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)

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.

[sketchbook] bluets, tests

working on more experimentation with innovative use of carbon paper instead of ink, in letterpress printing #letterpressisntjustforletters, XO

[sketchbook] the latitudes of desire

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just posted some new work, that's inspired by this poem "The Latitudes of Desire," & lots more. notice how the pages of my copy of Sparks from a Nine Pound Hammer are stained with wine, which show the love I have for this book, which I showed the poet, Steve Scafidi, when I met him at dinner & he signed it at a poetry reading a couple years ago.

& lucky that James Lewis Tucker of The Aesthetic Union & I are in collaboration talks, about the colors & the color blue (& all the other things that stem from that hue), which also inspired the new work & more + is leading up to amazing collaboration action.

more soon, ❤️

[VMBEE PRESENTS] Central Pivot: Noise & Ink Showcase

so excited to be presenting CENTRAL PIVOT on the 14th!

more soon!

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Poster designed & screenprinted by Adam Mulsow, 2018

[gratitude] bluets

lots of gratitude & love to everyone who made BLUETS so damn lovely, & all the kind words about my experiments with all things blue: letterpress, carbon paper, photographs, & cyanotypes

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BLUETS
First Friday Art Trail at Studio 4, September 7th 6-10pm, 1010 Mac Davis Lane, Charles Adams Studio Project - CASP
featuring:
letterpress & photography by Victoria Marie Bee
live music by Blind Blues Singers
vinyls by Flatland Records