PHILADELPHIA– Philadelphia’s citywide, international print and contemporary art festival Philagrafika 2010(running through April 11, 2010), continues in March with exhibitions, special events and programs from each of the festival’s three components: The Graphic Unconscious, Out of Print; and Independent Projects.  Philadelphia will also host the Southern Graphics Council’s (SGC)40th annual international conferenceMark/Remarque.  

Timed to coincide with Philagrafika 2010, the four-day SGC conference will take place in Philadelphia fromMarch 24 – March 27.  The conference will examine traditional and print processes (marks), critical discourse important to the field of printmaking (remarks), and consider the concepts associated with the historical print term “Remarque” through a number of print-related events, panels, and demos to compliment Philagrafika 2010’s programs and exhibitions. The Southern Graphics Council is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the professional standing of artists who make original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. SGC membership is required to enter the conference, and can be purchased at www.sgcphiladelphia.com. Attendance for the SGC Conference is expected to be more than 1500 people made up of regional, national and international visitors.

THE GRAPHIC UNCONSCIOUS
Philagrafika 2010’s March offerings include four special events as a part of the festival’s core curated exhibition, The Graphic Unconscious.  The exhibition sites include: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Print Center, Moore College of Art & Design, and Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. (Events below listed in chronological order, by institution.)

MooreCollegeof Art & Design
20th and the Parkway1916, Race St, Philadelphia; 215-965-4027
Saturday, March 13; 9:30am – 5pm – Curating and Risk
Free; For more info visit www.thegalleriesatmoore.org/site/programs/curatorial_conversations.

Moore College of Art & Design will explore questions associated with the topic of risk as it relates to cultural institutions, producers, artists, and curators during Curating and Risk. The roster of distinguished panelists include Sheryl Conkelton, Philadelphia based curator and member of the Philagrafika 2010 curatorial team; David Dempewold, co-founder of Marginal Utility gallery and the zine Machete, Homer Jackson, interdisciplinary artist, Ruby Lerner, President and CEO of Creative Capital in New York; Radhika Subramaniam, Director and Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, NY; Richard Torchia,  artist and Director, Arcadia University Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, among others.  The discussions will be moderated by Janet Kaplan, Professor of Art History and Director of Curatorial Studies at Moore and Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator, The Galleries at Moore.

The Print Center
1614 Latimer St, Philadelphia; 215-735-6090, www.printcenter.org
Saturday, March 20; 2pm – The DIY Quick and Dirty PRINTERESTING SWAP!
Wednesday, March 24; 6 – 9pm – The Tower of Babble, one-day-only Drive By Press printing event
Both events are Free

The Print Center will host two March events as a part of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. On March 20, PRINTERESTING, the “thinking person’s” online news source for all things printmaking, will host The DIY Quick and Dirty PRINTERESTING SWAP!,which asks participants to bring prints, posters, photocopy art, zines, comix, buttons, t-shirts, stickers, chapbooks, mail art, broadsides and other print-based items that can be easily distributed. The swap will give the creators of easily multiplied print-art the opportunity to trade works and embrace the gift of economy made possible through mass production.

Drive By Presswill present one of their signature one-day-only print events on March 24. The entire 1600 block of Latimer Street in front of The Print Center will be closed to traffic as artists Greg Nanney and Joseph Velasquez create a site-specific installation. Visitors can participate by making their own custom printed t-shirts.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Fisher Brooks Gallery, 128 N. Broad St., Philadelphia
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6 – 7pm –Time, Motion, Space: An Illustrated Talk with Artist Christiane Baumgartner
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 6 – 7pm – In Conversation: Kiki Smith and the Curators of Philagrafika
SGC attendees: talk is free with badge; General public: talk is free with museum admission
RSVP requested to 215-972-2105 or email mzimmerman [at] pafa [dot] org

PAFA will host two March events in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Renowned German artist Christiane Baumgartner will discuss her ongoing investigation into the elasticity of time and the ambiguity of landscape as well as other themes present in her work in a talk illustrated by earlier work in silkscreen and video, Time Motion, Space: An Illustrated Talk with Artist Christiane Baumgartner. Using a sharp knife and enormous blocks of wood, Baumgartner spends weeks, months, and sometimes even a year, translating images from her own film and video cameras into astonishing woodblock prints.

PAFA will also offer In Conversation: Kiki Smith and the Curators of Philagrafika.  In dialogue with Jose Roca, Philagrafika 2010’s Chief Curator and Artistic Director, and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA, artist Kiki Smith will discuss the major themes in her work and an ongoing interest in printmaking techniques and processes about which she says, “Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.”The galleries will remain open prior to both of the events for guests to viewThe Graphic Unconscious.

Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA)
26th & Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia
215-763-8100, www.philamuseum.org
Sunday, March 28; 9:15am – 4:30pm — Sunday Studio: Printmaking Without A Press
Members: $80
Nonmembers: $100, plus $35 supplies fee
*A limited number of scholarships are available, and reservations are required
Instructor: Artist and printmaker Shelley Thorstensen

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) invites visitors to bring ideas, sketches, and photographs as inspiration for a “Sunday Studio,” which will offer instruction on how to make prints and how to create a small body of work without a press. During the studio workshop, participants will become immersed in the printmaking experience as they create relief and frottage prints, and then incorporate their prints into gelatin prints for a layered and thematically rich series. Following the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to view the works of Oscar Muñoz andTabiamo which are currently on display at the PMA as a part of The Graphic Unconscious.

OUT OF PRINT

Philagrafika 2010’s Out of Print projects present programs which highlight the works created by five artists, inspired by their hosting institution’s collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum, the Independence Seaport Museum and the Cruiser Olympia, the Rosenbach Museum & Library, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum
104 S. 5th St, Philadelphia; 215-440-3442; www.apsmuseum.org
Friday, March 5, 2010; 6:30 p.m. – Pass it On, an artist talk at the APS Museum
 Free

Pass It On, an exclusive artist talk with L.A. artist Lisa Anne Auerbach, will offer visitors an in-depth look at The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, Auerbach’s current collaboration with the APS Museum for Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print, which presents an evolutionary twist on classic religious tracts to get the word out about Darwin and his ideas. Auerbach’s completed tracts are displayed in a storefront at 231 N. Third Street, five blocks from the museum. Visitors can peruse all 62 tracts and take what they wish, free of charge. Auberbach hopes that the tracts will “educate, activate, infuriate, explicate, obfuscate, and titillate.” All of the Darwin-inspired tracts are available to view online at www.thetracthouse.com.

The Cruiser Olympia at the Independence Seaport Museum
Penns Landing, S. Columbus Blvd & Walnut St, Philadelphia
215-413-8655; www.phillyseaport.org
Fri. March 26; 3 – 5pm – Cannonball Press, Bounding Billow: Sailors Printing on the High Seas
Free with Membership or Museum Admission; RSVP required, see www.philagrafika2010.org for details

For Philagrafika 2010’s Out of Print, The Independence Seaport Museum will host a live printing event, Bounding Billow: Sailors Printing on the High Seas, with the Cannonball Press collective of Brooklyn, New York who will reanimate the letterpress shop onboard the Cruiser Olympia, as they print their interpretation of the 1895 Navy vessel’s shipboard newspaper, The Bounding Billow. During this live event, the Seaport Museum will also host an ice cream social with Franklin Fountain ice cream for Southern Graphics Council Conference attendees. INDEPENDENT PROJECTS Philagrafika 2010’s Independent Projects, which include nearly 80 additional cultural institutions in the Greater Philadelphia region that have organized exhibitions and events individually, will continue to offer print-related exhibitions and programs throughout the month of March. A schedule follows. For a full list of participating venues and artists, and the full festival schedule, visit www.philagrafika2010.org.

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Philagrafika 2010’sIndependent Projects, which include nearly 80 additional cultural institutions in the Greater Philadelphia region that have organized exhibitions and events individually, will continue to offer print-related exhibitions and programs throughout the month of March.  A schedule follows.  For a full list of participating venues and artists, and the full festival schedule, visit www.philagrafika2010.org.

Independent Projects March Schedule (All events are free and open to the public, unless specified):

Wed. March 3; 6–8pm                      Panel Discussion, Our Lives as Jews: Into the Mainstream of Art and Literatureat thePhiladelphia Museum of Jewish Art
615 N Broad St., Philadelphia; 215-627-6747

Thu. March 4; 6:30–8:30pm              Rare Prints and the Art of Printmaking class
The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia; 215-299-1060
Registration required, space is limited

Fri. March 5; all day                         Site-specific Book Bomb installation
@ Rittenhouse Square
18th & Walnut Sts., Philadelphia
@Christ Church Park
20 N. American St., Philadelphia

Fri. March 5; 5–7pm                         Opening Reception for BUILDING BY THE BOOK: Book Artists Respond to Architecture & Design at Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th St.; 215-925-2688

Fri. March 5; 5:30–8:30pm                Reception, Gallery Talk, and Clay Monoprint Demo
Muse Gallery; 52 N 2nd St., Philadelphia; 215-627-5310

Fri. March 5; 6–9pm                         Opening Reception for “Island Cuba” at Dalet Gallery
141 N 2nd St., Philadelphia; 215-923-2424

Fri. March 5; 7pm                            Opening Reception for Bring Down The Walls! (Just Seeds)
4522 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia; 215-387-3434
$3- $10 donation requested

Sat. March 6; 5:30–8:30pm              Opening Reception for “Beyond Color”
The Chestnut Hill Gallery; 8117 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia; 215- 248-2549

Sun. March 7; 1–4pm                       Opening Reception for “Confluence”@ DaVinci Art Alliance
704 Catharine St, Philadelphia; 215-829-0466

Sun. March 7; 2–4pm                       Opening Reception for “IMPRINTS” at Pagus Gallery
619 W. Washington St., Norristown; 610-272-8484

