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MFA Book Arts + Printmaking



FALL 2016



For more information, please contact Cynthia Nourse Thompson, director of the MFA in Book Arts + Printmaking program, at
[email protected]
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NEWS 


LESLEY DILL


Lesley Dill



Announcing the release of a print produced at UArts by the artist Lesley Dill. This work, titled Wing, is 20"x 28" and is created using offset lithography, letterpress printing and flocking, and includes hand-sewn threads. This gorgeous print is being sold for $200 for a limited time only. Contact us for information on purchasing the print. Purchase of this print supports scholarships for the MFA student study abroad program in Italy. For information on how to purchase, click here.  
 
During the summer of 2016, Lesley Dill and esteemed designer and typographer David Charles Chioffi taught The Visual Voice: Language, Image, Typography in the MFA Book Arts + Printmaking program. The course focused on the development of each student's independent visual voice in applied, investigative and experimental elements of design, book arts and printmaking in association with creative writing. Projects focused on exploring the relationship between text and image and an integration of the fine and design arts.
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WARDELL MILAN



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Wardell Milan was selected as the 2016 Von Hess Visiting Artist. During the summer of 2016, Milan worked with master printer Amanda D'Amico to create an edition utilizing the offset press in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts. Additionally, Milan is continuing to produce a limited-edition print on handmade paper with pulp painting with the graduate students. Both will be available soon.Wardell Milan grew up in Knoxville, Tenn., where his parents provided a separate "studio space" at home and his teachers nurtured his artistic talent. As a teenager, Milan turned his attention to photography, later earning a BFA in photography and painting at the University of Tennessee (2001). He was an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2003) before he earned an MFA at Yale University (2004). After graduate school, Milan moved to New York where he exhibited in Frequency (2005) curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Greater New York (2005) curated by Klaus Biesenbach at MoMA PS1 and Log Cabin (2005) curated by Jeffrey Uslip at Artists Space. With his first show abroad,La Beaute de l'Enfer(2005) at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels and his first solo gallery show at Taxter and Spengemann Gallery (2005), Milan was on his way to becoming an important emerging artist. Thus respected art critic for the The New York Times, Holland Cotter, concluded, "Mr. Milan's work has plenty of finesse, but also feels flexible, on a growth curve an auspicious debut" (NYT, December 16, 2005).Most recently, Milan has been exhibiting selections from ongoing bodies of work on paper and photography such as A Series of Inspiring Women (2012) at Louis B. James Gallery in New York, Kingdom or Exile: Parisian Landscapes (2013) at Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, and (Show Untitled) Parisian Landscapes (2014), curated by Isolde Brielmaier at Osmos Address, New York, and The Charming Hour(2015) at David Nolan Gallery, where he is represented in New York.



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SHELLEY THORSTENSEN

Shelley Thorstensen will serve as visiting artist in the print media course within the MFA program for five weeks in the fall semester. She will also participate in MFA critiques.



Shelley Thorstensen
   
Shelley Thorstensen has expertise in all printmaking techniques, specializing in hand-pulled color multi-print media. Her work is part deep personal archive, part printmaking evangelism, woven together in fabric of color, metaphor and commentary. Art critic Edward Sozanski wrote of her work: "The ease with which she combines these processes and exploits their individual strengths gives her prints uncommon presence and, more often than not, transcendent beauty." Recent solo shows include Field Studies: The Scheme of Things at the University of the Arts (fall 2015), Since the River Spoke at the Rose Lehrman Gallery (2013), This the Smoke from When the Horses Left at the Painted Bride (2011), Counterpoint: The Leap from Vision to Print at Woodmere Art Museum (2010) and The Preponderance of Evidence at the Print Center (2009).



Shelley Thorstensen has an undergraduate degree in Experimental Studies from Syracuse University, School of Visual & Performing Arts, Syracuse, N.Y., and a graduate degree in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work can be seen at Dolan/Maxwell in Philadelphia. She is the founder of Printmakers Open Forum and teaches printmaking at Tyler School of Art. Her work can be found internationally including at the Cleveland Art Museum, Kenosha Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Palmer Art Museum, Royal Museum of Art (Antwerp) and Woodmere Art Museum.



