In Tokujin Yoshioka's piece The Snow piles of feathers resemble snow-drifts inside this large sealed room. See more images at Mori Art Museum's website.

From Here to There arrived and it is a beautiful book full of interesting maps. Again, I would like to express my deepest thanks to Kristopher Harzinski of HDMA for including me. You can see my map in the final picture below. Pick one up here.

Speaking of printmaking...take a peek at a few of the collograph matrices the children created while we were visiting them in India. I'll be sealing these with matte medium so that when the time is right, we can ink them up to print editions for our next art auction fundraiser.

Louis Prang's color lithographs

Experimental Geography is still traveling!

During 2009, I was honored to assist educational planning for the art exhibition Experimental Geography at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History. (Thanks Elizabeth & Andrew!) To begin, I read the book that accompanies the exhibition--co-authored by Independent Curators International (iCI) and Nato Thompson. By the time I finished reading the opening essay by Nato Thompson, I was hooked. The next day I ordered my own copy.

"The manifestations of “experimental geography” (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of buildings, and sound works capturing the buzz of electric waves on the power grid. In the hands of contemporary artists, the study of humanity’s engagement with the earth’s surface becomes a riddle best solved in experimental fashion." -iCI

Ilana Halperin, Boiling Milk (Solfataras), 2000.

Francis Alÿs, The Making of Lima, 2002

Kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio), It Takes 154,000 Breaths to Evacuate Boston, 2007

Where is the exhibition going next?

Freeman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
January 21, 2011 - April 1, 2011

 

Museum London

London, Ontario, Canada
October 9, 2010 - January 2, 2011

 

The James Gallery, The Graduate Center at CUNY

New York, New York
June 24, 2010 - August 27, 2010

Matthew Cusick

Stukenborg and dice letterpress prints!

Diana Cooper

Sarah Applebaum

Sarah Sze

Sarah Rapson Exhibition Review

Sarah Rapson's exhibition at Zurcher Studio was reviewed in the New York Times. Rapson recognizes Agnes Martin in this exhibition.  

Printmaking and Metalsmithing

Hello again, Emily here guest blogging today while Sage is away. I wanted to share some interesting pieces that I've recently found that combine printmaking and jewelry design. I received my undergraduate degree in printmaking, but I had a double emphasis, my other concentration being metalsmithing. I knew I wanted to get my BFA in printmaking and took my first metalsmithing class as an elective. It was love from the start, and I decided to take it on as my second major. The funny thing is about the two that they both share a lot of similar techniques and concepts. I wanted to share a few pieces that I think demonstrate a combination of these two disciplines that I love so much into lovely, wearable works of art.

These pieces from Olaria Studios use both screen print and relief print techniques along with ceramics to create these graphic and colorful pieces.  

Although these aren't made using printmaking techniques, who could pass up these golden letterpress necklaces from Erica Weiner.

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Etching is a great way to add texture to the surface of metal that can then be made into a piece of jewelry.  It adds texture and you can get lovely intricate patterns, as you would when etching a plate for printing.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed my stint as guest blogger.  A big thank you to Sage again for asking me to participate.  To find out more about me and my work visit my website at www.emmy-ray.com

Please allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Emily, and I'm the surprise guest blogger Sage has been telling you about.  I'm excited and honored she has asked me to fill in a bit for her while she's away.  I met Sage while we were getting our undergraduate degrees in printmaking at MSU.  In addition to being classmates we were also roommates, and of course friends.  I'm an avid blog reader and writer, so you can only imagine how happy I was when Sage started MAP MINT.

I wasn't quite sure what to write about when Sage first asked me to guest blog, but I stumbled upon these book sculptures the other day by Anouk Kruithof, and it got me inspired.  Books are part of our everyday lives and I don't think it's often that we look at them and realize their potential beyond the stories that they tell.  Take a look...

Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Color of Invisibility by Anouk Kruithof

Book Cell by Matej Kren

Two of the many book sculptures of Yvette Hawkins