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Dia de Muertos, Living Presence

9/20/2023

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"Día de Muertos, Living Presence"
​OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 22, 6PM-8PM​
​Open to Public: SEPTEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 10, 2023
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART
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"MADRE DE AYOTZINAPA" Linocut and Mixed Media by Carlos Barberena
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BORDERLINE: CHICANO VOICES SPEAK

8/17/2023

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"BORDERLINE: CHICANO VOICES SPEAK"
​OPENING RECEPTION: AUGUST 23, 5PM-8PM​
​Open to Public: AUGUST 22, 2023 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
TENNESSEE VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART
The word ‘Chicano(a)’ was first used as a derogatory term used towards lower income Mexicans living in the United States. Though originally used as a classist and racist slur, by the 1940’s, Chicano was being reclaimed as a term of pride by Mexican Americans who have a non-Anglo self-image. The title of this exhibit, Borderline: Chicano Voices Speak, was intentionally chosen to engage those very discussions – racism, division, identity and cultural pride.

Borderline: Chicano Voices Speak will feature the voices of Mexican, Mexican-American, and Latino(a) artists whose work also expresses the immigrant experience. The word “borderline” also relates to multiple aspects of this exhibit – a physical division of countries, a social separation of cultural groups, and a psychic division of identities producing the ‘othering’ of people.

This exhibit will feature Juan Fuentes, Carlos Barberena, Celeste de Luna, J. Leigh Garcia, Frank Estrada, Diego Marical Rios, Eugene Rodriguez, Fernando Marti, and Raoul Deal.
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Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9am-5pm; Saturday 10am-5 pm
Admission: $5 for adults, $3 for students, Free for TVAA members
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Carlos Barberena Second Prize of the 13th BIECTR

6/19/2023

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Carlos Barberena Second Prize of the 13th BIECTR, Galerie d'Art du Parc, Trois-Rivières, Québec.
"BIECTR 13"
​Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Riviéres

​OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1:30PM​
​Open to Public: JUNE 17 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
The Biennale internationale d'estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (BIECTR) would like to congratulate all the recipients of the prizes awarded to artists for the quality of their works and their approach during the opening ceremony of its 13th edition on June 17, 2023.
The recipients:
  • Grand Prize of the 13th  BIECTR : Cassandre Boucher – Canada (Quebec)
  • 2nd prize of the 13th BIECTR : Carlos Barberena – Nicaragua / United States
  • Télé-Québec Award: Hélène Latulippe – Canada (Quebec)
  • Loto-Québec Prize emerging artist from Quebec: Cathy Bélanger – Canada (Quebec)
  • UQTR Prize for emerging artists from Quebec: Michelle LaSalle – Canada (Quebec)
  • Paperweight Invitation Prize: Ariane Fruit – France
Honorable Mentions:
  • Olesya Dzhurayeva – Ukraine
  • Cynthia Back – Portugal
  • Carmen Isasi – Spain
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La Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (BIECTR) tient à féliciter tous les récipiendaires des prix décernés aux artistes pour la qualité de leurs œuvres et leur démarche lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture de sa 13e édition le 17 juin 2023.
Les récipiendaires :
  • Grand prix de la 13e BIECTR : Cassandre Boucher – Canada (Québec)
  • 2e prix de la 13e BIECTR : Carlos Barberena – Nicaragua / États-Unis
  • Prix Télé-Québec : Hélène Latulippe – Canada (Québec)
  • Prix Loto-Québec artiste émergent du Québec : Cathy Bélanger – Canada (Québec)
  • Prix UQTR artiste de la relève du Québec : Michelle LaSalle – Canada (Québec)
  • Prix Invitation Presse Papier : Ariane Fruit – France
Mentions honorables :
  • Olesya Dzhurayeva – Ukraine
  • Cynthia Back – Portugal
  • Carmen Isasi – Espagne
Source : BIECTR
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From left to right starting from the bottom: the artists Carlos Barberena, Carrie Phillips Keiser, Cathy Bélanger, Michelle LaSalle, Pamela Dodds, Marilyse Goulet, Lyne Bastien and Phillp Chen, Cassandre Boucher, Yannick De Serre, Hélène Latulippe and Tom Breynaert. © Etienne Boisvert