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NEW FACULTY



Russell Maret




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Russell Maret is a type designer and private press printer working in New York City. He began printing in San Francisco as a teenager before apprenticing with Peter Koch in Berkeley and Firefly Press in Somerville, Mass. He set up his own press at the Center for Book Arts, New York in 1993 and has published 50 books and editioned manuscripts since. In 1996, Russell began teaching himself to design typefaces, leading to a 12-year study of letterforms before he completed his first typeface in 2008. In 2011, he began working to convert some of his type designs into new metal typefaces. Since then he has produced four suites of metal ornaments, three metal typefaces and has two others in production. In 2009, Russell was awarded the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome. He has been the printer in residence of the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco (1990); Artist in Residence at the Center for Book Arts, NYC (1996); he is the current North American Vice Chair of the Fine Press Book Association, and a past trustee of the American Printing History Association. Russell's books and manuscripts are in public and private collections throughout the world.   


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Alex Kirillov 
Alex Krilliov
Alex Kirillov is a professional Tamarind master printer, artist and teacher currently operating his collaborative print studio Stonefox Editions in Philadelphia. Kirillov is also master printer at Brandywine Workshop, an edition printer at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions (Rutgers University), and teaches lithography at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Born in Moscow and residing in the U.S. since 1993, Alex studied printmaking and art history at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in Boston before earning a Tamarind Master Printer diploma from Tamarind Institute in 2011. Kirillov has a professional practice spanning several print shops and over 120 editions, collaborating with artists such as Hung Liu, Jim Dine, Nicola Lopez, James Siena, Sandow Birk/Elyse Pignolet, Robert Pruitt, Michael Platt, Odili Donald Odita, John Dowell, Terry Adkins, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sedrick Huckaby, Sanya Kantarovsky, Amze Emmons, Victoria Burge, Judith Brodsky and others.
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EVENTS



SEPTEMBER



Collaborators in Print and Progress: Selected Works from the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
Curated by Lauren McDonald
Exhibition: September 22 - December 15, 2016
Reception: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Visiting Artist Lecture, Judith Brodsky: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Open Lens Gallery, Gershman Y

401 S. Broad Street, Room 100

 

Judith Brodsky
Judith K. Brodsky is a professor emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University and formerly served as dean and associate provost. She also chaired the Art department at the Newark campus. Currently, she is the national president of ArtTable, an organization of 1,200 women in leadership positions in the visual arts, and is past president of the College Art Association, as well as former national president of the Women's Caucus for Art. Brodsky received her MFA from Harvard University where she majored in art history. She is a printmaker and artist whose work is in the permanent collections of over 100 museums and corporations. She is a contributor to The Power of Feminist Art, the first comprehensive history of the American women's movement in art published in 1994 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. In 1986, she established the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper as a center for producing prints and handmade paper projects, particularly through culturally diverse artists. Over the past 15 years, the RCIPP has worked with over 200 artists from throughout America and the world creating prints that are in the collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stadtmuseum in Berlin, and Australian National Gallery of Art.
In her own prints and drawings, Brodsky works with an early 21st century iconography reflecting the intellectual, political and social issues of our time, as filtered through her own individuality. Her images of the environment, women and family become metaphors for her feelings about life, decay, death and possible salvation. Another important element is the way the Holocaust creates a context for looking at American Jewish family history that, she hopes, will strike a common chord across ethnic groups and national borders.
 
The primary mission of the Brodsky Center is to enable groundbreaking artists, both established and emerging, to create new work in paper and print. Artists-in-residence are invited to engage in one-on-one collaborations with the Brodsky Center's master printers and papermakers. Since the Brodsky Center was conceived, diversity has been central to its mission and has consistently supported women and artists of color. The Brodsky Center is dedicated to the promotion of editions, paper and the printed image as central to contemporary art practice. The Brodksy Center is housed within the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.





Oak Knoll Book Fest XIX
September 30 - October 2, 2016
 

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Robin Price at Oak Knoll Book Fest
   
Oak Knoll Fest XIX is scheduled for September 30 - October 2, 2016. The theme this year is "The Texts of Private Press Books - Should They Come from the Past or the Present?" Printers, librarians, booksellers and collectors will discuss that theme in a free symposium (registration required) on Friday (9/30), focusing on the various avenues printers can use to share their work with the world.



