WEN wishes Carl Montford a wonderful Birthday! Wish we could all attend his celebration at the School of Visual Concepts on this, the 28th day of December, 2016. Carl Montford is a distinguished Seattle-based artist and longtime Wood Engravers’ Network member who has been working in the graphic arts for nearly five decades. Check…
A lovely triptych of the nativity by Italian artist, Fiorella Mori wraps up 2016. I’m hoping those shooting stars, clear skies and orderly stone roads lead to a bright new year for everyone! Fiorella Mori and her husband Hans occasionally visit a WEN annual summer workshop from Rome, Italy. Fiorella regularly participates in our print…
A longtime member of the Wood Engravers’ Network, Deborah Mae Broad is a talented and active artist who loves animals. Deborah Mae taught Printmaking, Drawing and Bronze casting at Minnesota State University – Moorhead (then Moorhead State University) from 1982 until 2003 when she retired to be a full time artist. She works in a…
A sign-up mistake for WEN calendar months led to a bonus calendar page! Two very talented engravers: Mauricio Cristóbal Cortés Fuentes of Santiago, Chile (image above) and John McWilliams of South Carolina (image below) provided great images – wish November lasted twice as long! Mauricio attended the 2015 WEN Annual Summer Workshop in Cleveland, Ohio…
High School students from a summer writing camp, Words With Wings (organized by the Missoula Writing Collaborative) visited the Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition and Dramatic Movements: Frederic Remington’s Early Engravings, 1882–1893 at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in July and wrote Ekphrastic poems inspired by their favorite works. Catch the WEN Triennial…
Judith Jaidinger’s Spirit of Place (above) seems to be the perfect image for the exhibit’s accompanying lecture “Out of the Wood” by WEN President, Joanne Price. Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition is the second juried exhibition sponsored by the Wood Engravers’ Network. The traveling exhibit features 60 prints by 51 artists from Belgium, Canada, Finland,…
John Hinkel of Tight Squeek Press, a small letterpress shop in northern Minnesota, is the current organizer of the 2017 WEN calendar exchange. Tight Squeek Press is on the second floor at 128 West 1st Street in Duluth, MN. Tight Squeek Press creates limited edition prints, greeting cards and books – all original handmade products…
High School students from a summer writing camp, Words With Wings (organized by the Missoula Writing Collaborative) visited the Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition and Dramatic Movements: Frederic Remington’s Early Engravings, 1882–1893 at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in July and wrote Ekphrastic poems inspired by their favorite works. Catch the WEN Triennial…
High School students from a summer writing camp, Words With Wings (organized by the Missoula Writing Collaborative) visited the Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition and Dramatic Movements: Frederic Remington’s Early Engravings, 1882–1893 at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in July and wrote Ekphrastic poems inspired by their favorite works. Catch the WEN Triennial…
WEN member, Mirka Hokkanen is featured on Boxcar Press’ blog! Mirka is a prolific artist, which is really impressive in and of itself, but especially so knowing she is a mother of two married into army life where they move every three years! The featured image here is Mr. Carpsey, Mirka’s submission for “Seize the…