Screens and Suds, a local organization dedicated to fundraising through a unique combination of craft beers and screen printed artwork, will be having an eve
Screens and Suds, a local organization dedicated to fundraising through a unique combination of craft beers and screen printed artwork, will be having an event at The Camel on October 28th.
The group, which was established in 2009 by co-founders Brian Gearing and Ric Hersh, has seen notable success in the past few years.
According to the Screens and Suds Facebook page, this group was developed “to celebrate the three things they love the most in no particular order–beer, art, and music–and raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society and local charities.”
The name for the idea was inspired by the organization Screens and Spokes, which was started in Philadelphia in 2007 by Sam Verrill and Jess Harris. Together the two groups have raised over $300,000 to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (as well as the Virginia Association of Free Clinics) and have produced over eighty prints.
The upcoming event at The Camel is the second in a list of seven events that the group plans to hold this year and will feature the small batch beer, Foxy Mama, which was produced by Blue Mountain Brewery out of Afton, Virginia. Foxy Mama is a red tripel beer which Itty Bitty Press (a screen printing and design business centered in Richmond) did the label artwork for.
Brian Gearing (the current director of the Suds side of the project) explained that while the beer (Foxy Mama) itself will be released to the general public following the organizations big event in November, “the bottles will only be available at the event.”
Ric Hersch (the Screens director) said that there should be eight to twelve new prints for this year’s series, explaining that “the artistic direction that we gave this year, because this is our fifth year, was to utilize the term ‘quint-essential’. We have asked the artists to do something that they find to be quintessential to craft beer.”
Artists who have contributed to this project, in addition to Itty Bitty Press, include Andrew Strong, arts collective Bomb Proof, Ashley Phipps, Christian Leaf, Brian Mandeville, and Seansberg, as well as various other local and national artists.
In addition to the beer tasting and screen print displays, the upcoming event at The Camel will also include performances from Richmond dubtronica outfit The Polychrons, glitch-hop producer Groove Status, and DJ Phil Dice.
This event is one of several others leading up to the Screens and Suds annual main event, which will be held at Gallery5 http://gallery5arts.org/newsitedesign/ on November 2nd.
