The word bricolage comes from the French verb, bricoler, which has many translations, the most basic being "to tinker." Truest to its French heritage would be the definition of the constant and ever lasting tinkering on one's house, and more specifically, fixing something without going to the store to buy exactly what is needed. It is the creative use of what is at hand and implies using unconventional materials to fix problems. Sometimes we have to improvise, and often, the result is more endearing than first planned.

Bricolage Press was founded on these ideas.

Monica Medeiros is an interdisciplinary artist with a deep appreciation for slow craft and "the old ways." She grew up the daughter of an antique dealer, under the dusty tables of flea markets, dangling her legs out of a Volkswagen Vanagon as it drove slowly through the Berkeley Hills the night before trash pick up, and playing "store" in an old meat locker in the back of her mom's shop. From this came an appreciation for the unappreciated, a fascination with the old, and a love of handmade. She began letterpress printing at the age of 16 and went on to graduate from Mills College with a degree in Fine Arts and bookmaking. She began experimenting with the intersection of printmaking and natural dyes in 2016 after unlocking the secret world of color in her garden. She lives and maintains her art practice in Vallejo, California with her rescue dogs, Lupita & Pablo.