For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. — James Baldwin

James Baldwin’s writing, over fifty years old, continues to show us how to use our imagination to see our experiences and our country in new light during times of political and social change. Join artists Yashua Klos, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and Karen J. Revis, and in a conversation about what brings hope to America in their own work. Yashua Klos is a Chicago-born artist who uses innovative printmaking techniques to address issues of identity, race, memory, and community. Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born visual artist and educator who elevates the practices of Black peoples through conceptual design, experimental publishing, and archiving practices. Karen J. Revis is a New York-based artist whose series REVISionary Prints explores her experience growing up in the Black community and celebrates leaders throughout African-American history. The talk will be moderated by Yulia Topchiy of Assembly Room, co-curator of Living in America.

About Living in America
Living in America: An Exhibition in Four Acts is an online and in-person exhibition curated by Assembly Room that will unfold over the course of the fall season. Organized into four thematic “acts”—Outrage, Love, Hope, and Care—Living in America explores the transformative power of art in times of crises.

Featuring artists Mildred Beltré, Vanessa German, Mark Thomas Gibson, Elektra KB, Yashua Klos, Narsiso Martinez, Azikiwe Mohammed, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Africanus Okokon, Karen J. Revis, Swoon, William Villalongo, and Dáreece J. Walker. Living in America presents a wide range of practices and spotlights the relevance and adaptability of print formats during political upheaval and resistance. Works include conventional printmaking, mixed media incorporating found printed matter, and those informed by reproduction and dissemination. New work is shown here for the first time by Elektra KB, Yashua Klos, Azikiwe Mohammed, and Africanus Okokon, as well as a site-specific stencil installation by Nontsikelelo Mutiti.

This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Live captioning will be available. The event will be recorded and made available online. Feel free to send questions in advance to contact@ipcny.org.

Phil Sanders is a collaborative master printer, author, artist, educator, and arts business consultant. Print education and printer training has been a long term focus for Sanders who has trained printers at workshops in the US and abroad. Sanders lectures and teaches workshops regularly on art, printmaking, collecting and the business of art. He is also the author of Prints and Their Makers, a definitive publication on contemporary collaborative printmaking, published by Princeton Architectural Press and distributed by Chronicle Books.

Sanders’ online conversation will focus on work currently in process in his studio. He will also show artworks that he has done with artists over the past 25 years. Sanders has worked as a collaborating Master Printer with hundreds of artists and produced several thousand works, many of which are contained in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress and Yale University Art Gallery among others. The presentation will conclude with an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

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Join Galina Mardilovich on Wednesday, October 14, as she reflects on the Rona and Martin Schneider Collection of American and European Prints at the Syracuse University Art Museum.

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Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, concludes this four-part series on the history of collecting prints by interviewing collectors Leslie Garfield and Jordan Schnitzer. The series is sponsored by the IFPDA foundation and takes place on four consecutive Wednesdays during Print Month: October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 12pm.

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Blair Asbury Brooks, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, presents "Heinz Berggruen and the Postwar Print Market", the third in a series of four free lectures on the history of collecting prints co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints. The series is sponsored by the IFPDA foundation and takes place on four consecutive Wednesdays during Print Month: October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 12pm.

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Karen Bowen, Independent Scholar, Antwerp, presents the second in a series of four free lectures on the history of collecting prints co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints. The series is sponsored by the IFPDA foundation and takes place on four consecutive Wednesdays during Print Month: October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 12pm.

Booksellers and the International Distribution of Prints from Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century
While individual prints reveal much about what was produced and collected in the past, it is far more difficult to trace the means by which prints from diverse, distant places reached local printsellers and their clients in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, it is unknown how orders for prints were placed, in what quantities and via which routes images they were distributed, and the price paid for them. Using the remarkably extensive business accounts of the internationally successful Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp, Karen will reveal how the press helped local print publishers complete their independent transactions, not least by selling thousands of prints to their own international network of clients who also wished to profit from the immense demand for renowned prints from Antwerp.

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Antony Griffiths, Former Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, presents the keynote in a series of four free lectures on the history of collecting prints co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints. The series is sponsored by the IFPDA foundation and takes place on four consecutive Wednesdays during Print Month: October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 12pm.

The Print Collector and the Printseller
In recent years much has been written about print collectors but very little about printsellers. Yet the two depend on each other. No dealer can operate without customers, and no-one can collect without someone to buy from. This talk will explore the relationship of the two over the past five centuries, and trace the development of the print trade during this period. It concludes with some personal reminiscences about the changes seen over the past half-century.

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Residency programs offer artists the time and space to develop their work while boosting their career through workshops, artist talks, exhibitions, and community networking. In this five-session course, students will assess their goals for an artist residency, the desired outcomes for their artistic career, and how they can contribute to the mission of the residency program they are applying to. Discussion and examples will be given by Taro to help students develop the materials they need for their applications including artist statements, proposals, CVs, and portfolios. Students will also learn how to research and find programs that best fit their goals and needs.

$125 course fee. Enrollment limited to 10 students. All skill levels welcome.

About the Instructor
Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. Born in Japan, he has been making images connecting what he has experienced in Japan where he grew up and in the U.S. where he currently resides. Takizawa received his MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University in 2017. While working on his master’s degree, he participated in multiple short residencies and exhibitions such as Chautauqua Institution School of Art and its student exhibition at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum and its exhibition at CK Zamek in Poznan, Poland, and ArtPrize 10 at Grand Rapids Public Museum. He recently participated in residencies at Syracuse University Turner Semester in LA, Los Angeles, CA, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, OH, and has been accepted to GoggleWorks in 2021.

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Ellen Lesperance is the recipient of the 2020 Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency at Tamarind. During her extended residency she will take part in a recorded conversation with art historian and author Julia Bryan-Wilson. The online release of this conversation will occur on October 29, 2020 along with a live question and answer session with Lesperance.

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Join us for a conversation and virtual studio visits with the founder and artists of Black Women of Print (BWoP). BWoP was founded in 2018 by Tanekeya Word to promote Black women printmakers who have been underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking. Featuring: Tanekeya Word, Founder, Executive Director, Black Women of Print; Leslie Diuguid, artist; Delita Martin, artist; and introductions by Ann Marshall, Durham Press.

Tanekeya Word
BWoP founder, Tanekeya Word, is a Black woman, visual artist, art educator, scholar, and fine art printmaker based in Milwaukee, WI. She earned a BA in English and Afro-American Studies, 2006, from Howard University and an MA in Arts Management from American University and she is currently an Urban Education Ph.D. dissertator with a specialization in Critical Race Theory in Art Education.

Leslie Diuguid
Diuguid is the founder and master printer of Du-Good Press, a fine art printing platform founded in 2017. She works collaboratively for artists at Powerhouse Arts on large scale projects involving screenprinting fine art along with maintaining her own business. She earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009.

Delita Martin
Martin received a BFA in Drawing from Texas State University and an MFA in Printmaking from Purdue University.