If a Dolphin Press internship interests you, but you are saving your application for the spring semester, you can apply now for a spring internship. The deadline for early spring applications is next Friday, the 25th of September at 5:00pm. You will still be able to apply for a spring internship at the beginning of next semester, but be aware that positions may already be filled by that time.

If you missed the deadline for fall applications you can still apply, because we will be accepting applications for fall internships along with early spring applications. Same deadline applies. This is the last call. Download the application here, and indicate which semester you are applying for in your email.

We received 96 submissions for CHROMATOSE, our upcoming international juried painting show. 

John Bohl (Baltimore, MD)

Edward Max Fendley (Washington, DC)

Tatiana Berg (Providence, RI)

John Slaby (Philadelphia, PA)

Herb Rieth (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Heather Brammeier (Peoria, IL)

Ryan Browning (Mt. Airy, MD)

David Ross (Westminster, MD)

Darren McManus (Lambertville, NJ)

Andrew Kaufman (Brooklyn, IA)

D’Metrius Rice (Baltimore, MD)

Nicholas Moenich (NYC)

Bill Dunlap (Cumberland, MD)

Stuart Lorimer (Scotland)

Ted Gahl (Providence, RI)

David Staniunas (Columbus, OH)

Nudashank

H&H Arts Building

405 W. Franklin St.

3rd Floor

Baltimore, MD 21201

Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present This Land is Your Land and Beacon Puritanus, an exhibition of new works by James Rieck, Chad Yencer and Hamiltonian Fellow, Jon Bobby Benjamin. Through meticulous installation, painting and sculpture, each artist muses on America – her landscape forms the mise-en-scène and her history becomes the lead.

In This Land is Your Land, James Rieck confronts the grand genre of history painting in his seven works, all comprised of two cropped female figures dressed in alluring costumes of American icons, who frame a poignant history painting, which becomes the backdrop behind them. As highfalutin’ as a 4th of July parade, this linear series is assembled in seven acts, each painting depicting periods in American history in which lands were conquered and a subsequent shift in power occurred.

Chad Yencer quite literally takes on the petite genre in his twenty matchboxes, which, when opened, reveal tiny, ambitious landscape paintings, all sourced from snapshots of Yencer’s personal history and travels through the American Mid-West. The mundane and commercially produced matchbox preserves moments of escape into the sublime, and through this juxtaposition of high and low, the banal and the significant are bridged.

Beacon Puritanus delves into the roots of American cultural values in a two-part installation by Jon Bobby Benjamin. Benjamin intertwines imagery from Puritan New England, mid-20th century suburban development and contemporary post-industrial decay, and binds them all with the concept of American Exceptionalism. A large, wooden cargo ship carrying modular, little plaster houses through a sea of black ash, approaches the wooden shoreline of a community of sunken, abandoned structures. By isolating only the landscape and architecture, this installation tells the tale of a defunct society and mirrors the failed Puritan experiment that took place only a few centuries ago.

This exhibition will run from September 19 – October 31, 2009, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 19, 2009, from 7 – 9pm.

Reminder: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm | Hamiltonian Gallery

Join us for an Artist Talk with Ken Fandell, currently exhibiting at Hamiltonian Gallery in the show “Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere”

The Infinite to the Proximate: Infinity, Time, Space, Technology, Significance, Subjectivity, Interpersonal Relations, Bodily Functions, and My Work.

A lecture looking briefly at the problems and potentials of infinity (philosophical and mathematical), ways to define and destroy time and space, technology’s connection with all that, determining significance and it’s relationship to subjectivity, problems with communication and other people, what we do with piss and shit and why, and my work.

The last day to view “Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere,” an exhibition including the works of Echo Eggebrecht, Ken Fandell, Mike Iacovone and Billy Friebele, is this Saturday, September 12, 2009.

Please RSVP for the lecture to jackie@hamiltoniangallery.com

As if you haven’t heard it enough the past few days, I wanted to welcome everyone back to the Shop, MICA, and maybe even Baltimore. I trust everyone had a fun, exciting, relaxing, and awesome summer. I know we did.

A few things – -

We are welcoming Lou Joseph onboard this semester teaching Intaglio with us on Monday Nights. Lou is really great, coming from a rich Printing background, and will be bringing some exciting guest artists through the shop. We will be sure to keep you informed of these as the dates are set.

FRIDAYS – if you look at the shop calendar (posted on the walls, soon online), you’ll see Fridays are listed as Majors Print Day. We have blocked the classrooms with the sole intention of having time and space for our Majors and Concentrators to work in the shop. This means you. We worked very hard to make this schedule jive for everyone, please put it to good use. We will be highlighting other important reasons to make use of this day during our Department Meeting.

Which brings us to the Department Meeting – -

We will be meeting as a department, Majors and Concentrators, NEXT TUESDAY, Sept 8th from 3-4PM in the Litho Shop. This will be a big welcome-back, and new news for the semester, and so on. DO NOT MISS IT –

And with that, I’ll see you all soon, if I haven’t already.
Kyle.

For those of you not in the know, the MICA Printmaking department is leading a study abroad program in VENICE right now.  Read more here!

Jim gave us his whole afternoon, showed the students some new printing techniques, gave a small lecture on his own work, and brought along some fabulous cuts and images from the shop to print.

More images can be found here, and here.

Thanks Jim – come back anytime…

Hey all -
Check out the write-up on our very own Nick Hum on the Wooster Collective blog here.  Congrats Nick!

April 29 – May 23, 2009
Opening: Sunday, May 3, 2009: 2-5pm
@ Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street, NW. [DC] 

This exhibition consists of landscape and plant forms in a several media including oils, watercolors, and prints ⎯ etchings, linoleum cuts, lithographs, and silkscreens. The subjects are drawn from the Dordogne, France and Cape Town, South Africa.

Congrats, Cynthia!

see more of Cynthia’s work here

Dear students, majors, concentrators, and friends of the department,

Please come join the Printmaking Department tomorrow (that’s wednesday, April 8th) at 3PM in the Fox2 gallery for a CUPCAKE ONLY OPENING! The department is providing drinks, but if you are part of the department, we’d really like it if you could bring some CUPCAKES for our CUPCAKE OPENING!

The show is up for this week only.  Thanks to everyone who helped with installation… It wouldn’t have happened without your help!

See you tomorrow at 3!

Call for Entry / 12th Annual National Small Works Juried Exhibition

Juried by Jane Haslem, Director of Jane Haslem Gallery

1st Prize is a Solo Show at Washington Printmakers Gallery

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS MAY 25, 2009

Funded in Part by Washington Print Foundation, the D.C. Commission on the

Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Download information HERE.