Workshop Opportunity

DVC Member Lisa Heller has made a very kind offer to Delaware Valley Chapter members: we can take the Beatrice Coron Workshop at the Cheltenham Art Center for their member price. Click here for more information

Some Interesting Local Events

Open Book & Bookbinding Workshop Saturday, June 25, 1:00-5:30pm Each year our Open Book event brings artists presenting new publications to The Print Center. This year we will explore the collaborative process, by highlighting new books that were collaboratively made. It will be a wonderful opportunity to collect books, meet the artists and have them personally inscribe their books. Artists, Collectives & Organizations include: Alice Austin & Jon Snyder Book Bombs Cantab Publishing Holly Holly Hobby Hobby Just Seeds Machete, published by Marginal Utility, Inc. Philagrafika Purgatory Pie Press Space 1026 We will also have copies of Darius D. Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson's new, Publish Your Photography Book. Bookbinding Workshop In conjunction with The Print Center's Open Book event, artists Anni Altshuler and Leah Mackin, who make up the collective Holly Holly Hobby Hobby, will give a free bookbinding workshop where you can make your own summer activity book. Tintype Photobooth: Keliy Anderson-Staley Keliy Anderson-Staley, Jeff , 2010, Wetplate Collodion Tintype Saturday, June 25, 1:00-5:30pm **SOLD OUT** Come and have your portrait made! Become a part of photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley's ongoing portrait series when she sets up a tintype studio in The Print Center's garden. Tintypes are unique photographic images exposed directly onto blackened metal, and were the leading mode of photography in the 1850's and 1860's. The Philadelphia area once had many commercial portrait studios, and this event honors that history while celebrating the current role antiquated processes are playing in contemporary practice. Both metal plates and digital prints of the images will be available for a fee. Current Exhibition on View On view through Saturday, July 30 85th Annual International Competition: Printmaking Anthony Lazorko, Moon Light Motel, 2010, Woodcut Jurors: Emi Eu, Director, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore Sarah Suzuki, Associate Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York Exhibiting Artists: Katie Baldwin, Philadelphia, PA Anders Bergstrom, Brooklyn, NY Annie Bissett, Northampton, MA Tonia Bonnell, Denver, CO Daniel Brewer, Philadelphia, PA Nicholas Brown, Seattle, WA Victoria Burge, Philadelphia, PA Simond Chew, Singapore Ann Conrad, New Canaan, CT David Curcio, Watertown, MA Kip Deeds, Newtown, PA Sarah Dekker, Philadelphia, PA Karla Hackenmiller, Athens, OH Brian Johnson, Austin, TX Nils Karsten, Brooklyn, NY Anthony Lazorko, Mesilla, NM Kakyoung Lee, Brooklyn, NY Kristine Mallari, Denton, TX Jiha Moon, Atlanta, GA Kae Murakami, Kanagawa, Japan Sarah Nicholls, Brooklyn, NY Jonathan Nicklow, Evergreen, CO Matt Phillips, Brooklyn, NY Jenny Wiener, London, England Rick Wright, Philadelphia, PA The Print Center's 85th Annual International Competition: Printmaking features new works by several of the finest contemporary artists from around the world. The Print Center's Annual International Competition is one of the most prestigious exhibitions of its kind and is the oldest juried exhibition for printmaking and photography in the United States. All events are free and open to the public and will take place at The Print Center unless otherwise noted. To register for any of these events, contact Eli VandenBerg at: evandenberg@printcenter.org or 215.735.6090 x1. The Print Center All events are FREE and open to the public and will take place at The Print Center unless otherwise noted. Please visit The Print Center's website, www.printcenter.org, for more information on exhibitions and programs. HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 11:00am-5:30pm

Review of DVC Exhibition

Our current exhibition - Philadelphia Artists' Books Travel to Venice - got a very nice review in the Weekly Press. Click HERE to read it.

Philadelphia Artists' Books Travel to Venice

Here are pictures of the Philadelphia opening on Friday, June 3rd. We had a really good turnout. Eriko Takahashi was awarded the purchase prize and her book will become part of the Clarence Ward Art Library at the Oberlin College. The books will travel to Venice this coming fall.
Click here to see the pictures.

Be sure to see the Philadelphia version of the exhibit!
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th St.
Philadelphia, PA
June 3-30
M-F 9-5
Second floor exhibition area