excited to be a new vendor here! will be selling some fresh letterpress prints, come see me & lots of other local talent!

“Come out to our first market of 2019 season! Our Market will have all the same artisan, handmade, homegrown, locally made items you have come to expect with a few new vendors to meet!
April 27th, 10am-2pm, it's a family, foodie, and pet friendly environment in southwest Lubbock! This unique market has an array of LOCAL craft food vendors, wines, farmers, artists, bakers, makers and much more! FREE to the public!”

while enjoying all of the art & music & food trucks at First Friday Art Trail, be sure to stop by the print studio to see (& buy at a discount before they go online!) brand-new letterpress prints by yours truly! (1106 5th Street, part of CASP’s big 5&J building)

some sneak-peeks of new prints in progress!

come here John Poch read from his new book, TEXASES, & pick up a copy of his fifth book, &&& one of my two new letterpress broadside prints, featuring poems from this collection!

come out to the Helen DeVitt Jones Print Studio (in the 5&J Building at CASP), & pick up some fresh prints!

PRINT SATURDAY: MAKE A HEART

Saturday, February 9th, come&go 1pm-5pm
CASP’s Helen DeVitt Jones Print Studio
1106 5th Street, Lubbock, TX
$5 for 3 cards; $5 to print on your own t-shirt
(+ $5 if you print on one of our tees or totes!)

Can’t make up your mind? Make a heart for your valentine! Show us your heart on a card, t-shirt, or tote! Fun for all ages, kids to adults, couples or not, will find something awesome to print!

Come listen to music by KTXT 88.1, with DJs Misery Chick & Stevie Kicks; see some live printing by Victoria Marie Bee; pick up some fresh letterpress prints; &, more!

First Friday Art Trail: February 1st 6pm-9pm
CASP’s Helen DeVitt Jones Print Studio
1106 5th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79401

* Sights & Sounds is made possible in part through a grant from the City of Lubbock, as recommended by Civic Lubbock, Inc. *

donated time as the event photographer & also artwork

Join us on Saturday, January 12, 2019 for the 11th Anniversary Medici Circle 5x7 Art Scholarship Fundraiser - Where the Wild Beasts Art! at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center on the Texas Tech campus.

Known as one of the most raucous parties of the year, this costume (optional) event brings festive art lovers together annually for food, wine, fun and art to support School of Art scholarships.

Each year an art movement or style from the past informs the evening's theme including the décor, the meal, and most especially as the guest costume theme (which is entirely optional).

This year's theme celebrates the wildly fun and colorful art of Fauvism made famous by French artist practitioners – Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, André Derain and others. They were called "wild beasts" for their vibrant use of color and expressive form. The Fauve's vibrant color has been combined with the wonderfully playful creatures from Maurice Sendak's, Where the Wild Things Are to create this year's theme.

Very excited to volunteer as a photographer with The AIGA West Texas Future Chapter for Design to participate in Help-Portrait Lubbock this Saturday!

Event Timing: Saturday, December 1, 2018
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Event Address: LHUCA Warehouse, 602 Texas Ave., Lubbock, TX 79401

The goal of Help-Portrait is to find people in need, take their picture, print their picture and then deliver it—free of charge. Help-Portrait is about GIVING the pictures, not taking them. These portraits aren’t for a portfolio, website, or sale. It’s about giving people who otherwise couldn’t afford photography, a chance to capture a moment, a memory…and a whole lot more.

For First Friday Art Trail, Studio 4 features letterpress posters for Beto; all donations (sliding scale) go directly to the campaign!

Also featuring photography by VMBEE, & theatre by The Burkhalter Players!

XOXO

Trick-Or-Treat! Screen-O-Ween! At CASP's Print Studio (1106 5th Street), come & go between 1-5pm, Saturday October 27th!

Come print your own pillowcase (or use one of ours!) for a unique candy collecting bag to use on the 31st and then for naptime fun! 

Only $5 if you bring your own pillowcase (or t-shirt) or $10 to print on a CASP pillowcase or t-shirt.

Fun for all ages; no previous experience required!

(taught by Victoria Marie Bee & Eric Simpson)

CELEBRATE PRINTS-GIVING WITH US THIS FALL! Finish the statement “I am thankful for_______” using wood type & imagery, to letterpress print your own unique poster!

WHERE: Helen-Devitt Jones Print Studio at 5&6 (1106 5th Street)
WHEN: 10/20 1-5 PM
INSTRUCTORS: Victoria Marie Bee & Chris Marin
PRICE: $5/print. Make as many as you'd like to display your thankfulness, or give to a friend you’re thankful for!

Fun for all ages; no previous experience required!

invited by Carlos Hernandez of Burning Bones Press in Houston, to exhibit & sell letterpress amazingness, alongside printmakers from across the universe

WHAT: This InkSlinger Printmaking event in its first year at Lubbock, TX, organized by Carlos Hernandez of Burning Bones Press. Printmakers from across the universe are showing and selling prints.

WHEN: 6:00-10:00 PM October 5

WHERE: 5 & J Gallery

HOW: This is a free event for the public.

