What We Do
What We Do
The Opposite of Fast Fashion
The Opposite of Fast Fashion
The Opposite of Fast Fashion
We are a screen printing press operating out of Saint Louis, Missouri. We produce art, merchandise, and textiles designed, printed, and constructed locally. We offer small batch apparel printing services, powered by Opaque Collective.
For us, screen printing is an art and a lineage.
We are a screen printing press operating out of Saint Louis, Missouri. We produce art, merchandise, and textiles designed, printed, and constructed locally. We offer small batch apparel printing services, powered by Opaque Collective.
For us, screen printing is an art and a lineage.
Real People (And Dog) Doing Work
Real People (And Dog) Doing Work
Why Small Batch?
Why Small Batch?
We seek to craft pieces that people will want to keep, repair, and eventually recycle. The opposite of fast fashion. We concentrate on making unique, quality, hand crafted items you'll want to hang on to.
Smaller batches lets us slow down and concentrate on the authenticity of what we are creating, without the pressure of mass production.
If you have need for larger numbers, let us know! With our collective of union screen printers, we can find someone to fulfill you needs, in your own local communityl.
We seek to craft pieces that people will want to keep, repair, and eventually recycle. The opposite of fast fashion. We concentrate on making unique, quality, hand crafted items you'll want to hang on to.
Smaller batches lets us slow down and concentrate on the authenticity of what we are creating, without the pressure of mass production.
If you have need for larger numbers, let us know! With our collective of union screen printers, we can find someone to fulfill you needs, in your own local communityl.
Real Impact In
Your Community
Real Impact In
Your Community
Our custom printing services are currently limited locally in the Saint Louis area. Fostering real relationships with our customers and clients to enrich our local communities is an important part of our mission.
We are designers and artisans living and breathing these Saint Louis streets. Working with us means impacting and empowering your local economy directly.
Our printing services are powered by the Opaque Collective.
Our custom printing services are currently limited locally in the Saint Louis area. Fostering real relationships with our customers and clients to enrich our local communities is an important part of our mission.
We are designers and artisans living and breathing these Saint Louis streets. Working with us means impacting and empowering your local economy directly.
Our printing services are powered by the Opaque Collective.
Our Dream
Our Dream
Our short term goal is to visit Puerto Rico next Spring on an adventure to discover more about our Founder's ancestral link to the island and their culture of screen printing and community support. This trip is the first piece in a 3 part plan we have for our future endeavors.
Your patronage now helps to directly fund this mission, as well as our dream of sustainability and mutual aid here
in Saint Louis, MO.
Our short term goal is to visit Puerto Rico next Spring on an adventure to discover more about our Founder's ancestral link to the island and their culture of screen printing and community support. This trip is the first piece in a 3 part plan we have for our future endeavors.
Your patronage now helps to directly fund this mission, as well as our dream of sustainability and mutual aid here
in Saint Louis, MO.
Where We're From
BMGP has spent the past 4 years slowly building momentum in the Gateway to the West, Saint Louis, Missouri. Long before we had a website, we built our foundation on the pavement, cutting our teeth at local markets, live-printing at St. Louis Pride festivals, and slinging gear at punk flea markets. We are a small operation driven by the belief that screen printing is a medium of story, culture, and resistance.
John and Kayla met back in 2019 working at a local commercial screen printing shop. John was working in the burn room, handling the elemental work of reclaiming, coating, and exposing screens, while Kayla came on as a production artist, managing complex separations and pre-press design. With the formal addition of Jenny Stegmoeller in 2026, adding the invaluable production asset of seamstressing, our trio is complete.
For us, screen printing is an art and a lineage.
Where We're From
BMGP has spent the past 4 years slowly building momentum in the Gateway to the West, Saint Louis, Missouri. Long before we had a website, we built our foundation on the pavement, cutting our teeth at local markets, live-printing at St. Louis Pride festivals, and slinging gear at punk flea markets. We are a small operation driven by the belief that screen printing is a medium of story, culture, and resistance.
John and Kayla met back in 2019 working at a local commercial screen printing shop. John was working in the burn room, handling the elemental work of reclaiming, coating, and exposing screens, while Kayla came on as a production artist, managing complex separations and pre-press design. With the formal addition of Jenny Stegmoeller in 2026, adding the invaluable production asset of seamstressing, our trio is complete.
For us, screen printing is an art and a lineage.
