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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.

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.

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.

November 4 – 7th is the IFPDA Print Fair in NYC (and also the super rad E|AB fair downtown).

As many of you know we are taking a bus of Majors up to the event. If this doesn’t already include you, feel free to purchase tickets next door at the Book Store for the Nov. 6th NYC Bus trip. Tickets are $30.

If you’re on the trip, or hoping to go on the trip, here’s how it’s going down:

The bus departs here (MICA Main Bldg) at 8 AM. (If you think they’re waiting for you when you oversleep, you’re wrong.) Get there at 7:40 to be safe. Yeah, really. You can sleep on the bus.

The bus will arrive at approximately noon at 75th St. and Madison, in front of the Whitney Museum. IFPDA folks should go immediately to IFPDA. It is a short 8 block walk south to 67th and Park. The Print Fair is being held in the Armory building between 67th and 66th on Park Ave. Gail and Jonathan will be waiting for you at the door to enter as a group ticket. Please travel down together!

If you are not on the Seniors / Majors list (and you would know if you are), you will have to buy your own tickets for IFPDA at the door for $10.

At 3 PM, at the IFPDA location, there is a really excellent lecture at 3 PM called Caring for your Collection. It is free, and you should all sign up for it here. Seats are limited, so sign up now.

THEN – you have two other stops you must make that day:

The E|AB Fair is downtown in Chelsea, at 548 W. 22nd St. It is amazing, and lots of fun. It is the Yang to the IFPDA’s Yin. They are the perfect pair, and not to be missed for anything. (Head around the corner also to Printed Matter for some Xmas shopping, and get a little something for yourself while you’re at it).

Then, the Drawing Center is hosting a killer exhibition of Gerhard Richter drawings.This is not far from where the bus will pick you up to return, so that is awesome. Look how close they are:

The bus DEPARTS from the corner of Houston and Broadway in Soho, at 7 PM. SEVEN PEE EMM, got it? Do not be late, because, once again, they don’t care. This is also written on your ticket.

Other shows of note as you travel through Gotham for the day…

Richard Diebenkorn has prints hanging at the Craig F. Starr Gallery, 5 E. 73rd St.
John Baldessari is showing at the Marian Goodman Gallery at 24 W. 57th St.
Roxy Paine is showing in Chelsea (near E|AB) at the James Cohan Gallery, 533 W. 26th St.

There are more listed on the Art in America Calendar. Look before you go! Plan your day!

What time does the bus depart? That’s right, SEVEN O’CLOCK PM. If you miss it, you’re finding your own way home. Yup, really.

Have fun!

From 11AM – 12 Noon on Monday, Laura will be talking about life and work after graduating from MICA. Since graduation, Laura has worked a myriad of jobs in the print world, from freelance, to Art on Paper Magazine, to the David Krut Gallery, and now for IFPDA. This will be an incredibly informative presentation to hear and an ideal time to ask questions in an intimate setting.

Then, at 1:30, Laura will be talking about the 2010 IFPDA Print Fair, taking place this November in NYC. Anyone attending the Print Fair this year should definitely attend.

Both lectures are open to anyone. They will be taking place in our 3rd floor computer lab (intimate, I told you!) this Monday.

See you there!

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.

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!

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.

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.