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A selection of prints by the Los Angeles Printmaking Society

The opening reception is on Saturday June 28, 6 - 9 pm

The California Center for the Arts Escondido Museum

June 28, 2008 – Sept. 28, 2008

From age to age...the crash of ruin fitfully resounds.
William Wordsworth

CONTEMPORARY RUIN
In their inherent aesthetic, emotional or inquisitive appeal, the vestiges of ruin and decay contain, for each of us, a certain level of fascination. A ruin, whether it is architectural, human or environmental, often triggers a stirring experience. These experiences can include the recognition of the uncomfortable signs of mortality or feelings of nostalgia. In its apparent familiarity, or unfamiliarity, a ruin often causes one to feel some level of comfort or discomfort, as one usually ends up confronting the nostalgia of what could have been or has not yet happened.

Directions to Museum

Sept. 21, 2008 through Jan. 11, 2009

The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and LAPS present a juried membership exhibition that explores the idea of identity as interpreted in diverse and numerous ways. The artwork should answer the question of “Who am I and where do I belong?
This exhibit seeks artwork that communicates personal identity in the context of shifting cultural roles and labels. Experimental prints that investigate the subject originally are encouraged.

Artists’ statements are requested and will be displayed along with the selected artwork. LAPS members are encouraged to create prints on the theme of identity specifically for this exhibition.

Entry material due June 30th, 2008 to LAPS Exhibition Chair, Cathy Weiss.

For a full prospectus, download here.

JURORS Maryna Hrushetska is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles
Craft and Folk Art Museum. Patrick Merrill is an artist, master printer and
Director and curator of the Kellogg University Art Gallery at California State
University, Pomona, CA.

ABOUT CAFAM The Craft and Folk Art Museum is located in the Museum Row section of the Miracle Mile district, along with four museums, including the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Since its inception in 1965 as The Egg and The Eye, (incorporated as a museum in 1973), CAFAM has been an active part of the cultural life of the city. The museum’s mission has been to champion cultural understanding by encouraging curiosity about our world through the universal lens of folk art and craft. CAFAM’s curatorial mission is based on expanding traditional views of craft and folk art by incorporating contemporary perspectives on living traditions.

Coming December 2008 LAPS will hold an invitational exchange show with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, at LA ArtCore. The RBP Workshop is a celebrated community based print shop located in New York City. Founded by Robert Blackburn, (1920-2003) an artist and master printer, who was mentored by the Harlem Renaissance alongside Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. Blackburn modeled his workshop on the WPA-sponsored Harlem Community Center. The workshop was founded in 1948 and became the largest non-profit workshop in the United States and remains one of the most vital open print studios in the world. In 1992 Robert Blackburn received a MacArthur Fellowship.
The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is located at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th Street, NYC. Along with an active and diverse artists community, the Foundation maintains a small on-site gallery.

A Stones Throw:
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPW) Exchange Show at LA ARTCORE, BREWERY ANNEX December 4- 31, 2008.

LA ARTCORE, founded in 1979 by Lydia Takeshita to present exhibitions that create dialogues between artists of diverse cultural backgrounds and the art viewing public. LAAC sponsors several exchange shows that bring artists from all over the world to southern California. LA Artcore maintains two beautiful exhibition spaces in downtown Los Angeles at the Union Center for the Arts and the Brewery Annex.

Next Board Meeting is Saturday September 6th at 10:30 AM at Board member Masha Schweitzer's home. RSVP regrets only

Directions to September 6th meeting or contact for more information. All LAPS members are invited. Upcoming exhibitions at LA Artcore, CAFAM and the 20th National are main topics for discussion.

Past Board Meetings:

Saturday, July 19th, 11AM in the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Museum conference center.

Contemporary Ruin

Address: 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760-839-4192

Map to museum

Susanne Mitchell, Can These Bones Live? (3), 2008. Image courtesy of the artist.

All LAPS members are invited to participate and get involved in these projects. We have an exciting and busy year ahead!

The Los Angeles Printmaking Society invites its members to join our Yahoo group. This voluntary group listing will allow members to share information with each other. This forum can be used to announce personal exhibitions, upcoming workshops, presses for sale or any other projects or questions related to printmaking in Southern California.

To sign up go to the following page and hit the join this group button in the right hand side of the screen. Yahoo will guide you through the process.