Ten Years of Team Nerd Press? Let’s Party!

A free one-day-only exhibit and party celebrating a decade of letterpress and community.

Hey, Milwaukee, you’re invited. On Saturday, August 31st, 2024, Team Nerd Press will celebrate its 10th Anniversary as a brick-and-mortar letterpress print shop in the Historic Lamers Building in Walker’s Point. The event is free and open to the public. Team Nerd Press is the private art studio of Nathan Adam Beadel, who custom prints old-school letterpress posters with wood-type and carved illustrations. He also manages the activities of Grove Gallery with his friend, landlady, and fellow artist Celine Farrell, curating solo shows for local artists and printmakers

This is no ordinary party—yes, tasty treats and beverages will be served, but Beadel will be sharing a ton of brand new work, including his latest typographic bird song mnemonics, a series of posters advertising imaginary book titles, and other special prints produced exclusively for the occasion. In addition he will have displays of his favorite work from the last ten years and many free prints will be given away. You also can expect the announcement of an exciting new arts publication and the upcoming exhibiting artists at Grove Gallery.

Don’t miss this party, or you will miss the entire show… and have to frequently hear about how epic it was for the rest of your life.

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Team Nerd Press was founded by N. Adam Beadel who received his MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from UWM Peck School of the Arts. Team Nerd has taught workshops on letterpress printing and relief printing with UWM, MIAD, Woodland Pattern, Arts @ Large, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Bike Fed. Team Nerd has produced prints for Jazz Estate, the Bike-In Movie Series, 5th Street Fest, and Grove Gallery. Other exhibitions include “Chews Your Words,” a collection of typographic poetry broadsides at Grove Gallery in 2022, and “Spring of the Year: Bird Songs in Wood Type” at Beans and Barley in 2024. Team Nerd was awarded a mini-grant by the city of Milwaukee in 2021 to produce a series of free community-produced posters with WPCA and the Wisconsin Bike Fed that address reckless driving in Milwaukee.