Pam Paulson and Rhea Fontaine, the owners of Paulson Fontaine Press, explain their process of inviting artists to collaborate with the studio at the Press and how working with a team and a new medium can inspire new directions for artists. They highlight the collaborative process they experienced with Oakland-based artist David Huffman in 2017. In his work, Huffman explores stereotypical American racial iconography, often based on basketball related abstractions. While at the Press, Huffman used basketball nets and chains to create unique patterns, which proved challenging to translate to a paper medium via etchings.
