Our initial group show in the Spring of 2017.
Marc Smith made much of our exhibit infrastructure including this display bench . . .
. . . and this bookcase, which now has many more titles than shown in this older photograph. Some day those temporary wood panels will be replaced with punched tin. Some day.
Hand-forged door pulls by Ben Galata with pierced joinery. Ben also has sculptures, bookends, and birdbaths in the gallery and Bif Beam made the custom double door with aanaline-dyed custom casework.
Visitors are always welcome to take a book and have a seat at the table in the gallery for a quiet moment.
You never know who is going to show up at our receptions. Here the Poetry Fox bangs out poems working off visitors’ prompts during an event as part of the 2017 Click Photography Festival.
horse & buggy press and friends
Sparking joy and conversation since 1996.
After 19 years of curating exhibits and maintaining a gallery as part of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, the last eight here at 1116 Broad Street, I’ve decided to wind the gallery down in order to focus more fully on book and publication design.
Friday, June 27 will be the last day for the gallery. We have all kinds of great work here, and I’d love to see as many works as possible find new homes, rather than being returned to artists. To that end, there’s a ten percent discount on all work beginning tomorrow, and this will be coming out of the gallery cut so that artists get their normal share. We especially have a large selection of unframed pieces, and per usual our great neighbors down the block, Craven Allen, provide a ten percent discount on framing any works purchased here.
Huge thanks to all the artists and craftspersons for sharing their work here over the years. We are proud to have sold work in a diverse range of media by well over 100 artists over the years, and being a part of connecting great work with new homes and appreciators has been extremely meaningful. Big thanks of course to all the folks who engaged with work here and to the ones that enjoyed stepping up to purchase works for their home or office, or as a gift for a loved one. It is very much appreciated.
Big shoutout of thanks to Fullsteam for being a gallery sponsor ever since they opened up their doors. Also thanks to Westgate Wine for their support, and to all the musicians who played here at receptions (despite my not being able to pay them as much as they deserve.) Thanks to the folks who helped staff the galleries over the years, and also to Laser Image for being a gallery sponsor and printing our gallery cards and window graphics.
I’m on the hunt currently to find space sharers so that I can hopefully keep doing design work from this space. Am open to a variety of ideas, please reach out if you have ideas of folks or organizations that might be interested to do focused work from here (or if anyone wants to maintain a gallery here and I could do design work from one of the back studio spaces).
Current gallery hours are M-F 8:30-3ish, and by appt on Saturdays. (often will be here past 3 during the week, and I may announce a couple Saturdays with open hours)