monoprint on paper, 19.5 x 25.75 inches
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Visit to the National Academy of Sciences’
Collection of Works on Paper
with Curator Alana Quinn
Friday, June 9, 11:00 am
In-Person and Members Only
Alana Quinn, Senior Program Associate, Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences will discuss works on paper in the collection. Best known for the Albert Einstein Memorial Statue by Robert Berks on its 2101 Constitution Avenue NW grounds, the NAS has a rich art collection comprising roughly 600 works of art exploring relationships among art, science, and culture. On your visit, you will see works by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), Rebecca Kamen, Cheryl Goldsleger, Adrien Segal, Joe Feddersen, Alfredo Arreguin, and Tim Makepeace, among others.
The group size is limited to 15. You may register up to two people.
Please note that a government-issued photo ID (such as a passport or driver’s license) will be required to enter the building.
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Artist Fine Prints at the Library of Congress:
Twenty-Five+ Years of Inclusive Collecting
with LOC Curator Katherine Blood
Tuesday, June 13, 10:45 am
Library of Congress
Madison Building
This event is in person and members-only
The Library of Congress graphic art collections seek to represent the history, concerns, and significant creative and intellectual achievements of the American people, with an ongoing emphasis on diversity of viewpoints and creators. Curator of Fine Prints Katherine Blood will share and discuss selected works by American artist/printmakers from a plurality of personal and cultural heritages and working in a variety of styles and techniques including David Driskell, Helen Frederick, Juan Fuentes, Lois Mailou Jones, Chiura Obata, Michael Platt and Carol Beane, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Renée Stout, Helen Zughaib, and others. We will also see artist prints created at such regional printmaking studios as Brandywine Workshop, Crow’s Shadow, and Hand Print Workshop International.
Registration is limited to 20 people.
Collaged gouache, India and walnut ink
Philip Guston as Mentor and Teacher
with Artist Carol Barsha
Saturday, June 24, 11:00 am
National Gallery of Art, East Building
In-Person and Members-Only
Artist Carol Barsha will give an informal tour of the exhibition Philip Guston Now at the National Gallery of Artand offer anecdotes about her experience as a graduate student of Guston’s at Boston University from 1975-1977. She will discuss the exhibition from the standpoint of a painter, not a historian, with emphasis on what he spoke about during monthly critiques in her studio and in correspondence after graduate school.
“All the concepts I had been taught in art school – horizon line, picture plane, forms in space, color and light, etc. were liberated and served a new-found and terrible freedom. Philip delighted in ‘holding court’ in one’s studio, reveling in the paintings when he saw that one was “digging deep”, in trying to find a language to portray what one was feeling. Philip gave me permission to believe in myself when I was a very young painter and encouraged me to find a language to portray these feelings. This dialogue with him extends to this day.”
“All the concepts I had been taught in art school – horizon line, picture plane, forms in space, color and light, etc. were liberated and served a new-found and terrible freedom. Philip delighted in ‘holding court’ in one’s studio, reveling in the paintings when he saw that one was “digging deep”, in trying to find a language to portray what one was feeling. Philip gave me permission to believe in myself when I was a very young painter and encouraged me to find a language to portray these feelings. This dialogue with him extends to this day.”
Registration is limited to 20 people.
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RSVP for the WPC Annual Meeting
The Washington Print Club annual meeting and reception will take place May 27 at 2:00 pm at Pyramid Atlantic in Hyattsville, MD. We do hope that you can join us for this highlight of our year. Guests are welcome. Light fare will be served.
The annual meeting is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with old friends and to meet our newer members. The program will include
- Election of board members. The slate of board members up for re-election is Melissa Fast, Joan Filson, Mike Hagan, Linda Morenus, Kathy Powell, Carol Reed, Brian Weinstein, Beverly With, Chris With.
- The Student Printmaker Award ceremony. This year’s awardee hails from Howard University.
- A collectors’ showcase. Please see more information about that below.
Pyramid Atlantic is located at 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, MD. Street parking is usually available and there is a municipal lot nearby.