The CSP and Printeresting announce the Journal; party on 11/6!

The California Society of Printmakers and the blog Printeresting announce the latest CSP Journal. This year, the blog was guest edited by the awesome folks (Amze, Jason and RL) from the blog Printeresting. They got a great line up of artists and writers to contribute. The journal even comes with a poster from Sonenzimmer!

To celebrate this effort, the CSP is having a party on November 6th, from 2-6pm at Gruenwald Press (John has generously donated his space for the event). We’ll have special guest RL Tillman from Printeresting making an appearance and talking about his work and the blog; DJ Krayzer Blade spinning some tunes; drinks on hand, and food carts downstairs.

The event is free, but we’d love to get a head count, so RSVP to CSP@caprintmakers.org

Gruenwald Press is located at 1663 Mission st (enter on Plum) SF CA 94103

Filed under: Announcements, Collaborations, From the Editor, Members, Products, San Francisco, Show Announcements

In Memorium: Peter McCormick

Many CSP members were among the relatives and friends who attended a memorial celebration for Peter McCormick at the home of Jenette Raymond in Napa on September 18, 2011. Peter was a long time member of the CSP and served on the board for many years as the treasurer and as the institutional memory of the organization. She was always ready to help with CSP shows (her extensive contacts were often responsible for finding venues and jurors), she worked on the CSP Journal, and she helped anywhere else she was needed. She was a fine artist and a good friend and inspiration to so many of us. Her generosity of spirit and enthusiasm for life and art were remarkable. At the memorial one of her oldest friends, Dianne Timberlake, read a poem by Mary Oliver, “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field,” that Peter would surely have loved. Photos of her life, as a child and a young woman were on view, along with a selection of her prints. As a final remembrance, everyone who attended was given a gift of one of Peter’s prints.

Peter McCormick Memorial handout -PDF

Filed under: from a Member, Remembrance

Call for the Commissioned Print 2011

NEW – The 2011 Annual CSP Gift Print

This year one lucky CSP member will be awarded $500 to create an edition for our first Annual CSP Commissioned Print.
All members except for current board members may apply. Deadline August 15, 2011.

Click the graphic above, or here to download a prospectus for the 2011 Commission Print (PDF).

Click here for the Word version: CommissionPrint2011.

Filed under: Announcements, Calls for Artwork, Members

Printing in Spain by Barbara Milman

Inside the Studio

The Outside of the Studio

I just returned from a wonderful week–long printmaking workshop in Andalusia, near Granada, Spain.  Maureen Booth, who has lived in Spain with her husband, Mike Booth WorldPrintmakers.com since the 1960’s, is a very accomplished printmaker who runs workshops for individuals or groups throughout the year.  Her studio, looking out on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is well equipped for many printmaking techniques.

Barbara in the Studio

During my week with Maureen I learned to use solar plates in many different ways. I made solar plate etchings, relief prints, prints using some of the dried local plants that Maureen collects, and prints made from a charcoal drawing on glass.   The plates can also be made from photographic or computer images. The process is very quick and simple (or so it seemed with such a good teacher), is non-toxic, requires no expensive equipment, and is suitable for my home studio.  At the end of the week I made a very nice small edition of one of the prints.

Barbara and Maureen Booth

Maureen also works with artists on other techniques, including traditional etching.  Workshops are flexible, from a week to months.  Artists stay in a lovely small cottage (a refurbished chicken coop) with a kitchen and a balcony (and a friendly small dog if you miss your own pet) on their property.  It is a five to ten minute walk to the village of Pinos Genil, and Granada is less than an hour by bus.

All in all,  a beautiful place to relax and do some serious printmaking, as well as a good starting point for a Spanish vacation (I went on to Barcelona after the workshop).  For more information about Maureen and the workshops visit her websites:

• El Gallinero

• Printmaking Courses in Spain

Filed under: Article, from a Member, Members, Travel, Workshop

FOUR CORNERS AND A CENTER: Upcoming Show

Peter Baczek, J Dock, aquatint etching, 1990. 19" x 20"

Four Corners and a Center: An Exhibition by the California Society of Printmakers

Village Theatre Art Gallery, 233 Front Street, Danville, CA

Opening Reception: May 20, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Exhibition Dates: May 20 – July 1, 2011

The California Society of Printmakers is pleased to present Four Corners and a Center. Juried by Renee Bott, co-owner and master printer of Paulson Bott Press, Four Corners and a Center features a selection of 34 prints from 24 members of the California Society of Printmakers. The exhibit highlights the diversity and creativity of contemporary printmaking and showcases techniques such as woodcut, monotype, etching and handmade artist books.

Barbara Foster, Tin Top Silo, lasercut woodcut & chine colle, 2010. 16" x 13"

The theme, Four Corners and a Center, was selected by Amy Miller, Visual Arts Program Director of Danville’s city-run Village Theatre Art Gallery. Miller wanted to incorporate an open-ended theme for the exhibit while referencing the format in which most printmakers work, paper. Miller states, ” Four Corners conjures images of location, direction, edges, boundaries a destination and even the entire planet. The Center can be one’s home life, an essence of an object, the soul, a state of being or a compositional element used to invoke power or focus. Even in an empty room or in a singular structure, the center remains a powerful position within any work of art.”

Yuji Hiratsuka, Soft Landing, intaglio etching & chine colle, 2011. 24"x 32"

In jurying the entries, Renee Bott wanted to be as inclusive as possible while selecting artworks that defined the exhibition theme. The selected works address existential themes, graphic imagery, and social commentary with insight and humor with subject matter ranging from urban landscapes, animals, nature, and identity, to ecological concerns and politics. Works by some of CSP’s newest members (admitted by jury in 2011) will be shown along some of its most enduring members (admitted by jury as far back as 1975).

