Floyd County, Virginia – Springhouse Announces their 2nd Annual Wayzgoose Printing Festival, hosted through their print shop, Sourced Press. The festival is made possible in part with support from a grant the Springhouse received from Virginia Humanities. The Wayzgoose celebration is a printer’s tradition from the 16th century, celebrating the transition from printing by sunlight to candlelight. This year, Springhouse welcomes Salvador Jiménez-Flores, an interdisciplinary artist from Jalisco Mexico and founder of the Tortilla Social, an interactive printmaking and food workshop where participants eat freshly made tortillas and use a multi-functional tortilla press to make their own art work. The Wayzgoose Festival will include a printmaking workshop with Jiménez-Flores and the Sourced Press team, as well as a meal and community conversation facilitated by Jiménez-Flores and Springhouse high school students.
Sarah Piper Pollock, Springhouse Media Director and Director of Sourced Press, commented, “We are honored to have such a talented guest for our 2nd Annual Wayzgoose Festival. Salvador is a gifted artist and social justice leader. This is an opportunity to connect beyond our local community and expand views through creativity and conversation.”
Tortilla Social creator, Salvador Jimenez-Flores, shared, “Tortilla Social is a participatory project that transforms public spaces through the use of printmaking as a tool for self-expression, advocacy, art education, and food as a uniter of community. (Tortilla Social es un proyecto interactivo que transformará los espacios públicos a través del uso del grabado como herramienta para la auto expresión, la abogacía, la educación artística y la alimentación como unificador de la comunidad).”
Springhouse is an intergenerational, vitality-centered learning community in Southwest Virginia where they are fundamentally transforming the purpose and practice of education. In May 2023, Springhouse opened their print shop, Sourced Press, to share media through various printmaking techniques the power of the printed word and visual art through a tradition steeped in history, social justice and literary works. So far, Sourced Press has written, designed, and hand printed four books, multiple posters, cards and has hosted many printmaking workshops in the region.
WHAT: Wayzgoose: Printing Festival
WHEN: Friday, November 1st, 2024, 4 to 8pm
WHERE: Springhouse, 144 Silver Maple Lane, Pilot, VA 24138
Registration for the Wayzgoose Printing Festival meal closes on October 23rd.
Register here.