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.
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!
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!
Off-campus exhibition alert!
The Hexagon Space has an opening this Saturday night from 6-8 PM for the first annual HEXCHANGE. It’s a 40+ artist print exchange, coordinated by the gallery manager Phuong Pham, and the theme is Baltimore.
The exchange is showcasing at least 10 current and former MICA students, staff, and faculty, including Lou Joseph, Ursula Minervini, and yours truly. (There are probably more MICA-related people in the show than that even.)
Once again, the opening is 6-8 THIS Saturday. The show is up through November 6, and the gallery is located at 1825 N. Charles, just half a block below North Avenue. See you there!
Can you believe it? The exhibition is already coming down. For those of you unawares, the student work from the Printmaking Summer Study Abroad program in Venice ends this week.
the study abroad closing exhibition in Venice
It is located in the Fox2 gallery, and we’re sharing the space with the Korea Summer Program. We had 16 students studying abroad with the pilot program in Venice. We were there for the opening of the Venice Biennale (totally awesome btw) and produced work in 2 studios on 2 islands (Venice and Murano).
Please come support your fellow student this Thursday at from 5-7 PM in Fox 2.
For those of you in NYC this weekend, or this month, there are two excellent exhibitions worth checking out.
Firstly, the Jon Rappleye prints that were in production all fall and spring, until this past weekend, are premiering in Jon’s current show at the Jeff Bailey Gallery this week. The opening was last night, but the show is up for a month.
More production shots at the Dolphin Press website.
Additionally, our very own May Yang had a print selected for the IPCNY New Prints 2009 exhibition (curated by Polly Apfelbaum!) which also opened this weekend.
More of May’s work is available on her website, and the list of other artists in the exhibition (albeit clumsily) are here!
Congratulations to both!
January 17th – April 19th, 2009
at Hunter College with a pretty nice looking catalog
The Hunter Museum, in conjunction with George Adams Gallery in New York, has organized an exciting exhibition of artist Lesley Dill’s work that will focus on her most recent large-scale theatrical work. This is the first time in its 57-year history that the Hunter has organized and toured an exhibition of this scale.
After the exhibit closes at the Hunter in April, it will travel until 2011 to the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; the Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania; the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas and the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina.
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.
Yeah, you read that right, Spring of 2009, we’re already talking about it.
Below is the application form for the Student Space Gallery for Spring 2009, download, fill-out, and turn it in!
Spring 2009 Student Space Application
