Open House at 27 Dunstan St. on Sept 22!

Shepherd Studio, a popular South End print studio started by artist Liz Shepherd has joined forces with Rebekah Lord Gardiner and Maudsleigh Editions to form Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio. They have relocated to West Newton and are taking the studio into dramatic new creative territory. In addition to continuing to be a resource for printmakers to make etchings, woodcuts, monotypes and silkscreen prints, Shepherd and Lord Gardiner are thinking big: when fully established, there will be enough space for a textile makers space and painters’ studios.

“We want to bring not only all the printmaking, mixed media and textile arts resources that we have to the Newton arts community but also offer space for artists of many disciplines to make their work.”

Artists and the public are invited to explore the new space at an open house on September 22nd from noon to 3pm. There is "open-plan" studio space for printers, and currently they have space for one more printer available.

For more information please contact:
Liz Shepherd: liz@lizshepherd.com or Rebekah Lord Gardiner: rllordg16@gmail.com

The Brodsky Center, a collaborative paper and printmaking center devoted to the creation of new work, is coming to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA).

PAFA has announced plans to absorb the Center from its current location at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper was founded in 1986 by Judith Brodsky, an artist, printmaker, arts advocate, and professor of art. Housed at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the Center was renamed in her honor in 2006 and is dedicated to enabling groundbreaking artists, both established and emerging, to create new work in paper and print. Brodsky, who now sits on PAFA's Contemporary Collections Committee, was instrumental in bringing the Center to PAFA.

"I'm delighted that PAFA will be the new home of the Brodsky Center," Brodsky said. "PAFA has a distinguished printmaking tradition, and it is exciting that the Brodsky Center will help take that tradition into the future. I know that the collaboration and partnership of PAFA and the Brodsky Center will result in important contributions to the discourse of art."

The Center's focus on contemporary art and supporting women and artists of color align well with PAFA's mission to educate students and to develop and promote the work of outstanding and innovative artists. Since its founding in 1986, the Center has completed over 300 editions with a diverse range of emerging and established artists who have become renowned in the field, including Barkley Hendricks, and artists in PAFA's collection such as Melvin Edwards, Joan Semmel, and Richard Tuttle. The Center has an inventory of over 3,000 works of art. A limited number of these prints will be accessioned into PAFA's permanent museum collection and the rest will be available for sale to support the mission of the Center.

The Brodsky Center will become part of the School at PAFA, expanding its printmaking curriculum and providing internship and professional opportunities for students to learn about publishing editions, marketing, and selling artists' prints. A new papermaking facility will be established at PAFA and will provide papermaking opportunities for both Brodsky Center editions and PAFA students.

"We are thrilled to have the Brodsky Center coming to PAFA," said Clint Jukkala, Dean of the School of Fine Arts. "The Center will bring new expertise and facilities in papermaking to complement PAFA's outstanding print shop and department. Students will learn from artists in residence, who will make prints alongside them in the print shop."

The current Director of the Brodsky Center, Paola Morsiani, will join the PAFA team and will continue to lead the Center and develop learning opportunities for students. The Brodsky Center will attend at least three art fairs each year and will help bring awareness to PAFA's programs, and the printmaking program in particular. The Center comes with an endowment which helps funds its operation, alongside sales, commissions, and grants.

Editions produced by the Brodsky Center are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and other international institutions, as well as many private collections.

The new papermaking facilities will be developed this summer and the print inventory will be moving to PAFA in the coming weeks.

As the demands of the twenty-first century museum have evolved, so too have those placed on prints and drawings curators. They must balance the need of preserving traditional curatorial skills with that of making their collections more accessible to today’s museum audiences.

That’s why the Foundation is launching The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century, an effort to strengthen curatorial practice in the graphic arts field internationally.

The initiative will kick off with grants to six institutions: the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford; the British Museum; the Courtauld Gallery in London; the Morgan Library & Museum in New York; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam; and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Here I discuss the specifics of two of those grants and the contributions they aim to make to the field.

