Sorted by date of forthcoming event (most recent appearing first).
March 2021
Woodbridge Library, DC
A Visual Perspective of DC Through the Lens of Black Women Photographers,
March 4 2021 @ 7:00 PM
Hear their stories and view their works by joining us for a live discussion on YouTube.
National Gallery of Art
From the series The Art of Looking:
Elizabeth Catlett, In the Fields
Friday, March 5, 2021
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Registration required
By sharing observations, interpretations, questions, and ideas, participants build on their own first impressions and broaden their understanding of Elizabeth Catlett’s In the Fields in honor of Women’s History Month. This session lasts one hour and is completely interactive. Gallery educators will facilitate the conversation to create an environment for shared learning. These conversations will encourage you to engage deeply with art, with others, and with the world around you as you hone skills in visual literacy and perspective-taking.
This program is free and open to the public and is designed for anyone interested in talking about art. No art or art history background is required. Ages 18 and over.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
From Creation to Collection: Making and Marketing Drawings in Nineteenth-Century France
Scholars from across the globe present new research related to the materials, function, and collecting of drawings during this period.
Presentations:
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 2:00 p.m. EST
Friday, March 12, 2021, 2:00 p.m. EST
Prints and Their Makers Book Club
Prints and Their Makers takes you behind the scenes to witness the creative process at the world’s top printmaking workshops. A virtual book club series led by Phil Sanders on Zoom to explore Prints and Their Makers. The first meeting of this bi-weekly, six part series was held February 25th at 8pm. (Link to YouTube recording; scroll to bottom of page)
The next meeting will be on Thursday, March 11th at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Smithsonian American Art Museum in conjunction with ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now¡ presents The Legacy of Printmaking Thursday March 25th, 6:30 p.m. ET Learn more and Register.
April 2021
National Gallery of Art
70th Annual A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in Spring 2021
The 6 part lecture series entitled Contact: Art and the Pull of Print premiere virtually in spring 2021.
Lectures:
April 11: Pressure
April 18: Reversal
April 25: Separation
May 2: Strain
May 9: Interference
May 16: Alienation
Event Archive
February 2021
“Resistance in the Materials”: A Gathering of Printers Pressing for Change
Co-sponsored by Santa Clara University’s Center for Arts and Humanities and the University of Maryland’s BookLab and Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, this is a bicoastal event that will center BIPOC artists, scholars, and interventionists (and allies) and celebrate “printing” (broadly construed across many media) as an accessible form of activism capable of leaving its own unique impressions in diverse communities.
Fri Feb. 26 @ 3pm/12pm (EST/PST)
Print Exchange Roundtable with Victoria Law, Sarah Matthews, Amy Suo Wu, Rio Yañez (90 min. with q&a)
Thurs Feb. 25 @ 3pm/12pm (EST/PST)
Plenary Session featuring talks by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Jonathan Senchyne (90 min. with q&a)
The Columbus Museum
Art and Activism: Lou Stovall’s Washington D.C.
Join curators Will Stovall and Marya McQuirter for a discussion about art and activism in Washington, DC in the late 1960s.
Thursday, February 25th 6:00- 8:00 p.m. Register
David C Driskell Center
Artist Panel, David C. Driskell’s Students
In conjunction with our current exhibition, David C. Driskell’s Students, we invite you to attend our first Artist Panel on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 6pm EST. Professor Curlee R. Holton will lead a discussion with several artists featured in the exhibition, including Gloria Brown-Simmons, Janice Darden Frame, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Adrienne Patel, Karen Powell, Sylvia Snowden, and Lou Stovall. This Zoom event is free but requires advance registration. Please fill out this form to register.
Grafiska Sällskapet: Contemporary Swedish Printmaking
Discussion (via Zoom) with the curators of Grafiska Sällskapet; Contemporary Swedish Printmaking on Thursday, February 25 from 12-1pm CST.
IPCNY
Two online Artist Talks in conjunction with Mapping Narratives: New Prints 2021/Winter. Hear firsthand about the artists’ printmaking practices, inspiration, and works on view at IPCNY. The talks will be live on Zoom Tuesday, FEBRUARY 23, 7–8 PM ET Learn more and register.
Misericordia University
Paul Friedman Art GalleryVirtual Artists Studio Tour: Tuesday, February 23, 7:00pm
One of the works from The Fine Print will be added to the University’s permanent collection. All are welcome to join this conversation to meet some of the featured artists and learn more about collecting works by African American artists. Don’t forget to register!
ABA-IES Book Collecting Seminar series Seminar Programme
Jasper Jennings:
“Pictures for the People: the Printed Image in Britain before photography”. 6:00 p.m. UK time; 1:00 p.m. EST (Scroll to bottom of page to register).
Smithsonian American Art Museum
in conjunction with ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now¡ presents From Black and Brown Solidarity to Afro-Latinidad
February 18, 6:30 pm
Register
Tamarind
Tamarind Talks: Rose B. Simpson, Mary Statzer and Nancy Zastudil in Conversation
Join Tamarind Institute artist-in-residence Rose Simpson, Tamarind Gallery Director Nancy Zastudil, and University of New Mexico Art Museum Curator of Prints and Photographs Mary Statzer for a discussion about Simpson’s work, including her lithography experience at Tamarind and her upcoming virtual project at the museum.February 18th. 6:00- 7:00 p.m. EST
The Print Center
Join The Print Center for an artist talk with Kevin Claiborne, February 17th, 6:00- 7:00 p.m. Kevin is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose practice crisscrosses photography and printmaking. This program is presented in conjunction with Claiborne’s current exhibition: Before I Died I Was Invisible.
The program is free and open to the public. To register, email mhawk@printcenter.org.
Temple University
Critical Dialogues Series: Miguel A. Aragón
Works of visual artist and printmaker Miguel A. Aragón explore violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception and the multi-ple. He uses erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature.
Join Miguel A. Aragón February 17 @ 5:30 pm via Zoom.
