Our Town Reno

Nathaniel Benjamin, Keeping a Collective Printmaking Space Alive

Episode Summary

University of Nevada, Reno, graduate Nathaniel Benjamin is a co-founder of Reno's community printing press called Laika Press. As a nonprofit co-operative printmaking space in Reno, it provides accessibility to printmaking equipment for members of the Reno community. Having been a member of Reno's art community for a number of years now, Benjamin also thinks about how the relationship between art and the city of Reno has begun to change amid gentrification and an affordable housing crisis. The reporter for this episode is Scott King.