The Fred Sandback archive is pleased to announce the launch of the Sandback print catalogue as part of our new website.

The Fred Sandback Catalogue of Graphic Works provides comprehensive documentation of the artist’s graphic work of more than four decades. Sandback had brought inventiveness, pictorial elegance, and pure skill to his printmaking endeavors, creating a body of work of lasting importance.

Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, the Gutenberg Bible, around 1455. Over 500 years later, his invention still shapes how we communicate. But what did his press look like? And how did it work? This term-long portfolio of events participates in an international initiative to commemorate the 550th anniversary of Gutenberg’s death and celebrates the relaunch of the IES Annual Lecture in the History of the Book. It is part of the international 2018 Gutenberg Year, https://gutenberg2018.eu.

The event portfolio includes:

"IES Annual Lecture in the History of the Book + Keepsake Printing"
This event gives participants the rare opportunity to learn how Alan May and Martin Andrews reverse-engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s invention, and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to print a take-away keepsake themselves on the replica Gutenberg Press. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) will respond. The event is free, including keepsake printing and wine reception, with a recommended donation of £10 to benefit St Bride Library.

"Masterclass (graduate students/ECRs)"
This three-part, hands-on masterclass offers graduate students, postdocs, early career researchers the unique opportunity to learn about the history of the printing press itself by examining historical relief printing presses and reconstructions covering the hand-press period, 1450-1830. Participants must commit to attending all sessions and writing a blog post about the training. Eligibility: current PhD students and early career researchers (up to 10 years post-PhD)

"A Selection of Incunabula at Senate House Library"
The reception coincides with a private view of SHL's earliest printed books. Highlighting some of its rarest holdings allows SHL to promote its collections to a wider public and new user constituency and advocate IES's object-based teaching philosophy.

"School Visit"
Fifteen Year 12 History students (ages 16-17) from St Marylebone School will learn about the history of printing. They will have a hands-on workshop at the Dürer Press, print a keepsake, and visit the Durning-Lawrence Library to explore early printed travel accounts from Senate House Library Special Collections.

Graphikportal, an art history database developed at the German Documentation Center for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, now makes a large collection of works of art of European cultural heritage available online. The portal will be presented as part of the “Graphic Arts Weekend” (11-12 November), when numerous prints and drawings rooms open their collections to the public.

250,000 works of art are now available online, including works from major museums, libraries and research institutions, such as the Kupferstichkabinette of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden or the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Also included are the Albertina and the MAK-Bibliothek and Kunstblättersammlung in Vienna, the prints collections of the ETH Zurich and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich or the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. Last but not least, the holdings of the Virtual Print Room, a cooperation of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, will be integrated. All institutions are members of the international working group “Graphik vernetzt”, which aims to deliver common digitization standards and to design strategies for the further digital networking of graphic collections. This network offers concrete scientific added value, available through this platform for the first time and to this extent.

View the online video introducing the project here: https://youtu.be/Mm3uOVcW7MY

Please use the "External Link" below to access the website.

The fifth edition of Celebrating Print Magazine takes readers back in time to post-war Paris (with Anna Pravdova's "Jan Krizek's Prints as Two-Dimensional Sculptures"); the 1950s Czechoslovakia (via Jiri Bernard Krticka’s treatise "Vladimir Boudnik and Czech Structural Printmaking"); to 1970s Hungary (Krisztina Uveges discusses a renaissance of industrial and screen printing that developed in the city of Mako during the serendipity of emerging photo-based art trends and shifts in socialist government policies). Breda Skrjanec explores the works of Slovenian painter Janez Knez and his decades-long preoccupation with the social fabric and industrial landscape of the Central Sava Valley.

Organized by the Gabinete de la Sociedad de Amigos del Dibujo y la Estampa (Office of the Society of Friends of Prints and Drawings), next Friday, May 26, 2017, will be the first Open House hosted by university and museum collections of Prints and Drawings in Madrid.

