See this spectacular survey of wood engravings all of December 2017 at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington! This exhibition features over forty contemporary and historical wood engravers from around the world. The featured image here is Juniper and Half Dome by Richard Wagener. Several current WEN members are represented including Richard Wagener, Carl Montford, Abigail…
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!…
Roll up your sleeves and learn the historic process of wood engraving with Wood Engravers’ Network member, and print prof, Rebecca Gilbert at the Fleisher Art Memorial Tuesday evenings, September 12–October 14! The materials and tools used for this technique, otherwise known as white line engraving, lend themselves to creating large editions of small and…
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,…
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…
The Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibit opening, Gaylord Shanilec‘s talk and the WEN conference received some press! Check out The Sandpaper’s article: “Wood Engravers Exhibit at Stockton University” published July 5, 2017. Especially nice are the photos in the slide shows found by clicking the photos on the left! The Sandpaper is a news magazine…
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…