March 22, 2012
Sean Finocchio’s Los Angeles

We’ve got big news. And by big we mean substantial, and made of wood, and ready-to-hang. Menu and Meat Co., our new prints by L.A. artist Sean Finocchio, are printed directly onto wood panels, which are then cleverly mounted onto a smaller rear panel that is fitted with a keyhole hanging slot! Using his original photos of signs, menus and other food-world ephemera in the City of Angels, Finocchio combines compelling imagery with the warmth and rustic charm of wood.
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February 13, 2012
Curating a Feast in Chicago

The interwoven realms of eating and art-making are inspiring discussions and projects all around us. We open a magazine or browse the internet and something just pops up, bringing our minds and stomachs ever closer together.
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January 26, 2012
Congrats to Giveaway Winners Bonney and Kelly!

Young House Love is a great blog that follows the home-renovation adventures of two can-do Virginians, their toddler and one adorable chihuahua. This week, we teamed up to give away two $50 Fine Artichoke gift certificates on their site, and the response from their fun & enthusiastic readers was fantastic!
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November 10, 2011
Into the Wilderness with Artist Jen Harris

Painter, graphic artist and printmaker Jen Harris developed her limited-edition print series for Fine Artichoke in woodsy Hudson, NY, just 2 hours north of Manhattan. “I was inspired to make the Fearless Forager prints after I moved upstate and began mushroom-hunting and foraging for other wild plants,”
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November 03, 2011
Artists’ Foods: A Tasting!

Tonight at the monthly 1st Thursdays Gallery Walk in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, you can enjoy a free tasting event featuring local, artist-made food items. This brilliant idea highlights the importance of food-making in the lives of so many art-makers, from painters and sculptors to actors and musicians.
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November 02, 2011
All Saints Day

Last night, a group of artists and friends gathered at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center to commemorate the dead through food. The All Saints Day dinner- put together by curator Legacy Russell, Elizabeth Koke, Mark Joshua Epstein, Nora Clancy, and Maria Dizzia- was an incredibly scrumptious and surprisingly emotional blend of performance, memorial and gastronomy.
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November 02, 2011
Know Your Chicken

Here in Brooklyn, NY, raising your own chickens for eggs and meat is legal and ever-growing in popularity (as long as you don’t have roosters crowing every morning!) Same goes for San Francisco, L.A., Chicago and many other urban centers where the interest in growing your own food is on the rise. Joe Wirtheim’s limited-edition print, Girl Hearts Hen, captures the joy of keeping a coop, whether you’re in the heartland or in the heart of the city!
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October 13, 2011
Hannah Berman’s Perfect Couple

Summertime’s a goner, but our love affair with summer foods will never die. And so we bring you Hannah Berman, the artist behind our new limited-edition print, Me + You. Berman is a connoisseur of summer foods, having studied the cuisines of county fairs and farms throughout her home state of California. She translates her adventures in food into gorgeous, bright prints that remind us just how close the heart and stomach really are.
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September 30, 2011
Salute!

Seems wrong that this post is being written over a cup of morning coffee. Clearly, the right way to muse over Douglas Padgett’s beautiful new silkscreen edition would be over a nice glass of Pinot Noir as the early-Autumn sun goes down over Brooklyn.
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September 27, 2011
On “Taste” and Chili Peppers

Last night, I was eating with some friends at Zabb Elee, an amazing Thai restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village that specializes in the very delicious, and VERY spicy cooking style of the northeastern Isan region of Thailand.
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September 15, 2011
Le Grand Fooding: Way Too Much Awesomeness

Oh, man… Our end-of-Summer budget has been whittled down by some fantastic traveling and eating, and just when we thought we could make-do with Trader Joe’s cous-cous and Netflix until Fall sets in, we hear about this! The French culinary organization Le Fooding is rolling into NYC to present a week of mind-blowing events, filled with food, art and music presented by an amazing cast of mouth-watering talent. Seriously, this is a painful post, but we’ll do our best, because this is so frickin’ cool…
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September 12, 2011
Joe Wirtheim’s Modern Propaganda

Fine Artichoke is very proud to welcome the inspired work of Joe Wirtheim to our catalog of limited-edition prints. Joe hails from Portland, Oregon, where he works on Victory Garden of Tomorrow, a “self-commissioned poster campaign designed to channel the bold energy of historical poster propaganda.”
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August 29, 2011
King of the Kitchen

“Recently I watched Goodfellas for the first time. I was on a weekend trip with some friends and everyone was aghast that I hadn’t seen it. And that whole film is like a compilation of the most memorable scenes ever. But the one scene that stuck with me more than anything was when Paul Sorvino was slicing garlic in prison with a razor blade. That was it. Pure cinematic and culinary genius, all-in-one. I came straight home and started this print. And I now keep a razor blade safely stowed in the kitchen at all times.”
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August 23, 2011
Gardening for the Yardless

Keeping a garden on your fire escape goes against some very reasonable fire codes; but for many city-dwellers, its the only opportunity to indulge a green thumb.
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August 12, 2011
Eat Like You’re On Vacation!

