monoprint with stencil and collage, 2017
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A Visit to the Home of
WPC Member and Collector Keith Peoples
Saturday, September 10, 11:00 am
This program is in-person and members-only
We hope you had a lovely and relaxing Summer. The Print Club program committee was on hiatus, but is now back in full swing with a wonderful September program.
Please join us for a visit to the Washington, DC home of long-time member and former WPC president Keith Peoples to view work by four printmakers: F.L. Griggs (1876-1938), Keiko Hara (b. 1943), Theodore Roussel (1947-1926), and Matthias Mansen (b. 1958). Each of these printmakers, for the most part, do or did their printing themselves, allowing each artist to develop the image up to (and sometimes after) when the print was made, ensuring complete control of the process.
This program is in-person and members only. Please register by clicking here or using the button below. All attendees must register in advance and you may register up to two people. Please note that attendees are asked to wear a mask during the program and that the building requires masks to be worn in all common spaces.
This program will fill quickly, so please RSVP as soon as you are able.
Save the Date
On September 30, 10:30 am, Washington Print Club members will attend a talk and tour in the current exhibition at Georgetown University Library, Power Up: American Women Printmakers, on view through October 7th. The forty-eight prints in the exhibition are from the permanent collection of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections at Georgetown University Library. Beginning with works by Mary Nimmo Moran and Eliza Greatorex of the Etching Revival period, and ending with contemporary artists such as Rosemary Covey, Renée Stout and Yuriko Yamaguchi, the works are grouped into themes: Identity and Politics; Women Representing Women; Women and the Art Market; The Importance of Studios, Teachers, and Mentors; and, The Labor of Printmaking.
This program will be members-only and attendance will be limited to 25. Registration information and Covid protocols will be sent in the next newsletter.
Exhibitions of Note
Phillips Collection:
From the Phillips Collection website: “Lou Stovall: The Museum Workshop reexamines the history and legacy of the Dupont Center, an artist’s museum founded in Washington, DC, in 1969. Under the visionary collaboration of curator Walter Hopps and artist Lou Stovall, the Dupont Center advanced a new, innovative model for the museum as a place for exhibition, art-making, and community-building.
This exhibition presents work produced by artists at the workshop and collected by Stovall between 1969 and 1973, as well as Stovall’s early community posters from 1967 and 1968, which document DC in a time of protest and upheaval. It also brings together a variety of art from the workshop including photography by William Christenberry and John Gossage, early screen prints by Lou and Di Stovall, and Lloyd McNeil, and works on paper by Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Gene Davis, Jacob Kainen and Paul Reed.”
Further information can be found here.
National Gallery of Art:
Member News
Delna Dastur Seeking the Light, District Arts, Frederick, MD, until October 2. Reception September 10, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. More information here.
Helen Frederick’s work will be included in the upcoming Mclean Project for the Arts exhibition, Continuum: Artists Teaching Artists, September 16 – November 10. Reception September 22. Click here for more information.
Beverly Ress Light: Illusions at Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA, September 2 – 30. More information here.
Pyramid Atlantic Looks Good on Paper, a juried exhibition. Until October 2. More information is available here.
Julie Wolfe Opposing Forces at Hemphill Fine Arts, September 10 – October 29.
Please welcome new member Jay Sylvestre
Jay writes, “I am Curator of Rare Books at Georgetown University’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections, a paper cutter, and an amateur printmaker. I’m new to the DMV, having spent the last 8 years in south Florida and a few years in Anchorage, Alaska before that. I’m interested in artists’ books, zines, paper art, and of course printmaking. I’ve found that my work with rare books has been a strong influence in my art, particularly with regards to cutting paper designs to emulate elaborate 19th century publisher’s bindings, and early woodcuts.”