Big Print Block Party May 19, 2012 Carolina Beach, NC 10am - 5pm

Call for Artists and Crafters Please apply here for a vendor spot.
10x10' vendor spaces are only $50 for the day.
Registration is by May 17

2012 Big Print Artists
Ben Billingsley - Wilmington NC
Shannon Bourne - Wilmington NC
Esteban Chavez - Long Island NY
Michael Ehlbeck - Greenville NC
John Gibson - Carolina Beach NC
Aubrey Hedrick - Charlotte NC
Ron Liberti - Chapel Hill NC
Rodrigo Pacheco - Greenville NC
Jacob Parker - Wilmington NC
Kristianne Ripple - Raleigh NC
David Sinclair - Carolina Beach NC

Jeremy Millard & Friends are cutting a memorial block for Ross Rogers

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Summer Photogravure Workshops at Cape Fear Press with Jennifer Page
June 21-23 and July 19-21, Thursday - Saturday.

Cape Fear Press is a privately owned contemporary photogravure and photo-etching printmaking studio located in Southeast North Carolina. Jennifer Page, the owner of CFP is an artist dedicated to non toxic, less toxic and technical innovations in the field of fine art photo etching and photogravure on copper. Cape Fear Press formulated the Puretch Photopolymer etching process for fine art photo etching. Puretch is a high resolution photopolymer etch resist for traditionally etched metal plate intaglio printmaking, PCB photo circuit boards and jewelry. Cape Fear Press has also tested and distributes the new Phoenix Gravure carbon tissue for photogravure. Cape Fear Press was established in 2001 and has been supplying Puretch Photopolymer to artists since then. Puretch is the ideal high-res halftone resist for combining digital imagery with traditional plate working and etching techniques all within the same plate.

Cape Fear Press has also hosted the Big Print Block Party, a 4x8 foot steamroller relief printmaking event in my hometown of Carolina Beach, NC for 2009 and an encore event in 2010. See photos and video from the past events on our gallery page.

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PURETCH (pronounced Pure - Etch)
For searchability, Puretch photopolymer is also commonly misspelled as Purtech, Pure-Etch or Puretech. The name originates from the purist who prefers to etch the plate.

Puretch Photopolymer is also sold through two European distributors: |All customers in Europe (except Italy) should contact Polymetaal for purchasing Puretch locally.
Italian customers may purchase Puretch through IL FOGLIO.

Cape Fear Press will ship anywhere in the world if you prefer to order directly.

We are seeking international distributors outside of Europe, please contact us if you are interested and already selling products for printmaking.

Search text in other languages:
Espanol: la película del polímero de la foto resiste para el cobre y los metales de la aguafuerte, heliograbado

Deutsch: Fotoplastikfilm widerstehen für Radierungskupfer und -metalle

Italiano: la pellicola del polimero della foto resiste a per il rame ed i metalli acquaforte

Nederlands: de film van het fotopolymeer verzet tegenzich voor etskoper en metalen

Francais: le film de polymère de photo résistent pour le cuivre et les métaux gravure à l'eau-forte

Russian: пленка полимера фото сопротивляет для меди и металлов вытравливания

写真ポリマーフィルムはエッチングの銅および金属のために抵抗する

照片聚合物影片為蝕刻銅和金屬抵抗

Puretch Photopolymer."

The name Cape Fear is what the region here is referred to and the river that empties into the Atlantic on the point of a Cape that is named the same.

From Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660-1916 by James Sprunt
"Looking then to the Cape for the idea and reason of its name, we find that it is the southern most point of Smith's Island - a naked, bleak, elbow of sand, jutting far out into the ocean. Immediately in its front are the Frying Pan Shoals, pushing out still farther, twenty miles, to sea. Together they stand for warning and for woe; and together they catch the long majestic roll of the Atlantic as it sweeps through a thousand miles of grandeur and power from the arctic towards the Gulf. It is the playground of billows and tempests, the kingdom of silence and awe, disturbed by no sound save the seagull's shriek and the breakers' roar. Its whole aspect is suggestive, not of repose and beauty, but of desolation and terror. Imagination can not adorn it. Romance can not hallow it. Local pride can not soften it. There it stands today, bleak, and threatening, and pitiless, as it stood three hundred years ago, when Greenville and White came nigh unto death upon its sands. And there it will stand, bleak, and threatening, and pitiless, until the earth and the sea shall give up their dead. And, as its nature, so its name, is now, always has been, and always will be, the Cape of Fear."

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