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Call for Entries: Branching Out, at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking

Anyone who becomes a member of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (in Norwalk, CT, United States) can submit a print to the show.

Here's the deadline:
RECEIVING DATES: Saturday, January 11, through Saturday, January 18, from 10 am–4 pm.
Mailed entries must be received by 5 pm, Monday January 20, 2014.
Happy Holidays!

Prospectus and application are found here.

Call for Entry: 13th International Print Exhibition and Exchange at PROOF Studio Gallery

 

13th International Print Exhibition and Exchange

at 

PROOF Studio Gallery

 Distillery District, Toronto, Canada

Celebrating The Chinese Year of the HORSE 2014

PROOF Studio Gallery

is again pleased to host the 13th International Print Exhibition and Exchange -

an opportunity for printmakers from anywhere in the world to connect with each other by exhibiting their print interpretation of the zodiac sign of the HORSE for the Chinese New Year 2014. In previous years artists from Switzerland, Australia, India, Guatemala, China, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Ireland, Scotland, Hong Kong, France, the United States and Canada have participated in this exhibition and print exchange.

Print Information & Submission Guidelines

Each artist creates a limited edition print using a traditional print technique such as etching, wood block, linoblock, embossing, lithographs, relief, silkscreen or mixed print media inspired in some way by the HORSE. As always, the Year of the Horse is both an exchange and a series of exhibitions. The first print is kept and used for the travelling exhibitions. The other prints are offered for sale or used for the exchange. For the exchange, you receive back other artists' work and other artists get your prints.

2014 Exhibitions included:
PROOF Studio Gallery in Toronto
OCADU (Ontario College of Art & Design University) Toronto
Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
Muskoka Art Place Gallery, Port Carling, Ontario
Concordia University's MousePrint Gallery, Montreal.

The show travels from February to the end of May. After the show comes home to PROOF your prints are exchanged and mailed out.

Requirements for Submission

   

Dimensions: paper size 10" x 12" maximum (image can be any size that fits on 10" x 12" paper, 3-5 prints

Printmaking Media: Any traditional printmaking technique or combination including relief, etching, lithography, silkscreen, wood block, mixed print methods, letterpress, monoprints - please no straight digital prints.
Participation Fee: $25 (Covers your participation fee & matting & mailing)
Payment must be by cash of either Canadian or American denominations, Canadian cheques only, or Paypal (Paypal username is fineart@proofstudiogallery.com)

   

Submission Deadline: January 20th, 2014 

The first print is matted and used for the travelling exhibitions. All other prints will be offered for sale. Proceeds are split 30/70 with artist. Unsold prints are exchanged with other printmakers.

Keep up to date and look at participating artists at the blogspot

http://www.yearofthehorseprintexhibition.blogspot.com/

2014 Year of the Horse Print Submission Form Each print must have a submission form on back! Please attach it by paperclip or low-tack tape (not glue) Please make sure to include your MAILING ADDRESS in the first form! Year of the Horse Submission Form Name: E-mail: Title: Number of Prints (maximum of 5!): Printmaking Techniques: MAILING ADDRESS:

Send Prints to: PLEASE NOTE OUR CHANGED ADDRESS!

PROOF Studio Gallery, Studio 104,
Case Goods Warehouse, Bldg. 15, 

15 Case Goods Lane, Distillery District,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5A 3C4 

416 504 6761 - fineart@proofstudiogallery.com

Contacts:   Sheila Jonah or Natalie Draz of PROOF Studio Gallery

Call for Entry: National Small Works Show

WPG National Small Works 2013
- Exhibition open to printmakers age 18+ residing in the continental United States creating traditional, hand-pulled prints under 170 square inches. First prize: Solo exhibition, August 2014. Other prizes awarded. Early bird deadline: April 17, 2013 ($20/4 images). Final deadline: May 18, 2013 ($30/4 images). This year's juror is Philippa Hughes, founder of the Pinkline Project and DC Commissioner for the Arts and Humanities.

DETAILS
The National Small Works is an annual juried exhbition that has been hosted by Washington Printmakers Gallery every August since 1997. Featuring contemporary artist-pulled prints, NSW exhibits an impressive array of technique as well as subject matter by limiting the size of print entries (maximum size of 170 square inches).


Washington Printmakers Gallery
8230 Georgia Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 273-3660

(They seem to be experiencing difficulty with their website).

