A MESSAGE FROM THE IPRC DIRECTOR

Happy New Year to you all! I want to begin by thanking everyone who donated to our annual fundraising drive this year. We raised nearly $4000 through the Willamette Week's online Give!Guide, plus another $1000 in direct donations to the IPRC, which combined qualified us to earn another $5000 in a matching challenge grant from an anonymous donor!

The IPRC wouldn't exist without your support, and our successful fundraising season was a poignant reminder that during challenging times, our most important asset is the community around us. This is especially true for writers, zinesters, artists and anyone pursuing creative dreams. So we’re fortunate to have a place like the IPRC—a truly unique non-profit where writers and artists can connect, share knowledge and publish their own work for very affordable rates. Part of our mission is to encourage the growth of the local literary and arts community, so it’s with excitement that we announce our focus for the next two months: Small Press.

In celebration of small presses, our art gallery currently features work by Red Bat Press and Broken Hips Press, two successful creative businesses that started out in the IPRC. Starting in February, we’ll open a new group art show featuring indie book cover art by Eberhardt Press, Future Tense Press and others. At the end of February, look for a panel discussion on small presses, featuring Portland luminaries like Kevin Sampsell, Charles Eberhardt, and Mike McGonigal of Yeti Magazine. And among our usual lineup of low cost public workshops, we have some excellent offerings like Starting a Creative Business, Zines 101, and Intro to Letterpress Printing, all of which can help you publish yourself or even launch your own small press.

In the spirit of community and DIY publishing, we’ve created a new collaborative IPRC zine/workshop catalog, featuring work by IPRC volunteers and friends. This Jan/Feb 2009 catalog is now available at the IPRC, Reading Frenzy, and various locations. We hope you’ll enjoy, and if you haven’t already, please consider joining the IPRC community by taking a workshop or becoming a member.

Hope to see you soon,

Justin Hocking

IPRC Director

IPRC'S NEW YEAR'S WISH LIST

*We really need a gently used Macintosh ibook (G3 or G4) laptop for our new Program Coordinator, A.M. O'Malley. A laptop would definitely help A.M. with her work, which means better programming, workshops and events for you!

*We need folks to join the IPRC or renew their IPRC memberships through the Give!Guide. IPRC membership is on a sliding scale between $45 and $100; simply make a donation of your chosen amount through the Give!Guide website, and then send us a confirmation email at info@iprc.org.

*We're looking for new board members who have experience with development and fundraising.

*We would really benefit from one or two gently used Imac G5's for our computer lab.

*We're looking for an industrial guillotine paper cutter, as well as a tabletop perfect binder to expand our binding options. Our goal is to help users create small print runs of perfect bound books sometime in 2009!

The IPRC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so any in-kind donations you make can be written off as a deduction from your 2008 taxes.

TEXT BALL PHOTOS!
Thanks to everyone who made this year's Text Ball a huge success! Check out photos here.

ART SHOW:
Small Press:The Art & Business of Loaded Hips and Red Bat Press
We're pleased to showcase the artwork of two IPRC printers-- Shannon Buck of Loaded Hips Press and Carye Bye of Red Bat Press, who present a joint show of small prints (lino-cut, woodblock, letterpress, and mixed media). Both printers met at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (which has a full letterpress print shop) around 2002-2003 and launched their own small businesses making and selling prints. This show will tell their story, process, and show a collection of prints from each press. The show will be on view during open hours through January 30, 2009

The Independent Publishing Resource Center facilitates creative expression and identity by providing individual access to the resources and tools for the creation of independently published media and art.

Since its inception in 1998 the center has been dedicated to encouraging the growth of a visual and literary publishing community by offering a space to gather and exchange information and ideas, as well as to produce work. The IPRC is an Oregon 501(c)(3) Nonprofit organization.

Please peruse the Frequently Asked Questions About The IPRC or read about the members of our Staff & Board.

IPRC Open Hours
The IPRC's open hours are posted in the column to the left.

A note about hours: If there is no one around by 9pm on weeknights, the volunteer staff is free to leave, so be sure to arrive by 9pm. There should be no problem getting in, as the front door is equipped with a buzzer system for post-business hours -- ring Suite #218.