• Sights & Sounds is made possible in part through a grant from the City of Lubbock, as recommended by Civic Lubbock, Inc. •

http://www.carloshernandezprints.com

http://www.burningbonespress.com

V.M.BEE's Studio 4 presents artworks by Kelly J Reyna; live music by Blake Skipper & Will Felty; &, vinyls by Flatland Records

First Friday Art Trail, October 5th, 6-9PM

1010 Mac Davis Lane, Studio 4, 79401

“To describe my work would be to say that it is both a search and a self-healing effort. Moreover, it is the navigation of the mother and child relationship existing under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder, a disorder that entails curious characteristics. These include communication barriers, social deficits, obsessively repetitive actions, steadfast meltdowns, periods of erratic sleep and wandering scares. Inevitably these result in relentless tests to the human spirit that begin to materialize as personal narrative within large paintings, embroidery works and small-scale paintings.”

Kelly Reyna was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas. She holds an BFA in Studio Art/Painting from Texas Tech University, that she received in 2011. In 2015, Reyna attended two residencies through Plymouth University - Transart Institute, in Berlin and in New York. She is currently in the second year of the Masters of Fine Arts program at Texas Tech University.

BLUETS
First Friday Art Trail at Studio 4, September 7th 6-10pm, 1010 Mac Davis Lane, Charles Adams Studio Project - CASP
featuring:
letterpress & photography by Victoria Marie Bee
live music by Blind Blues Singers
vinyls by Flatland Records

POP-up event, featuring letterpress by Dirk Fowler & Victoria Marie Bee, live music by Drew Cypert - One Man Band & Above the Empire, & vinyls by Flatland Records!

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

invited by LHUCA to attend & put together a table of CASP artists (including Chris Marin, Rachel Anderson, & others), full-decorated table that won an award

What is Dîner en Blanc?
A pop-up dinner that began in Paris 30 years ago... it is also a fun way to support LHUCA! 

How does it work?
1. Buy a space on LHUCA's Plaza (see space sizes below).
2. Bring your own dinner, beverages (yes, BYOB!), table decorations, table and chairs.
3. Wear white!
4. LHUCA will have surprise entertainment during the dinner with live music to follow.
5. A cash bar will be available should you run out. 
6. There will be an award for Best Table Décor, so get creative!

fresh letterpress prints by Victoria Marie Bee

live music all-night by Drew Cypert – One Man Band @1.man.band (instagram)

poetry & non-fiction readings - 8:30pm to 9:00pm; by Curtis Bauer, Catherine Ragsdale, Beth McKinney, Matthew Porto, Valerie Wayson, & Jess Smith

The BORDERLESS event seeks to support RAICES Texas & similar organizations that provide legal advocacy & representation in an immigration system that breaks apart families & leaves millions without pathways to legal status.

live music & vinyls,

& new fresh letterpress by yours truly!

alongside master gardener Autry Freeman, some friend family from Sunday dinners are planting more at the new community garden we started at this local homeless shelter - please join if you can!

featuring artwork by Victoria Marie Bee
Above the Empire jamming live music
Flatland Records slinging vinyl records from their mobile store
Dream with Saba information/donation table 
Prash Design selling self care items
& Primitive Social capturing the action & hanging out!

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.

photographer of the event, letterpress printed various informational materials, & organized all the volunteer waitstaff (which included local creatives & friends), for the first big fundraising event for Charles Adams Studio Project, to match the funds needed for building new Work Studios

Growth of a Foreign Entity is a collaboration between Kyla Culbertson and Nate Collins. Kyla creates alien-like ceramic objects, and places them in real and fake environments. Nathan then photographs them, and digitally manipulates the forms through content aware. They place the ceramics and photographs together in order to construct a new reality for the foreign entities, continuing the growth and production of them. Their collaboration is an exploration in creating a fun and experimental space to navigate.

&, STUDIO 4 = AMAZINGNESS FFAT!! ✨✨✨ here’s a detail of one of the brilliant collaborative artworks by Kyla Culbertson & Nate Collins, from FFAT AT STUDIO 4: Growth of a Foreign Entity on exhibit! the Jacob Nalle Music jazz ensemble moved people all-night & was so lovely, Adam Nicholas Mulsow SOLD OUT of his West Texas tees & tanks, Flatland Records rocked it selling vinyl & talking music & more, Texas Tech University School of Art print club ran an awesome table of fresh ink, & all-around good vibes & love from so many! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 💙

lead by the amazing Paul Allen Hunton, private screening hosted at Studio 4

“Fun fact: Director Louis Malle was only 24 when he made this film.

Fun fact 2: We'll do French things like eat cheese and drink wine.

Fun fact 3: One of Malle's friends suggested he go talk to Miles Davis who was in town for a performance about scoring the film. After a brief conversation and story overview Miles and his musicians IMPROVISED the whole score as they watched the film.

Fun fact 4: Jeanne Moreau was an incredible French actor and absolutely beautiful(her beauty is irrelevant to her skills or person however pertinent for this anecdote). Louis Malle insisted on filming her without makeup and because of that the film processing house REFUSED to make a print of the movie, out of fear of showing her without makeup! Louis Malle talked them into it and his decision was correct, she bares her soul magnificently in a raw and powerful performance. Can't wait to share this movie with you all!!!”