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The book fair follows on Saturday and Sunday (10/1-2). See this year's exhibitors, including 40+ printers from North America and Europe on the website. See lectures by Mark Dimunation of the Rare Book & Special Collections of the Library of Congress; Ron Patkus, head of Special Collections at Vassar, and a speech by a press from the Fine Book Association (TBD).
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OCTOBER

 
Workshop for Current MFA Students with Renowned Bookbinder Hedi Kyle

Friday, October 7, 2016 at 1:00 pm

Hedi will be teaching a workshop for all current graduate students in the Book Arts + Printmaking program.


Saturday, October 8, 2016: Workshop for Alumni - sign up NOW, space is limited!

Hedi will be teaching a one-day workshop 11 am - 4 pm for alumni. Registration is limited to 12 participants. Please contact Lauren at [email protected] to register.


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Hedi Kyle graduated from the Werk-Kunst Schule in Wiesbaden, Germany, and after a brief career as a graphic designer, became immersed in the fields of book arts and book conservation. She recently retired as head conservator at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Hedi taught book structures to MFA students in the Book Arts + Printmaking program at the University of the Arts for many years. The fields of book arts and conservation have greatly influenced her work. Her one-of-a-kind structures have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous private and public collections. She is a co-founder of the Paper and Book Intensive (PBI) and has been teaching workshops for the past 20 years in the United States, Canada and Switzerland. Invented by Hedi Kyle, the myriad of unique structures transforming the architecture and action of the book have had a huge impact on the field of book arts.





Steve Pittelkow Master Marbling Workshop


Monday, October 10 and Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Anderson Hall, 2nd floor Graduate Bindery
Workshop is open to Book Arts + Printmaking graduate students and Studio Art graduate students.
 
Steve Pittelkow



Steve Pittelkow has been marbling for 35 years. His papers are known for their brilliant color and precise technique. He teaches marbling and book binding at book art centers, colleges and universities in the U.S. and Europe, including the Morgan Conservatory, Penland School of Crafts, the Metropolitan Museum, the New York Center for Book Arts, the Wells College Summer Institute, and many others. Pittelkow's interest in marbled paper stems from a longtime desire to personalize his own bookbinding with distinctive papers. Over the years, he has experimented with a wide variety of paints and papers in a quest for materials that allow students a rich and satisfying marbling experience. Steve's papers appear in museum collections and are used by binders and book artists nationally and internationally.Please contact Lauren at [email protected] to register.





The Friends of Dard Hunter Conference
October 20 - 23, 2016
Santa Fe, NM



Dard Hunter



Sustainability of land and water is a high priority as global warming and resource depletion shift the world's response from prevention to adaptation. As citizens of the world, artists, educators, toolmakers, conservators, printers and historians, we should work collectively try to work for a better tomorrow. EARTH PAPER SKY, the 2016 Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting, will be addressing those issues and more while hosted by the New Mexico History Museum, from October 20 - 23, 2016, in beautiful Santa Fe, N.M.
 
The Friends of Dard Hunter connects, encourages and educates anyone interested in paper and papermaking. Founded to preserve the collection of books, papers, equipment and artifacts that Dard Hunter collected in his decades of research on hand papermaking, FDH now provides a forum to exchange information. Through publications, annual meetings and other means, FDH educates its members and the public about the art, craft, history, science, and technology of paper. These forums and educational activities promote and encourage the continued creative practice of hand papermaking, allied paper arts, the book arts and other arts practiced by Dard Hunter.





MID-TERM CRITIQUES
Visiting Critic Carson Fox
Monday, October 24, 2016

Visiting Artist Lecture: 12:00-1:00 pm

Anderson Hall, Room 212

Critiques begin after lecture at 1:00pm



Carson Fox



Carson Fox   
Carson Fox was born in Oxford, Miss. Her work centers on the production of sculpture, installation and printmaking. Fox received her master of fine arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a four-year studio certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Royal Museum of Belgium, the Noyes Museum of Art, the Newark Public Library, the Jersey City Museum, the Morris Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conn.; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colo.; the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, N.J.; Claire Oliver Gallery, New York; O. K. Harris Gallery, New York; the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales; the Brunswiker Pavilion Kiel, Kiel, Germany; and the Association Mouvment Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France. In 2009, Fox completed a permanent public art project commissioned by the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the Seaford LIRR Station in Seaford, N.Y. Fox has received grants from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, a Willem Emil Cresson Award, and a New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper. In 2013, Fox received a Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island. Fox lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y.





