Becca's Box

"Kindness to Animals" streetbox by Rebecca Katz

Washington City Paper's Molly McGinley decided to commemorate the publication's 30th anniversary artistically. "As the paper’s circulation manager, I don’t get many opportunities to exercise my creative chops....I decided it would be an excellent opportunity to redesign the places where the papers live." she says on her blogpost. Streetbox Named Desire was the ideal challenge for Pyramid Atlantic. McGinley agrees: "after seeking advice from other newspapers, I decided to recruit an art studio, and found the perfect partnership in Silver Spring’s Pyramid Atlantic." 10 artists from our community were selected, including Screenprint Associate Rebecca Katz.




The versatility of screenprinting allowed Rebecca to transfer her trademark animal images and text directly on to the box. To create the bobcat, she screenprinted two colors (black and grey), and then painted the panel with water-based acrylic. Rebecca still cuts Rubylith—a plastic 2-ply sheet that can be peeled, leaving the shapes on an acetate ground—to create some of her screenprinting plates.

>See all the boxes and vote for your favorite here.

The finished box, at the Smithsonian Metro stop.