A Year-End Message from the
Washington Print Club
2024 is nearly over. For the Washington Print Club, it was a wonderful year thanks to the enthusiastic involvement of Print Club members. Your ardent support was evident everywhere during this sixtieth-anniversary year.
Twenty-one educational programs were presented. Encompassing museum tours, artist’s studio visits, and gallery exhibition viewings, all programs were fully subscribed – sometimes over-subscribed. Among the educational offerings were a visit to Lily Press; a tour of the National Gallery show “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy”; a conversation between Rosemary Feit Covey and Barry Moser; a tour of “Eternal Paper”; a visit with artist Joyce Wellman and also Delna Dastu; a show of South African art; a viewing of Werner Drewes’s work; and two visits to the Academy of Science.
Of equal interest were the assorted articles in On Paper. Like the educational offerings, the essays offered members a broad variety of topics and interesting viewpoints. Overseen by the magazine’s editor, Lorena Bradford, the articles ranged the gambit of periods and ideas—from Mark Rothko (in the Spring edition) to the power of prints and drawings in the Renaissance era (in the Fall edition).
One of the highlights of every year, but especially of this year’s sixtieth celebration, was the annual member appreciation event. Held again at Pyramid Atlantic, the turnout was especially gratifying. Amid the lively conversations, elections, awards, and presentations, a champagne toast was offered in honor of the Print Club’s past achievements and future promise.
The closing event in this anniversary year was the exhibition The DMV Collects the DMV at the Kreeger Museum. Work by forty-nine artists were included – thirty-six of whom are still practicing. A great deal of thanks is due all members who submitted artwork. Equally, thanks are owed to Helen Chason, the director of the Kreeger, for wholeheartedly agreeing to host the show.
Above all, however, a deep debt is owed to Laura Roulet, the show’s curator and WPC board member. Her vision, selection of works, and installation integrated a group of disparate art works into a unified whole. Laura enumerated her rationale in a methodical and comprehensive narrative in a catalog with full color reproductions of every work of art. This research and scholarship was an accomplishment in its own right and a fitting summation for the Print Club’s sixtieth anniversary.
These achievements would not have been possible without each and every one of our members. Your commitment, dedication, involvement, and support has been unequaled. Here’s to the next sixty years of adventure, learning, and surprise. Thank you!!
Christopher With
President, Washington Print Club