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September 2019
Print Week 2019
exhibitions • print fair • workshops • demonstrations • presentations A collaboration with the Lawrence Arts Center, Wonder Fair, the University of Kansas Printmaking Department, and the Spencer Museum of Art.
PRINT WEEK | Eerie Ink Print Tour
Take a walking tour of downtown Lawrence and learn about the rich history that exists right at our doorsteps! From controversial broadsides to haunted presses, Lawrence, Kansas is swimming in local print-related history and activism. Take a walk, let’s talk. A collaboration with the Watkins Museum of History and Wonder Fair! 1-hour tours: 7 pm & 8:30 pm Space is limited to 20 participants for each tour — registration is coming soon, check back for link! Please gather in the Lawrence Arts Center…
INSIGHT Art Talk: Amy Cousins
Amy Cousins is an interdisciplinary artist from Houston, Texas who currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Washington Printmaker’s Gallery, Silver Spring, Maryland; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; Visual Arts Center at Boise State University, Idaho; Peephole Cinema, San Francisco; and IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale. In…
PRINT WEEK | Walk-ins Welcome Fridays at the Spencer’s Study Center
Visit the Study Center during Walk-ins Welcome Fridays—no appointment necessary! Visitors are invited to drop in on Fridays between 10 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm to request works on paper from our collection.
PRINT WEEK | Final Friday Gallery Crawl
Locations will be open from 5 to 9 pm for opening receptions on Friday, September 27 Matthew Lord | The Elevator Project September 27, 5 to 9 pm September 28, 10 am to 4 pm Lawrence Arts Center, Elevator The Elevator Project is an art installation by 2019 Project-based Artist in Residence Matthew Lord that blends printmaking and performance and takes place between the floors of the Lawrence Arts Center. This pop-up gallery will display works with distinct prairie iconography combined…
PRINT WEEK | Print Fair | BUY ORIGINAL ART!
Publishers and Printmakers from around the region and afar will have prints on display and for sale. This print fair will bring together a tremendous variety and highest quality contemporary prints. Visitors will have the opportunity to view and acquire prints. Participating artists include — Eliza Bullock Iris Cliff Katie Curry Michelle Dreher Elizabeth Foley Charley Forsyth ESU Print Guild (Rita Vittori) Joshua Kobow Leslie Kuluva Justin Marable Theresa Martin Nick Perry Kelsey Pike Raluca Iancu Evil Prints…
PRINT WEEK | Live Printing! Riso 101 with Martian Press
Come watch and learn how to use the risograph with artists Stephanie Gage of Martian Press. The risograph is a digital duplicator with a high-volume capacity for printing. In this workshop, you will get an informative talk and demo on the history and basics of Risograph printing, a medium of printmaking that is known for its accessibility and unique screenprint-like quality. Participants will leave with a small two-color edition of their own artwork! martian.press
PRINT WEEK | Live Printing! Letterpress with Anne Luben
Learn how to set and print type on the Vandercook with artist Anne Luben! Drawing from fantastical sources of visual and narrative culture within country music and Western Americana, she employs processes of letterpress and embroidery within her work to propose a magical realist relationship between the embellished garment and the inflated folkloric identity. Her work can be viewed at www.anneluben.com
PRINT WEEK | Wayzgoose with Wonder Fair
Sign off on Print Week at the biennial Wonder Fair Wayzgoose! This public celebration of printmakers and their patrons will feature music, drinks, and jollity.