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…
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. This is the last…
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. You can see the…
The Society of Wood Engravers has launched its submission forms for the 79th Annual Exhibition which will open at 44AD Gallery in Bath on October 11, 2016. To submit work, you need to download TWO documents: the submission form AND either instructions for submissions from the United Kingdom OR for submissions from overseas. Prints must…
GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art (Greensboro, NC) presents Gallery Nomads Asheville, June 23 through August 24, 2016, an exhibition highlighting North Carolina’s regional art centers. Asheville BookWorks‘ founder and WEN member, Laurie Corral represents the cause with Beer City Prints. “‘Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder,’ a quote by Kinky Friedman, sets…
The University of Montana’s Montana Museum of Art and Culture is hosting the Wood Engravers’ Network Triennial Exhibition June 9 – September 17, 2016. We are so excited to have the exhibit at MMAC – our group doesn’t get that far west too often and it’s doubly exciting to see our contemporary engravings along side…
On our last day together several of us went to view the Texas A&M University’s Entomology collection. While these insects may give some the creepy crawlies – I was in heaven! I have been working on an artist’s book of beneficial insects and so seeing these specimens and talking with Mirka’s husband, Hee Kim –…
On the fourth day of the WEN annual workshop we enjoyed many activities, including an exhibit of wood engravings curated by WEN and Mirka Hokkanen at the Art Council of Brazos Valley’s Texas Gallery. There were some wonderful works on view from Mirka’s private collection in addition to the WEN traveling exhibit. The Sead…
The Cushing Memorial Library at A&M University was most warm, welcoming, and well presented. The 15th Book History Workshop was in session during our visit and we met many new friends with similar interests. The weather was a little uncooperative with a tornado scare, flash flooding and torrential downpours that had us wading through fast…
WEN 2016 Summer Workshop participants had the privilege of visiting the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s wonderful resources including the Museum’s current exhibitions as well as the Works on Paper Study Center and the Special Collections Library. A book about wood engraving tools Carl Montford shows images on his phone of the slow progression of…