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About Ocelot Print Shop

Ocelot Print Shop is a community screen printing shop that is dedicated to providing a collaborative work space to members of our community, offering non-traditional education in the form of classes and skill shares, and offering full screen print services. We are dedicated to connecting printers in Detroit so together we can achieve greater things than we could separately. Ocelot Print Shop's vision is to be a community cornerstone and hub for arts-based education and access to equipment. We want to change the way our members and community think about shared resources, learning, and what it means to make your own media.

Our Story

The idea for Ocelot Print Shop (OPS) was born in early 2012. While traveling, two of our founders visited community print shops in other cities and were amazed at what a great resource they were. As artists who worked from home by themselves, they both wanted to be part of a working space that provided a greater amount of feedback, inspiration, and flow of ideas, and loved the idea of working at a community print shop. They were connected through a mutual friend to a lifelong screen printer who had visions of a space that was commercial but also inspiring to work in. He wanted his equipment to be used by more than just himself once his family shop was sold. So we started talking about what we wanted in a space, and how we wanted to be part of the community, and create community through printing, and it all started coming together.

After spending a year eating lunch together and planning, planning, planning we opened our doors in June of 2013. We had been awarded a $1000 grant through the Awesome News Task Force, as a newsworthy project that is happening in Detroit. That was our budget and all the start-up money we had. With that $1000 we built a dark room, a light table, a wash-out booth, and bought some basic supplies. With this and some older equipment, we had the bones of a print shop. We opened in time to partner with the Allied Media Projects (AMP) and the Detroit Future Media (DFM) classes (DFM teaches media-based skills to Detroiters for grassroots community work). The graphic design class applied their skills to a tangible output through learning to screen print. The screen printing portion of the class took place at OPS, and that was our first educational experience in the shop. It was so much fun to have people in our space working and learning.

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