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ABOUT DU-GOOD PRESS

Du-Good Press (est. 2017) is a fine art screenprinting studio based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by Leslie Diuguid, Du-Good Press is the first Black female owned fine art screen printing business in New York. Since founding the Press, Diuguid has collaboratively printed editions for artists, designers, and institutions, and is dedicated to supporting artists and increasing access to art collecting. 

On Memorial Day 2022, Du-Good Press moved production from the home of Leslie Diuguid to a dreamy storefront studio at 19 Patchen Ave—what was formally Rodriguez Dry Cleaners, in the Bedstuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Presses never stopped through this transition and continue to this day.

Publications by Du-Good Press are in thousands of homes worldwide along with being in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard’s Houghton Library, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Prints by Diuguid have been exhibited at Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles along with Poster House in New York. In an ongoing collaboration, Du-Good Press produces a unique edition for each exhibiting artist at 52 Walker which so far includes, Kandis Williams, Nikita Gale, Nora Turato, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tau Lewis, Pope.L, and Heji Shin. Other artists who have collaborated with Du-Good Press include: Shepard Fairey, Tauba Auerbach, Faith Ringgold, Barry McGee, and Hassan Rahim.

ABOUT LESLIE DIUGUID

Leslie Diuguid (b. 1986, Kansas City) is a Brooklyn-based printmaker and publisher who works closely with artists to create fine art editions and one-off works using the art of screenprinting. Diuguid grew interested in disassembling and restructuring her built environment while independently practicing drawing and painting throughout her childhood. This design approach to visual language morphed into an affinity for the process and refinement involved in printmaking. She graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Printmaking. 

In 2017, while apprenticing under various master printers, Diuguid founded Du-Good Press to serve a new generation of artists and publishers. She found inspiration to become a trailblazing entrepreneur after reading Our Fathers; Making Black Men by her father, Lewis Diuguid and named Du-Good Press after her grandfather’s company, Du-Good Chemical, in order to continue its legacy.

Artists Diuguid has recently supported through Du-Good Press include Kristin Texeira for Louis Bhul & Co., Lisa Alvarado for Bridget Donahue, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas for Ballroom Marfa, Na’ye Perez for BRIC and Alake Shilling for Printed Matter, among others. Since 2020, Diuguid has taught classes in the medium at institutions such as the New School, Pratt Institute and Cooper Union and has been invited to speak on the subject at Yale School of Art, Columbia University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Purchase College, the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of North Seattle College, the University of Arkansas and the University of Iowa. She currently teaches Screenprinting at Cooper Union.

DIUGUID LEGACY

Reading Our Fathers by my father, Lewis Diuguid, unlocked a chain reaction by revealing the history of his father, Dr. Lincoln I. Diuguid.

Despite being the first Black man to graduate with a doctorate in chemistry from Cornell University, my grandfather, Dr. Lincoln I. Diuguid found that the only positions he was offered at large chemical companies required him to “pass” as white. In the face of this discrimination, he started his own company in 1947 St. Louis, Missouri.Recently declared a National Landmark, the Du-Good Chemical Laboratory building is the most closely associated site with his innovative career and investments in uplifting the black community through engagement and purposeful mentorship.