Business Card for Adrienne Webster, bookkeeper


Adrienne Webster Photo by J. Miles Cary for the Knoxville News Sentinel


Walter Egan (RIGHT) sorting type with British two-day impromptu intern Matthew Miller.

YEE-HAW FAMILY GETS PROPS IN LOCAL PAPER/ ON POPULAR BLOG
Adrienne Webster, Yee-Haw's bookkeeper and jack-of-all-duties, was featured in the Community Section in today's Knoxville News Sentinel.
Read the full article here

Walter Egan, the shop's intern last winter, was spotlighted on the design blog "Poppy Talk" yesterday. Contrary to the information in the article, Walter is now a graduate of the University of Tennessee and has since moved on to the greener pastures of Seattle, Washington.
See Poppy Talk post here

KENTUCK '09
Thanks to all the folks that came out for the Kentuck Festival this last weekend. Although it was a bit muddy and cool out, the festival ended on a sunny note.

COME ONE! COME ALL! BRING YOUR FRIENDS!

OPENING RECEPTION for YEE-HAW EXHIBITION at CHELSEA MARKET
75 9th Avenue (Between 15th and 16th Streets), New York, NY
THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 from 7-9PM
Food and wine will be on-hand, as well as Yee-Haw founders Julie Belcher and Kevin Bradley.

IMAGES FROM GALLERY STOKES
View exhibition online here.

A word about the work from Kevin Bradley:
This body of prints exists as a testament to my less-than-anal methods of printmaking. This collection consists of mis-registered, mis-inked and otherwise mis-guided efforts of the edition process. These prints are a by-product of the original editions. They have not been treated or considered special. They were at first bastard prints; the proper term for them is “make-ready prints” used for alignment and the pressure adjustment on the press while printing other editions. Of course they have also evolved into their own during the process of over printing and excessive layering of information; they have become a working history of what happens on the press.

I have always been attracted to the accident. That is where the mystery lives. I feel like the things we throw away and discard without thought are often things of simple beauty and truth that cannot be achieved consciously. The make-ready print serves a purpose to the printmaker in that the accident can be incorporated into editions and still keep the vitality of surprise that the process tries to kill.

These prints exist as a working conversation between type and image, between content and concept and between form and function. These 41" x 29" prints are hand-inked and hand-printed on a 4'x10' Tackach relief press using wood type, lead type and carved wood blocks at the studio of Yee-Haw Industries in Knoxville, Tennessee, over a period of three years (2006-2009). They are part of a larger series of make-ready prints that document the history of a working letterpress shop from 1997 until present.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY STOKES
Atlanta, Georgia
SEPTEMBER 10-OCTOBER 17, 2009
Gallery Stokes will be hosting an exhibition for Kevin Bradley, letterpress mastermind and Yee-Haw co-founder. Opening Reception falls on Friday, September 25th from 7 - 10pm.
www.gallerystokes.com

CHELSEA MARKET
New York, New York
OCTOBER 4-JANUARY 2, 2009
Yee-Haw's work will adorn the vast and cavernous Chelsea Market, located in the Meat Packing District of New York's West Village. Chelsea Market is an enclosed, urban food court and shopping mall in New York City. It was built within the former Nabisco factory complex where the Oreo cookie was invented and produced. The 22-building complex fills two entire blocks bound by 9th and 11th Avenues from 15th to 16th Street.
www.chelseamarket.com