Visiting Artist Lecture: Nicola Lopez
Lecture: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Graduate Critiques: Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Sponsored by the Fine Arts program



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Born in Santa Fe, N.M., Nicola L�pez lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches at Columbia University in New York City. Through her work in installation, drawing and printmaking, L�pez describes and reconfigures our contemporary-primarily urban-landscape. Her focus on describing "place" stems from an interest in urban planning, architecture and anthropology, and it has been fueled by time spent working and traveling in different landscapes. L�pez has received support for her work through a NYFA Fellowhsip in Drawing/Printmaking/Book Arts and a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, among others. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in group exhibitions at museums including MoMA in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City and the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, and featured in solo exhibitions at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wis., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. L�pez's site-specific work Un-building Things is currently on view the Balcony Lounge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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NOVEMBER


November 1
UArts students at Harlan & Weaver Intaglio viewing prints by Louise Bourgeois




November 2
UArts students at PACE printshop viewing works by Chuck Close and Tara Donovan





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UArts students at PACE print shop viewing works by Wangechi Mutu 


November 4
UArts students at IFPDA viewing works by Jennifer Angus at Tandem Press booth


Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, 2016
 
November 2 - 6, 2016
IFPDA Print Fair 
If you are an alumnus or alumna of the program, please contact Director Cynthia Nourse Thompson at [email protected] to find out how you can join us in NYC for these events. Space is limited for the private tours. MFA students will leave on Friday, November 4 for NYC and stay overnight. That afternoon, special behind-the-scenes tours of the following have been confirmed:
  • Harlan & Weaver Intaglio - an intaglio studio/ prints for Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Nicole Eisenmen, James Siena
  • PACE prints - tour of the gallery and viewing of collection
Dieu Donne Papermill - tour of the studios and of the special projects collaborations with artists.



Two BIG events to coincide with each other:
 
IFPDA Print Fair
November 2 - 6, 2016
Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, NYC


IFPDA
Visitors have an unrivaled opportunity to view and acquire outstanding works across the diverse range of periods and specialties represented by the IFPDA's exhibiting members. While the Fair is known among museum curators and major collectors for its rare and exceptional prints, excellent works can be found in all price ranges, including exciting new projects from today's leading and emerging artists.
       
Editions / Artists Book Fair NYC
November 3 - 6, 2016
Art Beam Building, 540 W. 21st Street, Ground floor
Friday, 11/4, 11 am - 7 pm: FREE Public hours
Saturday, 11/5, 11 am - 7 pm: FREE Public hours
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Editions/Artists' Books Fair (E/AB) is New York's premier showcase for contemporary publishers and dealers, presenting the latest and greatest in prints, multiples and artists' books. The Fair is well known for its vibrant energy thanks to its innovative international exhibitors and hundreds of artists. Founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions in partnership with Brooke Alexander Editions and Printed Matter, the Fair is now presented by the Lower East Side Printshop, a non-profit organization. It was the first fair to offer FREE admission, initiated with the intent of introducing a broader public to contemporary prints, multiples and artists' books. Sixteen years later, the Fair continues to do just that.
 



Lecture and Presentation by Mindell Dubansky

November 9, 2016 at 5:30 pm
The Library Company, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia



Mindell Dubansky



As part of the course The Book: Past and Present taught by Rachel D'Agostino at the Library Company, Mindell Dubansky will present a fascinating lecture on BLOOKS: A Survey of Book-Shaped Objects. Please join us for this event.
 
Mindell Dubansky is head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A book conservator, artist, author and book collector, she has built unique collections in order to develop new areas in the field of book history, most notably a collection of publisher's bindings designed by Alice C. Morse (1863-1961), which resulted in the Grolier Club publication The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse in 2008. Her collection of book objects will be exhibited for the first time in 2016 at the Grolier Club in New York City.