ESSENTIAL: For Your Colonizer Comfort series by Carlos Barberena

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ESSENTIAL Series by Carlos Barberena Second Prize of the 13th BIECTR
Barberena Statement
"I create to counteract great silences, demystifying “foreign” experience, bridging the distances and bringing awareness to the ways our lives are intimately connected through the lens of justice. Closest to me are ways migrants’ humanity—our memories, attachments, relationships and traumas— is swept aside leaving visible only our work value. In these prints, I honor the farmworkers, most undocumented, whom the US population & Federal government labeled “Essential” in the context of COVID, a so-called honor for their centrality to the food system, while doing little to alleviate their lack of basic rights and vulnerability to exploitation and imminent deportation".
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"Strawberry Fields" Linocut by Carlos Barberena, - ESSENTIAL: For Your Colonizer Comfort -series

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2e prix de la 13e BIECTR : Carlos Barberena - Nicargua / États-Unis. Élisabeth Mathieu, Carlos Barberena et Valérie Morrissette Crédit photo: Étienne Boisvert
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13 BIECTR

6/12/2023

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​Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Riviéres

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"BIECTR 13"
​Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Riviéres

​OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1:30PM​
​Open to Public: JUNE 17 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
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FORA GARIMPO

3/24/2023

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New Print: FORA GARIMPO!

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"FORA GARIMPO" Relief Print, Letterpress & Screen print by Carlos Barberena. Published by La Onda Gráfica. 2023
This print is to raise awareness about the humanitarian catastrophe that the Yanomami indigenous people are suffering, largely due to the disastrous effect of illegal gold mining that has displaced them, brought diseases, child malnutrition, destroyed the land and contaminated the rivers with mercury and poisoning the Yanomami people. Mercury is used for gold mining to extract gold, over 90% of the Yanomami people have higher levels of mercury than the World Health Organization recommends.
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Carlos Barberena at La Onda Gráfica in Houston, Texas
Video by Christian Riquelme kabta.co
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PRINT DETAILS:
FORA GARIMPO! 24" x 18". Relief Print, Letterpress & Screen Print on French paper. Signed by Carlos Barberena. Numbered Edition of 100. Published by La Onda Gráfica, Houston. TX. 2023
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BARBERENA Best in Show at The Contemporary Print

2/12/2023

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Carlos Barberena Best in Show at the Contemporary Print
"PRINTAUSTIN: THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT 2023" Juried by Rashaun Rucker
​OPENING RECEPTION: FEBRUARY 11, 6PM-8PM​
​Open to Public: JANUARY 24 - MARCH 9, 2023
THE ART GALLERIES AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Art Galleries in collaboration with Print Austin is pleased to bring The Contemporary Print 2023 to Gallery 2000 on ACC Highland Campus. The Contemporary Print 2023 is juried by Rashaun Rucker, and gives us fresh perspectives in printmaking by artists pushing boundaries of traditional techniques.
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This year Contemporary Printmaker Carlos Barberena won "Best in Show" at the Contemporary Print 2023 with his artwork title "Madre de Ayotzinapa" Linocut and Mixed Media on wood panel
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"Madre de Ayotzinapa" Linocut & Mixed Media on wood panel by Carlos Barberena.
ABOUT OUR JUROR:  Rashaun Rucker (b. 1978, Winston-Salem, NC) is a product of North Carolina Central University and Marygrove College. He makes photographs, prints and drawings and has won more than 40 national and state awards for his work. In 2008 Rucker became the first African American to be named Michigan Press Photographer of the Year. He also won a nati​​onal Emmy Award in 2008 for documentary photography on the pit bull culture in Detroit. Rucker was a Maynard Fellow at Harvard in 2009 and a Hearst visiting professional in the journalism department at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013. In 2014 Rucker was awarded an artist residency at the Red Bull House of Art. In 2016 Rucker was honored as a Modern Man by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2017 Rucker created the original artwork for the critically acclaimed Detroit Free Press documentary 12 and Clairmount. His work was recently featured in HBO’s celebrated series Random Acts of Flyness and Native Son. In 2019 Rucker was awarded the Red Bull Arts Detroit micro grant and was named a Kresge Arts Fellow for his drawing practice. In 2020 Rucker was named A Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee. Rucker was a 2021 resident at the International Studios and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York and is currently a Mellon Resident at the University of Michigan Institute of Humanities. Rucker’s diverse work is represented in numerous public and private collections.

