Im Back and headed ON TOUR!

After a year of the scroll sitting in the printshop waiting for me to spill coffee on it, it is time for me to get this epic piece of art out in and in front of people! It has taken a LOT of work and I still don’t know if I have all my ducks in a row, but its happening either way. Back in March I had a Private Print Party with a group of Sisters from Saint Benedicts. We had so much fun and I shared with them that I really want the scroll to be seen, it never got the fanfare it deserved and I was looking for ideas on how to find some Benedictines that would be into showing the work. They put me in touch with Sister Lynn from out in Cullman, Alabama. We talked for weeks trying to figure out how this could all work.

First things first, I needed some funding to get the wheels turning. If you know me at all then you know I HATE asking for money, but this was important and I found the people that we excited about it. Between the President of the College of Saint Benedict and a grant found by Sister Lynn I had the money. I needed to get a traveling display made so I went and talked to Ryan Kutter over at the Woodworking Studio at Saint Johns University, he and local woodworker Hunter Grosse, created a design that would be beautiful and still fit in the back of a Subaru Outback.

I wanted to have things that people could take away from the shows as well, created some cards that I had digitally printed as well as a book entitled: Bruno Press: The Making of the Scroll. All of these things as coming together as well as a landing page for people to visit if they want to host the tour. I have also created a beautiful powerpoint that I will deliver at each stop as well.

As of right now there are only the two stops, I was nervous to get the word out there without having an idea of how to do this, but now I am ready to hit the road with my bestie Rachael who will try to keep me from falling alseep on the 16 hour drive to Cullman. Right now I am excited and curious for this circus to get on the road and how I might share this work with people all across the nation and maybe the world!!!