Help our Community Printshop repair its Community Printer

After 8 years of intensive usage making below market rate printing and modern printing technologies available to local organizations and artists, our 44-inch, wide-format Epson photo quality printer is in need of maintenance and upgrading. Your donations are providing funding to refurbish the community printer and re-stock our shop with ink and supplies to continue our work supporting community projects and local artists. We have been blessed with donations and want you to know that further donations will allow us to meet an unexpected increase in printer repair costs and purchase additional supplies we will use to serve the projects and artists in our community with affordable printing in support of their creative efforts. We are very grateful.

During the last 8 years and working from our home printshop we have supported local artists and activists to apply their creativity and artistic energy to help them realize their personal and community aspirations. Because we are not a commercial shop, we have supported this work through small community grants, our own efforts, the sale of art and contributions from artists as they are able. As artists, we have encouraged, supported and worked with artists to develop new ways of reproducing their art using materials that enhance their work and provide creative ways to display their art. Printing and access to modern technology can be a big cost to emerging artists and organizations, and our project is our way of supporting our community projects and local artists.

When Covid came along, we collaborated with Arts of Point Richmond, a local arts group, to bring members art out into the streets for public viewing. Sixty pieces of enlarged artwork was printed on 40-60 inch vinyl banners and displayed on walls, windows, fences and other surfaces. The project was expanded to include student art from a local elementary school based on important social themes like diversity, homelessness and kindness.

Other projects we have supported include the firesafe message and annual festival of our local Firesafe Council, local groups working on the development of parks, local cleanup efforts, a farmers market, local community development projects, the emergency support efforts of the local amateur radio community, booth art for our local community stroll and more.

General contributions go to our project fund, El Sobrante Valley Artists in Community, to be held for community printing projects and are not tax-deductible. However, we are affiliated with a local nonprofit, and if you wish to give a large donation, we can arrange for you to receive a tax letter exempting your donation for tax purposes.