Member News

Each Member News item is categorized as either an announcement, exhibition, event or opportunity. As a Philagrafika member, you can add Philagrafika to your press/media list or email membernews@philagrafika.org to have your print-related listings posted here. Please review our Submission Guidelines before submitting.

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Announcements

Philagrafika is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. to support research by Artistic Director José Roca.  The funds will allow Roca to travel to several biennials in Asia for research and site visits in search of artists to include in Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious in 2010.

Help support Philagrafika'a fundraising efforts for Philagrafika 2010! Here's How: Make a Special Gift! Your contribution will support the: Creative leadership of Artistic Director and Chief Curator, José Roca. Core exhibition, The Graphic Unconscious, that will be held at: Moore College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Print Center and the gallery for the new campus of Tyler School of Art in 2010 Artist projects to be commissioned that will take place at multiple sites around Philadelphia Sign up for a Philagrafika membership and get great benefits! Invitations to events A connection to the regional print network Discounts on purchases of prints and portfolios from the annual portfolio program Listing and link on Philagrafika's website Ability to post print-related news in the 'Member News' section of Philagrafika's website and inclusion in emailed distribution Listing in promotional materials (for organizations) For more information about making a special gift or membership visit the website's Join & Support page.

 

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Brandywine Workshop July 1 - October 1, 2008 The Brandywine Galleries at the Firehouse will be closed for renovations (they are building a new entrance and plaza.) The printshop, however, will remain open. Brandywine Workshop, with the aid of local and national Friends, is engaged in a $4.5 million capital campaign plus a $3 million endowment to fund restoration work on its historic facade, remodel galleries and entrance, and build a landscaped plaza with major public art. Learn more at www.brandywineworkshop.com

Tyler School of Art

Victory for Tyler 2009
Support Victory for Tyler 2009 with a gift of $25 or more and receive a wearable piece of art featuring the architect's depiction of Tyler's new home on Main Campus.
 
For more information on Victory for Tyler and the new building for the Tyler School of Art, visit
www.temple.edu/tyler
 
Contact:
Jim Jordan
Assistant Director of Development
Tyler School of Art
Phone: 215-204-6057
james.jordan@temple.edu

 

 

Organizational Member Exhibitions

Trinity Framing features Spector Projects Portfolio

July through August

Who knew Queen Village had beach front property? Trintiy Framing invites you to stop in and check out their sunny, sandy and salty summer display. The featured portfolio was published in 2007 by Philadelphia’s SPECTOR PROJECTS. The artists are Jim Houser, Matt Fisher, Elizabeth Haidle, Randall Sellers, Keith Shore, Thom Lessner, Ben Woodward, CW Wells, Rebecca Westcott and Zoe Strauss. The portfolio is archivally displayed in the contemporary beauty of Paraflex acrylic picture frames.

Trinity Framing
701 S 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215-351-1600
www.trinityframing.com

Taller Puertorriqueño

Miguel Luciano
May 9 - July 19, 2008

Apertura/Opening Reception May 9, 5 - 8 p.m.

Miguel Luciano's work addresses playful and painful exchanges between
Puerto Rico and the United States, questioning a colonial relationship that exists to the present and problematizing the space between both
cultures. His work organizes popular, historic, and consumer iconography into fluctuating new hierarchies to describe the complexity of contemporary belief systems.

Galería Lorenzo Homar
2721 N 5th Street, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19133
taller.osiris.analogmethod.com

 

Tyler School of Art, Temple Gallery

June 7 – October 25, 2008

Volum Attempts: The Space of Books
Organized by the Purtill family

In a provocative parallel to their highly collaborative practice, the exhibition presents Purtill Family Business’s own ideas alongside invited participants whose work demonstrates an inspired relationship with and to publishing. Among the components of the show are photographic projects that look at the spaces and images
of books, a “diaporama” event by French artist Pierre Leguillon; a “Collective Investigation” event by Minnesota-based artist Matt Bakkom; the complete catalogue of Onestar Press (an artist book publisher); and publications selected by Bettina Funcke (curator and editor), Matthew Marks (art dealer), Christoph Keller (art publisher), and William Pym (writer). Featured will be an excerpt from “Double Spreads,” an exhibition of photographs of double-page spreads taken by graphic designers (organized by Christoph Keller and Jérome Saint-Loubert Bié). In addition to the publications on display, a bookmark and two artist’s books by Zoe Strauss and Heidi Giannotti will be published and distributed for free.

