Book Arts and Paper People, (and frankly, everybody), check out this fantastic time-lapse video of Pace Editions producing a Chuck Close pulp painting (a portrait of course!) -
6 hours and a crew of assistants, compressed into 8 minutes!
According to their site, the final piece is 35 1/2 x 28 1/2 and in an edition of 30!
(View full screen!)
Printmaking Department Meeting Minutes – January 28, 2010.
We had what was probably our largest and most information-packed meeting ever.
Announcements:
-Reminder as always to sign up for our mailing list (the link is to the right on this page) and bookmark our department site (this one) for regular updates. [I also just implemented an RSS feed for it.].
-Reminder to Seniors of the mandatory Graduation meeting TODAY (Feb 1) at 3 or 5 PM! Falvey Hall. Be there.
- School-Wide Competitive Scholarships are DUE TODAY (Feb 1) by 4 PM. Applications are submitted electronically. Here is the link. Gail, Quentin, and Nick are Jurying for the Printmaking Dept.
-Those long-past due CDs of everyone’s images are … long past due. Get them in to Kyle! (Reminder -we want 10 good, display-quality images from every major and concentrator. This will be a yearly request from everyone.)
-Mt. Royal Medical at 1501 Mt. Royal will be offering a separate suite and extended hours exclusively for MICA students on or around March 1. Extended hours will be listed here as they are made available.
-Katie Hale reported back from SVA:
-Carrie Tuccio is helping to organize the student table at the BMA Print Fair.
OK - The meaty meeting stuff:
-The Department Exhibition will hang the week March 29th. We haven’t figured out details yet but rest assured I’ll make them available as the date approaches.
-Jose Roca, Coordinator for Philagrafika, will be lecturing (Open to all) and Critiquing (Printmaking ONLY!) at MICA in 9 days.
He lectures at 12:30 PM on February 10th in Brown 320. This is a mandatory lecture for all Printmaking students. Tell your other faculty you will be late returning from lunch. Do not miss this.
He will be critiquing a handful of Printmaking Majors, but the critiques are open to sit in on. Jose Roca is currently blogging for Philagrafika: , which opened this past weekend!
-Philagrafika is a huge, 3 month long, city wide celebration and exhibition in Philadelphia, regarding all things print.
It began this past weekend and extends through May. According to the Calendar there are over 65 OFFICIAL events still scheduled through Philagrafika. This is in addition what are probably hundreds of satellite exhibitions and events coinciding with it. This thing is VAST.
-Southern Graphics Conference, Mark Remarque,is meeting in Philadelphia this year, is March 24-27th, coinciding with a huge number of Philagrafika openings and events. Perhaps most interesting for students (that’s you!) is the Portfolio Presentation opportunities.
This requires membership to take part in, but membership will cover NEXT YEAR’S CONFERENCE as well. If you are serious about a career in printmaking this is DEFINITELY something you should participate in.
Finally in the meeting – Current and upcoming exhibitions:
Nick recommends the Urs Fischer exhibition in NYC.
He co-curated an exhibition at Gallery Four opening next Friday (Feb 12) called Terms of Use, with our very own Colin Benjamin.
Gail is in an exhibition called Imprint/Impact at the Hicks Gallery opening this week, which has had a lot of press coverage already.
Kyle Van Horn and some guy named GAIA, along with many other, much more fabulous people, are in a group exhibition curated by the fine folks at Printeresting called Copy Jam which opens (and closes!!) on Thursday March 25th at the esteemed Art in the Age gallery in Philly.
That’s it. Remember to sign up for our mailing list. It’s a busy semester and we want you to come along for the ride. Questions, don’t hesitate to email kyle: kvanhorn@mica.edu.
We keep making this site easier for you to read, navigate, and stay informed by.
I just added a quick link to our RSS feed, linked both here and at the bottom of the sidebar on the right, for those of you who follow along to your blogs with RSS. (It’s really simple.)
I’ve also added some easy perma-links on the right for SGC, Philagrafika, and Printeresting, which will remain there for the duration of the semester. Those links are on the upper right side of this page, just click on the fancy logos.
