Horse & Buggy Press and Friends

Horse & Buggy Press and Friends H&B Press is a graphic design and letterpress printing studio with a focus in collaborative book publishing. Established 1996.

H&B Press and Friends is a fine art/craft gallery with thematic exhibits, works by 40+ artists, and a curated book stall.

My backyard view on my fifty foot wide lot in Northgate Park on a street with 2 bedroom, 1 bath 850 square foot houses.a...
08/17/2025

My backyard view on my fifty foot wide lot in Northgate Park on a street with 2 bedroom, 1 bath 850 square foot houses.

a new profiteering zone. This by local developers, (who works for for the city), Pete Zseleczky (who works for Gateway Construction and used to live directly across the street), and architect .

All local people I formerly considered friends.

But they have decided to drop any sense of ethical principles and put two LARGE ADUS in the backyard that are larger and taller than the main dwelling on the street.

If you happen to think this is bogus, please express your displeasure with these three people and ask why they sold their soul for $$$.

and if you have energy left over, then perhaps share with the city of Durham government that you don't think this is what backyards should become. and ask how to follow along with, and provide input to, the current process of reimagining what our UDO and ADA policy should be.

It has been suggested that I keep quiet and just suck it up.. But I think that is what will just encourage more of this crappy land development and unneighborly behavior.

Durham citizens and neighborhoods deserve better than this.

and for the record, I support SINGLE and IN SCALE ADUs in backyards.
But this is clearly gaming and abusing the system.

Working on the 125 year anniversary issue of Natural History magazine, which will include this image of the Hoatzin (Opi...
08/04/2025

Working on the 125 year anniversary issue of Natural History magazine, which will include this image of the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) which deters predators with its aroma which is often compared to manure. Unlike most birds, it ferments plant matter in an enlarged, multi-chambered crop, similar to how cows digest food. This foregut fermentation produces foul-smelling gases, giving the hoatzin its nickname: the “stinkbird." Photo by Konrad Wothe

Natural History comes out ten times a year as a 48 page magazine and is a pretty fun and informative read, usually with some good eye candy. Website is NOT very good but it does have a link to subscribe to the print magazine, only $22 per year plus has some bennies.

After 19 years of curating exhibits and maintaining a gallery as part of H&B, the last eight here at Broad Street, I’ve ...
05/29/2025

After 19 years of curating exhibits and maintaining a gallery as part of H&B, the last eight here at Broad Street, I’ve decided to wind the gallery down in order to focus more fully on book and publication design.

Friday, June 27 will be the last day for the gallery. We have all kinds of great work here, and I’d love to see as many works as possible find new homes, rather than being returned to artists. To that end, there’s a ten percent discount on all work beginning tomorrow, and this will be coming out of the gallery cut so that artists get their normal share. We especially have a large selection of unframed pieces, and per usual our great neighbors down the block, Craven Allen, provide a ten percent discount on framing any works purchased here.

I’m on the hunt currently to find space sharers so that I can hopefully keep doing design work from this space. Am open to a variety of ideas, please reach out if you have ideas of folks or organizations that might be interested to do focused work from here (or if anyone wants to maintain a gallery here and I could do design work from one of the back studio spaces).

Huge thanks to all the artists and craftspersons for sharing their work here over the years. We are proud to have sold work in a diverse range of media by well over 100 artists over the years, and being a part of connecting great work with new homes and appreciators has been extremely meaningful. Big thanks of course to all the folks who engaged with work here and to the ones that enjoyed stepping up to purchase works for their home or office, or as a gift for a loved one. It is very much appreciated.

Big shout out of thanks to Fullsteam for being a gallery sponsor ever since they opened up their doors. Also thanks to Westgate Wine for their support, and to all the musicians who played at receptions (despite my not being able to pay them as much as they deserve.) Thanks to the folks who helped staff the galleries over the years, and also to Laser Image for being a gallery sponsor and printing our gallery cards and window graphics.

Special gallery hours tomorrow and next Saturday from Noon-4pm as artist will be gallery sitting as we have extended he...
05/02/2025

Special gallery hours tomorrow and next Saturday from Noon-4pm as artist will be gallery sitting as we have extended her "Commuting. Community. Collage." exhibit throug May 15.

Come say hi if you are out and about.

If you have been meaning to check it out, please know we are extending "Commuting. Community. Collage." by to run anoth...
04/29/2025

If you have been meaning to check it out, please know we are extending "Commuting. Community. Collage." by to run another two weeks.

