Action! is an educational, interactive exhibition that encourages visitors to think about how two-dimensional art can capture dynamic moments of motion. This exhibition showcases twentieth-century American prints and watercolors from Memphis' collection at the Brooks that feature people,animals, and machines in action. Learn how master artists like Thomas Hart Benton, Diego Rivera, and Clare Leighton, use line and space to create intense images of dramatic movement. Bring your family and get moving in this fun, interactive exhibition!

This exhibition has been organized by The Brooks’s Education Department.

Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963–1980 features fifty-one recently-acquired works on paper from the Tubis Print Collection, donated by the Nina Tubis Wooderson Trust. Notable artists in the exhibition include Peggy Deam (Suquamish), Mary Gay Osceola (Seminole), and Sandy Fife (Muskogee Creek), among other IAIA Alumni. The exhibition closes in September 2022.

“Printmaking today contains so many variables, so many possibilities exist in the uses of materials. It is unlikely that any contemporary printmaker has not experimented or thought of experimenting with the same materials and processes.”—Seymour Tubis, 1966

The Tubis Print Collection represents the experimentation that took place in the IAIA Printmaking Studio from 1963–1981, which established a standard ofmodern printmaking practice for Native artists. Printmaking students learned skills that were central to the fine art curriculum developed for young Native artists. The process introduced students to the concepts of design, layout, shape, line, texture, and color. Printmaking informed other media, such as painting and sculpture, and helped shape the Contemporary Native Arts Movement at IAIA.

“This exhibition celebrates the experimentation of IAIA students during the first two decades of the Contemporary Native Art Movement. The variety of works on paper on exhibit is a testament to the progressive arts education program in graphic arts,” stated IAIA archivist and exhibit co-curator Ryan S. Flahive.

The Getty Research Institute has completed an oral history video (as well as a written transcript) with Sidney Felsen, Gemini G.E.L.’s co-founder. Sidney is interviewed by Naoko Takahatake and Andrew Perchuk from the GRI, and it can be accessed via the link below.
Filmed in Sidney’s office at Gemini G.E.L. on September 19th, 2020, the video is 3 ½ hours long. We think you will enjoy this “behind the scenes” look at Gemini’s rich history and its varied collaborations with artists through Sidney’s words and his photographs.

This month’s ArtistNConversation will be hosted by Juan Omar Rodriguez, Curatorial Fellow at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, who will interview artist Scherezade Garcia. This free virtual public program is sponsored by the Dedalus Foundation.

The webinar series presenting artists in the All My Ancestors exhibition will continue every third Thursday through October.

The exhibition catalog can be downloaded free at brandywineworkshopandarchives.org.

Please visit the link below to register for the event.

"LA Print: Edition 11", a zoom event organized by LACMA, will focus on activist graphics and will be moderated by Staci Steinberger, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Panelists include graphic designer MJ Balvanera of Impresos México, illustrator and activist Ashley Lukashevsky, and multi-disciplinary printmaker and researcher Álvaro D. Márquez.

Here's the link to RSVP to this zoom event:

https://www.lacma.org/event/la-print-edition-11-activist-graphics

If you happen to be in Southern California, you can also visit the related exhibition "What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art" at the Riverside Art Museum now until August 7th.

My art focuses on the duality fundamental to human existence: of different realities or worlds both in space and time and the tension between them; and of the co-existence of antithetical ideas, how death implies life, how the material realm implies the unsubstantial or nonphysical, and how absence implies presence. To explore this, I create both physical and metaphorical spaces ranging from large installations to small, intimate books. These spaces visualize the space in between—the boundary that, while separating the two, connects them in that one implies the other. For me, as an immigrant who bridges two cultures and identities, that boundary has a personal and emotional resonance. I consider audiences to be key to my work because I believe that one of the most important roles of art is to elicit emotional connections and empathy. Sharing a physical or metaphorical space of my work with the audience is my way of doing so. Thus, I encourage audiences to immerse themselves in the space I create, allowing them to dwell in uncertainty while being a part of the space, which exists as an experiential metaphor passing between opposites.

In Between Presence and Absence: The Illusionary Reality is created with a paper-cast process using discarded paper I have collected. I paper cast everyday vessels I found around me to visualize the invisible—the parallel to the visual world. By casting each physical object with nothing within, I articulate the essential concept of the container which is the space inside it. I fill up the empty gallery space with those empty vessels and, in so doing, visualize what is non-visual, filling up an empty space with emptiness, articulating a non-describable concept, the inseparability of presence and absence, and the tension between them. The mirror backdrop suggests another dimension that can be added to the space by the presence of an outside passerby in front of the gallery. The audience’s reflection in the mirror is distorted and differs from reality. The mirror serves as a boundary between two realms, material and non-physical, while the physical gallery space itself is filled with emptiness, symbolizing the coexistence of physical and non-physical. This exhibition is a conceptual boundary, the space in between that both confuses and questions our perception of reality.

Unfolding Forms: Multiple Approaches to the Book (II) is on view at Center for Book Arts (28 West 27th Street, FL 3 NYC) from Friday, July 15 through Saturday, September 24, 2022 open Monday-Friday from 11–6pm and 11am-5pm on Saturdays. Admission is free.

This is a two part show organized in partnership by Center for Book Arts (CBA) and Miriam Gallery. Part 1 is on view at Miriam Gallery from July 7 – August 21st, Thursday – Sunday Noon-6pm. This exhibition showcases works by CBA Artists in Residence from 2020 and 2021 cohorts. A series of artist-made books that reflect intimate and interdisciplinary approaches to creative book practices.

All visitors are required to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination upon arrival and wear a mask covering their nose and mouth at all times while on-site. If you have a medical or religious exemption to the vaccine, please contact CBA Executive Director Corina Reynolds at corina@centerforbookarts.org in advance of your visit.

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Self Help Graphics & Art invites you to stop by our Open Studio and meet Kalli Arte, our Beyond the Press resident artist. The open studio takes place on the third Thursday of the month from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Self Help Graphics & Art. It's is an opportunity to engage with the artists, ask questions and see their work in progress. Limited space is available. RSVP today!

Kalli Arte is formed by self-taught artists and printmakers Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves from Boyle Heights.

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Please follow the link below to see the schedule of workshops through September 2022.

All in-person workshop participants must show proof of vaccination or negative covid test and wear masks while inside Zygote Press.