#printmaking collective

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(Polly E. Perkins, “Woodstork Portrait”, 2022 from Ferman Center for the Arts)

24 Hands is a printmaking collective of Florida Gulf Coast printmakers founded by Marjorie Greene Graff. The group has regular exhibitions throughout the year at various locations in the area.

Recently a group of their artists were showing work at The Ferman Center for the Arts, on the University of Tampa’s campus. Below are a few selections from that exhibition.

For more information on Polly E. Perkins, whose work is in the first image, check out her Instagram.

Linda Dee Guy, "Botanical Shroud", 2021, acrylic, Inkjet print, Goldleaf on canvas

Linda Dee Guy, "Nucleus", 2021

Linda Dee Guy, "Seascape", 2021

For more work by Linda Dee Guy, check out her website and Instagram.

Serhat Tanyolacar, "Untitled", 2020, Laser engraved relief print

Serhat Tanyolacar, "Untitled", 2020, Laser engraved relief print

For more work by Serhat Tanyolacar, check out his website.

Ry McCullough, "Meditations in Orange", 2021, Pochoir, serigraphy, gouache, watercolor, vinyl, gaffers tape on okawara

For more of Ry McCullough's work, check out his website and Instagram.

Currently at Brooker Creek Preserve's Education Center in Tarpon Springs is Nature Inspired, another exhibition of work by the 24 Hands collective.

From the exhibition-

For “Nature Inspired”, the artists visited Brooker Creek Preserve in March 2022 and March 2023 to strategize the exhibit and hike around the Preserve. Their love for Brooker Creek and nature has been inspiring and their work represents a variety of approaches from comical to realist to aesthetic abstraction. The exhibition includes prints by: Holly Bird, Saumitra Chandratreya, Tyrus Clutter, Elizabeth Coachman, Marjorie Greene Graff, Mary-Helen Horne, Stephen Littlefield, Ry McCullough, Polly E. Perkins, Christine Renc-Carter, and Rachel Stewart.

Below is work from the exhibition by Mary-Helen Horne. You can also find her work on Instagram.

Mary-Helen Horne, "Floating on Air", 2023, Monoprint with drypoint, relief and pochoir

Nature Inspired has been extended until 8/13/23. It's a great show and a chance to check out the natural surroundings that helped create the work.

[cozybao]

🏡 my zine "what if we were…" is part of a series of 4 risograph zines by nonbinary sapphic artists. it traverses love found in tangible objects we hold dear to us 🍎

this zine was created with photographs and scans of my collection of anik-anik, trinkets, and ephemera over the years. 🏡

preorders are open for the 2nd week of komiket pride (jun 14-16)! 🍀

🍏 us preorders - kittybug press

🍊 ph preorders - cloud burst press

[internationalemeteorologie]

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Arum lilies. 1919 White-naped crane. 1927 Overblown strelitzia. 1934

[itscolossal]

Over 25 Years of a Pioneering Collective’s History Comes Together in ‘Trailblazing Women Printmakers’

[hclib]

Remembering Jody Williams, 1956-2023

In August, I met with Minneapolis book artist Jody Williams. We gossiped about other artists, talked about tiny things, and she shared stories about her life-long love of books and her chaotic 1960s childhood, growing up near Chicago with five siblings. But the real reason she was visiting was to sell old work from her archive. I've been buying Jody's work for the Hennepin County Library's Book Arts and Fine Press Collection for over a decade, but didn't have any of her early work and wanted to better document her legacy as a book artist. She brought with her nearly all of her books--work spanning over thirty years as a book artist--and it all fit in just one box. Jody's work is tiny.

She had the first editioned artists' book she ever made, her first book housed in a box, her first book under the name Flying Paper Press, her first book printed in her own studio, a book about phobias, an alphabet bestiary jack-in-the-box, books which melded her training in printmaking and metalworking, and her semi-annual periodical devoted to tiny things, among others. What they all had in common was their diminutive size, Jody-designed font, and impeccable precision. We now have 20 of Jody Williams' books in our collection.

Jody died on October 17, 2023, after a long battle with cancer. She will be missed and will be remembered fondly for her contributions to book and printing arts in the Twin Cities.

Jody's books will be on display at Minneapolis Central Library starting in mid-December 2023 through February 2024.

[muspeccoll]

This deck of playing cards is from a series engraved in southern Germany ca. 1496, and is believed to commemorate the marriage in that year of the future King Philip I of Spain (son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I) to Joanna the Mad (daughter of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile). Instead of hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds, these cards use chalices, swords, pomegranates, and polo sticks.

The University Libraries and a private collector are partnering to make an extensive collection of medieval and early modern materials available to scholarship through digitization. These materials do not belong to the Libraries, but the scans are freely available for use in research and teaching. See more in the University of Missouri Digital Library.

[fancypantsrecords]

Various Artists - Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania | iam8bit | 2022 | "Monkey Ball" Pink & Clear Split | /1000

[uwmspeccoll]

Good Bye!

This is my last post as Special Collections Graduate Intern. I am now a Master of Fine Arts and I am using this post as an opportunity to share some of my own work.

My Dress, is an accordion-folded artists book printed from four hand carved linoleum blocks. Two blocks on each side of the single sheet, yellow and a deep navy. Conceived of in 2021, published in 2023 as a small boxed edition of 4. This copy will be a part of the UWM Libraries' Special Collections.

The book was a part of my thesis exhibition, In Here, Out There. My exhibition was about the work of 'becoming' queer, work typically done in safe interior spaces, like our homes where we can play and experiment with our how we perform gender. The work of 'becoming' queer involves orienting oneself towards objects that allow you to imagine new possibilities of being. In this book that object is my dress that I carefully select from my closet and pull on over my head, I then joyfully fly through the apartment and the book to the mirror in which I appreciate the work I have done.

I will be staying in Milwaukee; I love this city and have an amazing supportive community here. I will have a studio at the House of RAD and I will be teaching workshops at Anchor Press Paper and Print! Including one on creating a linocut accordion fold book, much like this one. So, keep a look out!

Also, come and see Boyfriend Material, an exhibition of Queer Milwaukee based artists, including myself, curated by artist and curator, LaNia Sproles. Open May 22 – July 15, 2023 at the Brooks Stevens Gallery, located at MIAD, 273 East Erie Street, Milwaukee.

Follow my work on Instagram @teddylepley, and on my website Teddylepley.com.

Read more posts by Teddy! Read more Fine Press Friday Posts!

Thanks for reading! Too-da-loo,

Teddy Dean Lepley III, M.F.A.

[leafcreature]

New batch of Fuzzy Things !

6. Newt

7. Mushroom

8. Sword

9. Video Tape

10. Pill Bug

[ravenfeet222]

Look who showed up in my mail this morning!! <33

[katarinanavane]

My latest large hanging curio collection piece! Featuring dozens of individual 2d and 3d art pieces alongside nature items and other curiosities. Plus, glow in the dark! Second photo in the dark to show the glowing. And I played around in some sections with "floating" and "antigravity" effects on some specimens, which you can see better in some of the detail shots. I'm really happy with this one, I've been working on it for a while!

[lost-wits]

A Shell, Josef Sudek, c. 1953. Olomouc Museum of Art.

[internationalemeteorologie]

Max Ernst

Red Flower. 1954

[thewonkywheels]

Fun little cards available in my shop! ♥️🥰

[fkartcreations]

[dec0mposing]

Nigel Brown, The Broken Lemon Tree (1982) Linocut on paper