Our Facilities

Highpoint occupies 10,000 street-level square feet facing Lake Street in the heart of Uptown. The printshop is designed for accessibility and is ADA-compliant. Highpoint has off-street parking spaces available behind our building (off Colfax  Avenue South) for members and visitors, one off-street parking space for a school bus, and ample on-street parking in the surrounding area.

Access Policy

Highpoint Center for Printmaking provides equal opportunity and access to its facilities and programs to all individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, color, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, or disability in admission, access, or employment. Upon request, accommodation will be provided to allow individuals with disabilities to participate in all Highpoint services, programs, and activities. Adopted by the Board of Directors on January 27, 2005.

Galleries

Main Gallery

Each year, the Main Gallery at Highpoint hosts the McKnight Printmaking Fellowship exhibition and the Jerome Early Career Printmakers exhibition, as well as two semi-annual Artists Co-op Member shows, two international print exhibits or collectives, and the annual student show. Highpoint’s Main Gallery also exhibits work from Highpoint Editions, organizes a biennial juried print show, Stand Out Prints, and periodically hosts other traveling exhibitions. Each of these exhibitions takes place within our beautiful, 1,000-square-foot (135 linear feet), window-lit gallery that overlooks Lake Street. 

Additionally, a selection of Highpoint co-op member prints is always available to peruse and purchase in the print sales racks near the gallery entrance.

Print Research & Study Room

For print enthusiasts, this room allows a more intimate viewing experience of Highpoint Editions published prints. With the archives readily accessible, visitors from schools and universities, as well as researchers and collectors, can take a closer look at the diverse work from HP’s visiting artist program, past and present.

The 325-square-foot Print Research and Study Room always features HP Editions prints on its walls, has flat files full of artwork, and is equipped with rolling screens that contain additional Highpoint Editions framed inventory.

Threshold Gallery

In 2010, Highpoint created the Threshold Gallery to showcase solo work by co-op artists. Located adjacent to Highpoint’s north entrance, the Threshold Gallery presents four exhibits annually. This intimate space allows each artist the chance to organize a “mini-show” and personally curate the space.

The Threshold Gallery contains 30 linear feet of dedicated display area.

Highpoint's Cooperative Space

Approximately 1850 square feet, dedicated to Highpoint’s Artists Cooperative.

Classroom

Each year Highpoint’s classroom serves several thousand students and community members of all ages as part of our school partnership programs, free community workshops, and adult classes. Highpoint’s classroom is an accessible space for visitors to experience hands-on printmaking in a professional studio setting.

Professional Shop

Highpoint Editions (HPE), founded in 2004, is the publishing arm of Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Through the HPE visiting artist program, artists create original editions with the guidance and support of a Master Printer, Senior Printer, and printing staff. Since Highpoint’s inception, HPE has created over 800 original prints and editions. HPE has worked with esteemed artists such as Julie Mehretu, Brad Kahlhamer, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby and exhibited works by diverse artists in The Contemporary Print: 20 Years at Highpoint Editions exhibition at Mia, and several fairs such as EXPO Chicago, IFPDA in NY, and Ink Miami among others. Read more about Highpoint Editions.

Visiting Artist Studio

Overlooking Highpoint's rain garden, the Visiting Artist Studio is a well-equipped, 300-square-foot semi-private space for Highpoint Editions artists to develop their images and consult with the Master Printer and printing staff. The carefully engineered studio is easily customized to fit the needs of individual artists and the scope of their projects.

Robert L. Crump Library

Thanks to a wonderful gift from the Crump Family (Jonathan, Matt, Aaron and Sarah Crump, and Tina Crump Lanier) Highpoint Center for Printmaking was able to create a library to honor the life and work of Minnesota artist and printmaker Robert L. Crump.

The Robert L. Crump Library at Highpoint serves to document, present, and preserve publications about prints and the printmaking arts. A non-circulating collection, the library houses thousands of titles from a wide range of publishers from around the world. Books from the private collection of Robert L. Crump have been donated to the library. The goal is also to include exhibition catalogs and monographs, a selection of artist books, and periodicals and journals as space permits.

The library is open by appointment during Highpoint’s gallery hours (9–5 Monday through Friday; Noon-4 Saturday).

About Robert L. Crump: Robert L. Crump, who passed away in 2009, was a noted artist and printmaker and former superintendent of the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. He worked as a designer and an art director for companies in Minneapolis and the Midwest.

In his 2009 book published by the Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Prints and Printmakers: 1900 –1945, Robert Crump relates the fascinating story of Minnesota’s graphic arts world and its growth from provincialism to part of a national movement, showing how art printing — etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, drypoints, monotypes, and screenprints — blossomed after the turn of the last century. He chronicles the support of the federal government during the 1930s and the important role played by local organizations such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Minneapolis School of Art (now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design). The book offers short biographies of and sample prints by nearly two hundred printmakers, including Wanda Gag, Adolf Dehn, George Resler, Miriam Ibling, Syd Fossum, Gilbert Fletcher, and Gustav Goetsch. Crump’s eye for memorable images makes the book a pleasure to behold for collectors and readers interested in Minnesota art. (excerpted from MNHS website and Amazon.com)

Visit the Minnesota Historical Society’s website at MNHS.org to purchase this book.