PRESS strives to engage visitors, artists and students with hands-on, real-world printmaking projects. PRESS is a community resource and gallery, and a lab for learning and discovery for professional, artists, students and visitors.
PRESS offers three core services:
• a public, interactive gallery space—working Vandercook Universal III press as gallery centerpoint
• professional art and arts management studio for MCLA faculty and students
• letterpress studio for students and community members
Students serve as interns and work alongside faculty and community artists to create, install and build what is PRESS, providing different opportunities for civic engagement. These services contribute to each other and then collectively to the overall North Adams community.

