Please enjoy this short documentary of Brady Vest of Hammerpress talking about his shop and his love of Printmaking.

Via the fine folks, Keegan Meegan, on The Serial Machinist.

DNA theatre is kicking off the new year with a fantastic aerial performance titled “12.” The last twelve people on earth attempt to survive in a dystopian society.

The posters for the production were designed and screen-printed in collaboration with printmaking volunteers.

This show is a must-see. People will by flying.

Hey Printmakers!

The Women’s Studio Workshop in upstate New York is doing a 10-day Printmaking intensive in gorgeous Tuscany, Italy in August 2011. This is a non-MICA affiliated program, but it will be awesome.

From their announcement:

_Italy 2011 is on!_  Kathy Caraccio will be collaborating with Women’s Studio Workshop as the instructor and master printer on a ten-day silk aquatint/monoprint retreat at Tuscany’s striking Castello di Potentino!  Using exclusively water-miscible Faust Aqualine inks, this workshop promises to be as green as the lush Tuscan landscape! Register today!

And, why would you NOT want to print here?

Castello del Potentino Photo credit: Federico Lorenzini

Yeah, a castle, on a hill, in Tuscany.

The workshop is August 8-18th, and the price starts at $3700, which is everything except for travel.

Contact the Women’s Studio Workshop through their website if you’re interested.

Last minute notice for everyone –

Friend of the department Aaron Cohick is presenting tomorrow (thursday!) in Laurie Snyder’s Artist Book class.

Aaron is a 2002 MICA alumnus who went on to receive his MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State in 2007, and now works as the head printer for The Press at Colorado College.

Since his days at MICA, Aaron has printed and published under the name Newlights Press, producing personal and collaborative artist books, prints, and broadsides.

Find him tomorrow in Station 101, our Book Arts space, at 1 PM.

Anyone interested in self-publishing, handmade books, zines, and the like should not miss this for anything.

Photo nicked from Alphabetilately’s 2009 Zine Fest page.

Attention all (and particularly all of you recent graduates) -

We just had an excellent job opportunity cross our desk that we want to pass your way.

From the desk of Lesley Dill:

Lesley Dill is looking for a part time studio assistant.  Someone who works especially well with computers and organization, and also can work in the studio .

It is a part time position, Wednesday, Thursday, Fridays 10-5 . Paying 11$ an hour as a 1099. The studio is in Brooklyn Heights.

She is interviewing now, so if you are interested email her at lesleydill [AT] aol [dott] com.   Info on her work can be found at www.lesleydill.net.

Lesley Dill is a MICA Alumna and Studio Artist working in Brooklyn NY. Her work is in collections nationally and internationally. Dolphin Press & Print collaborated with Lesley Dill and the Drachen Foundation in Fall of 2005 on the Healing Man kite.

Please spread the word – this is an incredible opportunity.

Cheers!

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!