259 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19027
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 – 6 PM
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions.html

 

 

 

The Print Center

82nd Annual International Competition: Photography

May 31 – August 2, 2008

Juried by Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum

Exhibiting Artists: Paul Adams, Alberto Aguilar, Sarah Bones, Devorah Bowen, Ellie Brown, Allen Bryan, Marshall Clarke, Phyllis Crowley, Carol Dragon, Daniel Farnum, Jimmy Fike, Timothy Fitzgerald, Irene Imfeld, Sean Justice, Stephanie Kirk, Susan Lakin, Michael Matsil, Mike Mergen, Thomas Porett, Robert L. Pratto, Jack Ramsdale, Paul Rider, Nadine Rovner, Libby Rowe, Constance Schroder, Robert Shults, Harris J. Sklar, Chris Smiar, Amy Stein, Stephen Strom, Jennifer Tauber, Daniel Traub, David Underwood, Matthew D. White, Petronella Ytsma, Bahar Yurukoglu

1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia , PA  19103
215-735-6090x2
f. 215-735-5511
apeelpinkham@printcenter.org
www.printcenter.org

 

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Art Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales
Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague
April 11 - July 13, 2008
 
Over the last decade, Carlos Amorales has developed a unique visual vocabulary that he has used and reused, both alone and in collaboration with other artists, in mediums ranging from drawing and animation to installation and performance. In his growing and multifaceted body of work, Amorales presents a personal view of the world in which familiar images and objects are capable of invoking collective experiences of anxiety and fear, and in so doing questions and critiques the nature of our daily certainties.
 
Amorales's fantasy worlds are inhabited by shadows of humans, birds, animals, and insects that coexist in ambiguous but invariably hostile surroundings. In these dark and inhospitable universes, the metamorphosis of humans into animals and of animals into humans occurs naturally, with shapes and forms merging with one another and evolving into threatening hybrids. These surreal visions are heavily influenced by gothic literature and mythological motifs, but are rooted in everyday reality. The result is a fragmented, postapocalyptic vision of life at the beginning of the twenty-first century in which the distinctions between good and evil, normal and abnormal, human and animal are blurred.

Sponsor: Generous support for this program is being provided by Agustín and Isabel Coppel.

Curator: Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art

Location: Galleries 178 and 179, first floor

 

Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s

May 31, 2008 - August 24, 2008

This colorful exhibition of more than eighty works selected from the Museum’s rich collection of popular prints invites the public to enter a forgotten world of fantastic and familiar imagery. Published in a variety of languages, these prints were sold on street corners and in shops all across Europe and could be found in every household, city tavern, and village schoolroom. Although nineteenth-century Europe witnessed an explosion in the production of inexpensive popular prints of all kinds, surprisingly few fine examples survive today. Their production ran the full gamut from crudely cut woodblock prints to refined chromolithographs; they vary dramatically between austere black-and-white specimens and swank, candy-colored delights.

 

Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection

March 1, 2008 - August 17, 2008

More than 20 years after his death, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) remains one of the world’s most beloved and widely exhibited American photographers. Comprised of more than 40 photographs selected from the Museum’s extensive holdings of the artist’s work, this exhibition focuses on Adams’s less-familiar landscape images in order to demonstrate his innate understanding of graphic form and balanced design.

 

Museum hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm
Friday evenings until 8:45 pm
Admission: $14 general; $12 seniors; $10 students with valid ID and children 13-18; children 12 and under free; Sundays, pay-as-you-wish

Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103 tel 215-763-8100
fax 215-236-4465
visitorservices@philamuseum.org
www.philamuseum.org

 

Inliquid

Betwixt Between These Crossed Stars
July 9 - August 24, 2008
A New Site-specific Installation by Tyler Kline.
 

