happy 100th birthday, Sister Corita Kent

rule 1 Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

rule 2 General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.

rule 3 General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.

rule 4 Consider everything an experiment.

rule 5 Be self disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be disciplined is to follow in a better way.

rule 6 Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

rule 7 The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

rule 8 Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

rule 9 Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

rule 10 “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for x quantities.” –John Cage

helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything; it might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.”

Corita Kent was born 100 years ago today.

lots of gratitude to Dirk Fowler for telling me about her & her work! I looked her up immediately later that day & am obsessed & told my screenprinting students at Charles Adams Studio Project & students at Texas Tech University School of Art about her ✨✨
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beto letterpress love

letterpress collaboration with Adam Mulsow

letterpress printed two editions of posters for Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 campaign for senate, raising over a thousand dollars plus, thru donations made at VMBEE’s Studio 4 during November’s First Friday Art Trail, through election day, & beyond.

 
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KTXT 88.1 College Radio Day 2018, letterpress printing

flashback to KTXT - The Raider 88.1 live-broadcasting for College Radio Day this past October First Friday Art Trail! they’re holding letterpress posters designed by Dirk Fowler, & printed on the Vandercook SP-15 by Victoria Marie Bee with help from three DJs @visett @perlermer @miette_esteb7 •#letterpress & #collegeradio, forever ❤️🖤

 

printmaking, forever.

(this photo & post are from April, from my instagram @vbee, but I just really felt like it needed to be posted here, xo)

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I can’t show you everything just yet, because I haven’t processed any of the recent events of this past week / weekend because I was nonstop busy to make them happen but I just started crying uncontrollably & it’ll probably continue thru the night & happen randomly the next few days / weeks / months / years because I’m experiencing#allthefeels & cannot handle how eternally grateful I am that I get to do what I do here & now & that I moved to Lubbock for a silly reason & then started grad school here & one my first teaching assistantships included a class taught by Dirk & he brought some letterpress posters one day & then another day let me borrow a press that was in my tiny darkroom & I spent hours in there then more & more people came thru & I met Chad & Charles & they listened to me & letterpress started at CASP then I stayed for my MFA & now I am an#artistinresidence here until December & I have met some amazing people who are also hardworking & passionate & recently @shes_the_manda_ came into my studio & told me about a group of young women who are rape survivors who get together & make art to heal & I’ve had a gun pointed at me & a friend who didn’t listen & other stories & know too many other people with stories & especially here & now their voices need to be heard & Amanda & her friends were brave enough to show their artwork & writings in Studio 4 for #firstfridayarttrail which thousands of people attended but it didn’t stop there because there was also an interactive wall that other people could tell their stories & words of healing & it’s completely filled & overflowing & I don’t know if you realize how powerful & great it is but I was in the print studio last night with the best helpers who helped me sell out of prints & overheard so many people telling of how moved they were by the whole event but it doesn’t stop there because today lots of people came into the print studio to help us#screenprint hundreds of individual pages for coloring books from kids to adults & their prints filled two huge racks & this is only a detail & then we assembled them & they’re going to organizations who help people locally next week because#youarenotalone...EVER.