CALL FOR ENTRY: ARTspace Original International Print Exchange & Exhibit

CALL FOR ENTRY:

ARTspace Original International Print Exchange & Exhibit, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
April 17 - May 25, 2013

ARTspace is eager to announce a Call for Entry into the second bi-annual International Print Exchange and Community Arts Initiative, which will run from August 21 – September 28, 2013. An open call has been put out to artists, print studios and forums across the globe asking printmakers to create a print with a paper size no larger than 5 inches x 5 inches (12.7cm x 12.7cm) and an image size no larger than 4 inches by 4 inches (10.7cm x 10.7cm) in an edition of ten. Each artist will have one of their prints on display and for sale at the standard price of $75.00 + HST while the rest of the prints will be distributed among other participants, ensuring each artist will receive a suite of different prints.

These prints will be on display on ARTspace with an opening reception that will take place on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 7pm. During the opening reception, a curator’s choice award of $150 and one people’s choice award of $100 will be selected. Please note: the deadline for entry is August 1, 2013.

For Chatham-Kent artists who wish to participate, ARTspace will conduct a series of print workshops and open studios at the Thames Art Gallery. Please contact ARTspace for details and dates of the workshops.

(HST = Harmonized Sales Tax. Prices are in Canadian dollars)

Call for Submission: Bainbridge Open Print Show

This is the second open submission show of contemporary printmaking organised by Bainbridge Studios.

This year it will be held at the new Embassy Tea Gallery, in Union St, London, UK, SE1.

To apply, download the application, fill in the form and submit a maximum of three JPEGs and 20£ by midnight (GMT) on April 10, 2013. Accepted work must be delivered by May 3 or 4.

Printmaking Call: 12TH LESSEDRA WORLD ART PRINT ANNUAL MINI PRINT 2013

12TH L E S S E D R A WORLD ART PRINT ANNUAL

MINI PRINT 2013

LESSEDRA Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects
25, Milin Kamak Street, Lozenetz
1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Each artist should send no more than 3 works: original prints, created in 2012/2013.
Entries may feature any type of method of printmaking and should be signed and numbered by the artist. The maximum dimensions of a work are 29 x 23 cm. (paper size). Participation fee is 50 EUR for all Europeans and 80 USD for all another countries.

Deadline: postmarked March 31st 2013 at the latest

More information and application form

Artist call: Hazelhurst Art Award (Sydney Australia)

Hazelhurst Art Award (Sydney Australia)

The Hazelhurst Art Award is open to original works on, or made principally
with, paper - 2D or 3D is permissible. Acceptable disciplines in the category of Art on Paper include drawing, painting, watercolours, collage, original prints, computer generated, photography, paper sculpture and installation. Work to have been completed in 2012 or 2013.

$15,000 AUD prize plus several smaller prizes

Entries to be submitted by 17:00 on 6 May 2013.
Successful entrants notified on 31 May 2013. Work has to be delivered to the gallery by 14 June.
Up to three works can be entered. Enter via email or post.

$45 AUD Entry Fee per item.
More info/apply here

Print People Print Exchange

It's a worldwide exchange. $15.00 participation fee. 1 June 2013 deadline.

Money covers the cost of the exchange and future Print People activities.

Requirement is an edition of twelve signed & numbered 6” x 8” prints.

Ten prints are returned to each participant in mid July. More information at this link

Print Exchange 2013

The Print Exchange 2013

500 Printmakers, 12 Prints

We’re calling out to 500 printmakers to become a part of a massive exchange of printed matter that will reach across the globe!

"The Drive Home..." is the theme of this swap - artists will interpret the theme by making an edition of 12 prints to submit to the exchange. In return, they’ll be mailed a bundle of 10 prints to call their own from artists near and far. This project is only open to 500 printmakers across the globe, so get your place while you can and look forward to getting 10 amazing prints in the mail.

Prints will also be entered into an exhibition in NYC at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for the month of September and a print added to the Brooklyn Art Library permanent collection.

Sign-up deadline: March 30, 2013
Submission deadline: Postmarked April 30, 2013
Fee: $50

Printmaking Calls

We post opportunities for printmakers on the 'Printmaking Calls' page. Just click the tab above. Our list isn't comprehensive, but we we're happy to add to the list. If you know of an exhibit, printmaking exchange, or other opportunity for printmaking artists, do let us know!

Here are the events and opportunities we currently have listed, with upcoming deadline.

• CHHAAP Foundation for Printmaking Artist Residency in Baroda, InidaSubmission deadline: 6 months prior to stay; stays of 1 month available, from October to March, 2013 Eligibility: International 
•  Year of the Snake, 12th International Print Exhibition and Exchange at PROOF Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada Entry Deadline: January 25, 2013 EXTENDED to February 5, 2013 Eligibility: Open
•  9th Biennial International Miniprint Competition and Exhibition, 2013 (CCP, Norwalk, CT) Entry Deadline: February 25, 2013 Eligibility: Juried

Etching Tutorials

Printsy member Mariann Johansen-Ellis (mariannjohansenellis) makes amazingly thorough and instructive printmaking videos. In her 7 part series, she shows how to make an etching complete with hard ground, soft ground and aquatint. Below are the first two videos showing the hard ground stage.





