Tandem Press Holiday Open House

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A past Holiday Open House.

A past Holiday Open House.

This fine art printmaking studio is a Madison treasure — it has worked with artists from Jim Dine to Dyani White Hawk. Its annual holiday open house is a great way to see the equipment and printmakers in action as well as purchase prints. At 11 a.m. Alexandra Riesco will demonstrate intaglio printing, at 11:45 a.m. Patrick Smyczek will demo screen printing and at 12:30 Jason Ruhl will show relief printing. Also check out the current gallery exhibit featuring prints by Derrick Adams; the fine detail of his work is best appreciated in person rather than on a screen.

media release: Join us at Tandem Press on Saturday, November 22, for our annual Holiday Open House, an event looked forward to by many all year long!

Location: Tandem Press, 1743 Commercial Avenue, Madison, WI 53704

Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025, 10 am–2 pm

Website: https://tandempress.wisc.edu

Printmaking Demonstrations: During this event, our collaborative printmakers will demonstrate a few printmaking processes often used in our studio to create editions with world-renowned artists.

11:00 am — Intaglio Printing with Alexandra Riesco

11:45 am — Screen Printing with Patrick Smyczek

12:30 pm — Relief Printing with Jason Ruhl

Shop Available Prints: Tandem Press has collaborated with over 100 artists over the years, so our inventory includes artworks from many different genres and styles. Come shop available prints in our gallery and print viewing area. Tandem Press curators will be available for consultations.

Many prints will be eligible for a 20% discount if purchased during this open house, through the end of December 2025. Framing and other exclusions apply.

View Our Winter Exhibition: Our current exhibition Silver Lining: The Prints of Derrick Adams will be on view in our gallery. Over the past six years, Derrick Adams has created nearly twenty vibrant prints in collaboration with Tandem Press. This exhibition highlights the results of that partnership—works that celebrate leisure, domestic life, and personal style through bold color, repeating patterns, and cadenced compositions. This exhibition is on view through December 19, 2025.

About Tandem Press:

Tandem Press is a publisher of fine art prints that hosts internationally renowned artists in its studio space, assisting them as they create original fine art editions. Using an array of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques, Tandem Press stands at the forefront of research, experimentation, and new developments in the field of printmaking and has established itself as a leader among international fine art print publishers.

Since its inception in 1987, Tandem Press has produced original fine art editions by numerous world renowned artists including Derrick Adams, Richard Bosman, Lynda Benglis, Suzanne Caporael, Robert Cottingham, Lesley Dill, Jim Dine, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Michelle Grabner, Al Held, Robert Kelly, David Lynch, Maser, Judy Pfaff, Alison Saar, Sean Scully, David Shapiro, Alan Shields, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Swoon, Mickalene Thomas, and Dyani White Hawk.

As a gallery, Tandem Press represents, promotes, and sells the artworks created in the studio locally, nationally, and internationally. Many prestigious museums throughout the world have acquired prints from Tandem Press for their permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Art, and the British Museum. The Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin, is the official archive of Tandem Press and receives one print from every edition that is published.

In addition to its professional and research operatives, Tandem Press is also an important educational entity affiliated with the Art Department within the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students employed at Tandem Press complement their coursework with practical hands-on experience, gaining an unparalleled insight into the professional art world by working as assistants to the Tandem Press collaborative printmakers and curators in the production and promotion of fine art prints created by leading contemporary artists. Tandem Press also partners with other departments at the university and organizations throughout Wisconsin to offer tours, printmaking workshops, and other special events that serve artists, students, faculty, staff and the general public.