April 2013
1 post
AS_Fall_2013.pdf →
Registration for fall 2013 at UNM is starting! I encourage you to sign up for printmaking classes as early as possible. These fill quickly.
March 2013
6 posts
Writing Resources for Your Artist's Statements
Chicago Manual of Style Online: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch06/ch06_sec018.html
Purdue OWL Mechanics (such as active and passive voice): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/4/
The section on parallel structure is particularly useful: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/01/
Grammar Girl (comma usage and other tips):...
spring break schedule for open lab hours in...
For those of you who are around over break and want access to the print studio there are open hours for a large portion of break. Note that the digital lab and paper closet will not be open over break.
Saturday 3/9 3pm – 6pm
Sunday 3/10 12pm – 9pm
Monday 3/11 CLOSED
Tuesday 3/12...
Intellectual Property and the Arts →
After our conversation about appropriation, copyright and creative commons I wanted to post some links for further reading.
A couple useful things to note from the article:
“artworks created in the U.S. since 1978 and fixed in tangible form are currently protected in the U.S. even without a copyright symbol or formal registration with the Copyright Office. “
and in terms of fair...
February 2013
2 posts
January 2013
14 posts
Print Unm →
UNM has a printmaking Facebook page. You can find show opening, shop tips etc….
“The pochoir process would use from 20 to 250 different stencils applied to a...”
– from The Art of Pochoir
Image from Papillons by Eugene A. Seguy.
“Naturally, with all the easel painters around us and the fact that my own...”
– Anthony (Tony) Velonis | Whos Who in Screenprinting
“One new attitude about screenprinting is the idea that making a print can be...”
– Hand Print Workshop International
Advanced students who are repeating the course may opt to try excavated and relief surface printmaking techniques in place of one or two projects. I will schedule demonstrations for interested advanced students during class time this semester. Students need to...
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Welcome to Serigraphy
Welcome to Serigraphy. I am looking forward to seeing everyone this Saturday! I will be posting a number of images and links for students studying screen printing. I also post general articles on printmaking on this blog.
Below is an image of our studio at UNM. Since this photograph has been taken we have reorganized and gotten a brand new vacuum table.
December 2012
5 posts
“Then in ’91, I’d been here for 5 years and was wondering what I was going to do...”
– Red Gate Gallery | China Law & Policy
A great interview with Brian Wallace about Red Gate Gallery.
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WatchOne of my favorite urban design blogs just posted this map of the development of printing in Europe based on Harvard’s collections. It is a wonderful visualization for the spread of printmaking. Keep an eye on the list of cities and dates scrolling in the left hand corner. China and Japan come up first but are not on the map. China is just listed as “China” rather than by city...
“For Chinese artists, online promotion can be difficult. Zheng Xuewu, an artist...”
– To Get Noticed, Chinese Artists Look to Internet - NYTimes.com
November 2012
6 posts
“At the Central Academy we use a combination of local, Japanese and American...”
– Meili Paper | Printmaking Blog from Little Switzerland NC to Beijing China | Page 2
A couple of people have asked me about the lithographic process I used while in China. Here is a link to the notes I took while at the Central Academy.
Central Academy of Fine Art BFA Show, 中央美术学院毕业展览 |... →
I am sharing a couple posts that may be of interest from an older blog that I kept while in China (Wordpress was temporarily blocked so I switched to Tumblr).
This links to a slideshow of images from the BFA print show at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where I was based for my Fulbright in 2011.
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“The occasional dyad, just like the occasional list, is fine. But if you have...”
– PEARLS OF WISDOM: THE BLOG | The Professor Is In | Getting You Through Graduate School, The Job Market and Tenure…
This is great advice for artist’s statements.
Some Help for Artists, Galleries, Private... →
October 2012
6 posts
“The printing process adds its own dimension to the character of an image,...”
– nontoxicprint | ‘Nontoxic’ Printmaking & Printing— Roni Henning
“The nature of screen fabric is that only about 20% of the area is opened space...”
– screenprinting:
Producing Tusche Wash Effects in Screenprinting using Toner for Images and Simple Pastes as an Ink Base copyrighted Nik Semenoff,1991, Artist-in-residence, University of Saskatchewan
This is a nice explanation of why toner washes can be tricky when exposing them onto a screen....
“Meet Your Printmaker is a directory of print/printmaking shops around the world...”
– Meet Your Printmaker » Screenprinting
I was searching for images to use in my serigraphy class and came across this great list of printmaking studios.
September 2012
6 posts
“JG: How do you view the rise of online open-sharing and remix culture,...”
– Collection (Not) as Curation: How Exhibitions are Different From Libraries
August 2012
5 posts
