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Hatch Show Print’s Haley Gallery to Showcase New Exhibit Jim Sherraden: Personal Woodcuts
Jun 23, 2015
Exhibit Opens Friday, July 3, and Runs Through Saturday, August 8 NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 23, 2015—Hatch Show Print, a historic property of the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum since 1992 and one of the oldest working letterpress shops...
Google Spotlights Hatch Show Print
Jun 02, 2015
While our day-to-day workflow in the shop is so two centuries ago, we do enjoy leveraging the best of this digital era from time to time. And Google noticed: Hatch Show Print has been selected by Google as the featured...
An Archaeological Adventure
May 08, 2015
The first Friday in April proved to be the perfect day for a little light destruction in the shop—in the name of preservation, of course! While much of our time in the shop is focused on design and printing, we...
SGC Printacular Spectacular
Apr 08, 2015
In March 2015, the staff from Hatch Show Print traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, to participate in the annual conference of the Southern Graphics Council International. The SGCI is committed to educating its members about issues and processes concerning original prints,...
MAR MCH?
Feb 20, 2015
Cory was exploring the archive for a poster job, and came across some curious blocks in our collection of month blocks and now, we’re curious... We’re fairly certain that our predecessors here at the shop did not know that the...
An Educational Experience in Just a Few Minutes!
Feb 20, 2015
After a wonderful holiday show featuring the work of the designer printers at Hatch, we’ve rehung Hatch Show Print’s Haley Gallery with fresh monoprints from Jim Sherraden, and, we’ve take the time to pair some of the restrikes of the...
To carve and what to carve . . . those are the questions!
Jan 12, 2015
One of the curiosities of the shop that often comes up in conversation relates our process for deciding when it is appropriate to take the time to carve a new image block to use in a poster design. The first...
Recommended Reading
Dec 12, 2014
A good friend of the shop made a great find during a recent jaunt to the Nashville Flea Market: A Hatch Show Print date book from 1967! Just seeing this piece of ephemera from the last century would be amazing,...
What Do You Get When You Introduce A Collie To A Wesel?
Dec 12, 2014
A revived block and a new print in Hatch Show Print’s Haley Gallery! Now that we’re in our new home on 5th Avenue South, we’re tackling projects we just dreamed about. . . and one of those dreams was to...
This week’s visitor to the shop is also part of the shop’s archive!
Nov 06, 2014
Earlier this year, the team at Pillsbury contacted us to create the artwork for the official aprons of Pillsbury’s 47th Annual Bake-Off, held this week in Nashville. They were interested in a uniquely Nashville texture for the aprons, so Heather...