ARTISTS: Alexandra Zuckerman, Andi Newberry, Angela PIlgrim, Anita Giraldo, Ashley Cecil, Beth Dorsey, Carlos Barberena, Celeste De Luna, Cullen Houser, D. A. Diaz, Delia Touché & Melih Meric, Doug Bosley, Dustin Brinkman, Egor Shokoladov, Emily Gui, Eric Wilson, Erin Wohletz, Greg Bahr, Heather Rachelle Parrish, Jackie Rushing, Jacob Gutierrez, Jesus De La Rosa, Jimmy Dean Horn Jr, Juan Correa, Julie Cowan, Kenna Boles Prior, Kristin Sarette, Linda Behar, Mable Ni, Margaret Craig, Maria Frati, Marika Arellano, Christofides, Michael Weigman, Michelle Martin, Mike Pennekamp, Nicci Arnold, Paloma Núñez-Regueiro, Patrick Barber, Peter Nickel, Princess Rashid, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Sarah Sipling, Shanna Strauss, Stephanie Alaniz, Stephanie Weiner, Summer Zah, Taller Sanaaᴙ (Jessica Sabogal & Shanna Strauss), Tatiana Potts, Teresa Castaneda, Terry Schupbach-Gordon, Tyler Thenikl.

The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College
The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College is an academic gallery program located on ACC Highland Campus. TAG is dedicated to the belief that community engagement with the visual arts produces important dialogues, creates new ideas, and gives voice to diverse viewpoints. The Art Galleries comprises three art spaces: Gallery 2000, Gallery 4000, and TAG Art Lab. In each of these areas, we feature works by emerging and established Central Texas artists and ACC faculty, student, and alumni artists. Through our exhibitions and regular programming, we provide educational experiences that cultivate cultural awareness, critical thinking, and artistic expression as a service to ACC and our local community. More information is available at admc.austincc.edu/tag/ or email us at theartgalleries@austincc.edu.
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Art Review: "Mark of Empowerment"

11/1/2022

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Art Review: ‘Mark of Empowerment’ lets important voices rise above life's daily noise
Anderson Turner / Special to Akron Beacon Journal

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The "Mark of Empowerment" exhibition runs through Dec 20 at the Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron. Courtesy of University of Akron.
In these times of unprecedented information consumption, it’s easy to lose sight of our humanity.

Too often, critical discourse in our communities about how we treat each other gets swept up in whatever “hot button” topic is overwhelming our daily lives. We then lose the ability to see, think and listen clearly. It’s as if all the “informational noise” in the world takes away our ability to empathize with one another.

Art, in all its forms, can offer mental and emotional space so people can digest and think about what the artist is working to relate — perhaps simply because of the physical presence of the artwork in a space.  A person who has chosen to engage with an exhibition has the opportunity to contemplate beyond what we all get to see on our myriad screens.

The “Mark of Empowerment”exhibition has been presented as part of the 2022 Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference “Power of Print” hosted in mid-October by the Kent State University School of Art in partnership with the University of Akron, Cleveland Institute of Art, Zygote Press and The Morgan Conservatory.

Curated by Roberto Torres Mata, this exhibition “reflects on how printmaking takes action to speak out with activism. The work challenges racism, sexism, environmental injustice, social inequalities, infringement upon civil rights, and colonialism.”
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The strength of the exhibition is in the beauty and skill of the artwork, along with the subjects of the artists. The Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron is full of expressive, colorful, deeply important and thoughtful works that can quite simply take your breath away as you walk through the galleries.
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"Burnt Water" by Israel Campos, 2022. Inkjet print on amate paper. Courtesy of Israel Campos
‘Burnt Water, A Prophetic History of California’
“Burnt Water, A Prophetic History of California” by Los Angeles-based artist Israel Campos is certainly one of the standout works in the exhibit.

