Harmen Liemburg a few years ago when he was a resident faculty member at MCAD and brought his screenprinting class over for a tour of the Burlesque print shop. Since then I've been following his fantastic, brightly-colored, pop-culture-saturated, collage-heavy designs on his website, where he also documents his inspirations and design process for most of his projects. Back in April 2011, my wife and I took a trip to Amsterdam. When I told Harmen I was going to be in town, he invited us to check out his studio, which is right in the middle of a largely artist-populated warehouse district, accessible by ferry from the Northern edge of Amsterdam's central district. Here are a few photos from that visit...
Thursday Sep 29, 2011 by mike
Draplin Does Philadelphia
To coincide with his recent lecture in Philadelphia, friend of Burlesque Aaron Draplin put together this gorgeous poster of some of the best icons and visual memories from the City of Brotherly Love. I mean, just about everything is here from Ben Franklin to Pep Boys to Schoolly D to The Dead Milkmen to Rocky to cheesesteaks to Hall & Oates. Wait, where's Jazzy Jeff?!? OK we'll let that one slide for now. But really, Draplin asked us to print this badboy and we couldn't say no! He had a few copies for sale at his get-down in Philly. In case you weren't there, we will be making this poster available very soon through our online store.
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18 x 24"
4 color screenprint on mixed French paper
with shiny ass American gold ink
Wednesday May 25, 2011 by mike
New art prints from Greg Gossel
This Thursday, we will be releasing two brand new art prints designed by Minneapolis artist Greg Gossel and published and printed right here at Burlesque. Around this time last year, we closed up our First Amendment gallery with an exhibit and print release from Greg. We love his brightly-colored collages made from repurposed snippets of pop culture. Read More
