Black Gum Print Shop is a printmaking, illustration, and design practice in Richmond, VA. You can buy ready-made items in the shop, get printing or illustration work done, or become a subscriber to get prints and other work in your mailbox each month.
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This is a hand drawn, 2-sided, risograph-printed paper flower with a wooden stem, packaged in a plastic wrap with a risograph-printed label.
This is a 24-page risograph printed half-size zine about the autumn season, with seasonal recipes, historical tidbits, and ideas for honoring this season of change. This issue features pages for September, October, and November with holidays, both arcane and widely-celebrated, listed. Entirely hand-drawn and written, this zine is one of an eventual four-part series, along with the winter zine also listed in this shop. In this issue: A pumpkin pie recipe from 1675, a guide to mushroom foraging, an article on building an altar to honor the dead, and much more.
This is a deck of 8 cards featuring various trees of Appalachia. These are risograph printed on cream colored stock and come packaged in a small cellophane bag.
These risograph printed anti-capitalist Halloween cards come 4 in a pack, each pack contains one of each design:
Capitalism Turns Humans Into Beasts (Werewolf)
Let’s Scare the Bosses (Jack-o-lantern)
Show Me a Capitalist and I’ll Show You a Bloodsucker (Vampire)
Boss Makes a Dollar, I Make a Dime, That’s Why I Haunt on Company Time (Ghost)