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General Announcement Posted: 01/23/2023
Posted by: Amanda Lahikainen

Money and Materiality

Ogunquit, Maine, ME, United States
The University of Delaware Press published the book Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire (2022), by Amanda Lahikainen, as part of the series Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture.
Relevant research areas: North America, 18th Century, Book arts, Engraving, Etching
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General Announcement Posted: 12/12/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Bethany Collins’s Performance of 
America: A Hymnal

New York, NY, United States
In conjunction with Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, Print Center New York is pleased to present a new performance of Bethany Collins’s project America: A Hymnal, which offers a chronological retelling of American history, politics, and culture through one song.

Over time, “My Country ’Tis of Thee” (also known as “America”) has seen its title and lyrics re-written at least 100 times in support of passionately held causes—from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy. During this one-hour performance at the Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse of The Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers), singers from The Unsung Collective will sing a single version of the anthem, “War” from 1862, in a myriad of musical forms.

About The Unsung Collective
The Unsung, directed by Tyrone Clinton, is a community-based music collective devoted to celebrating stories of the Black experience. They are a non-profit dedicated to serving the local NYC community by expanding the confines of the Western musical canon and fostering educational relationships with those who are “willing to listen.”

Please register at the link below
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General Announcement Posted: 12/02/2022
Posted by: Mary Weaver Chapin

Portland Fine Print Fair

Portland, OR, United States
You are invited to attend the Portland Fine Print Fair, January 27-29, 2023. The Fair, now celebrating its tenth year, will be held in the historic Fields Ballroom of the Portland Art Museum. Peruse and purchase prints from 16 top dealers from across North America, Europe, and Asia. These knowledgeable art dealers welcome your questions, whether you are a first-time collector or a seasoned connoisseur. Prints from the Old Masters to contemporary emerging artists will be on sale, and excellent works can be found in all price ranges. This is your chance to browse and buy at the largest and most comprehensive print fair on the West Coast.

Please visit the link below for more details.
Relevant research areas: North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, East Asia, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contemporary, Book arts, Collograph, Digital printmaking, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress, Lithography, Monoprinting, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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General Announcement Posted: 11/21/2022
Posted by: Brian Cohen

Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective

Kennebunk, ME, United States
"Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective" surveys over 200 examples of the artist’s work from four decades. The 224-page book is printed by SYL L'Art Grafica in both a softbound edition for $55.00 and a signed limited run hardbound edition for $75.00 (both plus shipping). The retrospective will be ready in January 2023 and is available to preorder now at artfulbusinessadvisory@gmail.com.

In her introduction to the book, author Deborah Lee Luskin says, "Viewing these prints demands a deep look at images of objects that in their clarity and solitariness become profoundly metaphoric and spiritual. Even at third glance, these austere, still images in black and white were puzzling. I was forced to slow down, and in slowing down, I started see. I started to see the etching, relief, inversion, ink, paper and pressure used to create shade and texture as if each print had undergone a geological metamorphosis similar to the formation of the earth. By showing us the world as he sees it, Brian’s images ask us questions at the bedrock of existence: How did we arrive here? Where are we going?”

About his work, Cohen states, “I embrace themes of loss, futility, destruction, and unexpected, redemptive beauty, themes tied to the tradition of printmaking. The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. There is something about setting an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence — a presence I hope will endure in my work.”

Brian D. Cohen is an educator, printmaker and painter. He founded Bridge Press in 1989 to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. Artist’s books and prints by Brian D. Cohen have been shown in over forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum, and in over 200 group shows.

Contributors:

Dr. Sura Levine is Professor Emerita of Art History. Levine has published essays and catalogue entries for museum exhibitions and scholarly journals in the United States and Europe. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer, editor, speaker, radio commentator. and educator. Luskin has been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating from New York City in 1984. Her stories and essays have been featured in many publications.

