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!

Call for Entry / 12th Annual National Small Works Juried Exhibition

Juried by Jane Haslem, Director of Jane Haslem Gallery

1st Prize is a Solo Show at Washington Printmakers Gallery

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS MAY 25, 2009

Funded in Part by Washington Print Foundation, the D.C. Commission on the

Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Download information HERE.

Congratulations to Ingrid Burrington and Julia Arredondo. They are the two printmaking candidates for the Grainger Marburg Traveling Scholarship. We wish them luck!

March 6, 2009 (This Friday!) FREE EVENT: Manuscripts and Martinis

The Saint John’s Bible at The Walters
February 15, 2009 – May 24, 2009
10:00 AM – 05:00 PM

Featuring nearly 40 volumes from the Walters’ world-renowned collection of manuscripts and rare books, this exhibition will examine the historical traditions of illuminated scripture in the context of a 21st-century manuscript,The Saint John’s Bible. Although it is still yet to be finished, The Saint John’s Bible has already been recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary calligraphy and book arts, and this exhibition marks the first time the manuscript has been examined in its historical context.

The idea of making a manuscript Bible may seem strange at the dawn of the 21st century, particularly considering the time and resources that go into making such a large book: when finished, the seven-volume bible will contain 1,150 pages and measure approximately three feet wide by two feet tall when open. But a quick glance at the illuminations throughout the book reveals that this is a project very much of its time. The artists use bold, abstract designs and collage techniques to create stirring compositions that often incorporate visual imagery from the modern world, such as computer voice-prints and images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The community at Saint John’s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, which commissioned the manuscript, has a long tradition of scholarly inquiry and social engagement, and many of the illuminations reflect these concerns through references to the biblical past and current events. As a whole, the project represents an ambitious effort to envision a modern biblical art that is nevertheless deeply rooted in the long-standing tradition of manuscript production

LECTURE
Scripture and the Scribe: Adorning the Bible across 1500 Years

Michelle P. Brown, Professor of Medieval
Manuscript Studies, University of London
Sunday, March 22, 2 p.m.
Price: Members free; non-members $10; students $5; pre-registration recommended
Location: Graham Auditorium

In the Middle Ages, monks and nuns copied and illuminated Biblical texts as part of their devotions to God. Today, such painstaking work has been undertaken by a team of artisans, led by calligrapher Donald Jackson, to produce The Saint John’s Bible for Saint John’s Abbey and University in Minnesota. Michelle Brown, a recognized authority on medieval books, will trace 1500 years of adornment of Christian Scripture, examining the relationships between the Bible and the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam and their collective influence on the making and meaning of The Saint John’s Bible.  Brown served as the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts for the British Library. She is the author of How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland and The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society Spirituality and the Scribe.