Lecture and Master Book Binding Class with Sonja Jordan Mowery
November 13 and 14, 2016

Former Joseph Ruzicka and Marie Ruzicka Feldmann Director for Conservation and Preservation P.I., Heritage Science for Conservation at Johns Hopkins University 


Sonja Jordan Mowery



As of April 2015, Mowery retired from her position as Associate Director of Conservation and Principal Investigator for Heritage Science for Conservation, at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. With over 30 years of experience as a rare books and manuscript conservator and as a director of several major conservation departments, Mowery is spending more time on her national and international consultancy work, research and writing, and her private conservation practice. Sonja will be discussing her work as a conservator and her most recent travels and research within the field of conservation. As Associate Director of Conservation & Preservation, she was responsible for the leadership and management of the department. This included building a state-of-the-art conservation lab and program; hiring and training conservators and interns; managing human and financial resources of the department; and setting the strategic goals and priorities in order to address the needs of the collections and its users. In addition to these core responsibilities, the key initiatives Mowery established during her tenure included the libraries exhibition program, the digital reformatting program, and its disaster preparedness and recovery protocols. Finally, the most significant initiative was establishing Heritage Science for Conservation an integrated conservation science research program within the Conservation department.



As Division Chief for Special Collections and Archives, she was responsible for the leadership and management of the Harold Washington Library's rare books, manuscripts and archival collection. This included working with talented specialists in the field. Mowery also managed the exhibition program and implemented a conservation program for the collection.



 
Master Class with Master Printer Randy Hemminghaus
Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Master Printer & Manager, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions



Randy Hemminghaus

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Randy Hemminghaus is a master printer. He has extensive collaborative editioning experience and has worked with artists such as Robert Indiana, Leon Golub, Alison Saar, Grisha Bruskin, Peter Saul, Mel Chin, Charles Hewitt, Dorothy Dehner, Komar and Melamid, Sol Lewitt, Brodsky and Utkin, Jasper Johns, Robert Raushenberg, Robert Morris, and David Salle. Randy Hemminghaus was born in Canada in 1957. He received an AOCA from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, in 1981 and an MFA in printmaking from Concordia University, Montreal, in 1990. He has taught printmaking at many different places including Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; and the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC. Hemminghaus was co-founder of Galamander Press, NY (1994-2004) and is currently the master printer/shop manager of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions (formerly RCIPP-The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper) at Rutgers University. Other freelance collaborator/master printer development and editioning shops from 1985 to the present include David Krut Fine Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper.
 
Vinalhaven Press, Vinalhaven, Maine; Atelier Scarabee, Val David, Quebec, Canada; Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Fox Graphics, Merrimac, Massachusetts; Printmaking Workshop, New York, New York. Collaborations with international artists have included William Kentridge, Fred Wilson, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Chris Ofili, Glenn Ligon, Isaac Julien, Gary Schneider, Brian Novatny, Susan Hambleton, Mel Chin, Jose Bedia, Los Carpentieros, Willi Cole, Maria Magdelena Compos-Pons, Leon Golub, Robert Indiana, Alison Saar, Grisha Bruskin, Charles Hewitt, Dorothy Dehner, Komar and Melamid, Peter Saul, David Hare and Jean-Paul Riopelle.
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DECEMBER



Visiting Artist Lecture and Presentation

Sue Gosin / President of Dieu Donne Press and Co-chair of Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC

Monday, December 5, 2016 at 12:00 pm


FINAL CRITIQUES
First-year graduate students: Monday, December 5, 2015 at 4:00 pm



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Sue Gosin showcasing work by Lesley Dill published by Dieu Donne Press

and Peter Kruty Editions
 

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Sue Gosin showcasing work by Michelle Okadoner published by Dieu Donne Press


