Blanton Museum of Art presents Off the Walls, Into Your Home: A Print Collecting Primer Many events have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus concerns. Please check with the organization before going to any event.
Photo courtesy of The Estate of Philip Guston and Hauser & Wirth How does one start collecting art? When is a print an original work of art? In conjunction with the Blanton exhibition Off the Walls: Gifts from Professor John A. Robertson and PrintAustin s annual art fair, this virtual event will explore the incredible richness that prints offer - both technically and aesthetically. Annalise Gratovich and Pepe Coronado, two artist leaders on PrintAustin’s board, will offer their insights on contemporary printmaking, publishing, and collecting. Genevra Higginson, a co-curator of Off the Walls and Blanton curatorial assistant for prints and drawings, will host the discussion.
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Explore the incredible richness that prints can offer both technically and aesthetically. Artists Annalise Gratovich and
Pepe Coronado will offer their insights on contemporary printmaking, publishing, and collecting.
Genevra Higginson, Blanton curatorial assistant for prints and drawings, hosts. Past date: Mon., Jan. 25, 5pm
Nothing About Us Without Us, at Flatbed Press (Courtesy of Flatbed Press)
Prints are exclusive things. And prints are inclusive things. Prints, in fact, partake of both those qualities in addition to whatever aesthetic and semantic information they relay, and here comes PrintAustin 2021, so let s take a look at that and what the hell we re talking about with this seeming paradox.
PrintAustin, founded in 2013 by Austin-based printmakers Cathy Savage and Elvia Perrin, is an artist-led nonprofit organization working to showcase traditional and contemporary approaches in printmaking. They say working to showcase, and they (Savage and PA Director Paloma Mayorga and their cohort) have been doing just that. And, from what we ve experienced of the monthlong program at the start of each year, they ve done so with great success. The number of participating studios and galleries, and the exhibitions and workshops and demos offered by them, has grown year by year, as has the amount of publ