About Us

Founded by Rachel Lackey in 2011 as the first community printshop in Alabama, Green Pea Press grew exponentially over 11 years, offering memberships, workshops, demonstrations and field trips, custom printing services, on-site event printing, wholesale and retail items.

Our printmaking studio and retail shop were located on the first floor of Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment in Huntsville, Alabama, the largest independent arts center in the nation. Our 4,200sqft low-toxicity working studio provided resident and local artists access to equipment in a variety of fine art print media, including block printing, monotype, intaglio, and letterpress. The Pea Pod, our retail space, offered a broad range of items for sale that were hand-printed in-house by members and employees of Green Pea Press. In 2015, we opened a second location at 2720 Governors Drive to house our screen printing facilities, just a few blocks up the street.

In early 2022, we closed our Lowe Mill studio and ended our collective operations, moving toward a sustainable model of production printing, fundraising, and selling our own brand of printed apparel and goods while maintaining our high standards, artistic roots, and passion for helping our community.

We continue to conduct our custom printing production at our Governors Drive shop Monday through Friday, with a small retail area in the front. In 2023, we expanded operations into an additional building in the back for heat pressing, sublimation, and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing.

Thanks for checking out our website, and please don’t hesitate to contact us or drop by! 

Rachel Lackey Martin Blanco in printmaking studio

Rachel Lackey & Martin Blanco

 

Screen Shop

2720 Governors Drive SW

Suite B

Huntsville, AL 35805

Hours

M–F: 10AM-4PM

(256) 924-0451

We're Green!

We use citrus-based, eco-friendly solvents for cleanup and reclaiming screens. No plastisol ink ever goes into the water system and we use water-based ink when the project allows. Any misprinted or damaged shirts are repurposed for test printing and shop rags. We always reduce, reuse, and recycle whenever we can, including packaging materials, copier paper, and waste from any of our processes.

In the Press

 
Green Pea Press: Printing for Change
WHNT News
April 23, 2023
Printing for Change: Green Pea Press lends a hand for local non-profits
The Lede
January 17, 2023
Entrepreneur Awards Cap Innovate Huntsville Week
Huntsville Business Journal
March 5, 2019
10 Old Trades Making a Comeback
DIY Network
July 2017
Green Pea Press leaves mark on Alabama art community
The Huntsville Times, al.com
July 23, 2017
Green Pea Press is old-school printing with youthful passion
Alabama News Center
March 27, 2017
Green Pea Press - Huntsville, AL
Itinerant Printer
November 29, 2015
Lowe Mill
Alabama Living
September 2015
Two Peas in a Pod: My interview with Green Pea Press founders Rachel Lackey and Martin Blanco
Huntsville.org
February 14, 2015
On the job with Martin Blanco and Rachel Lackey of Green Pea Press in Huntsville
The Huntsville Times
January 7, 2015