East Coast Screenprint Biennial, Arts Center of the Capitol Region, Troy, NY (Curated by Nathan Meltz, Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
About: This was the inaugural year of the Screenprint Biennial, now the International Screenprint Biennial, one of the only international biennials dedicated to screen printed artworks. This first presentation of the biennial was an invitational curated by Nathan Meltz, founder of the exhibition.
Invited Artists: Jenny Schmid, Professor of Art At University of Minnesota Twin Cities; John Hitchcock, Professor of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Favianna Rodrigues; Emily Arthur, Assistant Professor of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Travis Janssen, Assistant Professor of Art at Southern Illinois University; Josh MacPhee; Ashley Nason; Adriane Herman, Professor of Art at Maine College of Art; Taryn McMahon, Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University; Lenore Thomas, Associate Professor of Art at University of Pittsburgh; Amanda Lee; Tonja Torgerson, Artist-in-Residence at Lawrence Art Center; Melissa Harshman, Associate Professor and Chair of Art at University of Georgia; Shawn Bitters, Associate Professor of Art at University of Kansas; Amanda Knowles; Sage Perrott; Tim High, Associate Professor of Art at University of Texas at Austin; Crystal Wagner; Florence Gidez; Midwest Pressed (Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson, Professors of Art at University of Northern Iowa); Erik Waterkotte, Assistant Professor of Art at University of North Carolina Charlotte; Dusty Herbig, Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University; Bill Fick, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Duke University; Little Friends of Printmaking; Mark Hosford, Associate Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University; Erik Brunvard; Stella Ebner, Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY Purchase College; Charles Beneke, Professor of Art at University of Akron; Aesthetic Apparatus
Catalogue: Screen Print Biennial Catalogue Sample pages
Press: An unheralded art gets its own space – Times Union
East Coast Screen Print Biennial in Troy | All Over Albany
East Coast Screenprint Biennial Showcases Medium’s Hybridity « PRINTERESTING
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