Presented like a Mayan codex, the work is full of brightly colored illustrations that also pay homage to the Maya in the illustrative style of the artist and in how the work folds out like an accordion.

While it’s not necessarily easy to understand all that is being told in the piece, the fact that we are looking at a detailed work made to look like a Mayan codex is an active commentary in itself, because very little of the Mayan language survived as the Spanish burned the majority of their writing. 
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In “Burnt Water,” Campos utilizes earth tone colors in the background of all the images, contrasting with bright colors for most of the subjects depicted in the overall story to help make the imagery stand out.
The artist's style helps to pull your eye through the length of the piece and keeps you engaged and wanting to look at it more.
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The "Mark of Empowerment" exhibition runs through Dec 20 at the Emily Davis Gallery at the University of Akron. Courtesy of University of Akron.
‘Survivance Series 11 and 12’
“Survivance Series 11 and 12” are two haunting works by artist Monty Little. Little is Diné (Navajo) and from Tuba City, Arizona. He is also a former U.S. Marine.

In these prints, a central image has been obscured by overlaid images of water and black crosses or plus signs that are repeated throughout both works. There are cultural references here, as the cross pattern is a traditional Navajo pattern and water plays a significant role in Navajo culture.
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Little’s work relates what feels like deeply personal experiences. The obstructed view of each subject gives a sense of a cloudy history or even an erased history. It’s as if the artist is trying to help us see but can’t bring things into complete focus because it is no longer possible.
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"The Way Things Are" (1 of 4) by Dakota Mace. 2021. Solarplate chine-collé etching. Courtesy of Dakota Mace.
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"The Way Things Are" (4 of 4) by Dakota Mace. 2021. Solarplate chine-collé etching. Courtesy of Dakota Mace.
‘The Way Things Are’
A series of four dynamic chine-collé etchings by Dakota Mace titled “The Way Things Are” helps bring voice to the artist's subject. Each etching features the same image of an elderly person sitting in front of a wall with text written on it. The work on the far left is as detailed as a photograph. As you move from left to right, each portrait becomes less detailed though the writing remains legible. 
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These works are offset by a wall that is painted orange. This may seem like a trivial addition, however, it helps pull your attention to the work and around the part of the gallery the work is exhibited in.
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"No Human is Illegal" by Carlos Barberena. Linoleum cut on handmade shopping bags. Courtesy of Carlos Barberena.
‘No Human is Illegal’
Some of the most powerful pieces in this exhibit are a series of prints on handmade bags by artist Carlos Barberena. 

“No Human is Illegal,” features an image of a migrant worker carrying potatoes in a 5-gallon bucket. The image has a patterned background and is surrounded in a rococo-style frame with the title of the work written on a scroll going across the bottom. The entire composition is on what looks like a shopping bag.

This is a fairly obvious commentary about capitalism, wealth and the ways in which we maintain our economy, and our politics. An illustrated image like this challenges our notion of who these workers are and helps humanize the subject. 

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“Mark of Empowerment” does more than give visitors a “moment” to ponder reality through what might be an unfamiliar lens. It also gives a voice to people who are too often drowned out through our more conventional means of obtaining information.
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The importance of visual arts' ability to communicate and as at the curator states “challenge the status quo, preventing inequities in systems and rejecting establishments,” in exhibitions like this one cannot be overstated.
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"Regional Far" by Darick Wycherly. 2020. Handmade paper lithograph. Courtesy of Darick Wycherly
Anderson Turner is director of the Kent State University School of Art collection and galleries. Contact him at haturner3@gmail.com.
Exhibit: Mark of Empowerment
Where: Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron
When: Through Dec. 20
Hours: Monday–Friday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
More information: 330-972-6030 or uakron.edu/art/galleries
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Carlos Barberena CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series at APSU

10/10/2022

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Art + Design welcomes celebrated printmaker Carlos Barberena to kick off CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series

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"EXODUS" Linocut Print by Carlos Barberena. 2019
(Posted on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022)
The Department of Art + Design, with support from The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome celebrated printmaker Carlos Barberena to kick off the 2022-23 CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series season.

