HP2: The Campaign for a Permanent Home is a plan to purchase and renovate a 10,000 sq. ft. building at 912 W. Lake Street, in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, where HP’s programs can thrive — secure in a permanent home.
A Letter from Our Board Chair
Highpoint Center for Printmaking’s programs are of vital importance to our community, in part because printmaking’s unique visual vocabulary enables people of diverse ages, ability levels, and backgrounds to create compelling works of art that engage and inspire. Highpoint Center for Printmaking celebrates the art of printmaking by opening its doors to all — experienced artist and novice alike.
The art of printmaking — old, supple, supremely expressive — is a gloriously democratic one. Through its ever-evolving techniques and multiple processes, print-making today allows artists to reach audiences vastly greater than those touched by paintings and drawings alone. Collectors, meanwhile, have in any one print, work that is both intimate and affordable; art to love and live with for the long term.
Accessibility to printmaking is only possible if centers like Highpoint exist: a place that makes available tools, equipment, technical expertise and resources, regardless of age, ability or user skill level. In this way, Highpoint is an indispensable keystone to our community’s — and our nation’s— extraordinarily diverse visual arts identity.
Highpoint Center for Printmaking is at a signal moment in its developmental life. Its success has driven the need to establish a permanent home and expand its programs, making them available to an even greater constituency of all ages. Please join with me as we enter a new phase of Highpoint’s remarkable trajectory, and participate in HP2: The Campaign for a Permanent Home.
David Moore, Jr.
HP2 Campaign Committee Chair
& Board Chair
A Letter from Our Founders
After seven amazing years, we are thrilled to be part of HP2 — the project to create a permanent home for Highpoint Center for Printmaking. With support from our loyal members, funders, board, staff, artists and believers (like you!) we are positive that HP2: The Campaign for a Permanent Home will be realized. When Highpoint opened in October 2001 the possibilities for what this printmaking art center could become were wide open: as founders we believe strongly in our mission “to advance the art of printmaking,” but we also realized that shaping the mission would belong to all who chose to join us on the journey. We thank all of you who have been part of this journey so far!
We are very proud to share with our community the many facets of Highpoint — an art center that is truly community-engaged with an international reach. Highpoint now serves over 5,000 people each year. Until Highpoint opened its doors, broad public access to a professional printmaking facility was simply not available in this part of the country. We can now report that Highpoint serves an incredibly diverse group, including: artists of all ages from many corners of the world, collectors and print enthusiasts, youth and families, schools, communities and other arts organizations.
The time is now to build for the future of Highpoint and establish a permanent home, where Highpoint’s programs will thrive and grow. With your support HP2: The Campaign for a Permanent Home will be a success — and Highpoint Center for Printmaking will continue to serve its diverse audiences in new, exciting and more effective ways.
Carla McGrath
Executive Director
Cole Rogers
Master Printer & Artistic Director