Screenprint Portfolio Trade, Best in Show

Amber Branom, Duo, screenprint, 11 x 11 inches

UNT Printmaking's screenprint students participated in a class portfolio trade. Each student created an edition of nineteen screenprints measuring 11 square inches in a theme of the artist's choice.

Each student anonymously submitted votes on their top three picks for the best prints. Professors Andy Decaen and Lari Gibbons juried the winner from the top three prints voted on by the class. The Best in Show winner is Duo by Amber Branom.

The screenprint students, instructed by teaching fellow Cat Snapp, are concluding the semester by creating a series of collaborative prints with a fellow classmate.

Dead Week Print Show!

Pan-Ector & Gutterth present Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves / Meme Gallery!

When: Friday, 9 December 2011
Where: Rubber Gloves / Meme Gallery, 411 E Sycamore St, Denton, TX

Meme Gallery was founded by UNT Printmaking and Communication Design alumni. Read about it here.

UNT Printmaker Brian Spolans at 500x

UNT Printmaking alumnus Brian Spolans' work will be featured in Recurrence Relation: Three Generations of 500X, curated by Leslie Murrell for 500x Gallery.

When: 3 December 2011 through 8 January 2012 with an opening reception on 3 December from 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Where: 500x Gallery, 500 Expositon Ave., Dallas, Texas 75226
Telephone: 214.828.1111

Hours: Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5:00 pm; weekdays by appointment

Thank You Dennis Olsen!

Dennis Olsen demonstrates watercolor monotype on plexiglass plates.

We had the privilege to host Dennis Olsen as a Visiting Artist Nov 17 and 18 in the UNT Printmaking Studios.  Dennis discussed his work in a lecture and presented demonstrations in watercolor monotype and ImagOn intaglio printing.  He made two mono prints during his demonstrations.

Thank you, Dennis!

Two monotypes created at UNT.

Congratulations Cat Snapp and Linda Santana

Congratulations to Printmaking graduate students Cat Snapp and Linda Lucia Santana, whose article "Revival and Renewal" appears on page nineteen of Southern Graphic Council International's Graphic Impressions. 

Download the latest issue here.

MAPC Journal / Upcoming Deadline

The submission deadline for the upcoming issue of The Mid America Print Council Journal is just one month away:

"RE:Print," The MAPC Journal Vol. 20, no. 1 + 2
Deadline: December 15, 2011
Published: Spring/Summer 2012

This issue will focus on initiatives in printmaking collectives, community organizations and institutions.

Send inquiries, proposals and submissions to the editor, Lari Gibbons.

Find complete submission guidelines at MAPC's website or MAPC's blog.
Download free current and archived issues at MAPC's website.
Purchase bound, printed copies at MagCloud.

Small Works Exhibition Features CVAD Faculty

Art works by Andrew DeCaen, Adam Palmer, Pam Burnley-Schol, and Elizabeth Holden

Small Works Exhibition

Norwood Flynn Gallery

Nov 12 - Dec 30, 2011

Reception November 12, 6-8pm

Featuring works by NFG Gallery artists.

Norwood Flynn Gallery represents several College of Visual Arts and Design faculty including:  Pam Burnley-Schol, Adam Palmer, Elizabeth Holden, and Andrew DeCaen.

www.norwoodflynngallery.com

Norwood Flynn Gallery

3318 Shorecrest Drive

Dallas TX 75235

214. 351.3318

Andrew DeCaen Visiting Artist at Kansas State University

Andrew DeCaen rolls up a stone as part of his demonstration at the Kansas State University Printmaking Studios.

Assistant Professor Andrew DeCaen was a Visiting Artist November 3rd and 4th at Kansas State University.  Professor Jason Schula of the Kansas State University Printmaking program invited Andrew to  make a lecture about his work for the Department of Art and make studio visits with K-State graduate students onThursday.  On Friday Andrew presented demonstrations in the print studios, grained a limestone, drew an image, and printed a small edition of stone lithographs.  The small limited edition of prints were gifted to the Pussycat Press the K-State student printmaking club for a fundraiser auction.

Andrew DeCaen and Professor Jason Schula... and  the lithograph "Manhattan Napkin" Printed at Kansas State University.

Lari Gibbons in Within the Landscape/the Landscape Within

Associate professor Lari Gibbons' work appears in Within the Landscape/the Landscape Within at the University of Akron's Emily Davis Gallery in Ohio. The show was curated by Charles Beneke.

Exhibition images
Interactive catalog
Read more at The Beacon Journal.

Avant Garde Covers PANTS

Printmaker's Association of North Texas Students (PANTS) is covered in the latest edition of Stories From the Avant-Garde.

Check out the article Pressing On: An Art Form Revived, which describes activities of current printmaking students and Pan Ector, a Denton business that was founded by UNT alumni. 

D Magazine's FrontRow Reviews 500X Show

Check out D Magazine's FrontRow: A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts and their review of 500X's Fresh Meat! 

Dennis Olsen, Visiting Artist in Printmaking

Winfred, Intaglio Print

Artist’s Lecture:
Thursday, Nov 17,  4:30-5:30pm, Hickory Hall 160

Printmaking Demonstrations & Portfolio Viewing
Friday, Nov 18, 9am-Noon, Hickory Hall 160

Dennis Olsen is professor of printmaking, drawing, and digital media at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his M.A. degree from UCLA in 1967 and in that year was awarded a Fulbright grant to study printmaking in Italy. In 1970 he co-founded the Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) in Florence, Italy. and served as Director of classes and Professor of printmaking until his return to the United States in 1981. He serves currently as President of SRISA.  Mr. Olsen's work in printmaking, painting, drawing, and ceramics has been exhibited in over 160 exhibitions during the last 40 years, including more than 30 one-person exhibits.

Sponsored by the Printmaking Area and Department of Studio Art

Ocean Park: A Review by Adam Rowlett

A review of "Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series" by Adam Rowlett

Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986

Image courtesy The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn*

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is currently featuring a large exhibition of paintings, prints, and drawings from Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series.

Though Diebenkorn was known primarily as a painter, the exhibition also includes a number of his prints. The selection of his earlier work in monotype and drypoint is sparse and entirely in black and white, contrasting sharply against the pastel palette in his paintings. These works were somewhat dwarfed, however, being smaller in size than the large-scale paintings that dominated the surrounding space toward the front of the exhibit. However, the farthest-back room features an impressive handful of color intaglio, lithography, and woodcut prints. Though arranged in a more intimate space, these pieces seem to have been given room to breathe––and the distinctly southern Californian palette aids in lightening the space.

Richard Diebenkorn, "Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, September 24, 2011 – January 15, 2012