It’s time for a new chapter in Anchorage’s independent community printmaking studio! In January 2024, the letterpress studio will be moved to the basement of Seed Lab where the sole proprietor and studio manager Bryce Foks will be a resident artist in the garage and hosting regular workshops and classes.
After five years on 3rd Avenue in Downtown Anchorage, it’s exciting to announce our move to a new member’s studio in Midtown! We’re seeking community patronage to help us though the biggest lift to 501 W. 41st Ave Suite D, which will host screen printing, relief printing, and self-publishing. Help Tent City Press grow into a new member’s studio by donating today!
Donations $50 and up will receive a special letterpress thank you card in the mail once the new spaces are settled
Want to support the studio and participate when the new member’s studio is all settled into our new home by March 2024? Purchase a studio punchcard for yourself or as a gift for an artist in your life;
3 punch card for $150
5 punch card for $250
Each punch is redeemable for either a TCP letterpress workshop seat or a week-long project pass in the member’s studio - punch cards will be mailed out in March 2024
The top few donors by Valentine’s Day will receive an unframed print of Three Ravens, designed by Crystal Worl and printed at Tent City Press in 2023! A print from this edition is on display through January at IGCA’s State Proof juried exhibition, featuring the cream of the crop of Alaskan printmakers
Your friendly community printmaking studio
Tent City Press is a membership-based studio that offers space and equipment for screen printing, relief, intaglio, letterpress, self publishing, and beyond.
Studio Manager’s Note: we are currently in a transition - new memberships are currently on hold
Sounds in the studio
Celebrating some of our favorite musical artists that call Anchorage home!
Produced 2022 in Tent City Press by Akela Space and member group Vitus Collective!
The original Anchorage settlement known as Tent City only lasted a summer on the banks of Ship Creek in 1914, and it is core to the identity of the studio that we acknowledge it as the beginning of the American colonization of Interior Alaska that has caused more than a century of strife to the Dena’ina people (and Native Alaskans beyond) that were displaced physically and culturally because of that. Our name is a reference and a reminder that, like the rest of America, this city’s roots are that of settlers on a much greater homeland that is deeply connected to its indigenous people. Because of that, we see a responsibility to think critically about our environmental impacts, the imagery that we use, and the ways in which we seek to support and amplify the voices of Native Alaskans within our creative communities and beyond.
All this to say; Tent City Press was founded on Dena’ina Elnena, a beautiful land we are grateful to inhabit, build community, and create upon.
- Bryce Nicolasa Foks // sole proprietor and studio manager