Eat Like You’re On Vacation is the new triptych by Northampton, Mass., (but soon to be back in Brooklyn) artist Mia Cabana. This time Mia has put a funny, free-spirited spin on summertime foods, pairing them with her freestyle stitching (she sews the paper just as if it were cloth!).
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August 01, 2011
Grain Belt Beer

Hot on the heels of his two editions featuring the iconic flour mills of Minneapolis, Adam Turman brings us another ode to his beloved home, Minnesota. Grain Belt Beer is a 4-color screen print incorporating motifs from what we suspect might be a favorite summertime beverage in Adam’s studio.
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July 29, 2011
Brooklyn’s Red Horse Cafe: Reception August 13th!

During the month of August, the diverse work of Fine Artichoke printmakers will be on display at the Red Horse Cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The show includes new prints as well as favorites from the Fine Artichoke catalog, which celebrate everything from the pleasures of vacation eating to garlic and midwestern beer…

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May 31, 2011
Art & Artisanal Spirits in Philly

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a seminal text on art & culture by Walter Benjamin, and it is also a shop in Philadelphia. We stumbled upon it late one afternoon a couple of years ago while perusing the hip shops of Old Town. The store has lots of neat stuff, from screenprinted t-shirts and stationery to handmade leather goods, and it also functions as a gallery. What really caught or attention, though, was the line of liquors they boasted behind the register.
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May 23, 2011
Cheers & Cheers Again!

Here’s a toast to our newest print! Cheers #2 joins Megan Berk’s original Cheers edition to create a joyous diptych celebrating good times, good friends, and the traditions that bring them all together. This bright block print was handmade by Megan, who often sneaks snapshots at dinner parties and outings with friends in Brooklyn, NY.
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May 15, 2011
Great Gifts from Fine Artichoke

New from Kaye Rachelle Designs is a trio of hand-printed towels, sure to be treasured in anyone’s kitchen for years to come. These 100% cotton flour sack towels each have a corner inside tag for easy hanging on a hook, and can also be used as folded napkins.
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May 11, 2011
Studio Snacks, part 2: Argentina Delivers!

Sandwich memories are some of the most important of our lives. I say that with all due seriousness. Case in point: A good twenty years ago or so, I was sitting in the back seat of one of my Girl Scout sisters’ family car, waiting to be driven to camp. I remember absolutely nothing about this particular camping trip, but what I do remember is my friend’s father-in-law, who was Argentinian, throwing us a bag of tightly-wrapped sandwiches just before we drove off.
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April 15, 2011
Studio Snacks

If you’re an artist, or any kind of self-employed person who regularly locks themselves in a room or to a desk to do long stretches of work, you may have forgotten about the tradition that normal folks like to call a “lunch break.” Essential to your day is the well-planned studio snack: Something to fill you up and not slow you down; Something to distract you from your eighth cup of coffee (you know who you are)
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April 07, 2011
Beats & Eats

You may have already caught onto this, but here at Fine Artichoke, we’re way into thinking of the kitchen as an extension of the studio; It’s another place to get busy and lose yourself in creating something. We’re into it.
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April 04, 2011
Featured Artist Elizabeth Tomasetti

Fine Artichoke is very pleased to welcome artist Elizabeth Tomasetti and her beautiful print “#4 Mancaza Series” to our catalog. This print was inspired by a man named Fulvio Ciccone, born in 1933 in Capodacqua, in the region of Abruzzo, Italy.
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April 01, 2011
Eggs

I recently came upon a short essay by the celebrated California multi-media artist John Baldessari about the perfect “6-minute 30-second Boiled Egg.” The point of the essay is about ritual, I think, and perfection- it’s about art. Its also about cooking an egg, which is difficult.
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March 03, 2011
What’s New? Adam Turman’s Minneapolis

Fine Artichoke is very proud to announce the release of two gorgeous 4-color screenprints by Minneapolis printmaker Adam Turman. Gold Medal and Pillsbury capture the majestic flour mills of downtown Minneapolis, which have stood for over a hundred years as icons of midwestern industrial pride.
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February 03, 2011
Counter Space at MoMA

Right now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an exhibit called Counter Space examines a whole bunch of ways art and the kitchen have intersected in the last century. It’s a bit of a hodge-podge, but a lot of fun nonetheless, and we certainly ate it up.
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December 30, 2010
A Fine Kickoff

It’s been a deliciously fun inaugural season here at Fine Artichoke. We cannot send out enough thanks to everyone who dropped by our site in the past couple of months to have a look, drop a note, or pick up a print. In the New Year, we look forward to bringing you an expanded catalog of fine prints and more insight into the intersections of art and food.
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December 02, 2010
Where to find Fine Artichoke Artists during the holidays…

This Saturday, December 4th, Fine Artichoke will be at the Screwball Spaces Print Fair in Brooklyn, showing off its wares along with those of other a dozen other splendid vendors. If you’re not around for this event, fear not! You may be able to catch Fine Artichoke artists in your neck of the woods!
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November 19, 2010
Fine Artichoke at the Screwball Spaces Print Fair in Brooklyn

Come on down to this fabulous event on December 4th, from 2 till 9. You’ll find gorgeous prints from Fine Artichoke as well as over a dozen other vendors, photographs, printed linens & housewares, apparel and cards! Plus open studios, food, drink & the annual group show in Screwball Spaces’ Sweet Lorraine Gallery.
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November 19, 2010
What’s New? Apple Pie Universe Tea Towels!