Sirima Sataman, Discard Fortunes, etching, 2009. 15" x 22"

Work by the following artists will be on view: Peter Baczek, Gary Comoglio, Jessica Dunne, Linda Filhardt, Joan Finton, Barbara Foster, Yuji Hiratsuka, K Kuster, Linda Lee Fribley, Peter Leone McCormick, Linda Lieberman, Kay Marshall, Stephanie Martin, Cythia Milionis, Barbara Milman, Nancy Mintz, Carrie Ann Plank, Laurel Prieto, Sirma Sataman, Deborah Sibony, Herlinde Spahr, Jerry Theobald, George Woodward, and Mark Zaffron.

Four Corners and a Center will run through July 1 with a special art chat and printmaking demonstration to be held on June 8 at 7pm in the Village Theatre Art Gallery.

Filed under: East Bay, Members, Show Announcements

Berkeley Times writes up the Light/Dark Show

Untitled Billboards by Jenny Robinson

The Berkeley Times wrote up a 3 page article about the California Society of Printmakers Light/Dark show!

You can download the PDF here: Light-Dark-Berkeley-Times

Filed under: Article, East Bay, Link, Show Review

The Blue Bay Printmakers: Back By Popular Demand show

Back by Popular Demand show

The Blue Bay Printmakers
Back By Popular Demand show
March 28 – April 29, 2011
Opening reception: Wednesday March 30, 5-8PM
Printmaking from A to Z in Thirty Minutes or Less Talk at 6PM

with work by CSP members Joan Finton, Ellen Yamada Tzvetin and Maj-Britt Hilstrom

Eddie Rhodes Gallery
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Dr.,
San Pablo, CA 94608

Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri 10AM-3PM
April 18-22, please call 510-235-7800 x4262 for access appt.
Some evening hours available.

Exhibition catalogue available at 510-526-4314

Filed under: East Bay, Show Announcements, Uncategorized , Ellen Yamada Tzvetin, Joan Finton, Maj-Britt Hilstrom, San Pablo

WATER’S EDGE reception Friday April 1st

WATER’S EDGE: A trans-Pacific Printmakers Exchange
DATES:
 April 1 – April 30, 2011
RECEPTION:
 Friday April 1, 2011 6:30 – 8:00pm
HOURS:
            M-TH             9- 9:30pm
Fri             9- 6:30pm
Sat             9- 4:00pm
LOCATION:
 STUDIO ONE ART CENTER
365 45^th St. Oakland, CA 94609

Please join us for the opening of WATER’S EDGE: A trans-Pacific Printmakers Exchange on Friday April 1, 2011 at the STUDIO ONE ART CENTER in Oakland, CA.

Organized by LAURA SMITH, executive director of the HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS, twenty printmakers from Hawai‘i and California examine our littoral nature of existence.

HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS is a non-profit printmaking organization affiliated with HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS. In celebrating their 83rd year, ten invited Northern California artists from the CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF PRINTMAKERS and/or KALA ART INSTITUTE were asked to consider what it means to share a nation but live an ocean apart.

The Opening Reception is on Friday April 1st from 6:30 – 8:00pm.
It being a First Friday come see what the “Oakland Art Murmur” is all about.
…A poetry reading in the Great Hall begins at 7:30pm

For more information and directions visit: www.studiooneartcenter.net

WATER’S EDGE  2011
A  trans-Pacific  Printmakers  Exchange

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STUDIO ONE ART CENTER
365 45th St.
Oakland, CA 94609

April 1 – April 30, 2011
Hours: M-Th 9 – 9:30pm
Fri     9 – 6:30pm
Sat    9 – 4:00pm

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011
6:30 – 8:00pm
www.studiooneartcenter.net

Filed under: East Bay, Show Announcements , Announcements, Print Exchanges, Shows

In remembrance…Nathan Oliveira and Beth Van Hoesen

Two well-known and well-respected Printmakers passed away in 2010. Both of them were honorary members of the California Society of Printmakers.

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira, 1928-2010, born in Oakland, CA, exhibited with Bay Printmakers Society beginning in 1956. In 1968 Bay Printmakers and California Society of Etchers merged to become California Society of Printmakers. Oliveira  was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership in CSP in 1993. A few images of his prints are located here with a long list of his exhibitions.

Beth Van Hoesen

Beth Van Hoesen, 1916-2010, is first mentioned in the CSP archives in 1958 when she helped organize a few exhibits, and in 1959 she was President of the Society. She was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership to the CSP in 1996. A few of her etchings that were published by Crown Point Press in 1965 can be viewed on the Annex Galleries website. Some nice illustrations of her animal paintings and prints are seen on her Facebook page, as well as on the Nancy Dodds Gallery website.

Filed under: Historical, Link, Members, Remembrance , Beth Van Hoesen, Nathan Oliveira, Obit

Karen Towne has work in the Yosemite Renaissance show.

Cloud's Rest by Karen Towne

A woodcut titled “Cloud’s Rest” by CSP member Karen Towne has been selected to be part of the annual Yosemite Renaissance show. If you are in Yosemite this Spring, check out the show in the Yosemite Museum near the Visitor Center.

TITLE:  Yosemite Renaissance XXVI
DATES:  2/26/11 through 5/1/11
HOURS:  daily
LOCATION:  Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park

Website: www.yosemiterenaissance.org (has images from past shows but not the current one yet!)

Filed under: from a Member, Show Announcements , Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park