Hi.
I’m a contemporary printmaker exploring the shaded area of a venn diagram where traditional printmaking methods and contemporary digital tools overlap. My compositions follow a circular journey, one that begins and ends with the handmade — sketches and photographs at the start, hand-pulled prints at the finish. But, between those points, many of my works wander through a digital realm.
As a professional graphic designer for the last thirty+ years, it is second nature for me to use digital tools — photo editing, vector illustration — to explore and refine ideas before they re-emerge into the tactile world of paper and ink, where the final composition is carefully redrawn onto the plate.
While the vast majority of my plates are hand-carved, I have been known to occasionally experiment with (and have great fun with) industrial laser cutters to etch wooden printing plates with a high degree of precision. But even these must still be hand-printed, with all the happy accidents, small irregularities, smudges, and moments of grace that make printmaking what it is.
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2025 PROJECT
The 10,000 Print Escape Plan
Over the course of 2025, I created over 10,000 individual prints — relief prints, linocuts, woodcuts, etc. This was all part of a grand personal project to completely replace my unhealthy social media and “doom-scrolling” habits with creative output. (My wife would probably have preferred that I take up jogging or yoga or something, but that’s another story.)
I wasn’t sure how much work I could do, so my first my goal was much more modest. 500 prints. Then 1,000. Then 2,500. Then at some point I actually figured out how to streamline my process and now I’ve got more prints than any one person should ever have.
The 10,000 prints are mini-relief prints, ranging in size from 3×5 index cards up to 8×10 paper size. All are hand-printed, dated, signed, editioned, stamped and sealed in a cellophane bag.
From the start, I knew this would be a community project — to prove all the work and effort was real, I would need to give it all away, all 10,000 prints, completely free.
And now, the time has come.
Most of the prints were printed in editions of 50 or 100. This is what 100 prints on 5×7 paper looks like.
Seeking Community Partners
If you know a business what would like to have a box of FREE ART sitting on the counter, please email me! (Please mention who you are and your business name.)
Text me: (479) 466-3468
Email me: adam@interramedia.com
DM me: Instagram.com/adamritchey or Instagram/adamritcheyprints
LinkedIn: Does anyone use this? /in/adamritchey
Thanks so much!