Fine Artichoke is very proud to introduce this new limited-edition tea towel from artist Sarah Stern. Apple Pie Universe is a 3-color silkscreen print on a huge 28″ by 29″, 100% cotton towel. These gorgeous linens are a one-of-a-kind piece of handmade art, yet durable enough for everyday use. Our unique tea towels make a great gift – or a unique addition to your own kitchen just in time for holiday entertaining!
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November 03, 2010
What’s New? Hand Printed Tea Towels!

Just in time for the holidays, Fine Artichoke is proud to announce the release of our Limited-Edition Linen Tea Towels. Each week in November, we’ll be releasing a new 100% Egyptian Cotton towel designed and printed by a Fine Artichoke artist. These gorgeous editions are a one-of-a-kind piece of handmade art, yet durable enough for everyday use. Our unique tea towels make a great gift – or a unique addition to your own kitchen just in time for holiday entertaining!
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October 29, 2010
Featured Print: Herb Labels/Bookplates

When Fine Artichoke printmaker Madeleine Stern started working on these delightful handmade labels, she imagined them nestled in the front endpapers of favorite cookbooks.
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October 26, 2010
Fine Artichoke makes a new friend: thekitchn.com

Many thanks to Dana Velden at thekitchn.com for a really fantastic post on October 20th, which featured Fine Artichoke artists Alison Sahmel, Madeleine Stern, Adam Turman, Bonnie Kaye Whitfield and Megan Berk.  
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October 17, 2010
Featured Print: Lady’s Luncheon

Feel like a nice cup of gossipy coffee over a Betty Crocker dessert? You might after seeing our new Featured Print, Lady’s Luncheon by Megan Berk. It’s an ode to a retired tradition, a reflection on the mysterious social role of coffee, and a snapshot of a rumor-in-the-making.
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October 09, 2010
Fine Artichoke on Design*Spong

Many thanks to Claire at Design*Sponge for yesterday’s fine feature on John Holcomb’s “state food prints”.

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October 06, 2010
Studio View: Mia Cabana

Fine Artichoke Printmaker Mia Cabana lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she’s a children’s librarian. She is also the maker of many, many fine things, including her stitched prints for sale here on FA. Her secret lair, where she sheds her librarian duds for those of craft-maven, also happens to be her pantry.
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October 05, 2010
Fall Leaves and Pumpkin Pie Prints

The temperature has dropped, the clouds have rolled in, leaves are changing, and the local coffee shop is advertising  a cinnamon-pumpkin-spice latté. It’s Fall. Bizarre espresso drinks aside, this is a glorious season.

Nowhere is this more true than in New York, where folks are celebrating having made it through a ridiculously hot summer and a startling round of tornado warnings.
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September 17, 2010
John Welles Bartlett in Nashville

Congrats to Fine Artichoke printmaker John Welles Bartlett, whose work is currently being shown in the show Inspired at The Arts Company in downtown Nashville.
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August 28, 2010
Featured Artist: Sarah Stern

We love food, we make art. This is the concept that unites all the Fine Artichoke printmakers, and nobody is a better example of this than the dessert-lovin’ fireball that is artist Sarah Stern. When she’s not in the studio making prints, you may spot Sarah snapping photos of sweets around NYC; her subjects lately have included the concoction known as a Dirty Shirley at Sweetiepie, macaroons at Kee’s Chocolates, and gelato popsicles at Popbar.
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July 25, 2010
Featured Artist: Bonnie Kaye Whitfield

The scene at Bonnie Kaye Whitfield’s Lost/Found show at Pratt Institute last Spring is easy to recall; the smells, sounds, and sights all come back in equal measure. Every afternoon, coffee and cakes were set out in the center of the gallery and friends gathered around to eat, sip and chat. Some took their homemade treats and investigated the walls, which were covered in documentation of the artist’s latest projects. Food is not always an explicit part of Whitfield’s work, but as a whole, her body of work handily weaves together craft, design, concept and (to our delight) cooking. We asked Whitfield, who just moved to Philadelphia, about this…
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February 19, 2010
Beet Muffin Recipe

Preheat oven to 425. Grease your muffin pan with butter, non-stick spray, or Crisco if you happen to be living in 1967.
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February 16, 2010
Do-it-Yourself Framing cont…

Now that you have everything you need , you’re ready to start framing!
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February 15, 2010
Do-It-Yourself Framing for Your FA Prints!

So: You’ve just received a fantastic new piece of art from Fine Artichoke. You’ve got a spot on your wall all picked out. All you need now is the perfect frame.
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January 26, 2010
Launching FineArtichoke.com

Fine Artichoke started as a collaboration between cousins living on two coasts and a small group of food-lovin’ printmakers in Brooklyn.
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