Please join us at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, September 25, 2020, for the fifth in our series of live webinars highlighting material in the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University Library. Recently we acquired most of the rare letterpress editions printed by Anaïs Nin (French-Cuban, 1903-1977). Best known for her diaries, Nin also wrote fiction with themes of history, feminism and multiculturalism. Together with Gonzalo More, Nin ran a private printing press in Greenwich Village where she taught herself to set type, stood for hours pumping a treadle press, and distributed her books with the help of Frances Steloff at Gotham Book Mart. Many were illustrated with original etchings by her husband, Hugh Parker Guiler, a banker who used the pseudonym Ian Hugo so his colleagues would not discover he was also an artist.

They called the imprint Gemor Press (pronounced G. More) after Gonzalo, although it was Anaïs who raised the money and did most of the physical work. Located first on MacDougal Street and later at 17 East 13th Street where the small building she rented still stands. After a close look at the books and prints, we are fortunate to be joined by Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, who will update us on their efforts to landmark this building, as well as other Village homes and studios of writers we all know and love.

This session is free and open to all. To register: click here https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/6949414

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A main thread in the history of art is the centuries-long conversation between artists. Artists often responded to one another’s work. Rembrandt was an avid participant in the discussion, tapping into a deep knowledge of historical art, and driven by a competitive streak. In this engaging talk inspired by the exhibition “Rembrandt in Conversation”, Tom Rassieur, Mia’s John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints & Drawings, will examine a sample of Rembrandt’s prints in the company of other works of art that piqued his interest.

This is a virtual event that will take place via Zoom.

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Manhattan Graphics Center is delighted to announce a series of seven online webinars with the members of Black Women of Print, a platform for independent, advanced, and master-skill level Black Women printmakers founded in 2018 by Tanekeya Word. These monthly talks will begin in August of 2020 and conclude in March of 2021, and are free and open to the public. To be informed about the details of these talks, please join MGC’s mailing list, visit our website, or follow us on Facebook or Instagram @manhattangraphicscenter.

Our first guest will be:
LESLIE DIUGUID OF DU-GOOD PRESS

Thursday, August 27, 5–6 pm EST; Zoom webinar, free and open to the public

Over the coming months, MGC will host a series of 7 online talks from the founding members of Black Women of Print. Our first guest is Leslie Diuguid: artist, master printer, chromist, and founder of Du-Good Press. Established in 2017 in Brooklyn, Du-Good Press provides fine art printing services to artists, galleries, and museums. Diuguid also collaborates with Erin Lynn Welsh under the name Du-Good in Unity to publish work by selected women artists that promote equality; proceeds go to a charity of the artist's choice. Before establishing her own business, Diuguid earned her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute and worked in print shops in Kansas City and NYC. Diuguid will share images and tales from her private and pro-bono practices, as well as her journey to become a master printmaker and press owner.

This project is made possible with funds from the NYSCA Electronic Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Prints tell so many stories, from all the materials that went into their creation to the numerous artists involved in their production. In this talk, Elizabeth Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, Division of European and American Art, will explore five stories within one print, a 1797 book illustration by French artists Pierre-Paul Prud’hon and Barthélemy Roger.

This free talk will take place online via Zoom. Pre-registration not required.

About Art Talks Live
Art Talks Live offer an up-close look at works from our collections with our team of curators, conservators, fellows, and graduate students. Presented live via Zoom on every other Thursday afternoon at 2pm (Eastern Time), these short talks—along with our Art Talks video series—investigate artists’ materials and techniques, reveal our latest discoveries, offer a fresh look at old favorites, and explore big ideas using the collections of the Harvard Art Museums.

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Internationally-celebrated artist and arts activist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is Tamarind’s 2020 Collectors Club artist and will take part in a conversation with Tamarind Master Printer Valpuri Remling. As this year’s Collectors Club Artist, Smith is actively creating a special lithograph for members.

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Professors and art educators, curriculum leaders and school administrators, and parents are invited to join a free webinar to introduce the new Artura.org database, a digital image-library of 2,000+ artworks created by Native American, African, African American, Latin, Latin American, Asian, Asian American, Caribbean, White American, and European artists of the Post-Modern era. The collection specializes in fine-art printmaking processes.

The virtual Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Education and the Arts (IIDEEA) is partnering with Brandywine Workshop and Archives to present a brief video tour of the website and its many images and features for instruction and learning. The free program is focused on sharing ideas and tools to advance cross-curricular and cross-cultural learning.

