Andy Volpe: Art and History

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Yesterday was my last day at The Printing Office of Edes & Gill for the year. It's been one heckuva year, and I'm really glad to have a break.

We should be back in action in March 2024.

Thank you all to came to visit us from around the World, and thank you so much for buying our prints and supporting our work.

I'll be continuing work on printing my 250th Commemorative Tea Party plate.

2024 is gonna be even BUSIER for me with Revere engraving & printing. Already in panic mode for 2025 and 2026.

I'm hoping to try and do more with at too.

Today also marks 10 years that Higgins Armory Museum closed, and I am very grateful it and the arms & armor programs continues as Higgins Armory Collection at Worcester Art Museum. Thank you to all of those who came to see those presentations. We're hoping to have MORE arms & armor going on, and, I'll be at the museum on Feb. 17 2024 printing as Rembrandt. Make sure you go see that exhibit, it is very much worth your time.

Very sad news to wake up to this morning. I am grateful to have collaborated and shared love of engraving & printmaking with him for the very short time I'd learned about him and his work, even if it was only through online and social media.

Looks like a depiction of Isaiah Thomas reading the Declaration of Independence in Worcester

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/isaiah-thomas-reads-declaration-independence/

A very active Mumford river

On the fifth day of MoP

I was so glad to see

The Nuremberg Chronicles

And a fantastic woodcut city

I thought delaying coming down to my art studio to continue printing my 250th Tea Party print today b/c of the storm would have meant the rain would have let up. Nope. Had to navigate a couple of partially flooded roads. I also try to avoid the "rural" tree-line roads in case any trees were down. But, the traffic lights at 146 in Sutton were out, and the State Trooper was frantically waving southbound traffic to continue south (I was about to try and take a left to get to 122A). So the roads I wanted to avoid were now the only option (as going back north the road just before the Pike/20 ramp was entirely flooded)

Have been hearing the sirens of the Northbridge FD all afternoon (and the old HQ is about a block down from the studio).

So, seems like I'm "stuck" here for a while longer than planned. But it's also Monday at 4PM, traffic is gonna get worse with rush-hour.....

And to think, had it been 20 degrees colder as it's supposed to be, these inches of rain would have likely been feet of (heavy) snow.

I'm hearing that there is suddenly a shortage of tea in the Boston area....I wonder why.....

TEA Destroyed by …..
Printing TODAY !!!!!!
At Edes & Gill at old North Church

Thank you all who came to see me, and buy my work, at Plimoth Patuxet Winter Fine Arts & Craft Fair this weekend!

The Printmaker's exhibit at ValleyCAST! is still On View until the end of the year! Make sure you go see it!

Also: My Rooster watercolor drawing from OSV is still available for purchase! Scroll down a bit and you'll find more info about it.

OMG it's crazy busy here at Plimoth Patuxet Museums for the craft fair! Open until 4pm today and 10-4 Sunday

I haven't sold this many of my own work in years. I'm getting some big feels about it. I may have to drive to my studio (an hour away) just to get more work.....

I'm in Boston today The Printing Office of Edes & Gill, forget going to the Big Box Stores, come shop Local! Historical gifts on our side, locally and hand-made crafts & gifts at Heritage Gifts on the other side! AND there's Old North Church & Historic Site

We're open 11-5 today, as well as the Weekend.

Tues-Sun 11-5 now through December. (Closed Mondays)

Ugh. Why. Basic typography, people. >facepalm

Ugh. I'm sorry to be pedantic with typography, but that's a Long-S, not an L. So it's Sastburn.

Birding Is For Everyone.

I'm honestly not sure what my "first bird" was. You'd expect it to be a Raptor or Owl, But believe it or not, it's not one of those. (I'd say the Northern Harrier was my "first" interest with Raptor species) Although one of my earliest childhood memories is hearing a Great Horned Owl that apparently nested/roosted in a tree near our house, but I also remember my Mom mentioning Bobolinks that were a regular in the area (this being Lakeville MA), but I think the bird that got me into learning about what kinds of birds there are and the names we give them, might be the (Black-capped) Chickadee. I seem to remember my grandparent's house in Plymouth had a nesting pair in a tree in the backyard, and of course they were regulars at the feeders at the houses we lived in.

And yes, Osprey are pretty awesome.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzuQ837urtQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Certified Bird Nerd 🤓

Go see our little but really cool Printing exhibit!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cznn0XlMEFi/?igshid=N2ViNmM2MDRjNw==

Crows and Ravens. Same call notation, same colour. So how do you tell them apart? If you can only see one check it's neck and tail. Ruffled neck feathers for Ravens and a pointy tip to its tail. Crows are smooth necked with a wedged tail. Happy Corvid spotting!