Did you miss the debut of the newest Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial exhibit this summer at Stockton University? Here’s your chance to see a re-mix of the exhibit at Stockton University’s Noyes Museum of Art starting August 30! Opening reception is Thursday September 21, 6-8pm Exhibition dates are August 30 through October 28. There’s more!…
WEN’s multi-talented Editor, Tony Drehfal doesn’t waste his summers! Drehfal explains the subject of his charming August calendar page: “The image was inspired by a lovely bronze sculpture I saw as I walked the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, after a tour of their wonderful collection of wood engravings and books (the tour part…
WEN member, Jim Todd has a new book out! Looney Toones: World War II Drawings 1941–1945, Interpretive Wood Cuts 2000–2016 by James G. Todd, JR. was published by the Montana Museum of Art & Culture‘s University of Montana Press, featuring woodcuts inspired by the artist’s childhood drawings. The drawings reflect influences from comic books, WW…
An interesting conference for art historians, archivists, museums and artists that aims to standardize how matrices are cataloged, handled and shared: ‘The Matrix Reloaded: Establishing Cataloguing and Research Guidelines for Artefacts of Printing Images.’ Check out the Graphic Arts Collections’ (Julie Melby) blog about the conference: https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/08/06/blocks-plates-stones/ Our friends from the Society of Wood Engravers,…
Earl Nitschke is one of the founding members of the Wood Engravers’ Network. He hasn’t been able to join us at the annual workshops since 2012 due to health issues. But now he’s back to engraving and sending out his wonderful postcards and we couldn’t be happier!
William Myers (St. Paul, Minnesota) is a longtime member of WEN – from the very beginning actually. His engravings are colorful, technical and alluring all at once. Myers is a book artist primarily working in wood engraving, woodcut, letterpress, and printing from found objects. His work has shown at the Myles Reif Performing Arts Center,…
I always enjoy seeing the joy of discovering a new medium – especially when it is wood engraving and especially when it is in Finland! WEN member Mirka Hokkanen taught a beginning wood engraving class in Finland May 12-14th at the studio of Jaana Paulus in Jorvas (about 30 min from Helsinki). Mirka was kind…
Rooted in Minnesota, Schanilec is best known for his own writing and illustrations on regional topics as wide-ranging — and esoteric — as St. Paul’s now-demolished High Bridge, Mississippi waterfalls and “Mayflies of the Driftless Region.” An award winner at the 2005 Oxford Book Fair, the “Mayflies” book involved four years of research ……
Our first visit in Philadelphia was Temple University’s Special Collections Research Center with Josue Hurtado, Librarian and Coordinator of Public Services, and Kimberly Tuley, Curator of Rare Books. Kimberly had a wide selection of work for us to view including the Kelmscott Chaucer, which was bound in white goatskin. William Morris’ work really set a…
Our conference guest artist, Gaylord Shanilec organized our first stop at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. John Bidwell, Astor Curator and Department Head, provided valuable context and insight to the items we viewed – a huge highlight of the journey was seeing Gustave Doré engraved blocks. Many of the wood blocks…