ATTENTION: VENUE CHANGE!!
José Roca will be speaking in Main 110 tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12:30,
(not in Brown.)

José Roca, Chief Curator and Artistic Director for Philagrafika 2010 will be on campus this week.

Deja vu you say? NO! He was snowed out back in February.

José Roca kicks off his visit with an Art @ Lunch lecture in Brown 320 MAIN 110 on Wednesday, April 7th at 12:30.

From the Philagrafika Website:

José Roca is a Colombian curator working out of Bogotá and Philadelphia, where he is currently Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010. He managed the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá for a decade, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in the Latin American circuit.

Roca was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006), the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07(2007), and of Cart[ajena], a series of urban interventions in Cartagena, Colombia (2007). He was a jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007).

Recent curatorial projects include: Muntadas: Mechanisms of the Image, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming 2010); Välparaíso, a series of urban interventions in Valparaíso, Chile (upcoming 2010); Other Florae, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil (2008); Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, traveling exhibition co-organized by iCI and the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (2007-2009); Botánica Política, Sala Montcada/La Caixa, Barcelona (2004); Traces of Friday: art, tourism, displacement, ICA, Philadelphia (2003).

In addition to his lecture, José Roca will be conducting a number of critiques in the Printmaking Department.  Critiques will take place from 2:30-5;30 on Wednesday, and 10-12 / 1-3 on Thursday, in the 3rd fl computer lab (and possibly 1st floor Etching area… we shall see!)

Those receiving critiques have already been chosen, but we are encouraging anyone interested (this means YOU) to sit in and participate at these times.

Critiques will be approximately 45 minutes long.

If you are remotely interested in the world of contemporary print, you will be sorely disappointed if you miss this.

Welcome back all — I hope your Spring Break was restful.

TWO IMPORTANT THINGS:

If you are on our Philly Bus list for this Friday (the 26th), you need to attend a MANDATORY (mini) MEETING this Wednesday at 3 PM. It’ll be quick we promise!

For those of you who did not make the Philly Bus list, but are still going on your own, please feel free to attend as well – we will have copies of our itinerary and a map to hand out, with important places to visit. (*** UPDATE >> See below!)

Who knows, perhaps you’ll even find a place on the bus if someone else drops – currently there is NO WAIT LIST.

Second: The Department Exhibition hangs Next Monday, March 29th (yeah, I know, we don’t have enough going on already).

This year, the Department Exhibition will be showcasing Book work by all, AND Prints by Juniors & Senior Majors and Concentrators. All work is due by this Friday (the 26th). I will have a drop-off location waiting by tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon in the Litho Room, 1st Floor. You may submit to 3 pieces, (or a single body of work of more pieces). We want a LOT, so all Juniors and Senior Majors and Concentrators should submit.

Questions: kvanhorn@mica.edu

UPDATE: Download a copy of our Friday Itinerary here>>>>>>>
MICA PHILAGRAFIKA TRIP 2010 and the City map is here!

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.

Attn. All:

Due to inclement weather, and the threat of even MORE inclement weather, José Roca’s critiques and lectures, scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday, February 9th and 10th, have been postponed until the Spring.

José Roca has promised a return trip on March 31st and April 1st.

So sorry for the last minute notification, but obviously this is out of our hands.

Details to come as they made available.

Hey all you poster kids! SURPRISE -

There’s a book release / signing TONIGHT by Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine at Atomic Pop in Hampden, with his new book Animals and Objects In and Out of Water. Here is Atomic Book/Pop’s write up on the book.

Jay Ryan is a very prolific poster artist, with working dating back a decade+ + +.

Also of note, Paul Hornschemeier is releasing his new graphic novel All and Sundry.

The book signings kick off at 7.

Atomic Books/Pop
3620 Falls Road in Hampden. (caution, the linked map is only kind of accurate)

By Light Rail – get off at the Woodberry stop. Walk under the 83 overpass and up the long hill (3 blocks). Hang a right at Falls Rd. and walk 2 more blocks. It’ll be on the right side, next to Doubledutch.

See you there!

Boy, if you missed out on the NYC IFPDA and E/AB Print Fairs this weekend, you really missed out. The weather was fantastic, the crowds were easily managed, the print work was far reaching, numerous, and completely accessible.  I genuinely hope you made it up.

Our friends at Printeresting, who had their own event this weekend, wrote up a really fabulous review of the two fairs – and rather than me repeating them, I’ll just send you there.

The photo above was taken during the department’s private tour of the Dieu Donne Papermill. Thanks again Kat!

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!

Laurie Snyder has arranged for a free bus for 20 students to the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair this Nov. 8th. 

FURTHERMORE: she has arranged a discount admission for those students at $10.  Sign up in the Silkscreen hallway, 2nd floor Dolphin.

Students, only students, either majors or in classes, please sign up on the lower right side of this web page.  This will put you on our mailing list for upcoming events, meetings, news, announcements, et al, within the department.  Enter your name, e-mail address, and click GO, fill out the security check, and you’re done.  When you’re tired of hearing from us you can delete yourself from the list.

Printed Matter’s annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists’ books, art periodicals, and ‘zines offered for sale by over 120 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. Admission to the fair is FREE.

LOCATION
Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue, 3rd floor, NYC

FAIR HOURS
Friday/Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 11am – 5pm