About the Nature Printing Society

 

Founded in 1976, we are an international art organization organized to advance and encourage the fine art of nature printing. We promote friendship, cooperation, and the free exchange of ideas among all nature printers.

NPS encourages articles, demonstrations, classes, and exhibitions relating to all forms of nature printing. Our original guidelines for prints were based on those of Gyotaku-no-kai, the Japanese fish printing society.

We publish a quarterly online newsletter that includes the newest printing techniques from our members. We offer an online video library, as well as live quarterly meetings where we show our work. We invite you to join us at one of our yearly workshops, where we learn from one another and practice the latest techniques in nature printing.

For a copy of our latest newsletter, or more information about our book, The Art of Printing from Nature, contact the NPS editor, Lynn McKinney.

From 1981 to 1987, NPS members exhibited with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in an exhibit of nature prints called Pressed On Paper.

• Original Poster for the Smithsonian exhibit

Over the next six years, the exhibit toured the United States, Canada and Australia. Our press included coverage in the California Academy of Science museum magazine.
• Press release and itinerary for the Smithsonian exhibit
• Also see the Cal Academy article

From 2000-2001,  NPS members exhibited in Impressions of Nature at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.

NPS is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. As such, donations to the NPS are deductible to the extent permitted by IRS regulations. Gifts to the NPS help it to achieve its goal of nature printing support and education. Information about making a donation to the Nature Printing Society can be found here.