There is a new arrival in my art studio.
It is a Martech etching press that came all the way from Long Island this morning. The lovely owner, Leonora Wolfeld, had to part with this press because she was relocating, and it was fate that allowed me to purchase it from her. Perry Tymeson, the printing press guru of the East Coast, delivered this press to me, and with the help of a few others, we carried it piece by piece up to my second floor studio in the Beaver Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts.
This dream was realized because of a generous grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund, an affiliate of the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
Sometimes it takes years, or even a lifetime, but dreams can come true. In my world, today was that day.
Valerie Carrigan 