Art
New Mexico’s First Risograph Studio Is All About Community
The Albuquerque studio Risolana wants to “cultivate an artmaking space as accessible as the risograph itself.”
Printmaking
Art
In the Chicano Movement, Printmaking and Politics Converged
Printmaking, especially screen printing, has been a key tool for Chicanos to communicate who they are and what they care about since the 1960s.
Art
Shining a Light on the Art of the Printmaker
When prints are exhibited, the printer is generally not credited as co-creator of the work and often the print publisher or workshop is not named.
News
Fundraiser Seeks to Support Chiloé Island’s Only Print Studio
A small lithography school in the Chilean island is yielding marvelously intricate works, but needs support to restock dwindling supplies.
Art
A Survey of Aquatint Prints Throughout History, From François Boucher to Goya
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art will trace the technique’s development through Europe, starting in the late 1700s.
Art
A Printmaker Memorializes New York City’s Architecture
“Manhattan is my easel,” said Austin Thomas.
Art
How an LA Printmaking Workshop Advanced the Career of Women Artists
Ruth Asawa, Anni Albers, and others first experimented with printmaking at June Wayne’s Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
Art
Make Prints and Get Feedback at This Virtual Printmaking Summit
The three-day event includes tips on how to photograph your art, workshops on stencil-making, and much more.
Art
How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
Books
How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
A new book examines the collective Atelier 17, whose members redefined beliefs about gender identity and artistic achievement in the 1940s and ’50s.
Art
Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka's works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.
Art
A Fresh Direction for Printmaking
Sarah Amos’s work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.