Kudos to Julia Petrino and Kim Michalak for pulling off another excellent print exchange this past week.
In spite of crazy schedules and the usual end-of-semester madness, the folios were distributed at the Potluck this past Friday.
Good work you two, herding cats is a difficult thing and you pulled it off!
FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL!
Sorry Charlie.
e-mail to join the waitlist.
Friday, March 26
approx. 8 AM – 10 PM.
The department is sponsoring a bus trip to visit many of the Philagrafika locations during Southern Graphics in Philadelphia this month.
Only a handful of seats are remaining on the bus. The sign-up sheet is located in the front entry-way display case.
If you sign up for the bus but fail to take the trip, your student accounts will be charged $35. We are not doing this to be cruel, but rather to force you to consider your scheduling and availability, and remind you that these seats are in demand. There will be a wait-list for the trip.
If the sign-up-sheet is full, please e-mail printmaking@mica.edu, and you will be wait-listed in the order you are received.
This will be an all day trip, on Friday, March 26th, and faculty from the department will rendezvous with you at various locations in the city.
Please consider your schedule carefully before you sign up.
This is the first friday after Spring Break.
Down Low, TOO SLOW! The Exchange is All Full UP!
Congrats to all who made the list!
Yaay!
Julia Petrino and Kim Michalak have foolishly awesomely decided to head up this semester’s Print Exchange.
The sign-up sheet will be posted on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, in the front entry way.
There are only 21 spaces available. First come-first serve.
The rule is, of course – once you sign up, you must participate. No backing out, no willy-nilly excuses… You’re in. So commit and have fun! These always turn out for the best.
The theme is Messages.
The deadline will be Early April.
Other details to come of course.
This Saturday night, Open Space Baltimore has an opening for their latest group show, Ordinary Spectacles.
Open Space was founded and is managed by recent MICA Graduates, many of whom were closely connected to the Printmaking Department. Additionally, our very own Printmaking alumna, Erica Prince, who has been doing well in her own right (sorry, no direct link to New American Paintings), is part of the show.
The exhibition will feature work by
Gideon Chase,
Steve Keene,
Andrew Kirk,
Erica Prince,
and David Ubias.
It opens Saturday, Nov. 14th, 7-10 PM, and hangs through December 5.
Open Space
2720 Sisson St.
Baltimore, MD, 21211
(BEHIND THE ALLIGATOR MURAL!)
See you there!
Ok, so this is just great.
Abigail Uhteg, MICA Printmaking alumna, former Undergraduate Dolphin Press Coordinator, and first webmistress of the micaprintmaking.com site, compiled 3000 photographs in a fabulous stop-motion video documenting the making of The Complex of All These, her artist book, made during her residency at The Women’s Studio Workshop this past summer. It involves intaglio, letterpress, bookbinding, papermaking, and a hell of a lot of craft. There’s something for everyone! 3000 photographs of artist’s book goodness.
Here it is in HQ, but click the full-screen button to enjoy it even more!
EDIT: The MICA Library bought one - you should request to see it in person!
Bill Fick visited our studios Monday and Tuesday of this week and brought a huge pile of prints, dating back through 10 years of work, to showcase and talk about in 3 of our classes.
Very graciously, he also brought with him some of his trademark linoleum blocks to print from. Unsatisfied with standard paper-printing, the visit turned into a tshirt-printing-free-for-all.
Unbeknownst to many, a writer for Printeresting.org was on hand to document it all. Be sure to check out their write-up on our T-shirt Extravaganza!
So our new Pressure Washer for the Screenprint Studio is finally installed, plumbed, and fully functional.
Why did we replace an otherwise fully functional pressure washer? Because they swear to us that this one won’t explode when you ignore or abuse it. They promised, I’m believing them.
It’s name is KRANZLE and it was made in Germany.
SO, the new operating procedure?
Don’t touch the switch on the back of the wall anymore. Just leave it on.
On the face of the unit (the big shiny thing next to the washout sink) there is a switch near the bottom left. It is marked ON and OFF (weird, huh?). There is a slight delay when you turn it on, but it’ll kick right in strong.
Turn it on, wash out, turn it off. Easy peasy.
The advantage of all of this is if you need to, you can let the handle on the gun go and turn the spray off without turning the pump off… It won’t kill the machine. Now, this doesn’t mean that you can just turn it on and walk away, but it won’t explode anymore.
Questions, just ask a Faculty member or Kyle. We’ll be happy to show you the setup.
And REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR EYE AND EAR PROTECTION! This thing is cranking out almost 2000PSI.
Have a great weekend!
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.