The People of the Press
Bird-Mad Girl
Creativity and Culture
Kayla Richards
She/Her
Kayla Richards is a St. Louis-based screen printer, graphic designer, and the founder of Bird-Mad Girl Press. With over a decade of professional experience in commercial print production, she utilizes her personal press as a medium of story, culture, and resistance. Her visual work is dedicated to celebrating femme expression and the exploration of inner space. To achieve this, Richards's distinctive aesthetic draws heavily from the rebellious, celestial energy of 1990's pop culture and the flowing, intricate linework of turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau.
Bird-Mad Girl
Creativity and Culture
Kayla Richards
She/Her
Kayla Richards is a St. Louis-based screen printer, graphic designer, and the founder of Bird-Mad Girl Press. With over a decade of professional experience in commercial print production, she utilizes her personal press as a medium of story, culture, and resistance. Her visual work is dedicated to celebrating femme expression and the exploration of inner space. To achieve this, Richards's distinctive aesthetic draws heavily from the rebellious, celestial energy of 1990's pop culture and the flowing, intricate linework of turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau.
JawKnee
Productivity and Spirituality
John Cowick
He/Him
John Cowick is the Head of Production and textile printer of Bird-Mad Girl Press, joining Kayla in her quest for ultimate squeguee domination officially in 2024. He is the engine, the mechanic, and the muscle of the shop floor. John brings 13 years of commercial screen printing experience to BMGP. In fact, he honed his craft at the exact same commercial shop where he and Kayla first met in 2019. His relentless work ethic was forged in the brutal heat of the service industry, having spent years grinding in kitchens across the St. Louis restaurant scene.
John has roots in local DIY punk music. He knows the reality of the local underground, which perfectly aligns with the demographic BMGP serves at local events and venues. That DIY punk ethos translates directly to his resourcefulness and his dedication to empowering the local scene. This background brings a grounded, highly focused mindfulness to the inherently chaotic and physically demanding labor of screen printing. He finds the rhythm in the squeegee pull and maintains a calm, analytical approach even when the process fights back.
JawKnee
Productivity and Spirituality
John Cowick
He/Him
John Cowick is the Head of Production and textile printer of Bird-Mad Girl Press, joining Kayla in her quest for ultimate squeguee domination officially in 2024. He is the engine, the mechanic, and the muscle of the shop floor. John brings 13 years of commercial screen printing experience to BMGP. In fact, he honed his craft at the exact same commercial shop where he and Kayla first met in 2019. His relentless work ethic was forged in the brutal heat of the service industry, having spent years grinding in kitchens across the St. Louis restaurant scene.
John has roots in local DIY punk music. He knows the reality of the local underground, which perfectly aligns with the demographic BMGP serves at local events and venues. That DIY punk ethos translates directly to his resourcefulness and his dedication to empowering the local scene. This background brings a grounded, highly focused mindfulness to the inherently chaotic and physically demanding labor of screen printing. He finds the rhythm in the squeegee pull and maintains a calm, analytical approach even when the process fights back.
Jenny Stegemoeller
Finance Systems and Sustainability
Jenny Stegemoeller
She/Her
Jenny Stegemoeller is life-long artist with talents spanning across many different mediums. After a decades-long career as a dancer and performer, she found her love of figurative painting and drawing, and has been a working artist over the last 5 years. Stegemoeller uses bright and bold colors to comment on modern cultural topics. Her primary artistic focus is celebrating the modern day women’s story as well as elevating queer and marginalized people's experiences, while progressing the counter-culture discussion in modern art.
Stegemoeller is the mind and hands behind our human sewn apparel and accessories. Her love of sewing began at a very young age when she was given a Child’s Lockstitch sewing machine and would sew along-side her mom on weekend mornings. Stegemoeller’s bright and bold artistic style pairs perfectly with the design aesthetic of Kayla and John, allowing her to produce eye catching, fun, and size inclusive fashions for the modern day punk.
Jenny Stegemoeller
Finance Systems and Sustainability
Jenny Stegemoeller
She/Her
Jenny Stegemoeller is life-long artist with talents spanning across many different mediums. After a decades-long career as a dancer and performer, she found her love of figurative painting and drawing, and has been a working artist over the last 5 years. Stegemoeller uses bright and bold colors to comment on modern cultural topics. Her primary artistic focus is celebrating the modern day women’s story as well as elevating queer and marginalized people's experiences, while progressing the counter-culture discussion in modern art.
Stegemoeller is the mind and hands behind our human sewn apparel and accessories. Her love of sewing began at a very young age when she was given a Child’s Lockstitch sewing machine and would sew along-side her mom on weekend mornings. Stegemoeller’s bright and bold artistic style pairs perfectly with the design aesthetic of Kayla and John, allowing her to produce eye catching, fun, and size inclusive fashions for the modern day punk.