2021
Prints in Relief; Print Study Day Presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Speakers
- Nadine Orenstein — Moderator — Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Silvia Urbini — Independent scholar and co-curator of the Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice
- Melanie Herzog — Professor Emerita of Art History, Edgewood College, and Senior Lecturer in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Rachel Mustalish — Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Print Study Day is organized annually by the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with the IFPDA. The speakers represent a range of perspectives and approaches on the theme of relief prints — woodcuts and linocuts — to offer insights into old master woodcuts as well as the media’s use by modern and contemporary artists.
“A Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts.”
“‘To Put Art to the Service of People’: Elizabeth Catlett and Prints for Black Liberation.”
“Linocuts: Making and Meaning.” Linocuts, also called linoleum or lino prints, are a unique 20th century medium that developed a particular visual language due to both the materials used in the printing process and the artistic climate in which they flourished. This talk looks at the techniques artists use to make linocuts and how the inks, papers, and printing methods contribute to the appearance of the final print. Contextualizing the prints, including printmaking artifacts, within the aesthetics of a place or period further adds to the understanding of linocuts as works of art.
