On 12-13 February, The Courtauld Institute of Art will be hosting a two-day conference in collaboration with the journal Print Quarterly, entitled ‘Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400-1800’.

We have a packed programme full of established and emerging scholars and the event will comprise of a series of panels dedicated to overarching themes, including Theory, Circulation, Colour, Appropriation and Adaptation, Print Processes, Reproduction, Ornament, Dedication and Audience, Market and Commerce and Use and Collecting. Antony Griffiths will be delivering an opening keynote lecture on ‘Changing Approaches to the History of Print’ and the conference will begin with a pop-up exhibition in the Courtauld Gallery’s Prints and Drawings Study Room, ‘Courtauld Prints: The Making of a Collection’.

The full programme and tickets to the event are available at: http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/placing-prints-new-developments-in-the-study-of-early-modern-print. Updates are also available via twitter @PlacingPrints.

We would be delighted if you could join us.

The amazing versatility of the great Katsushika Hokusai is reflected in the work of his many pupils, who were inspired by their master to produce outstanding prints and paintings of many different subjects: beautiful women, historical warriors, landscapes, still lifes, and fabulous monsters. This exhibition examines the first wave of Hokusai’s impact on the Japanese art world, during his own lifetime and shortly thereafter, as seen in the work of the artists who studied with him in person.

Hokusai’s influence was especially strong in the area of surimono, privately commissioned prints made with the finest materials and techniques that were often exchanged as gifts by the affluent members of amateur poetry clubs. Three of the most important and prolific designers of surimono—Shinsai, Hokkei, and Gakutei—were all artistic descendants of Hokusai. The combination of skill and ingenuity that these artists shared with their teacher made their work extremely attractive to the surimono patrons.

Considerations of the visual landscape become the conceptual focus for this exhibition featuring a nationally selected group of contemporary printmakers. The invited artists share extensive exhibit histories in the printmaking field, and will engage the gallery space with a range of recently created work.

Techniques will span both traditional and contemporary processes from the 18th to the 21st century, exploring the potential of paper-based installation, dimensional expansion, and large-scale presentation of the printed image.

Invited printmakers are Laura Berman - Missouri, Charles Cohan - Hawai'i, April Flanders - North Carolina, Karen Kunc - Nebraska, Jenene Nagy - California, Nicole Pietrantoni - Washington, Jenny Schmid- Minnesota, Koichi Yamamoto - Tennessee

In partnership with Hui No‘eau Visual Art Center's Visiting Artist Program, Koichi Yamamoto will teach "Transparent Monotype" at the Hui on January 11 & 12. For more information on his workshop, visit huinoeau.com.

Cherry blossom festivals have been celebrated in Japan since the 9th century. Global warming has gradually shifted the flowering of cherry trees – and the celebrations – from April to March. Japanese print and installation artist Ayomi Yoshida (b. 1958) wonders: will there come a time when the trees stop blooming?

YEDOENSIS, a room-size installation series begun in 2008, is a meditation on this question. Yoshida will discuss the labor-intensive on-site process that involved over 20 volunteers who joined her from Japan, and the meaning behind the different elements. She will also reflect on the advantages and pressures of being descended from a well-known artistic family.

Aritst talk and reception: Friday, January 22 at 7 pm
Yoshida's talk will be followed by a reception in the atrium outside the gallery doors.

Tuesday, February 9
Book Launch for Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques
by Sylvie Covey

This all-in-one guide to printmaking techniques is a complete technical and inspirational book on the history and contemporary processes for relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media/transfers, and post digital graphics, with extended profiles of a wide range of contemporary printmakers. Featuring instruction, interviews, example images, and philosophy, this beautiful book, published by Watson-Guptil, provides a truly modern look at printmaking today, in all its forms. Books will be available for purchase.