“This marks the sixth year that I have been at the helm of the Visiting Artist Speaker SeriesCommittee,” said Michael Dickins. “And this year is just as exciting as the others. It is an honor to be able to bring world-class artists to Clarksville on a regular basis. We’re kicking off this season with Carlos Barberena, a contemporary Nicaraguan printmaker known for his relief prints and his use of images from pop culture, as well as from political and cultural tragedies.”

Barberena’s lecture will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Heydel Hall (Room 120 of the Art + Design building). The lecture is free and open to the public.
He’ll also work with Austin Peay students during his visit to create new pieces.
“During Barberena’s visit, he will be working with our printmaking professor, Patrick Vincent, and some of our students to create a new print edition of his work,” Dickins said. “One of the pieces in the edition will be donated to APSU’s Art Collection. This will increase our collection of contemporary prints that we’ve been building over the past few years. Two of the pieces will be donated to CECA to go toward fundraising initiatives, so it’s possible that a community member will not only support CECA and its programming but also own an original work by Carlos Barberena.”

Counteracting silence in the face of repression
Barberena’s work consistently reflects on the cycles of repression and resistance and its relationship to the diaspora in which he has lived, throughout dictatorship, revolution, erasure, renewal, hope and repression. In his prints, he centers such life experiences occurring far beyond his country. At times he evokes them with satirical images, at others, through the mundane, unseen things people carry, such as memories, attachments, relationships and traumas.
He creates to counteract the great silence in the face of repression occurring globally, believing we are all intimately connected to it. He looks to demystify the “foreign” experience, to bridge the distances that life across any border or wall produces, but also, the difference in the content of these experiences. Barberena creates to bring awareness to the interconnectedness among them, focusing on the struggle for social, political, economic and environmental justice.

He has received various awards, most notably The Elizabeth Catlett Memorial Award, 2021 MAPC Juried Exhibition, University of Iowa; DNSPE Purchase Award 2022, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas; Second Prize, Ninth Annual Art Competition at the Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago; SPARK Grant Award, Chicago Artist Coalition and the Joyce Foundation; Cross Currents: Intercambio Cultural, Chicago-Havana, 2017-2019, MacArthur Foundation International Connections; National Printmaking Award 2012 given by the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture in Managua, Nicaragua; Parchemin d’Honneur, 8 Triennale Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale, AMAC, Chamalieres, Auvergne, France; Revueltas Award for Visual Arts 2019, Pilsen Fest, Chicago; and the award-poster for the Ecology and Human Rights in Banana Plantations in Costa Rica, given by GEBANA in Berlin, Germany.

Barberena, who lives in Chicago, has artwork in many public and private collections. For more on Barberena and his work, visit his website or follow him on Instagram @barberena.
For more on this lecture, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu. For future CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series events, visit www.apsu.edu/art-design/exhibitions-speakers/visiting-artists.
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All events are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.
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Mark of Empowerment

10/3/2022

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Linoleum Prints by Carlos Barberena 2020

"MARK OF EMPOWERMENT"
​Curated by Roberto Torres Mata

2022 Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 5:00PM - ​
EMILY DAVIS GALLERY, MYERS SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON, AKRON, OH
​Open to Public: OCTOBER 10 - DECEMBER 16, 2022
Resilience. Artists are granted the freedom to imagine a world that is logical and communal without restrictions. Having a powerful spirit of resistance has influenced and led to great thinkers, poets, and visionaries. The exhibition, Mark of Empowerment, honors the incredible legacies that inspire communities to stand up for their rights and freedoms. The power of print has not only changed the course of history, but has revolutionized the way people engage with their imagination. This exhibition reflects on how printmaking takes action to speak out with activism. The work challenges racism, sexism, environmental injustice, social inequalities, infringement upon civil rights, and colonialism.
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These artists are in constant defiance as they speak out about their beliefs and inspire others to take action by visually creating new perspectives. In this exhibition, artists present work that investigates the role of resistance, revolution, and social activism by utilizing printmaking as a tool to provoke reflection and action. Some use commentary, and when examined closely, all reveal a distinct message. These works also represent conflict in public spaces. In this present moment, it is more crucial than ever to challenge the status quo, preventing inequities in systems and rejecting establishments. This exhibit demonstrates art as a means to educate people about complex social issues that will engage the viewers to become a part of a movement or begin one.

