Events
Blick Art Materials presents: A Studio Rojo Rubbin' Party
Studio
Rojo: Laura Isaac, Jerry Curtis Flood, Tuesday Schmidt, Faye Woods, Eric Sweet
Y’all come on down to a good old fashioned Rubbin’ Party! Studio Rojo, a Kansas City printmaking collective, has created the World’s Longest Linoleum Cut Print. They will be inking it up and need your help to print it. Stop in and pick up a wooden spoon, do a bunch of rubbin’ with your fellow printmakers, and help create a finished print that will be donated to a Kansas City children’s charity.
Defensive Times
Rachel
Melis & Lauren DiCioccio
Defensive Times promotes the use of fine-art printmaking techniques
along with audience-participatory-performance to alter mass-printed
newspapers and thereby comment on all forms of mass-communication.
The event begins with the simple plotting of hand-printed brick-shaped
marks over text and image-marks created by mechanical presses.
Through the ploy of children’s games, Defensive Times
comments on the media’s fascination with fear-mongering.
Audience members are encouraged not only to print on the papers
but also to fold them into large paper bricks. Then the audience
gets to build castles and forts. Thus the event creates an
inviting, non-threatening environment where printmakers can
use the ploys of performance and children’s-play to
align themselves between the points of fine-art and mass-communication.
Participants can confront numerous serious issues related
to mass-communication besides fear-mongering--such as conspiracy,
collusion and military or corporate-control--while using their
hands to alter, shape, place or even throw communication in
a new direction. By creating a context of “military
play,” Defensive Times uses the
same accessibility employed by mass-media to create, as well
as comment-on, cultural ideology. The hand-printed newspaper
bricks could serve as commentary on the fearfulness communicated
in our culture, as protection from the overwhelming task of
sorting fearful-fact from fearful-fiction, or as launching
pads for printmakers’
hopeful or haranguing counter-attacks.
FROM FLAT TO PHAT: New Dimensions in Printmaking
Kjellgren
Alkire & Melissa McGurgan
Times have changed. The two-dimensionality of this old system
has been subverted, co-opted and recapitulated into multi-dimensional
structures. Prints are increasingly available in meta-mass, as
videos, as scores, as installations with variable matrixes from
which to approach dissemination of information, transformation
of space and construction of community. Downloadable PDFs transform
small fine art presses into global dissenters promoting a de-centered
art world. Intentionally built as modules, new sculptural forms
appropriate the reproduction of printmedia to mimic both commerce
and culture. The complex job of an artist striving to get her
point across has never been so full of possibilities. From polka
dots to prefab, printmakers are popping up all over space. We
have gone from high-craft artisans working in tight, beautifully
flat media, to multidimensional artists, responsible for fullness
previously under-explored.
FROM FLAT TO PHAT will have t-shirts. It will have letterhead.
It will be ridiculously over-branded. Stickers, balloons, temporary
tattoos... we’ll have it all. This ephemeral atmosphere
serves more than to merely massage our pathetic self-doubt or
attempt to break our meager budgets. This open-editioned PR campaign
will construct an intellectual and contextual space for our project:
because it’s the stuff that makes an idea a thing. It’s
hard to make your point without a ploy. You don’t just have
a plot--you have a story, a narrative, complete with phases and
character development, twists and turns. The carnival needs popcorn
to go with its ringmaster.
Printmakers who know about the popcorn construct events. They
invent spaces. They make full, generous, viscerally engaging works.
We like those printmakers. We like them because we are artists
and viewers. And we think you should like them too. This is why
we are going: FROM FLAT TO PHAT.
Iron Printmaker
Tom Christison, Teresa
Cole, Yoonmi Nam, Jennifer Yorke, Tim Dooley & Aaron Wilson
This is a take-off of the popular Japanese cooking show “Iron
Chef”, a cooking competition between two famous chefs with
two complete kitchens, a staff of assistants and a secret ingredient
that they must cook a 3 course dinner with. A group of judges,
from food critics to movie stars determine who has created the
best dishes and owns the title of “Iron chef”.
Iron Printmaker will consist of 2 print teams, two complete print
set-ups for all mediums, a staff of assistants, and a secret theme
or concept that each team will create a suite around. A group
of judges, print curators, self-proclaimed critics and local intellectual
will determine who has interpreted the theme most successfully.