The Art Students League of New York
215 West 57th Street (between 7th and Broadway)
All lectures are from 6:30-800 PM and are free and open to the public
Please RSVP to GalleryRSVP@artstudentsleague.org

The printmaking community in Portland integrates tradition, innovation, and technology, while also promoting social awareness and sustainability. Our relationships with industry, community development, and social collaborations point to progress as we evolve with our environments and maintain relevance in the changing currents of contemporary society. Printmakers and printmaking communities around the world are in flux. We are moving forward, adapting and responding to the changing times while honoring our rich history and foundations in printmaking.

Revolution under a King: French Prints 1789-92
UCL Art Museum
Monday 11 January – Friday 10 June 2016

UCL Art Museum, University College London, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Revolution under a King features a selection of prints from the early, highly volatile years of the French Revolution, curated by Emeritus Professor David Bindman and Dr Richard Taws, in a collaboration between UCL Art Museum and UCL History of Art. It will run from 11 January to 10 June 2016 and will be open to the public Mon-Fri, 1pm-5pm.

The French Revolution was a major series of historical events but also an important media event. Printed information was communicated extensively throughout Europe and the combination of image and text, employed in newspapers and graphic works, made powerful use of satire and caricature. It is however often overlooked that the Fall of the Bastille was in fact followed by three years in which the king of France still nominally presided over the dissolution of the old feudal order. This exhibition traces the early years of the Revolution from the ‘June Days’ of 1789 to the eventual deposition of Louis XVI in 1792. The exhibition will consist of vivid coloured prints of major events from the period, and a selection of medals, including one made from ‘chains of servitude’ supposedly found in the ruins of the Bastille.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart/visit/exhibitions/Revolutionunderaking

17 woodcuts laced with satire & brimming with an intoxicating authenticity, from a life lived in rural PA. If R. Crumb is to Wes Craven then Patierno is to Hitchcock in the measured unsettling of his otherwise wholesome Americana. He's a keen observer and a masterful composer at "the funnel of art history" & this collection is true PATIERNO.

Robert Patierno’s works reside in the collections of the Frans Masereel Centrum Pour Grafiks, Kasterlee, Belgium; the Erie Art Museum; the Lancaster Museum; the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in PA; the US Department of State, Art Bank & those of many universities & private collections.
As a founder of the Pennsylvania College of Art & design, Patierno spent more than 2 decades developing its Fine Arts Department as well as chairing it before leaving in 2003 to focus on his studio practice. He continues to guide young artists in his role as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Gettysburg College.

PATIERNO is Totemic17’s 4th project & our first solo artist project.

Celebrating Print, the magazine on Central and Eastern European printmaking, participates at the Book and Trade Fair of the 104th Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Washington, DC. I would like to invite you to stop by Table #533 to check the magazine, and join two talks on Central and Eastern European printmaking tradition.

venue
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Exhibit Hall C and B South, Exhibit Level, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008

dates of the Book and Trade Fair
Thursday & Friday, February 4-5, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday, February 6, 9:00 AM-2:30 PM

Celebrating Print Magazine Talks:
Thursday, February 4, 2:30 PM (15 min), Table #533
>> Passage of Time, in Prints by Jiri Anderle
Friday, February 5, 2:30 PM (15 min), Table #533
>> Fantastic and Surreal in Central European Prints

The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker offers a rare glimpse into the private world of William S. Rice (1873–1963), an artist and avid naturalist known for his ability to refine nature to its simplest forms. With an illustrative sensibility, the artist took a special interest in Japanese block prints and ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) and transformed the Japanese polychrome technique into graphic distillations of California’s untrammeled scenery, favoring strong, stylized lines and planes of pure color. Although particularly well known for his block prints and as author of two books for students on the process, he was also an accomplished watercolorist and often traveled to sketch on site in the peace of nature, or as he put it, in the “glorious woods,” producing evanescent visions of Santa Cruz, Stockton, and Yosemite, among other sites. The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker sheds light on many of the artist’s achievements, including several never-before-exhibited pieces capturing the pristine California landscape before urban development.