Open House and Art Week Hours

The Open House offers Miami Paper & Printing Museum’s only guaranteed open hours during Miami Art Week. Please reach out to arrange to visit from Dec 2 through Dec 8.

Miami Paper & Printing Museum (formerly IS Projects), 290 NW 73rd Street, Miami, FL 33150

Open House and Art Week Hours:

Sunday, Dec 1, 4PM-6PM — Open House

Monday, Dec 2-Sunday, Dec 8 — by appointment. Please email info@isprojectsfl.com with at least 24 hours advanced notice to ensure we see your request in time to schedule something.

Open House event is free to attend. RSVP is encouraged but not required. Please RSVP with button below. Museum admission is always free.

Open House Event

Visitors are invited to visit the Museum to explore exhibitions, get an intimate look at the studio space and equipment, and spend time getting to know a wide range of wonderful folks from the Museum’s community. Come enjoy light refreshments and tell us about all of the great things you saw during Progressive Art Brunch in the morning, and make plans for what you’ll do throughout Art Week!

Contemporary Wing

On view in the Contemporary Wing is a suite of etchings by Carol Prusa. This is the inaugural exhibition in the Contemporary Wing of the Miami Paper & Printing Museum. The Galaxias Kyklos etching suite is dedicated to the women who take measure of the stars, and is composed of 7 etchings housed in a lasercut plexiglass case. The edition of fourteen suites was produced with seventeen hardground and soapground etched copper plates and is printed on Magnani Pescia Paper by Kim Spivey of Ground Printmaking, with Michelle A.M. Miller as edition assistant.

Carol Prusa is a contemporary artist known for her meticulous silverpoint technique and use of unexpected materials from sculpted resin and fiberglass to metal leaf and LED lights. In the 2015 catalogue essay for the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Bruce Weber called Carol Prusa “one of the most innovative artists working in metalpoint today.”

Born in Chicago, Prusa lived and worked in South Florida until her recent move to North Carolina. She exhibits internationally, including with Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (Miami) and Bluerider Art (Taipei). Her work is included in excellent public and private collections, including the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection (Fort Lauderdale.)

Prusa published her first artists' book, unknowing, with IS Projects through the Existent Books residency and publishing program in 2021 and her recent work in book and printmaking is exemplary of the rigor, curiosity, and focus she brings to her practice. As we debut the transformation of IS Projects into the Miami Paper & Printing Museum, exhibiting the Galaxias Kyklos prints feels deeply aligned with the goals this transition pursues -- deep work, collaboration, and exploration.

Permanent Collection

The debut exhibition of items from the Miami Paper & Printing Museum’s Permanent Collection was curated for the museum’s opening by Beth Sheehan. Sheehan’s selections illuminate the intertwined histories of papermaking and letterpress printing, how they have shaped the Museum, and how they continue to shape the world around us.

The exhibition includes many highlights from the Museum’s archive of letterpress print and handmade paper, as well as a selection of relevant equipment and ephemera which help to unpack for visitors the history, use, creation, and meaning of the items on view.

The Permanent Collection also features a walk through of the process of making paper from local invasive Snake Plants (Sansevieria). Current Key Holder Artists-in-Residence, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Shley Suarez-Burgos, have been harvesting, processing, and producing paper from these plants throughout the course of their residency. This project explores the literal and poetic possibilities of reclamation to create new work and new surfaces, and to yield space more open to the

Images:

• Miami Paper & Printing Museum logo

• Installation photo of the Permanent Collection

• "Ourania", Galaxias Kyklos, 2019, etching on Magnani Pescia Paper, 15 1/4 x 15 3/8"

• Image of Galaxias Kyklos etching suite, colophon, and box

• All seven prints from the Galaxias Kyklos suite