PRINTFEST

EXHIBITIONS

a celebration of  printmaking featuring the work of

April Katz

 

events are free — all are welcome

Solo Exhibit: April Katz
May 25 – July 13, 2019
Community Gallery
Learn more about Measured Perceptions
 
Print Retrospective
May 25 – August 17, 2019
Main Gallery
Learn more about Twenty Years

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2019

Artist Talk

6pm in the COMMUNITY GALLERY

April Katz

 

Panel

6:30pm in the MAIN GALLERY
  • Moderator: April Katz
  • Dawn Bratsch-Prince (Spanish convivencia as cultural transmission)
    Medieval Spain, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultural traditions coexisted and mingled in fruitful ways known as convivencia. We will look at how Spanish convivencia ensured the transmission of classical knowledge through the work of the school of translators of Toledo.
  • Daniel Klass (Eternal Patterns)
    He will discuss how numerical patterns and templates manifest in Arabic grammar, as well as in the Islamic artistic imagination.

 

Opening Reception: Measured Perceptions

7pm in the COMMUNITY GALLERY

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019

Artist Talk

6pm in the SMALL WALL GALLERY

AJ ZANDT

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2019

Receptions for Octagon Print Exhibitions &

Sidewalk print demonstrations

5pm – 9pm
  • Andy Schmidt: screen printing t-shirts
  • Cody Sherman: woodcut printing on t-shirts

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019

Welcome & Festival Details

9:00am – 9:30am in the MAIN GALLERY (3rd floor)

Artist’s Interview

9:30am – 10:30am in the MAIN GALLERY (3rd floor)

A conversation with David Tim & April Katz

Panel: How to Continue Printmaking Beyond School

11:00am – 12:00pm in the MAIN GALLERY (3rd floor)

  • Moderator: Kristen Greteman
  • Amanda McInerney (cooperative print shops)
  • Asa Wentzell-Fischer (print publishing, etc.)
  • Cameron Gray (internships)

 

Open Portfolio

1:30pm – 6pm in the DANCE STUDIO (2nd floor)

Exhibiting artists and other local ISU alumni will present their work on banquet tables alongside one another. This is free and open to the public. Most of the work will be available for sale.

 

Print Demonstration

1:30pm – 3:30pm in the North Studio (2nd Floor)

Eric Robinson (subtractive woodcut)

 

Print Demonstration

5:00pm – 5:30pm  in the North Studio (2nd Floor)

Jon Vogt (pressure-printing with stencils) In preparation for the Mono-Print-A-Thon!

 

Mono-Print-a-Thon & Collaborative Group Printing

7:30pm – 10:00pm in the North Studio (2nd Floor)

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019

9:30am – 9:45am in the Main Gallery (3rd Floor)

Luis Rico-Gutierrez (College of Design Dean)

 

Panel: Alternate Approaches to Printmaking

9:45am – 10:45am in the Main Gallery (3rd Floor)

  • Moderator: April Katz
  • John Anderson (Be Fruitful. Let Others Multiply.)
  • Cody Sherman (How to print a t-shirt with a toaster)
  • AJ Zandt (Make, Observe, Respond)
  • Andy Clarridge (Deconstructed and Reimagined)
  • Paige Holzbauer (Lost and Found Lithography)

Tour of 505 Press & Print Demonstration

11:00am – 1:00pm at 505 Press, 505 Northwestern Ave.

Asa Wentzel-Fisher (stone lithography)
Paige Holzbauer assists

Print Demonstration

2:00pm – 4:00pm at 505 Press, 505 Northwestern Ave.

Paige Holzbauer (mokulito/wood lithography)

Questions? Please contact exhibits@octagonarts.org

A special thanks to the following for providing funding:

• The College of Design

• The Department of Art and Visual Culture

• The University Print Society (Print Club)

• City of Ames Commission on the Arts

• The Institute of Design Research and Outreach (IDRO)

• The Octagon Center for the Arts