Jose Roca, the Chief Curator and Artistic Director for Philagrafika will be HERE this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, February 9th + 10th.

Tuesday, February 9th he, along with Eve Laramee, will be critiquing a selection of Printmaking Majors in Dolphin, beginning at 2 PM.

Students are encouraged to attend and join in the discussion in these critiques. And even if you do not have anything to contribute, you will be in the presence of two excellent critics. Rest assured these will be very exciting.

Critiques will run from 2PM until about 5PM, beginning in Silkscreen and finishing in the 3rd Floor Computer Room. Please attend, even if you can only attend part of the event.

THEN:

Jose Roca is lecturing on Wednesday at 12:30 PM in Brown 320.
This is a mandatory lecture for all Printmaking Majors and Concentrators.

This is an Art at Lunch event. Please contact the faculty for your Wednesday classes and tell them you will be late returning from lunch because of this lecture. He will be speaking on his role organizing Philagrafika, which kicked off last week.

This is the ideal start to the 3-month long Philagrafika festival, and a perfect primer for all of you to attend the Philly festivities!

You have no reason to miss this, we’ll see you there!

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!

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!

This 12th Edition of the Talas catalog comes at a very exciting time in the history of our company. We continue in our tradition of providing the finest quality products to Conservators, Artists and the Concerned Collector. Talas moves forward into the future knowing that the conservation industry is always seeking new and innovative products. 

The Salik family has been the proud owners of Talas for fourteen years. In the 90’s we launched our e-commerce website and greatly expanded our product line supported by an ever increasing inventory. Our biggest leap is now in progress as we renovate and relocate our facilities to a 19th Century feather factory in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. This new and larger space will offer us the opportunity to manufacture a large array of custom boxes, presentation enclosures as well as to expand our current inventory. 

We are thankful to you, our loyal customers. We welcome your suggestions and ideas so that we can continue to provide you with the highest quality products. As always, we welcome you to our showroom where you can see our complete line of products. 

See you in Brooklyn and let us continue to service your needs. 

…or look at the catalog or download it here.

Harlan & Weaver is pleased to announce the publication of Louise Bourgeois, 2008, a photogravure print of the artist’s hands. 

Louise Bourgeois, 2008, originated with a drypoint begun in 2003, at a time when Bourgeois was beginning to explore the traced hand as subject.  In order to demonstrate specific placement of her hands in the composition, Bourgeois carefully rested them on a working proof of the image, insistent on the overlap of her middle finger and thumb.  She referenced the touching fingers as “the point of contact.”  Felix Harlan took a photograph, intending to use it as direction for correcting lines in the copper.  Though the drypoint was never completed, the photograph remained an indelible image and was subsequently made into a photogravure plate.  The resultant print is visual documentation of the dialogue between artist and printer, and is evidence of the way Bourgeois and Harlan have worked together over the years.  

Louise Bourgeois, 2008, provides insight to the artist’s process, and reflects the recurring use of hands in her work in a unique, intimate portrait.

ArtReview:Digital is the entire magazine on your screen – with videos too. In the September issue: Julian Schnabel is best known today as a filmmaker, but once upon a time he was one of the biggest artists around. How did he fall off the art radar, and does he have anything to give to art today? We turn the spotlight onto new photography with portfolios from artists pushing the medium into exciting territory: Colby Bird, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. Also an Oral History of Western Art, a new column by Matthew Collings, starting with an interview with the Lascaux cave painters.

The September issue of ArtReview:Digital is available now, free.