To Catch the Eye will showcase the historical value of the study of moving images encountered over a century before cinema, video, and the internet. Rooted in emerging scholarship, the 2019 roundtable will challenge the notion that the visual bombardment from and comprehension of mass media is a modern phenomenon. Three visual culture scholars who study the history of moving images will engage in a provocative conversation about their work with metamorphic, sequential, and mosaic-like graphics relative/irrelative to the 21st-century digital environment. The panelists will discuss and debate the history and continual relevance and relatability of enigmatic, fantastical, and vernacular motion imagery.

Join the noted contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual artist Willie Cole for an opening discussion and reception for his new exhibition, Beauties.

Beauties are haunting full-scale prints made from crushed and hammered ironing boards, each named after a woman from the artist’s cultural and ancestral history. Cole has used irons and ironing as central motifs in his work for 30 years, evoking everything from African masks and slave-ship diagrams to the routines of domestic servitude. In this special installation, the gallery will be lined wall to wall with the Beauties. Standing silently—like sentinels, tombstones, shrouds, or windows—the prints will open a space for confronting the whole range of contradictory energies running through them: resistance and oppression, beauty and violence, labor and forebearance.

Cole will be joined in conversation by Cole Rogers, a master printer, and Jennifer Roberts, the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

The event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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Join us for a lecture by Anthony T. Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, the first event in a new lecture series sponsored by The Friends of the Library. Professor Grafton will speak about the Renaissance printing house, a trading zone where scholars and artisans, authors and business people, men and women all worked together in a confined space and each learned from—and complained about—each other. Reception to follow.

A specialist in the history of early modern Europe, Professor Grafton's work focuses on such diverse topics as the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and their readers, the history of scholarship and education, and the history of science. Professor Grafton has written ten books and served as co-author, editor, co-editor, or translator of nine more. He has received prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989) and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2003).

Best known for his large-scale woodcuts, Tom Hück's brash sociopolitical commentary draws from great satirists like Hogarth, Daumier, and R. Crumb. His technique, however, is inspired by the famed German woodcut artists of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer and Martin Schongauer, among others. Hück and Curator of Works on Paper Andi McKenzie discuss these influences and Huck's creative enterprise, Evil Prints, where he creates his own work and trains the next generation of remarkable printmakers.

Affordable Print Sale, Ackerman Hall and Foyer, 5pm
At Evil Prints, Tom Hück's press in St. Louis, Missouri, a new generation of "evil heads" work to become master printmakers. Eight members and alumni of Evil Prints will join Hück at Emory for an Evil Prints affordable print sale. Don't miss this opportunity to take home hand-printed art from the "evil heads."

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Women in Publishing (#WIP) is the focus for the 2019 History of Art series at The Center for Book Arts.

The Center for Book Arts will be hosting three lively discussions in which leading scholars, publishers, artists and activists will explore women’s contributions to Western book history from the Renaissance to the present. Collectively, these women are rewriting the dominant patriarchal narrative of book history, placing women’s contributions to printing and publishing at the fore. Their work demonstrates that the history of Women in Publishing is truly a Work in Progress (#WIP). Through the series, the Center for Book Arts hopes to encourage further action toward a more inclusive history by recognizing and sharing under-recognized histories, voices, viewpoints and practices. The series is moderated by Sarah Kirk Hanley, independent scholar and critic in fine prints, multiples and artists’ books.

"Contemporary Presses Led by Women"
Friday, March 1, 6:30 pm / Future Forward Reception, 8-10 pm
Guests: Camille Crain Drummond (Pioneer Works Press), Russet Lederman (10 x 10 Photobooks), Tammy Nguyen (Passenger Pigeon Press)

More women than ever are at the helm of publishing ventures. For this talk we will focus on smaller, art-focused presses led by broad-minded women who are pushing the envelope. At the reception to follow, CBA will announce the winner of the 2020 Future Forward Award to a woman under 35 years old working in the publishing industry.

The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001.

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information, including the opportunity to RSVP to this event (free of charge).

Women in Publishing (#WIP) is the focus for the 2019 History of Art series at the Center for Book Arts.

The Center for Book Arts will be hosting three lively discussions in which leading scholars, publishers, artists and activists will explore women’s contributions to Western book history from the Renaissance to the present. Collectively, these women are rewriting the dominant patriarchal narrative of book history, placing women’s contributions to printing and publishing at the fore. Their work demonstrates that the history of Women in Publishing is truly a Work in Progress (#WIP). Through the series, the Center for Book Arts hopes to encourage further action toward a more inclusive history by recognizing and sharing under-recognized histories, voices, viewpoints and practices. The series is moderated by Sarah Kirk Hanley, independent scholar and critic in fine prints, multiples and artists’ books.


