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…
Current members should expect to see renewal forms in the mail soon. If you’d like to join, please email Joanne Price: info@woodengravers.org and I’ll send information OR visit our membership page! WEN membership benefits include the Block & Burin (WEN’s journal), published every Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter, featuring articles, events, news and announcements. One of the…
The Friends of the University Library of The University of Texas at El Paso have selected Loom as the 15th Carl Hertzog Award for excellence in book design! Loom is a collaboration between Richard Wagener of Mixolydian Editions and David Pascoe of Nawakum Press. See the article here Watch a video of the making of Loom
Welcome to the new Wood Engravers’ Network website! We love the new design, but mainly we are interested in getting more news, images and exchange ideas to our members and others interested in wood engraving. We have been fortunate to have expert Stockton University Visual Arts instructors Michael McGarvey (WEN Web Master) and his colleague,…
Prolific and profound, WEN member, John McWilliams’ prints and books are featured in Haley Institute of Contemporary Art’s exhibit, PROPHECIES, January 22 through March 5. “Full moon hangs over the marsh. A strong wind from the southeast, clouds move across the moon’s face. Light is falling. Time has opened. Prophecies reside in everything. Windows to…
WOOD ENGRAVERS’ NETWORK TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION January 19 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 the Graphic Arts Collection at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History. Wednesday, February 3 at 2:30pm Gallery…
Red Deer Museum, 4525-47a Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada October 10, 2015 through January 31, 2016 Opening reception October 18 at 2pm WEN member, Jim Westergard’s retrospective, “Crocky Rocky Prairie Fairy: Prints and Drawings by Jim Westergard” – chronicles “a practice defined not only by a high degree of technical ability and craft but also…