 

 

 

 

Individual Member Exhibitions

 

Madeline Adams
Likeable Art (Art in City Hall)
June 9 - September 26, 2008
City Hall, Philadelphia PA
www.madelineadams.com

 

Katie Baldwin
The woodblock print (Parade I) is included in the Summer Exhibition at the International Print Center New York.
IPCNY: New Prints 2008/Summer Artists' Commentary
June 26th - August 1st, 2008
Hours: 11am - 6pm (M - F)
526 W 26th Street Room 824 (Between 10th and 11th)
New York, NY 10001
(212) 989-5090
www.inliquid.com

 

Astrid Bowlby
May 24 through August 10, 2008
Contemporary Collaborations: Artist and Master Printer
Guest-curated by Maine print collector Bruce Brown.
Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square
Portland, ME 04101
www.portlandmuseum.org

 

Linda Dubin Garfield
July 6 through July 28
Visual Memoirs
The Gryphon Cafe and Gallery at
105 West Lancaster Avenue
Wayne, PA.
Artist’s Reception on Wednesday, July 9  from 7 to 9 PM.
Proceeds from this show will benefit the Women’s Resource Center in Wayne.

 

Elfie Harris
Musings on Nature
June 6 - October 18, 2008
The Northwest Artist's Collective
The Morris Arboretum
100 E Northwestern Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19118
www.harrisbenvenuti.com

 

Elysa Voshell
June 16 - August 28, 2008
Philagrafika member Elysa Voshell has work included in Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present. 
The Dorothy W. & F. Otto Haas Gallery, The Athenæum of Philadelphia, East Washington Square. A collaboration with the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
Monday-Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
Opening Reception: June 18, 6 - 8 pm
www.elysavoshell.com

 

 

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Events

 

 

The Print Center

Lectures

Wednesday, July 16, 12:00-1:00pm **NEW DATE**

Benjamin Edwards, in conjunction with the exhibition of recent prints by the highly-regarded Washington, DC artist, will discuss his complex landscapes, which depict a world over-run with logos, information systems and life mediated by technology. His work is exhibited internationally and is held in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY. This talk is co-sponsored by The University of the Arts' Master of Fine Arts Program. The University of the Arts, CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Building, 320 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. FREE and open to the public.

1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia , PA  19103
215-735-6090x2
f. 215-735-5511
apeelpinkham@printcenter.org
www.printcenter.org

 

 

Opportunities

SGC Traveling Exhibition

Joe Loccisano, VP of Internal Affairs for SGC is encouraging all SGC members to participate in the 2009 – 2012 Traveling Exhibition.

Warrington Colescott - Juror

The prospectus with complete entry requirements is below. Please share this information with other SGC members who may not receive this as well as any other artists who may wish to join SGC.

For more information contact:
loccisj@mccfl.edu

PROSPECTUS

 

PRINTMAKING TODAY Contemporary Review of Fine Art Printmaking
July 18-28, 2008

Dedalo invites artists working in all printmaking media from around the
world to participate in "Printmaking Today", an international print
exhibition and competition of Fine Art Printmaking which will be held in
Italy.

This event is patronized by the Abruzzo Region, the municipality of
Castiglione and the province of Pescara. The first prize is a solo show in
Italy and a custom-made website with domain name (www.yourname.com)
including webhosting for one year.

RULES
This show is open to all artists and there is no entry fee
"Printmaking Today" is to be considered a celebration of printmaking,
therefore any traditional or contemporary printmaking media is allowed
(including artists' books). There are no specific guidelines or restrictions
for being included in the show, but curators will exclude works from the
show if considered inappropriate.

All works received will be in the show which will be hosted in Abruzzo,
Italy in Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, and in the castle of
Castiglione, in the Museum of Castiglione which is housed in a medieval
fort/castle in Abruzzo, from July 18th to July 24th 2008. Additionally, all
works submitted will be visible online for one year on www.centrodedalo.it
with artists' contact information.

A selected jury will evaluate all works received and will assign an award (a
solo show and internet website) based on quality of image, concept and
inventiveness.

The jury:
Colleen Corradi- printmaker and curator
Tomomi Ono - artist printmaker
Paolo Cospito - photographer
Annarita Gaeta - artist
Rolando Fidani - artist

Each artist must submit a minimum of two (2) and no more than ten (10)
prints. Two copies of a single print or single copies of different works may
be submitted up to a total of ten. The submissions will be divided with half
hung at the Dedalo Art Center and the other half in the Museum

Prints submitted must be signed and numbered. All works must be received on or before June 30th 2008 with an artist statement and contact information. Please mail entries early to ensure arrival by deadline.

