Please Join us for a Curator-Led Tour of
The Print Generation
National Museum of Asian Art
Thursday, April 24, 11:00 am
Please us for a tour of the exhibition The Print Generation, Thursday, April 24, 11:00 am at the National Museum of Asian Art (formerly the Freer|Sackler Gallery). The tour will be led by Lillian Wies, Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums.
The tour will look at how a new generation of print artists broke from existing traditions in Japanese printmaking to find new modes of expression during the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century, employing innovative printing methods and creating artist networks that fueled this creative moment in Japanese printmaking.
The Print Generation presents a selection of creative prints that challenged the dominant narrative of what it meant to be an artist in twentieth-century Japan. Highlights from the Kenneth and Kiyo Hitch Collection and the Gerhard Pulverer Collection illustrate the development and evolution of the sōsaku hanga movement as well as the international reach of these artists and the depth of their relationships to each other. More information about the exhibition can be found here.
Registration for this event is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests.
Member News
Carol Barsha will be exhibiting her screenprint Garden in a Wheat Field in New Jersey’s Hunterdon Art Museum’s 2025 Juried Print Exhibition. Through May 4.
WPC members whose work will be included in the Washington Project for the Arts May 1 “Art Night” include Julia Bloom, Delna Dastur, Mira Hecht, and Michele Montalbano.
Curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum, Mehr Als Worte…More Than Words will feature artists using text and language in their work: Julia Bloom, Madyha Leghari, Jessica Drenk and Scott Hazard. Goethe Institute, 1377 R St., NW. Opening Thursday, April 10 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Through June 13.
Julia Bloom, Leslie Holt, and Michele Montalbano are featured in the Workhouse Arts (Lorton, VA) exhibition of text-based art Required Reading. Until May 4.
Julia Bloom, linn meyers, and Julie Wolfe are among the artists featured in Remembering Joette: Remembering the Life and Legacy of Dr. Joette James. Curated by Philip Barlow and Lisa Giloty, the exhibition showcases the collection of a WPC member who passed away last year. DC Arts Center. Until April 19.
Jacqui Crocetta and Susan Hostetler are collaborating on an installation: Between the Sky and Sea at MassoniArt in Chestertown, MD. Until April 27.
Cheryl Edwards’ cancelled Art Museum of the Americas exhibition, Before the Americas, was the subject of wide media coverage. The exhibition, which features works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African-American Artists, will go forward at the George Mason University art gallery. You can learn more about the exhibition’s cancellation here and here.
Cianne Fragione’s exhibition What Remains will be on view at Nunu Fine Art in New York. Until May 10.
Susan Goldman‘s documentary Black Printmakers of DC: Percy B. Martin and Michael B. Platt was chosen for screening at the Film Fest DC, April 24 – May 4. The documentary was also featured at the recent Bethesda Film Fest. You can see Susan’s interview about the Bethesda Flm Fest on Good Morning Washingtonhere.
Deborah Grayson’s work is featured in the exhibition Healing Artifacts at the Kramer Gallery (Silver Spring). Until May 16. More information here.
Robert Hunter’s print Lament is being exhibited in the American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition at the Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA. Until April 21.
linn meyers’ work is featured in the exhibition Scale Maps of the Ocean Floor, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles. Until April 26.
Soledad Salamé’s work Gulf Distortions is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art and she will have a solo show at Goya Gallery April 12 – May 22.
Elzbieta Sikorska’s work is featured in the exhibition Strata at the Off 70 Studio in Hancock, MD. Part of the “Cultivate” project, other artists in the show include Maggie Gourlay, Katie Kehoe, Susan Main, Claire McConaughy, Murat Cem Mengüç, MJ Neuberger, and Sue Wrbican. Until May 3.
Eve Stockton and Susan Goldman will be exhibiting their work at the Long View Gallery exhibition, FLOURISH. April 10 – July 6. Opening reception April 10, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Appointment required after April 10.
Caroline Thorington’s work is being shown at The Midwest Art Exhibition until April 20, 2025 at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas.
Joyce Wellman will be participating in a Print Center (NYC) symposium centered on printmaker Khrishna Reddy on April 26. More information, including an RSVP link here. On April 27, Joyce will be conducting a printmaking workshop at the Robert Blackburn Workshop. Further information about the Robert Blackburn Workshop is available here. The online catalog contains work by Joyce, among many others.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery Hidden Journeys into Nature featuring the work of Wesley Berg and Lindsay Mueller. Until April 25.
Addison/RipleyTrevor Young: Radiant Detritus, until April 26.
Gallery Neptune & Brown Jowita Wyszomirska: Echoes of the Understory. On view through April 19. Susan R. Johnson: Symmetrical Bodies, April 26 – June 14. Opening reception April 26, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Hemphill Leon Berkowitz and Wayson Jones, until April 26.
Morton Fine Art Patterns, Patchwork, Origami: Sculpture and Relief Paintings, a “pop up” project exhibition of work by Kesha Bruce, Hiromitsu Kuroo, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Andrei Petrov, Prina Shah, and Jenny Wu at Gallery B (Bethesda).On view until April 27. Reception April 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Pazo Fine Art (DC location) Second Spring, the work of Brian Michael Dunn and E.E. Ikeler. Opening reception Friday, April 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. On view until June 7.
Pyramid Atlantic Members Mashup, until April 20. WPC members whose works are included in the show are Carlos Doria, Jenny Freestone, Janet Griffin, Pauline Jakobsberg, Susan Due Pearcy, Leslie Rose, Deborah Schindler, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Elzbieta Sikorska, Terry Svat, Ellen Winkler, Max-Karl Winkler, and Clare Winslow. Tickets for the May 3 Pyramid Atlantic HyBall fundraiser are available here.
Washington Printmakers Gallery,The Texture of Time, woodblock prints by Catherine Rubin. Until April 27.
Events and Exhibitions of Interest
2025 Wood Engravers Network Conference, June 17 – 21. The schedule includes collection visits and hands-on woodblock creation and printing activities at Pyramid Atlantic. Registration information here.
Layered Lightnin, the Collaged Portraiture of Michael B. Platt. Until May 20. Eaton Hotel, Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Catlett, A Black Revolutionary Artist, National Gallery of Art, until July 6.
Open house and fundraiser celebrating the release of the Printmaking Legacy Project’s new documentary Portfolios: Lloyd Menard. May 4, 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Donate and RSVP here.
Paper Conservation with Sylvia Albro, Phillips Collection, June 27, 12:00 – 1:00 pm. More information and reservations here.