Prism Print International has organized, in collaboration with Clifford Chance of London, the exhibition PRISM: KHOROS (curated by John Read) which includes 40 graphic works and engravings by 17 international artists members of the Prism.

From 24 September until 2 November 2018 at Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ.
The Exhibition can be visited by appointment by contacting nigel.frank@cliffordchance.com

Catalog www.prismprintinternational.com

IN-sight is a group of artists who have a passion for exploring and extending the possibilities and boundaries of printmaking. For the past two years they have been creating imaginative new work in response to obscure objects and hidden treasures they’ve encountered in the Museum’s stores. This exhibition showcases their art alongside some of the diverse artifacts from the Museum’s collection that sparked each artist’s inspiration and curiosity.

IN-sight artists got together at the University of the West of England after studying for an MA in multi-disciplinary printmaking. ‘Into the Light’ will be the group’s third exhibition together but their first themed show. The artists are: Sue Brown, Coo Geller, Sarah Salaman, Jane Sasanow, Wendy Rhodes and Kate Wallis.

Sally Annett’s work, inspired by the archive collection at Bletchley Park, investigates both the historical content of the archive and the material nature of the diverse items within it. Drawing on themes of internationalism and the fragmentation of information, her works reference many questions that still persist: the many staff whose names are not recorded, the fragmented intercepted messages that were the Codebreakers’ raw material, their scribbled notes and workings-out, the thousands of individual parts of machines such as the Bombe and, above all, the layers of secrecy.

This exhibition is in parallel with an exhibition at Wrest Park of printmaking and artworks by Sally Annett, inspired by the collections of English Heritage. Wrest Park houses the famous Zuber and Chinese wallpapers and the entire collection of wallpapers for English Heritage with over 1500 examples. Over the summer there are lectures, demonstrations and workshops running at both places. The exhibition at Wrest Park runs from 15 June – 21 July.

Annett has worked in collaboration with Susan Johanknecht and La Livresse and the project is supported by Arts Council England.

The North Shore Art League presents master printmaker Bert Menco's printed work from the NSAL printmaking studio.

The etchings in this series are based on the form of the 17th century emblem book. The historical book intended associations and diverse meanings of key elements of the world in schematic and formal spatial arrangements. The emblem book envisioned the universe as 'like a book or mirror of our life and death', and objects in the world as invested with immediate and enduring universal significance. The artist says: "I start out my etchings broadly but with a clear geometric underpinning. The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. I embrace themes of loss, futility, destruction, and unexpected, redemptive beauty, themes tied to the tradition of printmaking, whose imagery has always tended toward critical commentary and serious contemplation, and often toward humor and irony as well."

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

Manuscript illumination has often been considered in relation to the texts it accompanies, but rarely in terms of its interplay with other artistic media. Historically, however, the technique was closely associated with other forms of artistic expression and served as a crucial point of contact and transfer for visual motifs across space and time. The goal of this year’s symposium is to examine cases of intermedial exchange through the lenses of technique, style, iconography, social context, and cultural geography, while also posing broader questions about the deep connections between the craft of illumination and other arts more widely. Of special interest will be insights gained from the technical examination of works in different media, new comparisons made possible by digital technology, and the discovery of linkages once obscured by strict historiographical divisions

The program will begin Thursday evening at 5:00 pm on November 15, 2018, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with a keynote lecture by Professor Susie Nash of the Courtauld Institute of Art. The symposium will continue November 16th-17th at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania.

For more information on the program and to register, please visit the 'External Link' below.

Contact Info:
Lynn Ransom
Curator of Programs
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
215-898-7851

Introduction: Ashley Dunn, Assistant Curator in Charge of Nineteenth Century Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Géricault's Experimental Prints: The 'Stone Paper' Lithographs"
Elizabeth M. Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums; and Christina Taylor, Assistant Paper Conservator, Harvard Art Museums

"Lithography as a Subject in French Prints, 1815-1830"
Christine Giviskos, Curator, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers

"Early Russian Lithography"
Galina Mardilovich, Acting Curator of Russian and European Art at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Please RSVP to Kirsten.Rendina@metmuseum.org by October 15th.

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028

Please enter at the 81st Street Entrance.

*This event has been organized in conjunction with the IFPDA.