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Platemark: prints and the printmaking ecosystemLithography deep dive with printer/publisher Deb ChaneyIn episode s3e48, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Deb Chaney, Tamarind-trained master printer specializing in lithography. She has an eponymous imprint, Deb Chaney Editions and has started a new venture with Stéphane Guilbaud—D&S Fine Art Editions—to whom she is fairly recently married. They have studios in Upstate New York (studio to be built), Paris, and LaForce, France. Ann and Deb talk about the beauty of litho stones, common problems that come with printing lithographs, why litho inks are more saturated than other types of inks, how the Tamarind program works, why print...2024-01-161h 29
Platemark: prints and the printmaking ecosystemMargaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries with curators Lauren Rosenblum and Christina WeylIn s3e42, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl about their exhibition on view at Print Center New York through December, 23, 2023. A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of Lowengrund (1902–1957), a visionary artist-advocate and entrepreneur. In charting the institutional history of the hybrid print workshop-gallery she founded, The Contemporaries, and its later evolution into Pratt Graphic Art Center, A Model Workshop brings into focus the bustling printmaking scene of 1950s New York and reveals Lowengrund's impact on postwar printmaking. A Model Wo...2023-10-3157 min
Hello, Print Friendepisode 207 : margaret lowengrund and the contemporariesThis week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl, the curators of the exciting exhibition "A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries," which will be on view from September 21-December 23 at Print Center New York. Lowengrund was the first woman to open her own printmaking workshop in the United States; a visionary leader, organizer and critic within the mid-twentieth century New York printmaking community; and a driving force behind the revival of artistic lithography.Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporarieshttps://www.printcenternewyork.org/a-model-workshopYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user...2023-09-1950 min
Bar Crawl RadioOpening UWS Streets to the arts and hula hoopsOnce again BCR recorded on an UWS street; this time we were set up in front of the stoop where Humphrey Bogart played stickball as a kid -- W. 103rd Street -- just down from Broadway. It was an "Earth Day Celebration" organized by Lisa Orman of StreetopiaUWS. While musicians from the MET Orchestra performed, Jody Sperling's Time Lapse Dance gamboled, and the kids rolled hula hoops into our mics, we spoke with long time proponents of the open streets initiative -- including -- Henry Rinehart: former owner of the fantastically popular HENRY’s Restaurant / Jody Sperling / Robin Schatell a f...2021-04-3057 min
Hello, Print Friendepisode 70 : christina weyl and the women of atelier 17In this episode Miranda speaks with Christina Weyl, who has resenting published a book with Yale University Press title “The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York”. Christina is a wealth of information on twentieth-century printmaking, as well as this groundbreaking studio. We learn about how World War II was the catalyst which moved the studio from France to New York, its connections to The New School and to the Surrealists, and the famous and infamous women who came out of it: Miriam Schapiro to Louise Bourgeois. Get out your pen paper for this one, print friends.Christina Weyl...2020-11-2459 min
The Print CastThe Untold Histories of "The Women of Atelier 17" with Author Christina WeylIf you're a printmaker, I hope you've heard of Atelier 17.The widely acclaimed mid-century Manhattan print studio was known for being an inclusive environment to make and expand the craft of printmaking. My guest today is Christina Weyl, author of a new book "The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York."Christina Weyl is an author and art historian and independent scholar and curator. She earned a BA from Georgetown University and my MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers University. Formerly, she was the director of Gemini G.E.L. at J...2020-06-3058 min