Atelier Meridian is a working print studio and artist community in Portland’s Lower Albina neighborhood. It is a spacious art studio with 24 hour access to the presses for members and goodwill to artists and the curious who drop in for the occasional workshop, monotype session, or cup of tea. 

Behind the big garage door live a big Takach etching press; an electric Dickson press; an Ettan etching press a Chandler and Price platen letterpress; and shelves of all those other pins, brayers, rosin boxes, rollers, and smushers helpful for pulling woodcuts, collographs, etchings (there’s acid), solarplates, screenprints, letterpress and monotypes.

Anchored among the worktables and inks is master printer and co-founder Jane Pagliarulo. Good to have on hand either in the backcountry or at the wheel, Pagliarulo brings years of experience in monotype, etching, and lithography from the plateaus of Santa Fe and the valleys of the Cascades.

If you would like to stop by and tour the studio, call Jane Pagliarulo at 503-729-9013. The print shop is located at 665 North Tillamook Street, half a block East of Interstate Avenue.

INTRODUCING FREE FRIDAYS: If you take a workshop from Atelier Meridian then you get to come in and print unassisted, free every Friday for the next three months. Includes brown & black ink, solvents & newsprint. Click here to find out about upcoming workshops.

We are running a Spring Special for new members - Bring a Trio of printmakers and all 3 will get half price membership for April, May and June! For details, click here. TRIO*

Join us for a free monthly social gathering at the Atelier. A good print studio runs on comraderie as much as its fine presses. One Friday a month everyone is invited – members and gawkers alike – to come in and have those conversations you'd meant to have during the week but found your head too deep in the acid to engage. There will be drinks and snacks and Someone Special coming in to show and tell something you’d been wondering about anyway.

Friday, June 11th 6 to 10 pm - Palmarin Merges
Palmarin Merges comfortably compounds imagery, text, and color to create pictures that read like well-written wallpaper. She is known for leading workshops on rambling try-anything-or-die-trying adventures through the material cabinets and bins. Come to grill her on embossement and embroidery and the low rumbling waves that shake the crust of the Pacific Rim centuries from their point of origin.

Ink & Drink - despite its moniker - is kid-friendly! Kids are invited to come and make art with wreckless abandon in our spacious, cement-floored studio.

Next Session - Friday July 9th - Encaustics with Elise Wagner

Friday August 13th: Ellen Emerson - Paper Plate Lithography

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