Susan Gosin received her MFA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after studying with Walter Hamady in the book arts and Warrington Colescott in intaglio. Upon completion of her master's degree, she co-founded Dieu Donne Press and Paper in New York City. For more than 30 years, she has collaborated with artists and writers as designer and publisher of two and three-dimensional art as well as limited editions of artist books. Her artist books have been exhibited and collected by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation, and in 2006 received the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council. As a teacher and educator, she has developed curriculum and designed studio programs for the New School, NYC, Rutgers University, N.J., and Amagansett Applied Arts, Long Island, N.Y.; the Phumani Archival Mill, Johannesburg, South Africa; and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. She has written numerous articles about the development of contemporary hand papermaking for magazines such as Art On Paper and pens a column for Hand Papermaking Magazine about the pioneers in the field. Currently, she publishes new work as president of Dieu Donne Press and serves as co-chair of Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City. Gosin will discuss her collaborations with artists and present actual works for handling and viewing. This is an opportunity not to be missed! Sue will also serve as the visiting critic for the Fall semester.





FINAL CRITIQUES
John Caperton

Second-year graduate students: Thursday, December 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm


Caperton  
John Caperton has curated more than 40 exhibitions for the Print Center since 2007, which have included the work of Edna Andrade, Jennifer Bornstein, Lucas Foglia, Katie Grinnan, Demetrius Oliver, Justine Kurland, Hirsch Perlman, Emma Wilcox and Bill Walton. Recent publications include Emma Wilcox: Where It Falls and Edna Andrade: Color Motion. He was on the curatorial team and in the publication of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, a citywide contemporary art festival. Caperton oversees a number of the Print Center's public programs, including its Artists-in-Schools Program, which places teaching artists in classrooms in Philadelphia public high schools. He moderated the keynote panel for the 2010 Southern Graphics Conference and participated in the Curatorial Intensive program of Independent Curators International. Caperton received his BA in Art History at the University of Chicago and was the Exhibitions Coordinator at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, where he organized exhibitions with artists Virgil Marti, Polly Apfelbaum, Thomas Chimes, Eileen Neff and Clare Rojas. He has also held positions at the Association for Public Art, Philadelphia and the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., as well as guest curating exhibitions in Philadelphia.



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Visiting Artist/Critic Marshall Weber

Visiting Artist/Critic Presentation: Thursday, December 8, 2016 11:30 am
Graduate Bindery, second floor of Anderson Hall, Room 220



FINAL CRITIQUES
Second-year graduate students: Thursday, December 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm



Marshall Weber



Marshall Weber will present and discuss a variety of artists' books and publications represented by Booklyn. This will be an amazing opportunity to view works in a hands-on experience and moreover, a unique opportunity to hear the curator discuss the works and his curatorial practice. Founded in 1999, Booklyn is an artist-run, non-profit 501 (c) (3), consensus-governed, artist and bookmakers organization headquartered in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Booklyn's mission is to promote artists' books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting, exhibiting and distributing their artworks and archives. Booklyn's curatorial practice concentrates on representing work by living artists. Booklyn provides support for artwork that deals with provocative subject matter including environmental, historical, linguistic and political issues. Booklyn also provides opportunities and services for artists who have limited means of distributing or producing their artwork. Booklyn presents alternative voices in a context often reserved for more established artists.More information can be found at:
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EXHIBITIONS / GALLERY 224
Works in Progress Exhibition

November 29 - December 9, 2016
Works presented by second-year MFA Book Arts + Printmaking students  
Gallery 224, Anderson Hall, 2nd floor
333 S. Broad Street
Reception: Friday, December 9, 2016 from 5 - 7 p.m.
This exhibition will present works from second-year MFA candidates in the Book Arts + Printmaking program at the University of the Arts.

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Announcing the 2017 Arthur P. Williams Lecturer
Johanna Drucker
Lecture: Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 12:00 noon, Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall

 
Johanna Drucker  
The MFA program is proud to announce the 2017 Arthur P. Williams Lecturer. The recipient, Johanna Drucker, will present a lecture, critique with our students and write a foreword for the thesis exhibition catalog discussing the thesis exhibitions. Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist and her limited-edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009) and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, and the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College.
 
Drucker earned her BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1973 and her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1986. She was previously the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and has been on the faculties of Purchase College, SUNY, Yale University, Columbia University and the University of Texas, Dallas. She has also been the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, Digital Cultures Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, and Mellon Faculty Fellow in Fine Arts at Harvard University.She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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