Wrapping up the 3-year tour of WEN’s 4th Triennial, the Arts Center of St. Peter in St. Peter, Minnesota has put on a stellar show for your holiday shopping needs – displayed mats come with the prints from the wall! Buy your 4th Triennial exhibition catalog while supplies last – those can be ordered online…
The University of Kentucky’s Margaret I. King Library, home to special collections and the King Library Press, is not only hosting WEN’s 4th Triennial Exhibition, it is also highlighting some of the exhibiting artists with a special lecture and a ruling machine demonstration. Kentucky is a hotbed of wood engraving activity the last weekend of…
Join Joanne Price (Starpointe Studio) and assistant Chad Pastotnik (Deep Wood Press) for a Wood Engraving workshop in the south of France October 6-9. Learn the art of wood engraving or simply engrave & study in the 16th century Hotel Jean de Brion / Louis Jou Foundation on a spur of rock in the beautiful…
Belated congratulations to Hilary Paynter on the MBE King’s Honours for services to the arts! The award was presented during the King’s birthday celebrations on Saturday June 17. Many of WEN’s members have been touched by Hilary’s kindness and the recipient of feedback, encouragement, or assistance. Hilary has been a friend, instructor, hero, and advisor…
In case you missed it, WEN Founder Jim Horton compiled a book “Commercial Wood Engraving in the 20th Century” from his collection of Sanders Engraving Company’s archive material – published by The Legacy Press in 2020. It’s an important record of the commercial side of wood engraving in the United States — a rare peek…
USF St. Petersburg campus Nelson Poynter Memorial Library is hosting WEN’s Fourth Triennial Exhibition through the end of April 2023, featuring 65 contemporary relief engravings from artists from around the globe! The exhibit is open during regular Library hours: Mon-Thur 8am-2am, Fri 8am – 6pm, Sat 9am -5pm, Sun 1pm-9pm. Entrance to the library after…
The exhibit is called The Squirrel and the Bear. Eric Bealer’s engravings remain some of the most iconic work produced in Alaska, and they can be found in homes and galleries everywhere. The exhibit installed in Sitka isn’t a wall filled with Bealer’s prints, however, it is a collection of over 50 paintings by Lawrie and…
Announcing WEN’s annual conference – this year in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Thursday June 22 to Sunday June 25, 2023. This year’s conference is an engraving-focused gathering at the Palace Press – bring your burins! Organizer, Nancy Bittner, is planning to provide a 3 x 4 inch block for each participant to work on something.…
Join WEN-Con UK (June 26 – July 7, 2022) participants on Sunday February 26 at 7pm ET (6pm CT, 4pm PT) to hear short presentations (5 or less minutes each) on an aspect of our UK journey last year. Here are the questions that were posed to participants to give them a starting point to…
Join WEN member, artist and editor of the Print, Drawing & Photography Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s newsletter, Scott Ponemone in his third virtual presentation of Wood Engraving History series – this one focusing on non-American artists from 1900–1950 Sunday January 29 at 3pm US/Canada EST (2pm CT, 12pm PT, 8pm London time).…