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Marco Sánchez, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Barbara Justice, Adriana Barrios, Juana Estrada Hernández, Enrique Chagoya, Ernestro Yerena Montejano, John Hitchcock, Guerrilla Girls, Christie Tirado, Israel Campos, Kathryn Polk, Kill Joy, Monty Little, Dakota Mace, Ash Armenta, Derick Wycherly, Jennifer Mack, Elizabeth Jean Younce, Chema Skandal, Carlos Barberena, Emily Arthur

About the Mid America Print Council
The Mid America Print Council is an educational and community-based organization that focuses on all print-related arts. Embracing both time-honored and innovative approaches, we promote awareness and appreciation of traditional and contemporary forms of printmaking. We are an inclusive association for individuals and institutions, administering the sharing of technical and critical information regarding print. Honoring our predecessors, we aim to bring new and sustained interest to this unique medium. Active on multiple platforms, MAPC is an organization that provides members with access to a network of printmakers, resources, opportunities, newsletters, and a biennial conference that features speakers, workshops, panels, shows, and exchanges. Through calls for participation, we organize members’ exhibitions and publish The Mid America Print Council Journal. Our goal is to recognize, advocate, and continue research in historical, current, and future print technologies. Learn more at midamericaprintcouncil.org.

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Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2022

2/17/2022

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2022 DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION 
​Juried by Miranda Metcalf

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 5:00PM - ​
BRADBURY ART MUSEUM, ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, JONESBORO, AR
​Open to Public: FEBRUARY 17 - MARCH 30, 2022
Founded in 1996 by Evan Lindquist, the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition has received great acclaim as it has grown to be one of the country’s foremost annual competitions for prints.

The Delta National Small Prints Exhibition was created with students in mind. It is meant to be a resource for printmaking students and instructors to view and assess contemporary standards of printmaking as they develop over time. This creates an environment for learning opportunities and creative thinking, promoting new ideas which stretch the limits of the medium. In addition, it is an outreach program which serves as a resource for the region, bringing attention to printmaking as a medium but also sharing the variety of stories told by each individual piece.

There are few restrictions to the eligibility of this renowned print competition. Photographs are allowed in addition to prints as a means of giving the image priority over the technique. Unusual approaches are encouraged - unique impressions and digital imagery that are historically excluded from print exhibitions. This allows and encourages artists to push the limits of printmaking and creatively express themselves in new and revolutionary ways.

The range of images shown in DNSPE represents the spectrum of contemporary printmaking. Many artists work with traditional materials that require meticulous precision such as wood and metal engravings. On the opposite side of the print spectrum, the digital and technological influence of photographic processes and digitized images presents itself more each year.
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"Undocumented" Print by Carlos Barberena selected by juror Miranda Metcalf for the DNSPE 2022
Each year, a juror reviews all submissions and selects which ones will be exhibited. The juror for DNSPE 2022 will be Miranda Metcalf, the founder and host of Hello, Print Friend – a contemporary printmaking podcast. With an archive of over 100 episodes with artists and print advocates from over 20 countries on 6 continents, Hello, Print Friend is the most extensive archive of interviews from the print world on the internet. Miranda planted the seeds for her love of printmaking with five years as director of Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington, before moving to Sydney, Australia, and working with Cicada Press.

All jurors seem to agree on one fact, that the selection process is very difficult. Looking at hundreds of prints and narrowing the selection down to 55-60 in a few days is no subtle undertaking. Jurors continuously comment on the wide variety of techniques and imagery from both emerging and established artists who create an overview of what is happening technically and conceptually across the nation.

The original concept of DNSPE was developed around a dream to make Jonesboro, Arkansas an epicenter for art and culture. This has proven true in the growth of our significant collection of contemporary prints from around the world. As part of the exhibition, BAM strives to give back to the artists who contribute to this exemplary exhibition by purchasing a large portion of the show to add to their permanent collection, but it would not be possible without the support of the amazing group of community members who provide purchase prizes and exhibition support each year.
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Viewing hours are Tue-Sat 12PM-5PM. For more information about Bradbury Art Museum or to learn how you can support future exhibitions, please call (870) 972-3687.
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