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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today!
Monday Apr 5, 7PM @ Red Emma's
Red Emma's is thrilled to welcome back one of our all-time favorite radical printmakers, the incomparable Josh MacPhee of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, for an evening presentation of his newest book, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, recently released by the lovely folks at PM Press.
Joined by a small collection of local printmakers and engaged artists, Josh will discuss the current state, and history of, print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation, highlighting some of the most interesting examples and techniques that artists are employing today. If you're interested in radical art, or if you make prints yourself, you won't want to miss this talk!
More info on the book from Justseeds:
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today is a major collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. This full color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Based on an art exhibition which has traveled to a dozen cities in North America, Paper Politics features artwork by over 200 international artists; an eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.
Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing by hand: relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph, collagraph, monotype, and photography. In addition to these techniques, included are more traditional media used to convey political thought, finely crafted stencils and silk-screens intended for wheat pasting in the street. With essays by Deborah Caplow, Eric Triantafillou, and Josh MacPhee, as well as short writings on printmaking by over a dozen artists in the book.
Almost all of the Justseeds crew are inside, as well as many other artists, including: Sue Coe, Tom Civil, Christopher Cardinale, Jan Danebode, Sanya Hyland, Emek, Keinom, Klutch, Morgan Andrews, Janet Attard, BORF, Jon-Paul Bail, Brandon Bauer, Rebecca Bughouse, John Carr, Mathew Curran, Art Hazelwood, MEEK, David Lester, Dave Loewenstein, Doug Minkler, Claude Moller, Nicole Schulman, Susan Simensky Bietila, Sixten, Miriam Klein Stahl, Rocky Tobey, Seth Tobocman, and many more.
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