Kristina Hagman - woodblock printmaker

California woodblock printmaker Kristina Hagman demonstrates wood block printmaking using a Vandercook Proofing press at the Art Center College, Pasadena California. Showing wood blocks from the print series "36 Views of Mount Rainier" and "West coast Canada to Mexico".



For more info and to see a gallery of prints visit Kristina's website

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints

A current exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art (The University of Chicago); "Awash in Color" explores the roles, functions, and technology of color in French and Japanese prints. It features more than one hundred and thirty prints and illustrated books dating from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, drawn from the Smart Museum’s substantial holdings as well as major public and private collections across the country. The exhibit runs from October 4, 2012 to January 20, 2013.

Top: Henri Rivière, Vegetable Garden at Ville-Hue (Saint-Briac), 1890, From the Breton Landscapes, Color woodblock print printed from eight blocks on eighteenth-century Japanese laid paper. For more info visit Smart Museum of Art website.

CPC - Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

Found this recent video about the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative group. Founder and owner Deborah Lader shares her experience running CPC for the last twenty years.

There is a reception and open house October 6th for an exhibition "Danse Macabre: Death and the Printer" showcasing work by Chicago-area artists dealing with the universality of death and how they perceive it. For more info visit the CPC website at: www.chicagoprintmakers.com



Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4642 N. Western Ave.
Chicago IL 60625
p. 773.293.2070

There is also a CPC related video on Vimeo featuring Matthew Knight, Natalia Rafalo and Megan Skidmore discussing their budding collections as members of the Young Printshop Patrons group (YPP).

Click here for video

Korean Woodblock Printing

At the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum in Yongin-si Korea students and tourists can participate in traditional Korean Woodblock printing. It's a lot of fun, and makes for a great souvenir. It's all free, except for the paper which costs about 40 cents a sheet.