September 23, 2011
Linda Beeman and other Michigan Artists at Shiawassee Arts Center
Posted by Julio
Four Michigan artists will have their time and talents displayed at the Shiawassee Arts Center this season. Linda Beeman, Jane Cloutier, Janet Baugher and Cindy Evans will display their artwork Sept. 20 through Nov. 20. 
An opening reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Sept. 23, where guests will have the opportunity to meet the artists and see the artwork they are selling.
For more info visit: http://www.shiawasseearts.org/sept-nov-2011.html
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Chinese Woodblock Print Exhibition at UMMA
Posted by Julio
Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints
July 16–October 23, 2011
Multiple Impressions is organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art with the cooperation and support of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. The 114 works on view by 41 of China's leading contemporary printmakers showcase the extraordinary innovations, both in technique and conception while providing an important framework for understanding both contemporary art from China and contemporary Chinese society.
For more info go to: http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-mimpressions.php
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October 8, 2010
Posted by Julio
A few years back I wrote on Baren about one of China's premier printmakers...Liao Shiou-ping.
Earlier this year, Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs awarded graphic artist Liao Shiou-ping one of three National Cultural Awards. The 74-year-old artist, renowned for blending Western printmaking techniques with traditional Taiwanese and Chinese influences, was recognised for his outstanding contribution to Taiwan culture.
Click here to read an article celebrating the artis's accomplishments.
To visit a retrospective website with many images and writings click on the image below. 
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July 23, 2010
Mabel Hewit (1903 - 1984)
Posted by Julio
Cleveland artist Mabel Hewit, whose work is the subject of a delightful summer/fall exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Born in Conneaut in 1903 and raised in Youngstown, Hewit, who died in 1984, spent the last 50 years of her life in Cleveland and Parma, where she produced dozens of colorful prints redolent of small-town and city life during the Great Depression and the decades that followed.
Hewit learned from West Virginia native Blanche Lazzell, a leading practitioner of white-line woodcut technique, who gave instruction in her studio in Provincetown, Mass., during the 1930s. The exhibition's catalog, which presents original research by Jane Glaubinger, the show's organizer and curator of prints, states that Hewit must have studied with Lazzell in 1929, when she visited Cape Cod to attend a class in outdoor painting sponsored by Teachers College, or in the summer of 1933. Judging from a 1934 color woodcut, in which Hewit closely emulated a similar work by Lazzell, the latter's influence was profound and lasting.
For the complete article see: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/07/hewit.html
More images below......
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June 27, 2010
Letterpress Printing - FILMS
Posted by Julio
Let's go back in time and see what commercial printing was like 60 years ago ! These are vocational films going back to 1947 !!!
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May 31, 2010
Carol Jessen prints at Chemers Gallery
Posted by Julio
Here are some very nice images by artist Carol Jessen. For more info and links to Carol's work and Chemers gallery go here:
http://chemersgallery.blogspot.com/2010/05/letter-to-carol-jessen.html.
To go to Carol's website click here: http://www.caroljessen.com/
"The Papermakers" (left) and "Slick Tracks" (right)
"Edge of the Bamboo Forest"
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May 28, 2010
Julio printing in his undershirt....
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May 22, 2010
Kyoto printmaker - Mamoru Ichimura
Posted by Julio
Take a visit to the studio of printmaker Mamoru Ichimura and watch the printing of four postcard sized images all on one block. Part of "Japanese Journey", a 53 minute film made by Don Fairservice and Mitsue Nagashima during a tour of Japan. Music composed by Jean Hasse.
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