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A Creative Cabin
Anna Hoover built this studio to showcase a printing press and a variety of art.
An artist-activist crafts a studio on family land in the South Puget Sound written by Melissa Dalton
Benjamin Benschneider
ANNA HOOVER CHUCKLED when asked what prompted her to build her art studio several years ago. “The building was inspired by the need for a home for this beautiful printing press that I was given by my parents,” Hoover said. The bright orange press was sizeable, which Hoover estimates weighs around 800 pounds. It was designed by Glen Alps, a printmaker and professor at the University of Washington, and he only made a limited number of them. “I studied printmaking in college and then I got this beautiful printing press, so I really felt like I needed a studio to put it in,” Hoover said. “So that’s where it all began.”
28 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY | MARCH 2019