Sun. March 7; 2pm                          Artist Talk for “Island Cuba” with Charles Anselmo
Dalet Gallery; 141 N 2nd St., Philadelphia; 215-923-2424

Sun. March 7; 2–4pm                       Public Reception for “Wind Prints: It’s in the Air”
Philadelphia City Hall, North Portal

Sun. March 7; 2–5pm                       Opening Reception for “Beyond Color”at The Plastic Club
247 S. Camac St., Philadelphia; 215-545-9324

Tue. March 9; 7–10pm                     “Warning: Graphic Content” Film Presentation/Artist Salon
First Person Arts @ Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr; 610-527-1319
Tickets: $15 ($10: members of First Person Arts or Bryn Mawr Film Institute)

Fri. March 12; 5–9pm                       Opening Reception for “Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe”
Powel House Museum, 244 S. 3rd St, Philadelphia; 215-925-2251

Fri. March 12; 7–10pm                     Opening Reception for David Meyer “Sublimation”
The Skybox at 2424 Studios; 2424 E. York St, Philadelphia; 215-423-1800

Sat. March 13; 1–4pm                      Meet the Artists of “Intersection” at Cerulean Arts
1355 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia; 267-514-8647

 

Sat. March 13; 5–6:30pm                 Opening Reception for “Spark, Borrow, & Steal”
Pentimenti Gallery; 145 N. 2nd St., Philadelphia; 215-625-9990

Fri. March 19; 6–7pm                       The 11th Annual Robert F. Looney Memorial Event
Free Library of Philadelphia; 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia
215-686-5322; Tickets: $20 (Student), $35 (Regular), $75 (Patron), $150 (Benefactor)

Sat. March 20; 9:30am–12pm           Artist in Wartime: Bearing Witness, Shaping a Response Symposium at Swarthmore College’s List Gallery
500 College Ave., Swarthmore; 610-328-7811

Sat. March 20; 10am–4pm               Wharton Esherick Printing Demonstration
Wharton Esherick Museum; Paoli; 610-644-5822

Wed. March 24 & 25; all day            Site-specific Book Bomb installations
@ Rittenhouse Square
18th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
@Love Park
16th Street & JFK Blvd. Philadelphia
@ Washington Square Park
7th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia

Wed. March 24; 6pm                       Open House at Marginal Utility
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia; 917-355-4487

Thu. March 25; 5–7 pm                    Reception for International Print Center New York’s “New Prints, Part II” at UPenn School of Design, Myerson Gallery
210 S. 34th St., Philadelphia; 215-898-8374

Thu. March 25; 5–7pm                     Exhibition Reception and Open House for “Memoir of an Assimilated Family” at Philadelphia Musem of Jewish Art
615 N Broad St, Philadelphia; 215-627-6747

Thu. March 25; 5:30–7:30pm            Opening Reception for “Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography”
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust St., Philadelphia; RSVP requested to 215-546-3181

Thu. March 25; 5:30–7:30pm           Opening Reception for “The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign”
Thomas Eakins House, 1729 Mount Vernon St., Philadelphia; 215-685-0750

Thu. March 25; 6–8pm                     Opening Reception for “Social Remarque: Printmaking & Book Arts” Exhibition at the University of the Arts
Arronson and Hamilton Galleries; 320 S. Broad St, Philadelphia; 215-717-6480

Thur. March 25; 6–9 pm                   Printeresting’s Copy Jam! interactive print event at Art in the Age
116 N. Third Street, Philadelphia; 215-922-2600

Thur. March 25; 7–10 pm                  Exhibition Reception for Space 1026’s Separations Anxiety
1026 Arch St, Philadelphia; (215) 574-7630

Fri. March 26; all day                       Site-specific Book Bomb installation
@ Logan Circle/Ben Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia

Friday, March 26, all day                  Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints from Bart Batzteen
Silicon Gallery’s Old City fine art print studio
2nd & Hancock St, Philadelphia; 215-238-6062

Fri. March 26; 6pm                          Dennis McNett/HowlingPrint Studio’s The Big Takeover (SGC Conference Viking Ship)
To Begin at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Norris St. between 12th St and 13th St, Philadelphia; 215-777-9144

Fri. March 26; 6–9pm                       Crane Arts Exhibition Opening
1400 N. American St., Philadelphia; 215-232-3203

Fri. March 26; 6–9pm                       Exhibition special tour of “Sublimation “at the Skybox at 2424 Studios; 2424 E York Street, Philadelphia; 215-423-1800

                                                                        Fri. March 26; 6–10pm                     “The 1st Annual Little Berlin Print Invitational” at Little Berlin
                                                                        119 W. Montgomery Ave, Philadelphia; 610-308-0579

                                                                        Sat. March 27; 3–6pm    “INTERSECTION” Closing Reception
                                                                        Cerulean Arts; 1355 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia; 267-514-8647

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