Studio Closings in April 2023

I’ll have very limited availability from April 3rd-7th as I’ll be teaching an in-person workshop at Maine Media. Please contact me if you have any specific questions, needs, or issues. The week of April 17th I’ll be out as well on a family trip (college visits with our daughter!), but I’ll be back to normal operation on Monday, April 24th.

Fifteen Years

I’m two months late on the anniversary, but January 2022 marked 15 years of making prints for clients. Three big 44” printers over the years and crazy amounts of paper and ink. What a wonderful journey this has been (and continues to be!), and thank you to all of my clients for trusting me with your work.

Upcoming Time Away

I will be on a family vacation from July 29th to approximately August 12th, and then also the week of August 16th. I will have email access but responses may be delayed. Please contact me regarding your specific needs and I will do my best to accommodate. Thank you!

Back to Normal Operations (mostly)

I’m now back at something resembling normal operations. I’m still happy to meet with people in whatever fashion makes people comfortable (with masks, meeting outside, and so on), but my studio is now also open to people who are fully vaccinated for COVID. If you are not vaccinated, I’m happy to meet with appropriate precautions (including masking) — please let me know if you have any questions.

New Online Printing Workshop and March 2021 Update

I hope all are safe and well out there! My operating procedures are still the same as my last post in October but hopefully things will start to change in the coming months. I have new online workshops scheduled with Maine Media, including The Craft and Art of the Fine Digital Print the week of June 7th (five days, via Zoom).

I also have a photography workshop coming up, too. Entitled The Sense of Wonder, it runs one day a week (on Mondays) via Zoom for five weeks - April 26th-May 24th.

Change to Pandemic Operating Procedures

I am once again changing my operating procedures due to the ongoing pandemic and as colder weather comes here to Maine. I am still printing for mailing or in-person pickup as I have been throughout the pandemic. For now, I will no longer be doing the limited in-studio meetings and instead will only be meeting people masked and outside. I am, of course, available for telephone and Zoom consultations.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, and stay safe out there!

Finding Our Voices Fundraiser

All through October in Rockland, Maine, Finding Our Voices presents artwork by 45 artists and displayed at 50 businesses to raise money (via an art auction) and awareness for Finding Our Voices, a non-profit featuring the voices and stories of victims of domestic violence. Nickelson Editions proudly supports this organization in many ways, including by printing many of the pieces of artwork and the donation of some of my artwork for the fundraising auction.

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Pandemic Update -- Limited Opening of Studio

I’m making a change to my operations during the pandemic and am now allowing limited in-person visits. Please contact me for details, but the essentials are: everybody wearing a mask, time limit of one hour, and maintaining social distancing. I will also clean everything before and after per state of Maine guidelines.

All that being said, I believe it is still better to avoid these inside meetings as much as possible, and I still encourage phone calls/Zoom meetings for discussion or consulting, and pick ups or mailings of prints from my outside area.

Thank you, and please contact me if you have any questions!

Pandemic Update on Workshops

As many of you know, Maine Media Workshops + College has cancelled all on-campus activities through the end of August, which hits a few of my printing workshops. I’ve restructured my class to be taught online (where the students use their own equipment, wherever they are) and will be teaching this new version July 20th-24th. You can read the new course description and schedule here. Hope to see you there, albeit virtually!

My in-person consulting on printing is currently on hiatus, too, because of the pandemic, but I’ve started doing them via Zoom calls now, too. WIth screen sharing available it actually works surprisingly well. If you are interested, please contact me and we’ll figure things out.

Stay safe out there!

Financial Resources for Artists

I’m still temporarily shut-down here at Nickelson Editions, but I wanted to share a few resources geared towards artists that I’ve found through various means.

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art has done a great job compiling a list of resources for artists (geared towards Maine, but not exclusively). This includes many resources that provide emergency funds or other financial assistance to artists.

The Maine Arts Commission has launched The Maine Artist Relief Fund that will award grants of up to $500 to individual Maine artists how are being adversely impacted by the pandemic. The awards cycle is open through June 30th.

The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA has been a good source of artist resources, too, particularly on Facebook.

The first US stimulus package includes much-needed support for arts organizations as well as expansion of unemployment benefits to independent contractors and the self-employed (the typical status for the working artist). Details on how to apply for this are beyond my knowledge, but I would start with organizations such as Americans for the Arts for info…though I suspect things will be pretty vague for a while as to how to take advantage of this.

Stay safe out there!