Additionally, Printeresting just officially kicked off their coverage of Philagrafika last night, and they won’t be stopping for 2 more months. Click over now, and often.
Cheers all, have a great weekend. Minutes from the department meeting will be up early next week.
Urs Fischer’s current exhibition at the New Museum presents a seamless marriage between a print and sculptural practice. These large scale works employ commercial grade (some at billboard scale) CMYK “replications”, screened on chromed boxes. For more information visit the following link and articles > > >
New Museum Exhibition link
Printeresting Article
Art In America Article
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The new semester has started, which of course means it is time for our first Department Meeting.
Thursday, Jan 28th at 3:15, we want to see all majors and concentrators in the Litho Shop.
This is a ridiculously busy semester and we’re doing our very best to keep everyone informed on just how awesome it is going to be. But if you’re not there, you won’t know. Get it?
Long story short – the meeting is as mandatory as we can make it. If you absolutely cannot come, please notify Kyle: kvanhorn@mica.edu.
Again:
Thursday, 1-28-10, 3:15 – 4PM.
BE THERE!
(thx)
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Happy new semester, new year, and new DECADE even. Oopah!
It’s 2010 everyone. We’ve got a busy semester ahead of us...
The short list:
-The shop is hosting 15 (and probably 16!) classes (that’s 4 a day! Wow!).
-SGC and Philagrafika is this semester.
-We have some awesome visiting artists lined up for you.
-The BMA Print Fair is very soon!
-The department exhibition is this semester.
Basically we have big plans… Please join us in making this a really great semester
Please also welcome back Allegra Marquart (Mondays) and Robert Tillman (see also) (Tuesdays/Wednesdays). It’s always a pleasure to have you!
I had intended to post this back in December, but time and snow-days got the better of me.
Congratulations to Ariane Clarke on earning her BFA from MICA in Printmaking. It was a pleasure having you here for (nearly) 4 years, and we wish nothing but the very best for you as you make your way in the world as an artist and printmaker. You’re welcome back any time!
Campus is closed for the second day in a row.
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UPDATE: Apparently you can get into Dolphin.
Please attempt this at your own risk! Driving is not recommended!
Remember that security will not know you are there, so please PLEASE go in with a friend.
Be careful and be smart!
Dolphin will be open tomorrow from about 11-3 for additional clean-out access!
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Baltimore received record December snowfall yesterday – 21″, which not only eclipses our annual average snowfall (19.8″ for the season) but is only 7″ shy of the record ever (Feb. 2003 – 28″, which you don’t remember but I do!)
Anyway, the school is “Closed” again today. I don’t know what that means exactly. You might be able to get in, you might not. If anyone has an answer on this, write me please: kvanhorn@mica.edu
Keep in mind, there are NO SUPPLIES OUT TO DO ANYTHING WITH – you can only get in to clean out drawers.
I might try to stop by later today. In the meantime I’m gonna catch up on chores, listen to some records, and shovel some snow.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Snow Day everyone.
Yes, of course it would happen AFTER the last day of classes for the semester, during drawer-and-locker-clean-out-time.
Here’s the deal. The school is closed today. Whether or not people can get in/out of Dolphin, I’m not sure. I’m not going down to check it out since they haven’t even considered plowing my street yet and my walkway has been shoveled THRICE, and you can’t even tell.
Long story short, if you can’t get into Dolphin today or tomorrow (i.e. if the school is still Closed tomorrow), I will leave it unlocked on Monday for final drawer clean-out BUT ONLY until about 4 PM, so don’t lollygag.
Check here for updates tomorrow.
*photo: actual view from my apartment, which I have no intentions of leaving today.
e-mail me if you have access problems: kvanhorn@mica.edu
Congratulations to December Grad Julian Beneforti on his acceptance into CUNY Queens College, pursing a Masters in Secondary Education in Art AND an MFA in Printmaking (dang!)
Julian finally earned his walking papers from MICA, and graduates this FRIDAY (tomorrow).
We wish you the very best in everything you do Julian, and welcome you back at a moment’s notice, any time you like!
