For those of you not in the know, the MICA Printmaking department is leading a study abroad program in VENICE right now.  Read more here!

For those of you in NYC this weekend, or this month, there are two excellent exhibitions worth checking out.

Firstly, the Jon Rappleye prints that were in production all fall and spring, until this past weekend, are premiering in Jon’s current show at the Jeff Bailey Gallery this week.  The opening was last night, but the show is up for a month.

More production shots at the Dolphin Press website.

Additionally, our very own May Yang had a print selected for the IPCNY New Prints 2009 exhibition (curated by Polly Apfelbaum!) which also opened this weekend.

More of May’s work is available on her website, and the list of other artists in the exhibition (albeit clumsily) are here!

Congratulations to both!

Ok, so this is just awesome. Coolhunting visited Grafica Fidalga in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to do a poster run and meet the printers:

Please note how they create new type by laminating a cut plywood letterform to a second block to make it type-high. It’s particularly nice to see a production shop work through a print run; adding make-ready to a form, finding creative solutions to missing type (check out that % symbol) and fixing work-ups mid run with a hammer! A cursory google search seems to only identify their press as a 1929 German Letterpress - so extra credit to whomever can find the model and make. I can verify that it is a flatbed-cylinder press, akin to Babcock’s and Miehle’s early designs.

And while we’re on the subject of letterpress, wood type, and awesomeness, there is a new Wood Type Museum online, including photos and specimen-books, with a nice write-up by the folks at Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

After receiving numerous forwarded e-mails from students, staff, and friends that Jim Sherraden from Hatch Show Print would be in Baltimore with AIGA’s lecture circuit, I decided to give him a call.  Within a matter of minutes, I not only had him on on the line, but he had agreed to come to MICA, talk, and PRINT with our students, all without the mention of money, housing, or any other logistics.  He had a 4 hour window of time, and gave it all to us, unconditionally.

Jim gave us his whole afternoon, showed the students some new printing techniques, gave a small lecture on his own work, and brought along some fabulous cuts and images from the shop to print.

More images can be found here, and here.

Thanks Jim - come back anytime…

Hey all -
Check out the write-up on our very own Nick Hum on the Wooster Collective blog here.  Congrats Nick!

April 29 - May 23, 2009
Opening: Sunday, May 3, 2009: 2-5pm
@ Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street, NW. [DC] 

This exhibition consists of landscape and plant forms in a several media including oils, watercolors, and prints ⎯ etchings, linoleum cuts, lithographs, and silkscreens. The subjects are drawn from the Dordogne, France and Cape Town, South Africa.

Congrats, Cynthia!

see more of Cynthia’s work here

Dear students, majors, concentrators, and friends of the department,

Please come join the Printmaking Department tomorrow (that’s wednesday, April 8th) at 3PM in the Fox2 gallery for a CUPCAKE ONLY OPENING! The department is providing drinks, but if you are part of the department, we’d really like it if you could bring some CUPCAKES for our CUPCAKE OPENING!

The show is up for this week only.  Thanks to everyone who helped with installation… It wouldn’t have happened without your help!

See you tomorrow at 3!

For all of you considering applying for a summer internship here is a list of all of the shops that were discussed in the internship meeting. If you have applied for or are considering applying to any of these places please send us a email at printmaking@mica.edu to let us know. This can be a great help to everyone, and if you are applying to a place not listed please let us know!

To apply to any of these studios you need to proceed as follows:
• Choose a studio
• Go online and review studio
• Write formal (email) letter of request to director (CC to Gail) requesting a summer internship including your resume
• Email printmaking@mica.edu telling us where you have just applied (people are starting to go after the same internships, this is for your benefit)

(NY is Manhattan)

• Center for Book Arts, NY
– Carrie Tuccio

• Dieu Donné, NY
paper studio, curatorial internships available

• Flatbed Press, Austin TX

• Lesley Dill Artist’s Studio, Brooklyn NY
please contact us for more information

• Peter Kruty Editions, Brooklyn NY
— Ian Jackson (confirmed)

• Rutgers Brodsky Center, New Brunswick NJ

–Sarika Sugula (confirmed)

• Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring MD

• Durham Press, Durham PA

• Lower East Side Printshop (LES), NY
excepting five or six interns to work two days a week

• Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY

• Kathy Carracio, NY

— Robin Page (confirmed)

• Woman’s Studio, Rosendale NY
no longer accepting interns

• Two Palm Press, NY

• Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria VA

• Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA
no longer accepting interns

• Goya Girl Press, Baltimore MD
one position available curatorial print, marketing, gallery organization. contact Nick at nkarvounis@gmail.com for more information

• Squidfire, Baltimore MD
–Ashley Campbell

• John Chiara, San Francisco CA
no longer accepting interns

• Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village CO

• Sesame Press, Brooklyn NY
– Carrie Tuccio

Dearest Printmakers,

As you might have guessed, access to the Dolphin Building will be limited next week. However, you’ll still have access to the building each day of Spring Break from 7am-11pm! Isn’t that grand? Unfortunately, there will be NO PRINTER HOURS. Sorry. Thursday March 12, 6-9pm is the last scheduled printer hours before the Spring Relaxation Fest, so come and get your films!

Happy Spring Breaking!