This team will have the honor to be named “Iron Printmakers”.
The secret ingredient will be announced at the Wednesday night
SGC Conference opening events.
Open Portfolio
Hundreds of SGC members will display and share their latest portfolios of work in 90-minute group sessions. The public and local Kansas City collectors and curators are invited to attend. The cost to participate in the Open Portfolio event is free to SGC conference attendees. Participants will be issued a session to participate in randomly, and notified of this schedule upon check-in at the SGC Conference.
Peripheral Media Projects’ Silk Screen Smackdown
@ Points, Plots, Ploys
Peripheral
Media Projects
Peripheral Media Projects (PMP) prints in many unconventional
ways (ploys) resulting in high levels of engagement and participation.
We partner with creative people from varied disciplines (architecture,
fashion, fine art, performance art, street art, music, and video
(ploys) to bring an added dimension to the art of printmaking.
We have constantly tried to expand and explore the possibilities
of printmaking in contemporary art and culture (points).
A festival, party, and happening comprising collaborators, music,
projections, printing and DIY attitude to create customized prints.
Participants may bring their own printable objects or may acquire
stuff there. We are focusing on community, everyone’s inherent
creativity and having fun. Several manned workstations will
enable people to print on clothes, paper, and whatever other
freaky surfaces people bring with free-form registration. Part
teaching and learning, part party, and part creative laboratory,
people experience printmaking in an open, straightforward manner.
The Printmaker's Manifesto - A DADA Print Event
April
Flanders, Lauren Garber, Bob
Mueller, & Celeste Pierson
This event will involve a maximum number of conference participants
in creating a monoprint of a printmaking manifesto on a grand
scale. The manifesto will be written prior to the conference.
All who agree with it are invited to participate.
The organizers of this event will spend their year collecting
shoes of all sizes and manipulating their soles to create relief
letterform blocks. The entire alphabet will be represented several
times over. We intend to create at least three alphabets and perhaps
creating extra vowels. Some of the conference goers will participate
by wearing the shoes while others will be inkers.
The resulting print will be a relic of the event as well as the
first publishing of the printmaker’s manifesto. The event
should span 2.5-3 hours and will provide a lively break from panels
and demonstrations. It could occur alongside the demonstrations
or on its own.
Publisher's Tables
National innovators in Print Publishing are invited to display and share new editions and prints during the Publisher's Tables event at the SGC Conference. This event will take place alongside the popular Open Portfolio event, from 11am-5pm on Saturday during the conference. The public and local Kansas City collectors and curators are invited to attend. The cost to participate in the Open Portfolio event is $55 for SGC members and conference attendees.
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SGC 07 Opening Ceremony Event
The Gutenberg Galaxy Band featuring BCR, Jay Mandeville and Rah Booty! will
perform at the opening reception for the Southern Graphics Council Conference.
BCR, the AfroNuclear Wavabilly Funk Swing Reggae Tango band celebrating their 25th anniversary, is combining forces with writer/rapper Jay Mandeville (From Ark to Microchip radio series), Rah Booty (the outrageous performance art cheerleaders) and video artist Joshua Parkins are combining forces to celebrate Gutenberg’s media contributions with a culture-mulching performance of Afro-beats, hot type and hot pants.
Tours
Artist’s Books from the Spencer Art Reference Library and Tour of Print Exhibitions, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Friday, March 23, Library Tour: 12–1pm / Print Tour 1–2pm, 25 people
The Library will be open especially for SGC attendees, who will meet in Kirkwood Hall to be escorted to the new library location in the Bloch Building. The librarians will present a brief overview of the artists’ book collection from the collections of the Spencer Art Reference Library and participants are welcome to examine the books on display specifically for the session. Following the artists’ book presentation, a curator-led tour will be offered for European works on paper including the print exhibitions on display for SGC: “Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural” in Gallery P13, “The Naked and the Nude: Representations of the Body.” and a “Selection of New Print Acquisitions” on the SE Mezzanine. SGC attendees are welcome to join free tours of the Museum’s permanent collections offered throughout the week. Special bonus for SGC attendees is the opportunity to have an artful lunch in the Rozzelle Court Restaurant set in a 15th-century Italian courtyard, starting at 11:00 am.