Helen Whybrow is an as an educator, farmer, and writer. Helen was the publisher of Countryman Press and editor for Orion Magazine and Milkweed Editions before founding the Center for Whole Communities, a nationally recognized place of learning and change-making. She is the author of two books, editor of several anthologies, and contributor to literary journals.
Relevant research areas: North America, Contemporary, Book arts, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress
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General Announcement Posted: 09/28/2022
Posted by: Vaibhav Singh

New print journal: Contextual Alternate

London, United Kingdom
Announcing the publication of Contextual Alternate, an annual journal that brings together essays critically examining print in diverse contexts of production and communication.

Volume 1 contains the following:

Making tracts attractive: missionary print and the small book in nineteenth-century rural India
ULRIKE STARK

Popular woodblock print and lithography in the making of China’s global imaginary
JAMES A. FLATH

In-between technologies: the beginnings of Devanagari filmsetting and photocomposition
in India
VAIBHAV SINGH

Nihon dō-banga: an introduction to the Japanese school of etchers, 1783–1900
AD STIJNMAN

Going dutch at Colombo: the earliest years of the British Government Press in Ceylon
GRAHAM SHAW


Subscriptions to the journal can be acquired at any time directly from the journal’s website, or through institutional subscription agents.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, South Asia, East Asia, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress, Lithography
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General Announcement Posted: 08/12/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Monothon 2022

Norwalk, CT, United States
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking invites you to participate in MONOTHON 2022!

Each year the Center for Contemporary Printmaking hosts MONOTHON: a two-part celebration of monotype printmaking and CCP’s largest fundraising effort. Now in its twenty-third year, MONOTHON kicks off October 16, opening our schedule to artists booking 5 hour intensive monotype printing sessions through October 22. A selection of prints created during the printing sessions will then be included in our Silent Online Auction via GiveSmart scheduled for November 13-20.

Please visit the link below for more information.
Relevant research areas: Contemporary, Monoprinting
General Announcement Posted: 07/16/2022
Posted by: Joni Moisant Weyl

Oral History: Sidney Felsen and Gemini G.E.L.

Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Getty Research Institute has completed an oral history video (as well as a written transcript) with Sidney Felsen, Gemini G.E.L.’s co-founder. Sidney is interviewed by Naoko Takahatake and Andrew Perchuk from the GRI, and it can be accessed via the link below.
Filmed in Sidney’s office at Gemini G.E.L. on September 19th, 2020, the video is 3 ½ hours long. We think you will enjoy this “behind the scenes” look at Gemini’s rich history and its varied collaborations with artists through Sidney’s words and his photographs.
Relevant research areas: North America, Contemporary, Etching, Lithography, Screenprinting
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General Announcement Posted: 06/30/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Upcoming Workshops at Zygote Press

Cleveland, OH, United States
Please follow the link below to see the schedule of workshops through September 2022.

All in-person workshop participants must show proof of vaccination or negative covid test and wear masks while inside Zygote Press.
Relevant research areas: Book arts, Letterpress, Monoprinting, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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General Announcement Posted: 06/30/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Summer & Fall 2022 Workshops at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking

Norwalk, CT, United States
CCP offers workshops across various printmaking disciplines. Most workshops are structured for artists of all levels. Find dr more information about upcoming courses, instructors, supplies, and skill level at the link below.

Please register at least one week in advance to reserve your seat in a workshop, unless otherwise noted. See our policy page for cancellation information. With COVID protocols in place, studio space is opened at a limited capacity. Every workshop is reserved on a first-come first-serve basis with wait-lists treated in the same respect.
Relevant research areas: Collograph, Letterpress, Monoprinting, Relief printing
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General Announcement Posted: 06/30/2022
Posted by: Association of Print Scholars

Summer Classes at Kala Art Institute

Berkeley, CA, United States
We have an exciting assortment of in-person and a few online classes to offer throughout the summer. Please check back as we add classes on a rolling basis. Questions? Contact us at classes@kala.org.

As excited as we are, we are still taking safety precautions to protect our participants and community members. Please read our Safety Guidelines to determine if taking an in-person class is right for you at this time.

Follow the link below for the full schedule of classes.
Relevant research areas: Book arts, Letterpress, Monoprinting, Papermaking, Relief printing
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