SGCI is the largest print organization in North America. Its annual conference is the biggest annual gathering focused on the field of printmaking. Artists from all 50 states attend the conference. Regular international attendees come from Canada, South and Central America, and Europe.

This year's annual conference will be in Portland, Oregon. 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.

The Print Council of America's "Guidelines for Lending Works of Art on Paper" is now available as a free download on the PCA's website (link below). The PDF takes the place of the 1995 edition of the pamphlet, which is now out of print. The foreword to this publication spells out its long history. Many distinguished members of the PCA had a hand in the compilation and review of the original manuscript, including Verna Curtis, Suzanne Boorsch, Marjorie Cohn, and Meg Graselli who all contributed to the 1995 edition. Joan Wright of the MFA Boston brought the text up to date with evolving standards and practices of the 21st century.

The first print edition of the Celebrating Print Magazine is now available for purchase online at www.celebratingprint.com. The biannual publication features articles, interviews and projects exploring printmaking and print-related culture primarily in Central and Eastern Europe. The first issue introduces modern printmaking in Slovenia, contemporary print in Poland and Czech Republic. The featured artists in this issue succeed in finding meaning in printmaking without aiming to justify the medium’s relevance. It addresses tradition, peeks into the 20th century and explores matrix and printmaking process.

To celebrate the New York Print Week, we would like to offer APS members 30% off the print edition: “Celebrating Print | USA, Vol.1 No.1”. Enter code: CPMagAPS30. The offer ends November 30, 2015. It cannot be combined with volume discounts or other offers. Digital edition is also available. Visit www.celebratingprint.com to view sample and buy your issue. Add the code during checkout. Contact: info@celebratingprint.com.

Thank you. Katerina Kyselica.

PRINTMAKING NOW
Although we live in the digital age, print continues to have urgency and ubiquity in contemporary art and society. In honor of The Print Center's anniversary, Sarah Suzuki, from the Museum of Modern Art, will lead a discussion exploring the inventive uses of print with artists Rirkrit Tiravanija and Elizabeth Peyton, and David Lasry of Two Palms Press. Offered in conjunction with Print Love: Celebrating The Print Center at 100. This lecture is supported by the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Print Center.

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award.
Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including the Graphic Arts Collection of approximately 75,000 works of art; along with the rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). Special grants are awarded in several areas: the Program in Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic studies, Graphic Arts, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World covers work using materials pertinent to this topic.

The deadline to apply is January 15, 2016.

13 Litho Stones for Sale
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Stone List available as a package

Light grey 11” x 13” x 2.75”
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Light grey 18” x 24” x3.5”
Dark grey 19.5” x 26” 3.5”
Light grey 19.25” x 26” x 3”
Grey 19” x 25.25” x 3”
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Light grey 16” x20” x2.5”
Grey 11” x14” x2”

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Prints at the Fair is a companion exhibition to Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Thousands of prints were displayed during the Exposition in 1915, including a display of more than two thousand impressions from the United States. Critic Charles Olmsted observed that this was “the most complete and representative collection of prints that has yet been made in this country.”

The call for American artists’ participation included a notice published in American Art News, while organizers also sent special invitations to the nation’s eminent printmakers, requesting specific works. The response was extraordinary, with submissions coming from all corners of the country. A historical loan section was organized by the Department of Fine Arts, featuring prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. Together the displays of historic and contemporary prints charted the development of printmaking in the United States.

Prints at the Fair highlights the range of subjects and styles found in the Exposition’s American print galleries and features prints by many of the section’s award-winning artists. The selection of approximately 70 works is drawn primarily from the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, with additional key loans, including some impressions that were originally purchased at the Exposition itself.

In 2012, Jack and Susy Wadsworth donated 157 modern and contemporary Japanese prints to the JSMA. This remarkable collection, featuring woodblocks, intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, and mixed-media works by seventy-seven Japanese and Western artists, significantly augments the museum’s capacity to teach about Japanese graphic art from the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-centuries. The collection showcases contemporary Japanese artists not just as inheritors of the much-celebrated Edo-period (1615-1868) woodblock tradition, but as sophisticated international masters of various printmaking techniques. Curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, JSMA Chief Curator of Asian Art and Akiko Walley, Maude I. Kerns Professor of Japanese Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, this special exhibition explores a range of contemporary print techniques – aquatint, etching, intaglio, lithography, mezzotint, silkscreen, stencils, and woodblock printing – as well as a great range of subject matter.

Coinciding with the preparation for this exhibition, Professor Walley offered two courses geared for undergraduate and graduate students. In fall 2014, with generous support from the Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education, Professor Walley taught a class in collaboration with the JSMA and Charlene Liu, Associate Professor of Printmaking, and Mika Aono, Printmaking and Fibers Studio Technician, both members of the UO’s Department of Art. That course explored the history of contemporary Japanese prints with a focus on their techniques. Students learned about prints by carefully scrutinizing examples from the Wadsworth Collection, through lectures and readings, and by learning to make their own prints using the four major techniques of relief, intaglio, lithography, and screenprinting.

In winter 2015, Professor Walley and Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa team-taught a museum-based course in which sixteen undergraduate and graduate students studied Japanese contemporary prints along with aspects of museum curatorship and exhibition planning, design, and installation. In addition to focusing on the Wadsworth prints in weekly research assignments and class discussions, students learned from museum professionals, print dealers, and collectors in a series of guest lectures and field trips. The fruits of the research that the students conducted in these two classes form the core of this exhibition. Indeed, the final installation reflects many of the ideas that they raised in discussions and assignments, and a number of the students contributed label copy and catalogue entries based on the original research they conducted for their final projects. With generous support from the WLS Spencer Foundation, a number of the students further deepened and refined their research in order to provide public tours of the exhibition.

Celebrating 50 Years of the Printmakers Council

10:00-10:45
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), "The Death, and Life, of French Reproductive Engraving in the Nineteenth Century"

11:00-11:30
Benedicte Coste (Unversity of Burgundy), "The Child in the House of Print: Henry Daniel's edition of Walter Pater's 'The Child in the House'"

11:30-12:00
Sophie Aymes (University of Burgundy), "Woodcuts and some Words: Writing about autographic wood engraving in the early 20th century"

MSH, salle R03