Rare Books at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
Thursday, March 22, 2–3:15 pm, 25 people
At Kansas City’s Linda Hall Library, visitors will be able to see and review illustrated rare books in science and technology that date from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries. The current exhibition, “Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt”, highlights one of the most remarkable printing ventures of all time, the Description de l’Égypte (1809-1828).
Johnson County Community College Art Collections, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Sprint Nextel Art Collection
Friday, March 23, 12:30-5:15 Bus Tour ($10 per person), 20 people
The Sprint Nextel Art Collection is guided by the following mission statement: "To establish a world-class art collection that represents the core values of the corporation and the cultural diversity of its employees and reflects the forward-thinking image of a global telecommunications company." The Sprint Nextel art collection numbers about 2,500 works--most by living artists--and includes paintings, limited-edition prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and textiles.
Rare Books & Ephemera from the Kansas City Public Library
Friday, March 23, 3:30-4:45 pm, 15 people
Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections Department has a rich collection of nineteenth and twentieth century materials, including Victorian advertising cards, postcards and a woodcuts collection. Also featured in the visit will be highlights from the Library’s Historic Children’s Literature Collection.
Commerce Bank Fine Art Collection
Thursday, March 22, 3:30-4:45 pm, 20 people
The Commerce Bancshares Fine Art Collection was initiated in 1963 with the idea that it would provide a stimulating environment for employees, customers, and the general community. The focus of the collection is on modern and contemporary American art, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. While the back bone of the collection continues to be works of American realists such as Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, and Neil Welliver, recent acquisitions have included abstract works such as Joel Shapiro and Sol LeWitt.
Hallmark Fine Art Collection
Thursday, March 22, 1:30-2:45pm and Friday, March 23, 1:30-2:45 pm, 20 people each tour
The Fine Art Collection was begun in 1949 with the first of five Hallmark
International Art Award competitions. This biennial event continued
through 1960. The works purchased for these exhibitions form the nucleus
of the collection and include over 200 watercolors and paintings by artists
from 22 countries. Current acquisitions build on Hallmark's long-standing
tradition of support for the arts and are concentrated in (but not limited
to) the areas of contemporary American prints and small-scale dimensional
works. Recent acquisitions include prints by Hung Liu, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha,
James Siena, Sarah Sze, and Richard Tuttle.
Rare Books at the Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum, University of Kansas Medical Center
Thursday & Friday, March 22-23, 9am-4:30pm
Open House: Saturday, March 24, 1-4pm
Exhibition open to the public: March 8-30, Monday-Friday, 9am-4:30pm
The Clendening History of Medicine Library is presenting an exhibit, Dissecting the Doctor: Medical Prints at the Clendening History of Medicine Library. These caricatures from the 18th & 19th century were created by artists including Cruikshank, Rowlandson, Hogarth, Gilray, and Daumier. View the comprehensive list of work featured in Medical Prints in the Clendening Library.
Along with the exhibit, the Clendening Library will feature Ars Medica, a display of medical books from the 16th-19th centuries. The books showcase illustrations made by woodcut, copperplate engraving, mezzotint, etching, wood engraving, lithography, and one of the first medical representations of a chiaroscuro woodcut. A sample of Japanese prints and Chinese Public Health Posters are also on display.
For more information and directions to the library:
Digital Clendening
Map & Directions
Campus Map/Parking Garages
Artists’ Books from the University of Missouri – Kansas City Miller Nichols Library Kenneth J. La Budde Special Collections
Thursday, March 22, 3:30-4:45 pm, 15 people
The Special Collections Department is pleased to showcase selected
20th century fine press books and artists' books from its collections.
Most of the examples are from American presses, but a few are British
fine printings. Books from the Abbatoir, Ashendene Press, Golden
Cockerel, Mosher, and Roycroft will be among those exhibited.
Selections of limited edition artist books, rare books and prints from KCAI's permanent collection, H&R Block Artspace
Thursday, March 22, 11:30-12:45, 20 people
The H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute houses and stewards the Permanent Collection for the Kansas City Art Institute, which includes a wide range of works including a collection of Limited Edition artists’ books. The Artspace book tour will feature a selection of limited edition books published by Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, London and Eaton House Publishers Ltd., and Circle Press, Guildford, Surrey, England.
Works by Dieter Roth, Arnulf Rainer, Andre Thomkins, Emmett Williams and others will be featured in this special tour.
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