Morgan Conservatory's Summer Workshops

Join us this summer for a workshop in book arts, papermaking, or printmaking!

The Morgan Conservatory’s Summer Workshops are open for registration. This year we are pleased to offer 30 workshops including several focusing on book binding and book arts techniques. The Morgan Conservatory seeks out nationally recognized artists and educators to teach workshops in book binding and book arts, hand papermaking, and printmaking.

Additional workshop descriptions, full teaching artist’s biographies, and registration are available online here http://www.morganconservatory.org/workshops-by-category, or by calling, 216.361.9255.

To view a list of all upcoming summer workshops please click here.

Call for Entries from Monotype Guild of New England - Feb. 1 deadline!

Call for Art- Diablo Printmakers Guild First Annual National Juried Exhibition

The Diablo Printmakers Guild, a printmaking student organization at Arizona State University, is hosting a juried exhibition, juried by professor Mary Hood.

The exhibition celebrates the art of the print. All 2D works of all print methods which include a hand-pulled element will be considered. Limited sized of 22" x 30".

All entry fees go to assist students in collaborative projects, exhibitions, and attending conferences.

Deadline: January 10, 2016
Entry Fee: $20

More information about the submission process here.

Jay Fox ~ Milwaukee, WI

Jay Fox ~ UW-Milwaukee, WI
“Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. “ -Benjamin Franklin

I think Ben was on to something when he said this, and the deeper I get into building up an MFA exhibition the more I need to remind myself of this.  I am currently working between my subterranean paper studio, the ground level woodshop, and the “towering” print facilities and studio. Switching gears to transition between spaces has been tricky, but a good full day will utilize all three (sometimes successfully).

To understand what draws me to fastidious and ingenious studios you must understand my previous roles in studios. I have been lucky enough to follow an academic path that has provided printmaking, woodworking, and (at times) papermaking studios when I required them. The only catch, I managed most of those studios for a few years. I became a broken record of studio etiquette, preaching to students and sneaking in work around the academic calendar’s lulls.