"Women Activist Publishers"
Friday, February 22, 6:30 pm / Opening Reception 8-10 pm
Guests: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Kimi Hanauer, Soledad Salamé, Felice Tebbe

With the feminist movement of the '60s and ‘70s, a critical mass of women began to speak truth to power in published artworks--their ranks have only grown since. Join us to discuss this history with women who are now (and have been) influencers in this arena.

The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001.

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information, including the opportunity to RSVP to this event (free of charge).

Women in Publishing (#WIP) is the focus for the 2019 History of Art series at The Center for Book Arts.

The Center for Books Arts will be hosting three lively discussions in which leading scholars, publishers, artists and activists will explore women’s contributions to Western book history from the Renaissance to the present. Collectively, these women are rewriting the dominant patriarchal narrative of book history, placing women’s contributions to printing and publishing at the fore. Their work demonstrates that the history of Women in Publishing is truly a Work in Progress (#WIP). Through the series, the Center for Book Arts hopes to encourage further action toward a more inclusive history by recognizing and sharing under-recognized histories, voices, viewpoints and practices. The series is moderated by Sarah Kirk Hanley, independent scholar and critic in fine prints, multiples and artists’ books.

"Self Actualizing: A Feminism of Book History"
Saturday, March 9, 5:30 pm
Preceded by "Work in Progress: A Community Forum on Women in Publishing", Saturday, March 9, 4:00 pm
Guests: Lisa Unger Baskin, Paula McDowell, Madeleine Viljoen, Sarah Werner

The history of women in all areas of culture has been systematically suppressed over the centuries. In this panel, we will hear from pioneering scholars who have unearthed the forgotten contributions of women to the history of printing, book arts, and publishing in their research.

The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001.

Please visit the 'External Link' below for more information, including the opportunity to RSVP to this event (free of charge).

What technical and aesthetic challenges did the German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz face while representing the awakening of a revolutionary consciousness? How did she capture the moment in which an oppressed class of people turns against its oppressors? The numerous preparatory sketches leading up to the final etching of Sharpening the Scythe show Kollwitz wrestling with these questions as a politically committed and technically ambitious artist.

Louis Marchesano is senior curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was former curator of prints and drawings at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Much of his work focuses on the history of printmaking in France from the 17th through the 19th centuries. In 2017, in recognition of his contributions to the field, he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters).

This lecture complements the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics, on view at the Getty Research Institute from December 3, 2019, through March 29, 2020.

Free | Advance ticket required

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Liz Chalfin will speak at the “A Green Dream?” symposium in March 2019 in Kanazawa, Japan. Her talk “Innovation in Community: the Zea Mays Printmaking model.” will take place on Friday March 8, 2019 in the lecture room of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

In images and words, founding director Liz Chalfin will describe the evolution of Zea Mays Printmaking as a model of a community based printmaking studio with a non-toxic mission and an international reach. She will discuss the challenges of creating and growing a community studio as well as the incredible opportunities that arise in the process. Her talk will emphasize the research program that is at the heart of Zea Mays Printmaking’s mission. Post-graduate student interns conduct primary research into safer products and practices, document their findings and share them online through the Zea Mays Printmaking website. Chalfin will share highlights from the research program, including a product that has gone to market and others that have been adopted worldwide.

Paris, Auditorium du Louvre / Italian Cultural Institute, December 12-13, 2018

The "Diaspora" Venetian artists and artistic exchanges in Europe in the eighteenth century
seminar

The Dazzling Exhibition Venice. Venice, arts and Europe in the eighteenth century (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 26, 2018 - January 21, 2019) offers a tour of Venetian civilization of the eighteenth century through a selection of paintings, sculptures, works of art, costumes and musical instruments.

On this occasion the Louvre Auditorium organizes a symposium in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Association of Historians of Italian Art (AIHA), which will focus on the diaspora of Venetian artists and artistic exchanges in Europe in the eighteenth century. This radiation Venice beyond its borders is a singularity and is explained by various economic, diplomatic and political factors beyond the genius artists that attracts the most powerful patrons. The conference aims to deepen some of the most complex aspects and richest of this phenomenon.

This presentation is only one of several papers being delivered on this day. For more information on the full schedule, please click on the 'External Link' below.