welcome!

Hi! I’m Hope (they/she).

Through classes, collage and the Keep Writing postcard project, I encourage collaboration, communication and interaction.

I host collage meet-ups, lead workshops in creativity & continue the monthly interactive postcard subscription I started in 2008.

Formerly known as gutwrench press, I am still writing and printing zines, too.

Born and raised in New England, I’ve moved between the west coast and the gulf coast three times, spent many years in Louisiana and currently live in Portland, Ore.

let’s talk!

inquires at: hello@hopeamico.com

A collection of letterpress printed postcards, angled up to the right. There is one with a small orange robot, another with a heart with wings, all have typographic quotes and words on them.

Letterpress print in a navy blue color of a person in a diving pose. They are wearing a vintage swimsuit. The background is a pink pattern.

A cluttered desk made of dark wood has a series of artistic impliments scattered across it. Most of the supplies appear to be for collage. There is an open white sketchbook with a mix of scraps of colorful paper and images spread out on top of it.

A simple collage on a white background. A scrap of roughly triangular green paper partially covers a vintage print of a car facing the viewer, and a pink piece of handmade paper. A branch in another photo is above the green triangle.

Most of the photo is a centered letterpress printed postcard, with capital letters saying HOME IS, and a hand written "here" on the line below. The background is the edges of many postcards tightly packed together, with a variety of colors visible.