Billy Strings Ryman 2/22/26 Poster

Official screenprinted poster for Billy Strings' February 22, 2026 show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. 

As a classic country nerd, had a lot of fun digging into the Ryman history while trying to come up with the concept for this piece. I came across some back alley ghost stories when folks had claimed to have seen the ghost of Hank Williams roaming around, perhaps after one too many at Tootsies, the bar that shares the alley. I tried to work some of Broadway’s neon in the background and added a little easter egg of ET’s record store in the distance with the date written on the sign (taking some creative liberties on the exact location).

For this piece, I carved a woodcut to create the key linework. Normally with a woodcut you have to carve the lettering backwards so it prints correctly, like a big rubber stamp. But since this edition was going to be screen printed and not printed directly from the block, I kept the lettering reading the right way so the carving could stand on its own as an original piece.

After pulling a proof, I scanned it and built out each of the color separations digitally in Photoshop, drawing every layer individually. Those files were then sent over to Axelrad Screen Printing, who beautifully printed the final 5-color screenprint edition.