To express your interest in participating in this exhibition, please email
us your details (name and number of prints to submit with dimensions). This
will help us with the organization as well as order enough frames ahead of
time.

All works sent are to be considered a donation of the participating artists
to Dedalo and the museum archives for the Castle of Castiglione. All artists
will receive a statement indicating where their print is stored (Dedalo or
museum). Prints will not be for sale. However in case of interest, we will
put in touch the artist directly with the potential buyer.
Participating artists may not ask for any form of compensation or return of
works.

All works must be sent with an application form and brief cv or artist
statement to:
Colleen Corradi
associazione culturale tutt'arte
Via trentino 69
Montesilvano (PE)
65016 ITALY

The envelope or parcel sent must have CLEARLY written on the outside:
PRINTED MATTER- no commercial value
Participating artists need to accept the rules in order to take part.
Dedalo is not responsible for any loss or damage of works in transit
download entry form and rules here:
http://www.centrodedalo.it/eventi/mostre-en.htm

 

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland is seeking a Letterpress Associate for part time work. 

Job responsibilities include organizing, cleaning, and maintaining the letterpress studio, scheduling studio time for rentals and outreach groups, purchasing supplies, assisting workshops, and helping at gallery openings and special events of Pyramid Atlantic. In addition, graphic design may be required. The ideal candidate should have strong organizational and communication skills. Candidate should be familiar with printing and setting type by hand and polymer plate printing. Additionally, they should be familiar with printing on a Vandercook Proofing Press and a Pilot Press. Basic press maintenance is beneficial.

This is a work exchange position. The Letterpress Associate earns studio time with access to all the Pyramid studio spaces. The position does allow for monetary compensation when assisting with letterpress studio rentals or commission work.

Candidates should send a cover letter, resume, and up tp 5 examples of their work to letterpress@pyramid-atlantic.org.

 

Mainline Art Center

Now Accepting Registrations
Summer 2008 Semester
June 16 -  August 23

Whether you're a beginner or a professional artist, Main Line Art Center offers classes and workshops that meet your needs. With short and long classes offered over the course of two 5-week sessions, they've made it easy for you to fit creativity into your summer schedule! 

Call to register 610.525.0272, or let them know if you need help making a decision.  They can find a class that is right for you!

746 Panmure Road
Haverford, PA 19041
610.525.0272 (tel)
610.525.5036 (fax)

info@mainlineart.org
http://www.mainlineart.org/

 

 

The 12th International Print Triennial Graphica Creativa '09 - "Co-op"

June 12 - Sep 27, 2009
Jyväskylä Art Museum
Kauppakatu 23
40100 Jyväskylä, Finland

Contact person
Mr. Jukka Partanen, head curator
Tel. +358-50-4622 695
Fax +358-14-615 730
e-mail: jukka.partanen@jkl.fi

Conditions of entry
The exhibition is open for any printmaker. We are looking for new and interesting co-operative projects, which printmakers have taken part in. The partners could be other printmakers, painters, musicians, architects, authors, dancers etc. We are especially interested in already executed projects but we will also take under consideration plans of projects, which could be realized just for the exhibition. For more information, please go to our website http://www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/graphica_creativa/e_index
Deadlines July 31, 2008

 

 

 

Call for Artists Exhibition, Chashama, New York, NY
http://www.chashama.org
212.391.8151, x24 or jenny.chashama@gmail.com

All of Chashama's visual art exhibit spaces are on the ground floor of a building, or are easily accessible from the street. Most are or were former retail stores with large street facing windows. Chashama transforms these vacant spaces into temporary exhibit spaces according to their unique layout and overall aesthetic. If you are planning a site-specific installation, we recommend that you make a site visit before submitting an application.