For the first time lovers of the arts and any citizen can access these "chambers of wonders" to explore the rich heritage of drawings and prints which, out of concern for conservation, are not often on view to the general public.

You can admire works on paper by many of the great masters of art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century in the study room of the collections where they are housed thanks to the meticulous and attentive work of their conservators and curators at the following participating collections:

Museo Nacional del Prado

Patrimonio Nacional

Museo Cerralbo

Museo del Romanticismo

Biblioteca Lázaro Galdiano

Museo Casa de la Moneda - FNMT

Calcografía Nacional

Museo Naval de Madrid

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid

Museo de Historia de Madrid

Universidad Complutense Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid

Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración

How to Register
In order to participate in the Open House, you must complete the online form available via the External Link below.

Simply select the Museum Collection that you want to visit and fill out the form before the deadline that ends on May 22nd. The telephone number and email are essential to confirm registration, because for security reasons most of the offices are located in areas restricted to the public. Attendance is limited and each collection will have to confirm your reservation in each session.

With each application all attendees will receive an invitation to GABINETE, a related art fair and conference that is being celebrated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid (May 25-28, 2017).

The new issue of Celebrating Print magazine, Print and Space as One, explores printmaking as an art discipline that provides opportunities for intimate sensorial interplays as well as for orchestrated performances. Contributing art historians, curators and artists expand upon notions of print in relation to space by examining processual endeavors (Darko Glavan: Fortuity of Making and Print Tradition in Josip Butkovic’s Practice); investigating the kinetics of a crowd in flux (Katerina Kyselica: Jan Mericka’s Screen Printed Transcriptions of Human Motion); challenging the physical border that divides the front and back of a print (Mario Causic: Print and Space as an Enduring Challenge in Three Rooms); balancing precarious actions across the boundary between illusion and materiality (Eva Nikolova: 21 Fragments of Yesterday and Tomorrow); and discovering a parallel expression in printmaking techniques (Katerina Kyselica: For Dusan Kallay, Everything Relates to Everything Else).

Spotlight, a category showcasing an artist’s work from a private or public collection (Emily O’Leary: Vincent Hloznik’s Dreams), premiers in this edition. An essay that lays a claim to the artist’s book’s omnipresence in contemporary art is also included (Dorota Folga-Januszewska: A Subconscious Key to Ordering the World: The Artist’s Book in Poland).

Celebrating Print Volume 3 Number 1 can be purchased as an individual issue or via online subscription at www.celebratingprint.com.

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Celebrating Print is a full-color, biannual publication about fine art print and printmaking practice in Central and Eastern Europe. Curators, scholars and printmaking educators contribute articles, essays and interviews that profile modern and contemporary print across the region. Celebrating Print was founded as an information platform for collectors, scholars and print enthusiasts to navigate the culture of Central and Eastern European print as well as discover works by present-day creators that reflect the region’s rich tradition. Launched in 2015, the magazine is published in October and April in both print and digital format.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced a generous $500,000 gift from Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan to name the PAFA Printmaking Shop. This transformative commitment by the Bryans, longtime supporters of PAFA and its students, ensures that printmaking will remain one of the school's core artistic disciplines.

The Bryans' gift bolsters PAFA's ability to provide the highest level of artistic training through its state-of-the-art printmaking shop and innovative programs, continue its legacy of educating generations of artists, and ensure the ongoing relevance and contemporary potential of this vital artistic medium.

Located on the sixth floor of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, the Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan Printmaking Shop provides students with the equipment and personalized instruction to gain mastery in an array of printmaking forms, including woodcut and relief, etching, dry point and other intaglio processes, plate and stone lithography, as well as screenprinting, letterpress, book arts, and digital media.

The Bryan Printmaking Shop is also home to exciting events and programs, such as the Annual Student Print Sale and PAFA PRESS, which sponsors collaborative edition printing and other experimental print programs in partnership with professional artists and faculty master printers.