She goes on to explain soft ground in part 3 and part 4, and aquatint in part 5, part 6 and part 7.

You can also read the Printsy interview with Mariann here.

Linocut Tutorial

Linocut with Simon Ripley from Double Elephant Print Workshop on Vimeo.

This is yet another video from Double Elephant printmaker Simon Ripley in which he shows us how to produce multi-coloured linocuts using two approaches, reduction & multi-block.

Video of the making of Deep Sea Diver by Linocutboy

Deep Sea Diver by Linocutboy. from Hazeleigh Prebble on Vimeo.

This video shows printmaker and Printsy member Nick Morley (a.k.a. Linocutboy),

as he carves and prints a new linocut of a Deep Sea Diver. Inspired by the intrepid explorers of old, Nick's technique borrows from master printmakers like Bewick and Durer but his use of bold colour gives his prints a strong contemporary feel.

Making the linocut involves carefully planning the image, transferring it to the lino block and then carving away the unwanted parts with gouges. What's left behind is inked up and printed on Nick's etching press. This Deep Sea Diver is printed from seven blocks. The colour blocks are inked up in various colour blends and the black 'key' block is printed last. Each layer has to be carefully registered so that everything aligns properly.

(Filming and editing by Hazeleigh Prebble)

Papercut Print Time-Lapse

In this time-lapse video by Soul Pancake, you can watch printmaker Sonia Romero, Printsy team member SheRidesTheLion make the print Fall. They show her paper cut printmaking collograph process, from start to finish, documenting 6 hours in less than 5 minutes.



Medium: Papercut Print or Collograph
Colors: 6, Hand Pulled
Paper: Rives BFK Cream
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Signed and Numbered Edition: 5
Printed at She Rides the Lion Studio

Tiny Printmaking Tutorials

Jane LaFazio has posted a 'tiny tutorial' for making monoprints with masking tape and plexiglass. This is a nice, simple idea, which would make a good project for teaching children about printmaking.

Source: approachable-art.blogspot.co.uk via Francesca on Pinterest

Judi Hurwitt has a whole series of projects for simple stamps and relief prints, which would also make great introductory projects for wee people, or which could be used in surface design.

Woodblock Printing and Space-time Beetle Maps

On Printsy we have several artists making prints about the insect world. But, I thought I'd share an interesting story about how art history and woodblock printing in particular has allowed one scientist, Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, to map wood-eating insects and their distribution in space and time, from 15th to 19th century Europe. The image is a Renaissance woodcut art print, 'The Rich Man' by Cornelis Anthonisz (1541), showing printed wormholes (owned by the Rjiksmuseum, Amsterdam) - the very database he was able to mine. He showed that two species of woodboring beetles "met along a zone across central Europe like a battle line of two armies" by using the "wormhole record". These insects, which produce different sized holes in wood, left traces in the blocks used by artists to make their prints. Luckily for him, by producing the prints, the artists were also making a record of exactly which holes had already been made in a given piece of wood, at a given time (since prints are dated), since the exit holes made by these insects were inked and printed. It is also generally well-known where an artist was living and working. Thus by examining and measuring the size of more than 3,000 printed wormholes in works of art and books spanning five centuries, from 1462 to 1899, he produced a space-time map of beetle distributions.

Who knew that woodboring beetles were relief printmakers?

He points out that the research is not only a new tool in evolutionary biology and could be used to map wood-boring beetles in other regions, but that it could be a new method for art historians who need to identify the age or origin of woodblock prints and books which contain them.

You can read more here or listen to this fun interview with Dr. Blair (the last 7:45 of the third section) on the CBC Radio show As It Happens.

Drypoint Tutorial

This is yet another demo from the Double Elephant Print Workshop. In this one, Catherine Cartwright demonstrates how to make a drypoint print using a perspex plate and a variety of mark-making tools.

Woodblock Printing (Moku Hanga style) Demo

This is a whirlwind summary of how Graham Scholes makes a 17 colour woodblock print, in the traditional Japanese moku hanga style. You can find other resources and instructions on his website covering everything from sharpening tools, tying a baren, cutting kentos, to brushes, paste, and materials.

Monoprint tutorials

This is another video from Double Elephant Print Workshop. In this one, Simon Ripley presents three methods of making monoprints.

Do you have a favorite printmaking tutorial? Let us know!