Opportunities are between 21 – 30 days in duration. Applications may be made for group or solo exhibitions. Artists or curators are welcome to apply. The artist/curator is responsible for hanging and removing the exhibit. The artist/curator must supply a gallery sitter for any hours that the space is to be open, Chashama receives a donation of 15% of all sales from an exhibit. Some exhibit spaces have multiple rooms and will host exhibits of more than one artist. Independent curator projects may request the use of all rooms within a space. It is recommended that the curator visit the exhibit space before making such a request. When a new exhibit space becomes available, floor plans will be posted on the Chashama website. Applications will be reviewed three times a year for the spaces we currently have available. In addition, a few traditional exhibits will be selected "in reserve" should another space become available before the next application review period.

 

 

Call for Exhibition, Electric Lab, Exit Art, New York, NY
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/call_for_proposals.html

Each day brings news of another environmental crisis be it the impending shortage of potable water, global warming or the rapid extinction of another species of animal or plant. In Winter of 2008, Exit Art will launch S.E.A. (Social-Environmental-Aesthetics) a new program committed to presenting artistic visions that suggest solutions or envision new possibilities to this environmental crisis; art with a purpose .E.P.A.
(Environmental Performance Actions) - the first exhibition project of S.E.A. - will present documentation of environmental performances and actions in the Exit Underground: a digital video lounge, performance and music space, and a green boat bar. We are looking for documentation - photographs, texts, video and ephemera - from performances that addressed contemporary environmental issues in a substantial way.

 

 

DIVA – Artist-in-residence program in Denmark 2009

Application deadline: August 15 2008
http://www.danishvisualarts.info


To promote creative exchange between Danish and foreign artists and art institutions, The Danish Arts Council has established an artist-in-residence program in Denmark. The program makes it possible to invite artists from abroad to stay and work in Denmark for extended periods.

The Danish Arts Council will let individuals or institutions within the Danish art world propose candidate artists from abroad – preferably with a view of working together with the artists during their staying in Denmark on projects such as exhibitions, workshops, public talks, and the like. Based on the proposals submitted, The Danish Arts Council’s Committee for International Visual Art will decide whom to invite.

What the Artists are Offered
In 2009, the program offers residencies ranging from 3-6 months, but application for shorter periods of residency is also possible.

In Copenhagen, The Visual Arts Centre will provide the residents with living space and studios free of charge. The program also allows individuals or institutions outside of Copenhagen to organize one or more artist residencies of 3-6 months of duration – perhaps linked to the location in question. In the case of a residency outside of Copenhagen, it is up to the applying institution or individuals to find accommodations and studio space for the artist, subsequently financed by the program within an economic framework agreed upon in advance. The program does not cover the accommodation or expenses of accompanying family members.

Further information on DIVA can be found on the website http://www.danishvisualarts.info or please contact Merete Jankowski, email: merjan@danish-arts.dk or phone: +4533744527

 

 

Women's Studio Workshop

2008 Summer Arts Institute

The Woman's Studio Workshop features fully equipped intimate studio workspaces in printmaking, hand papermaking, book arts, photography and ceramics. During the summer WSW adapts the intimate workspace to present a series of small and intensive workshops. Each workshop is designed to enhance your studio practice through immersion in new materials, techniques and processes . Each workshop enrolls less than eight people, giving you an experience that is less like a class and more like a forum for sharing ideas among peers.

Cross Pollination: Monoprint and Encaustic:
Laura Moriarty | Cynthia Winika

Variable Relief Monoprinting and Beyond:
Kathleen Sherin

Visible Language: Letterpress Broadsides:
Kathy Walkup

Advanced Intaglio:
Shelley Thorstensen

Everything you ever wanted to know about screenprinting:
Kyla Leudtke

The Photographer's Artists' Book:
Nicole Dul | Olivia Antsis

Silkcreen Monoprint:
Roni Henning

Cross Pollination: Trace Monoprints, Paper Lithography and Encaustic:
Tatana Kellner |Laura Moriarty

Women's Studio Workshop
PO Box 489
Rosendale, NY  12472
tel 845.658.9133
fax 845.658.9031
info@wsworkshop.org
http://wsworkshop.org/_class/sai_print.htm

 

 

Attention Printshops: Add your studio to the International Directory of Print Studios

The directory is organized and run by londonprintstudio. It is a free online resource to facilitate exchange and communication within the printmaking community.

Inclusion in the directory is offered to all studios that provide a service to others. Services may vary from workshops and classes to editioning or accredited education and training.

http://www.londonprintstudio.info/

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