We have found new homes for many of these works and there are still a few framed triptychs available, as well as collages, cards, an artist chapbook (collaboration with designer ) and coptic bound books.

Still a couple weeks left in our "Commuting. Community. Collage." exhibit by and excited to announce several days Melin...
04/16/2025

Still a couple weeks left in our "Commuting. Community. Collage." exhibit by and excited to announce several days Melinda when will be gallery sitting and looks forward to conversing with visitors.

Been great to see people so enthused by these unique framed collages (and the artist book and coptic stitch journals)

Melinda will be here...

Thurs, April 17 2-6pm
Friday, April 18 10am-2pm
Tuesday, April 22, 2-6pm
Sat April 26, 12-4pm

It seems like a good time to pull this painting by out and place in a prime spot up front."We must always take sides. N...
03/28/2025

It seems like a good time to pull this painting by out and place in a prime spot up front.

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” —

This 12 inch square painting was originally in the "Faces" exhibit here a few years ago.

Five years ago was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer right before Covid hit. Today, she is celebrating the conti...
03/27/2025

Five years ago was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer right before Covid hit.

Today, she is celebrating the continuation of NED (No Evidence of Disease) — and we are excited to share her playful and joyous exhibit “Commuting. Community. Collage.” which features twenty framed tripytchs of collaged local bus passes and other sidespur gems (books, collage packs)

The reception is this Saturday from 4-6pm and there will be a raffle during the reception to benefit , a membership based virtual wellness house for those living with Metastatic Breast Cancer and their loved ones. (see website link in comments)

This is a group that Melinda has mentored and been involved with as a teacher. 100% of raffle proceeds will be donated to the group, and the prize is a hardcover coptic bound journal that Melinda made.

Here's to celebrating good news and good people and seeing how a small thing like a bus pass can be transformed.

Nothing like getting home on a Friday and stepping onto the back deck to have a quiet moment in the sun and enjoy the ba...
03/21/2025

Nothing like getting home on a Friday and stepping onto the back deck to have a quiet moment in the sun and enjoy the backyard view. Ugh.

Two rental ADUs by a local architect and local developers.

The city of Durham did not requiring rezoning for this; (on a 50 by 220 lot in Northgate Park; to the right of the bigger ADU rental is a single story 850 square foot house) even though the ADUs are not only taller than the main dwelling but have a substantially larger footprint.

let me know off line if you want to know who the architect and developers are. Though maybe they will come here and explain how this is work they are proud of? They all live here in Durham and were folks I have held in high regard for their stellar work in other arenas. But I can't give this a free pass.

Let the record reflect I support single, in-scale ADUs in backyards. I do not think this is remotely close to that, as I believe this is very much out of scale and disrespectful to the neighborhood and the people who live in sight of this.

I encourage all Durham residents to appeal to Durham city government to not allow this kind of out of scale, rude, and non neighborly development. Obviously it is too late for me and the neighbors on this block -- but hopefully others will be spared this kind of treatment.

Context matters.

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We have a unique fun exhibit up on the wall coinciding with the first day of spring.Commuting. Community. Collage.Artist...
03/21/2025

We have a unique fun exhibit up on the wall coinciding with the first day of spring.

Commuting. Community. Collage.

Artist says...

"This show is a celebration of public transportation and the invaluable service it provides in connecting us to our communities. I love these little bus passes and the journeys they represent— my trips to work where I found people I adore, to art days with friends, to the Duke Cancer Center for treatments and checkups with my amazing care team, to shopping marathons with my sister or thrifting afternoons with soulmates, to movie screenings at my beloved Carolina Theatre. Hundreds of trips from one end of the Triangle to the other since 2011.

From the beginning, I planned to use these passes as a foundation for a collage series about travel. About independence. About people. I thought I might create these collages on the bus. (In hindsight, cutting and gluing small pieces of paper while on a moving bus was not a very practical idea.) It wasn’t until 2019 after I was diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer, that I began my Bus Pass Series. It was a time when I needed something to give me purpose and joy. I found both in creating these and many other collages over the past five years."

These works are beautifully framed by Bill Neville, and there will be other gems at the reception including an artist's book edition which Melinda collaborated with designer Janet Guertin.

RECEPTION: Saturday, March 29, 4-6pm.

Gallery Hours M-F, 8:30 to 4ish and by appt.

Special hours tomorrow (Saturday) from 9-1.

Address

1116 Broad Street
Durham, NC
27705

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 3pm
Tuesday 10am - 3pm
Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3pm
Saturday 11am - 2pm

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(919) 949-4847

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