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Atlantic City Poster: Coming Up This Week at the Impressions Expo

By Rick Roth

The next stop on the Ink Kitchen annual poster printing tour is Atlantic City — this week, starting on Thursday, March 26–29 at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

This year’s AC poster designed by Alyx Spurrier that you can see printed live by Brian Potash of Devilfish Ink at the Ink Kitchen booth #1126 this week at the Atlantic City Impressions Expo

For those who haven’t been following along, here’s the short version: each year at the Impressions shows since 2020, we print limited-edition screen-printed posters live on the show floor, with all proceeds going to organizations doing essential work with people experiencing homelessness in the cities where we gather. The very generous sponsors who make it possible are listed on signs at the printing area and we cover it in Impressions Magazine and at inkkitchen.com. More importantly, they get to be part of something real. Over the past few years, this program has raised over $135,000 in direct cash donations, and donated quality garments after each show. Every dollar goes to quality organizations with extremely low overhead — this money actually goes to doing the work.

Kyle Eslinger (right) of SanMar’s Decorator Solutions team, Rick Roth of the Ink Kitchen, and Sister Patty the director of Adelaide’s Place. The charity partner is Adelaide’s Place (feel free to directly donate to them on their website!) and Sister Patty (Patty Prendergast) and her volunteer staff have been doing critical work in Atlantic City since 2002, running a great day program for homeless women. You might not think about it, but it is so important to have a place to do laundry, to find services to get you out of homelessness, to meet with a social worker, to have an address to get mail, to get a meal, and to just have a safe place to be. Sister Patty founded Adelaide’s Place after decades of working with the homeless in Atlantic City through various organizations — and seeing that what was missing was simply a safe place for women to be during the day. On an average day, dozens of women come through the door. All are welcome.
Brian Potash of Devilfish Ink in Philadelphia will be printing live on the show floor at the Ink Kitchen booth — Booth #1126 — the Ink Kitchen’s annual Atlantic City poster, an ode to classic Atlantic City, surfing on the East Coast and the iconic Atlantic City lifesaving boat. Brian is a Tyler School of Art-trained fine art and gig poster printmaker, artist, and in his spare time singer in a few great bands around Philly. He has been printing the Ink Kitchen’s Atlantic City posters since 2021. He is the real deal — come by and watch him work. Posters are $10, with all proceeds going to Adelaide’s Place.
You can also order the Atlantic City poster online here with all proceeds going to Adelaide’s Place.

Please consider these generous sponsors for your screen printing and decorating needs. They made this possible.

Come on by and say hi and grab a poster.

 

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