Sorted by date of forthcoming event (most recent appearing first).
April 2021
Detroit Institute of Arts
Ahead of His Time: Robert Blackburn at 100
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 5:30 p.m.
Lecture by the curator of the exhibition, Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking, for a reflection on the inspirational life of Robert Blackburn.
In December 10, 2020, master printmaker Robert Blackburn would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Join us for an illustrated lecture by Deborah Cullen-Morales, curator of the exhibition, Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking, for a reflection on the inspirational life of Robert Blackburn (1920-2003), and the many ways the artist’s accomplishments and values resonate today.
Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio, in West Newton MA
A Deep Dive Into Printmaking
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6-7pm
A video tour and discussion featuring printmakers working at Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio featured in CONNECT at the Providence Art Club. The printshop is equipped with five etching presses, aquatint airbrush, ferric chloride etching tank, photo etching exposure unit, a fully equipped and spacious silkscreen studio, including an 11-foot table for printing textiles!
Smithsonian American Art Museum in conjunction with ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now¡
Spirituality and Indigeneity within Chicanx Art
Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. ET Learn more and Register.
The Blanton Museum of Art
Leo Steinberg: Collector, Critic, and Scholar
04/16/2021, 11-2:30 Central Time (12:00-3:30 EST)
In conjunction with the major exhibition, “After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints,” art historians will assess Steinberg’s scholarship and impact on the study of prints from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
The Grolier Club
“LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography”
April 16, 2021, 12:00 pm EDT
Katherine Bussard, Kristen Gresh, and Alissa Schapiro will speak on “LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography”
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 next meeting, Series 1, Episode 5 of this bi-weekly, six part series will be held Thursday April 22nd at 8pm.
View recordings of previous episodes of the series. (scroll to the bottom of the page)
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 premieres virtually in spring 2021.
Each lecture will premiere on the date listed and will remain on the National Gallery’s website for public viewing. No registration is required.
Lectures:
April 25 : Pressure
May 2: Reversal
May 9: Separation
May 16: Strain
May 23: Interference
May 30: Alienation
May 2021
May 2021
The Warburg Institute
Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers
20-21 May 2021: 1.30pm – 6.00pm UK time / BST
8:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. EST
Final program description
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 premieres virtually in spring 2021.
Each lecture will premiere on the date listed and will remain on the National Gallery’s website for public viewing. No registration is required.
Lectures:
May 2: Reversal
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April 2021
Pyramid Atlantic
RELIEF: Artist Panel
April 1, 2021 @ 7:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Join us for a panel discussion with many of the artists featured in our current exhibition, RELIEF.
RELIEF features local and national artists in a show of meticulously crafted prints that evoke escapism. The exhibition runs through April 4 and may be viewed online and in person.
March 2021
Smithsonian American Art Museum in conjunction with ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now¡
The Legacy of Printmaking
Thursday March 25th, 6:30 p.m. ET Learn more and Register.
IPCNY
New Prints Artist Talks Round Two
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00-8:00 p.m.
In conjunction with Mapping Narratives: New Prints 2021/Winter, join us for the second and last live talks with exhibiting artists Scout Cartagena, Yelaine Rodriguez, and Robbie Sugg. Hear how Cartagena explores the surreal and shifting nature of personal memory and uses reflection as a metaphor; how Rodriguez engages with history and the rich religious traditions of Dominican and Haitian African diasporic communities; and how Sugg transforms overlooked “non-places” in the built environment into sites for critique.
California State University, Janet Turner Print Museum
“Political Printmaking: Satire and Activism”
Monday, March 22, 8:00pm EST
For over 25 years Art Hazelwood has created politically charged prints, working with dozens of organizations from arts organizations to unions to grassroots movements. Over that period he has been consistently involved with homeless rights, including working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project, where he is the Minister of Culture. […] His artwork is in the collections of the Library of Congress, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and many other institutions. He shelters in San Francisco. www.arthazelwood.com
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
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.
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.
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.
Link to Event recording.
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 Gallery Virtual 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.
