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…
The WEN 2016 annual summer workshop kicked off with a presentation from Finnish visiting artist, Inari Krohn. Inari talked about her approach to wood engraving using some untraditional end grain woods such as cherry, juniper, and more. Her unique combination of different processes is refreshing and beautiful, merging wood engraving, Japanese water-based woodcut and intaglio.…
May 24th through the 28th, members of the Wood Engravers’ Network will converge upon Bryan, Texas at the Purple Turtle Studio (also known as The Frame Gallery). Mirka Hokkanen, ( http://www.mirkah.com/about/ ) our fearless and patient hostess and organizer has put together a wonderful schedule of events: https://wenworkshop2016.wordpress.com/schedule/ and arranged to have a special visiting graphic…
The annual Summer Workshops are a highlight of the group – not technically a “workshop,” they are closer to a conference – featuring activities that are part social, part educational and part dedicated work-time. An especially coveted feature of the workshops is the saturation in wood engraving among practicing artists and the free, open exchange…
Gallery talk by Michael McGarvey, Stockton University Professor of Art and participating artist Wednesday, February 3 at 2:30pm WOOD ENGRAVERS’ NETWORK TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION January 19 through March 24, 2016 (closed 3/12-20) Featuring 60 prints by 51 artists form Belgium, Canada, Finland, Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Juried by Joan Boudreau, Curator of…