ABOUT RED BIRD PRESS

A man working at a keyboard and electronic equipment inside a room with white walls and an arched doorway.
A pink pegboard with various craft tools and supplies, including paint rollers, screwdrivers, and a utility knife.

get involved with red bird press!

  • Presses:

    • Vandercook No. 4

    • Vandercook Universal 1

    • Showcard presses

    • Platten presses

      • Chandler and Price 8x12 Treadle Press

      • Chandler and Price 6x 10 Pilot Press

      • Mercury Model X Excelsior 6x10

    • Wheelan Xpress Etching Press (bed: 30in x 60in)

    • Dickerson Combination/Litho Press (bed: 27in x 55in)

    • Kelton Machine Co. Etching Press

    Tools and materials:

    • Lithography stones ranging in size: 10in x 10in up to 24in x 36in.

    • Wood and metal type

    • Letterpress equipment

    • Intaglio equipment

      • Ferric Chloride Vertical Etching Tank

    • Relief equipment

    Other:

    • Book Arts equipment

    • Paper making equipment

    • Guillotine Paper Cutter

    • Stack paper cutter

Join our community at Red Bird Press and get to know and learn from fellow printmakers in the Houston area. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artist, our organization thrives on community engagement and has a place for everyone.

Workshops and classes are regularly available every month and can be viewed from our Events and Classes tab. Registrations can be made on Eventbrite. Learn something new with us!

Artist Membership pricing and information can be found on our Artist Program page. We’d love to have you join us!

Volunteers are greatly appreciated! If you have any interest in volunteering with Red Bird, please contact us.

  • Decorative wall poster with the words 'Red Bird' in bold red and pink letters, with colorful shapes and a small bird illustration, and the word 'PRESS' in orange letters underneath. The setting appears to be an event or gathering space with a table holding bottles, snacks, and various items.

  • A wall decorated with various colorful posters and artwork, including a large banana print, a banner that says 'In better light everything changes', and smaller posters with quotes and images. There is a wooden printmaking press and a table in the foreground.

  • Wall with various colorful posters and prints, including phrases like "You Are Loved!", "Keep Your Mind Open", "Bans Off Our Bodies", "Space City", and "Hugs Not Hate." There is a wooden cabinet below the posters, a green door frame on the left, and a small stack of black trays or disks on top of the cabinet.

  • A wooden furniture cabinet with multiple flat drawers and black handles, organized with small labels, topped with vintage typewriter ink stamps and stamp racks, in a retail store with yellow-bordered mirrors and a sign reading 'BIG & CHUNKY!' on the wall.

  • A printing press producing red and black signage with the words 'TOGETHER' and 'PRIDE'.

  • Stack of printed posters with orange text that says "PULL PRINTHS OUT OF THE FOLDER" on wire shelving.

  • A woman in a black apron with badges, smiling, and taping a paper to a piece of cardboard on a wheelchair. She has glasses, tattoos, and her hair in a ponytail, in a room with a white wall and minimal decor.

  • A floor sketch of a landscape with buildings, trees, and a cloudy sky, placed on a work surface with three glasses of dark liquid, a blue sponge, a sketch paper, and metal mixing bowls.

  • Smiling person with tattoos on arm using a screen printing press to create a t-shirt design in a studio.

  • A screen printing press in operation printing black ink on a transparent sheet with printed text and graphics, with a person partially visible in the background.

  • A woman screen printing a design onto fabric at a workshop, wearing a pink and white cap and an apron, with colorful artwork and posters on the wall behind her.