The Wood Engraving Museum is taking shape at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum: Jim Horton’s generous donation of materials, labor, vision and artifacts for the Wood Engraving Museum are a real inspiration! We are so excited about this collaboration with Hamilton! The first-floor Wood Engraving Museum will be ready for use and display for…
The Wood Engravers’ Network’s 25th Anniversary 2019 Annual Summer Conference at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum Dates: Monday, July 29 to Saturday August 3, 2019 Concentrated Conference dates: July 31–August 3, 2019. (Guest artist presentation, lectures, events, etc scheduled for these dates.) Location: Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, (HWTPM) 1816 10th St, Two…
The Wood Engravers’ Network Third Triennial Exhibition is coming to the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA from April 20th through June 22nd, 2019! The Exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Saturday, April 20th, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., featuring a gallery talk and wood engraving demonstration by Evan Charney at 1:30 p.m. The event…
Come view WEN’s Third Triennial Exhibition at Asheville BookWorks November 1, 2018 through January 31, 2019! WEN is honored to have partnered with Asheville BookWorks for at least eight years – having hosted several wood engraving workshops, a WEN conference and all three of WEN’s traveling exhibitions. You won’t want to miss this exhibit there…
In past blog posts we featured prints from WEN members for “Seize the Carp,” a collaboration between the Wood Engraver’s Network and the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. They were designed and carved by engravers and then printed at Hamilton on Neenah Classic Crest, 100 lb. cover, Bare White. At 9×9 inches each print…
The cover of the Japanese translation of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”, is graced with the WEN’s Editor’s engravings of his wife’s (many) sweetgrass braids. Tony says “I cut this engraving for the WEN calendar, and about the same time Jeanne [Tony’s partner] was reading Robin’s book, and really liking it (I too have read…
WEN member Gerard Brender à Brandis is the Canadian publisher, The Porcupine’s Quill’s Author of the Month! But of course, Gerard’s hundreds of drawings, wood engravings and watercolours could easily be celebrated for more than one month! Check out Gerard’s highlighted books from The Porcupine’s Quill here and see his exhibition below: Engravings from A Gathering…
Wow – what a great conference! A thousand thanks to Susan Lowdermilk and the Eugene Printmakers group for making our week in Oregon extra memorable! Horse Creek Lodge was a great home base and the University of Oregon (Eugene) revealed some wonderful local treasures. Here are just some of the many fun things that we…
Looking for venues to exhibit your wood engravings? Well, here are a few: Society of Wood Engravers 81st Annual Exhibition entries due to arrive in the United Kingdom before June 30, 2018. The Society of Wood Engravers’ 81st Annual Exhibition is an open submission and all forms of relief printmaking are eligible. Prints from the…
WEN member, Gerard Brender à Brandis has produced hundreds of drawings, watercolors, and engravings of plants, landscape, buildings and musical instruments. Gerard’s garden and studio are in Stratford, Ontario Canada. This wood engraving is titled Dodecatheon meadia. Commonly called “shooting star,” this wild flower grows naturally from southern Manitoba through Wisconsin, west to Pennsylvania, D.C. and…