Participants will include Richard Siegesmund, PhD, University of Northern Illinois; Tatiana Reinoza, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame; and national leaders in Art, Art History, and Art Education will share during a short question and answer period.

The 45-minute webinar is being offered twice at 1:00 PM EST, Tuesday, August 11th and at 1:00 PM EST, Thursday, August 13th.

Space is limited, so register early to secure your spot in this free webinar.

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Tamarind Gallery Director Nancy Zastudil will facilitate an online conversation with artist Hayal Pozanti whose work is informed by her ongoing exploration of “cyborg anthropology,” statistical data, and a personalized encryption system or “alphabet” of abstracted character forms.

Pozanti made her first lithographs during her first residency at Tamarind in 2014. She returned in 2018, creating an exquisite set of monotypes as well as a limited edition for Tamarind’s Collectors Club. Since receiving her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2011, Pozanti has had solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the San Jose Museum of Art and JP Morgan. 

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In this episode of The Print Cast, APS co-founder Christina Weyl discusses her new book, The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York. Weyl is an independent scholar who focuses on American printmaking and women artists.

About the Podcast
The Print Cast is a podcast about the expanding world of printmaking today. Host Nick Naughton talks with some of the best contemporary printmakers working today, including designers, illustrators, collaborative print artists, commercial printers, letterpress, foil stampers, and even book binders. Nick and his guests talk shop sharing anecdotes, business ideas, and technical tips with listeners everywhere. It’s about the print shops, the artists, the process, and why we make all the prints that we make. Naughton is an artist who has devoted two decades to various roles as a printmaker, and he brings his depth of experience to his role as host. He’s been a professor, non-profit shop manager, studio owner, and has practiced every technique from screen print and letterpress to relief, intaglio, installation and everything in between. The show drops a new episode every two weeks featuring some of the best minds working in multiples today.

MMFA’s Cassandra Cavness will connect via Facebook live with two artists from the Museum's current exhibition Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press. Artists Radcliffe Bailey and Lava Thomas will discuss their work, the themes of the exhibition, and the widespread peaceful protests and turmoil surrounding current events.

To submit a question in advance of the livestream, visit: https://forms.gle/5SV34TFDEtWqwqjf9

About the Participants
– Cassandra Cavness recently joined the Museum’s development team after working at Alabama State University. Among other aspects of her job, Cassandra strives to develop initiatives that foster conversations and engage communities in their history.
– Radcliffe Bailey is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He works in layers, incorporating items from his own past and reflections on race, memory, and migration.
– Lava Thomas is based in Berkeley, California. She explores various aspects of identity, including gender, race, and individuality, through varied media and expressions.

About the Exhibition
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press features works by African American artists who have helped to shape the contemporary art conversation throughout the US. Presenting a wide range of prints, paintings, quilts, and sculptures, the works include an array of abstract and formal imagery depicting narratives that speak to personal experiences and political perspectives. At the heart of this show is Paulson Fontaine Press, a print studio that over the past two decades has developed an unparalleled roster of internationally-celebrated artists including Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall, and the Gee’s Bend Quilters.

The exhibition Personal to Political: Celebrating the African-American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press was organized by Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

Co-curating an exhibition with another institution can be challenging, especially when a global pandemic prohibits travel, not only to other cities but even to your own Museum. It’s a little easier when you’ve known your co-curator for many decades. On this episode of Art Unbound, Mary Weaver Chapin, Portland Art Museum’s Curator of Prints and Drawings, discusses her upcoming exhibition, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis (coming Fall, 2021) with her Co-Curator, Heather Lemonedes Brown, the Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. After an overview of their personal history, Mary and Heather highlight the high points of their co-curating experience, as well as the complications of co-curating from home, drawing similarities to the lives of the Nabi artists, as depicted in their work.

This episode of Art Unbound is part of a series produced with funds provided by FRAME, the French American Museum Exchange, of which both the Portland Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art are members. FRAME is a consortium of 32 major museums in France and North America that promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations. FRAME fosters partnerships among its member museums to develop innovative exhibitions, educational and public programs, and professional exchanges among museum staff, and maintains a website to reach global audiences. For more information, visit the newly re-designed framemuseums.org

Featured in this episode:
Mary Weaver Chapin – Curator of Prints and Drawings, Portland Art Museum
Heather Lemonedes Brown –Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art