Mari Cardenas: Colores de Valor, curated by endy trece, presents a selection of prints and paintings from over 50 years of Mari's artistic practice. The exhibition demonstrates how she bravely explored her spectrum of color, form, and emotions as a strategy for creating her happiness in different ways, using what was available to her within a life of painful experiences and circumstances. Alongside Mari's work, silkscreen prints by her peers at Self Help Graphics & Art will be included in the exhibition to bring us into her world of friendships and art practice.

Mari is a legacy artist who found her creative home and supportive friends at SHG during a time when there was little access to the art world for women, especially women of color, later becoming part of the SHG staff. She shares, "We all had to start at our kitchen table, and Self Help Graphics provided the friendships I needed to go out in the world and be part of an artist community as an artist and worker."

Now in her nineties, Mari continues to paint even though she has experienced macular degeneration in her eyes for years and has been declared legally blind, not allowing anything to stop her colores de valor.

Mari Cardenas: Colores de Valor will remain on view from December 9, 2022-February 17, 2023. *Please note that the gallery will be closed for the holidays from December 24-January 8, 2022.

Printing was invented around 700 in China, the country with the longest continuous print history in the world. Color printing by pressing separately cut woodblocks for each color (the douban technique) on paper was likewise first developed in China.

Over the last five years, the Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired works by contemporary Chinese printmakers that are on display here for the first time. By bringing diversity in geography and gender to the museum’s prints and drawings collection, these artists demonstrate the exploration of the print medium in new ways and varied formats. This presentation focuses on the visual and atmospheric effects of light and water.

Organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in partnership with the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA), the exhibition features a selection of prints created by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by Oregon painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Indigenous artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.

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The Basel Paper Mill presents a traveling exhibition of 72 artists from 36 countries with leporellos and artist books created in 2020/2021 during the pandemic lockdown. Each work results from an exchange of experiences between two artists from countries around the globe. Each pair of artists entered into a creative dialogue with their artworks by mail. The works, with very different design concepts, techniques, and content, are now on display in Europe for the first time after being shown in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Quito.

In conjunction with Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, Print Center New York is pleased to present a new performance of Bethany Collins’s project America: A Hymnal, which offers a chronological retelling of American history, politics, and culture through one song.

Over time, “My Country ’Tis of Thee” (also known as “America”) has seen its title and lyrics re-written at least 100 times in support of passionately held causes—from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy. During this one-hour performance at the Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse of The Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers), singers from The Unsung Collective will sing a single version of the anthem, “War” from 1862, in a myriad of musical forms.

About The Unsung Collective
The Unsung, directed by Tyrone Clinton, is a community-based music collective devoted to celebrating stories of the Black experience. They are a non-profit dedicated to serving the local NYC community by expanding the confines of the Western musical canon and fostering educational relationships with those who are “willing to listen.”

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Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Prints on Ice, an exhibition featuring prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 41st semi-annual, co-op member exhibition and we are ready to celebrate! As usual, we are offering a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening event (Dec 9th, 6:30 - 9pm) and during our gallery hours on Saturday (Dec 10th, 12 - 4pm).

Prints on Ice features 72 prints made by 34 members from Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate all manner of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!

Artists and artwork involved in the project:

The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 70+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Highpoint interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together by the love of printmaking processes. The cooperative printshop first opened in 2001, and a few of the members in this exhibition have been printing and taking classes at Highpoint since the very beginning.

Artists include: Megan Bakke, Jeffrey Berger, Kristin Bickal, Josh Bindewald, Lynnette Black, Lynn Bollman, Ben Capp, Pamela Carberry, Beth Dorsey, Jasper Duberry, Victoria Eidelsztein, Gabi Estrada, Anne Feicht, Sally Gordon, Belle Hulne, Nancy Johnson, Brian Kantor, Monique Kantor, Therese Krupp, Mei Lam So, Erin Leon, Carl Nanoff, John Pearson, John Schulz, Kurt Seaberg, Lila Shull, Melissa Sisk, Pam Sullivan, Anda Tanaka, Megan Wetzel, Kara Yeomans, Jeremy Lundquist, Jon Mahnke, and Horacio Devoto.

You are invited to attend the Portland Fine Print Fair, January 27-29, 2023. The Fair, now celebrating its tenth year, will be held in the historic Fields Ballroom of the Portland Art Museum. Peruse and purchase prints from 16 top dealers from across North America, Europe, and Asia. These knowledgeable art dealers welcome your questions, whether you are a first-time collector or a seasoned connoisseur. Prints from the Old Masters to contemporary emerging artists will be on sale, and excellent works can be found in all price ranges. This is your chance to browse and buy at the largest and most comprehensive print fair on the West Coast.

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I had the opportunity to teach 18 appraisers in training with excellent academic credentials studying in the CASP program at the Appraisers Association of America, the appraisal of original prints. and then take them to the Print Fair at the Javits Center. The students are from all over the world. They were then able to identify print media successfully using the excellent presentations by many dealers and now understand the importance, the methodology, and the value of original prints.

"Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective" surveys over 200 examples of the artist’s work from four decades. The 224-page book is printed by SYL L'Art Grafica in both a softbound edition for $55.00 and a signed limited run hardbound edition for $75.00 (both plus shipping). The retrospective will be ready in January 2023 and is available to preorder now at artfulbusinessadvisory@gmail.com.

In her introduction to the book, author Deborah Lee Luskin says, "Viewing these prints demands a deep look at images of objects that in their clarity and solitariness become profoundly metaphoric and spiritual. Even at third glance, these austere, still images in black and white were puzzling. I was forced to slow down, and in slowing down, I started see. I started to see the etching, relief, inversion, ink, paper and pressure used to create shade and texture as if each print had undergone a geological metamorphosis similar to the formation of the earth. By showing us the world as he sees it, Brian’s images ask us questions at the bedrock of existence: How did we arrive here? Where are we going?”

About his work, Cohen states, “I embrace themes of loss, futility, destruction, and unexpected, redemptive beauty, themes tied to the tradition of printmaking. The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. There is something about setting an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence — a presence I hope will endure in my work.”

Brian D. Cohen is an educator, printmaker and painter. He founded Bridge Press in 1989 to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. Artist’s books and prints by Brian D. Cohen have been shown in over forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum, and in over 200 group shows.

Contributors:

Dr. Sura Levine is Professor Emerita of Art History. Levine has published essays and catalogue entries for museum exhibitions and scholarly journals in the United States and Europe. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer, editor, speaker, radio commentator. and educator. Luskin has been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating from New York City in 1984. Her stories and essays have been featured in many publications.

Helen Whybrow is an as an educator, farmer, and writer. Helen was the publisher of Countryman Press and editor for Orion Magazine and Milkweed Editions before founding the Center for Whole Communities, a nationally recognized place of learning and change-making. She is the author of two books, editor of several anthologies, and contributor to literary journals.