This is the home of Spotty Boy Press on the independent, open internet

My name is Molly. Since 2014, I've been printing linocut and letterpress prints under the Spotty Boy Press imprint.

I sell my work online and in brick-and-mortar galleries and retail shops, teach linocut classes to adults, make commissioned work for individuals and institutions, lead docent trainings and professional development programming for art teachers, and generally try to get as many people printing as possible.

My online shop is temporary closed as I revamp my inventory system after a big move. Sign up for my newsletter at left to get a heads up when I am shipping again.
how I make my work All of the artwork is made completely by hand with no digital tools. I draw on a block of mounted linoleum, carve it with sharp tools, and then print it on one of my printing presses - either my Vandercook #4 or my Chandler & Price 8x12" letterpress, at your left. It's basically a fancy stamp! For type, I use lead or wood type most of the time - those trays of letters you might have seen at an antique store.

I cannot reprint editions unless they are black and white and even then, I like to make new work more than revisit older work these days.

commissions I am quite busy these days but I occassionally take on projects depending on what I am working on personally. My prices start at $300 due to the time and complexity of the medium. If I am not able to take on the project, I am happy to point you to other printmakers who can. Thanks for supporting real human artists.
contact My email is molly (at) spottybotpress dot com.

I like emails and I generally respond in 48 hours. If you are a former student, trying to purchase something, trying to troubleshoot a print problem, trying to build a website like this, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi: send me an email, make my day!

about this website I built this website kind of by myself, with a base template for the index/about pages from here and the portfolio from here. It was coded in Visual Code Studio. The typeface for my headers is Lydian, which I first found at Ashantilly Press. I host my website on Neocities and learned a lot of what I needed to learn code at W3Schools.

If you are an artist and you hate all the drag and drop builders and not being able to tweak other peoples' wordpress themes or whatever, you too can code a website! It's not as scary as it sounds.