Banner Flags of Resistance and Revolution

Themed Portfolio Exchange organized by Noah Breuer

Description

In this exchange portfolio, artists were invited to create printed, vertically-hanging banner-flags on paper, fabric or other substrates that broadly relate to the Mid-America Print Council 2020 Conference themes of Resistance and Revolution. Artists were invited to create prints in any medium no larger than 11”x18” and affix their prints with ¼-inch grommets attached to the top corners for hanging.

Prints could be cut into a variety of shapes in order to reference medieval banners, sports pennants or maritime flags. Because all of the flags are affixed with grommets, they are able to be displayed from a wall by pins or nails or along a horizontal string or hung from the ceiling. Each of these flags reflects the participating artist’s unique take on the MAPC 2020 Conference themes through the lens of identity, community, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or political agenda. Together, the flags act as a public declaration of the participating artist’s values, beliefs, or aspirations.

About the organizer

Noah Breuer is an American artist originally from Berkeley, California. His creative work examines themes of family, identity, labor and diaspora. His current project examines the visual legacy of "Carl Breuer and Sons," his jewish family’s former textile printing business, founded 1897 in Bohemia and seized by the Nazis in 1939. Breuer holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University and a graduate research certificate in traditional woodblock printmaking and paper-making from Kyoto Seika University in Japan.

Breuer’s recent solo exhibitions include Cabbage at VisArts (Rockville, MD 2021), Heirloom at Penn State University Altoona (Altoona, PA, 2020), Something Borrowed / Something Broken, at Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL, 2020), CB&S Werkstätte at Spudnik Press (Chicago, IL 2019) and Lucerna at Left Field Gallery (San Luis Obispo, CA 2018).

His artist books have been published by the San Francisco Center for the Book, as well as, Small Editions in Brooklyn, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Breuer currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY.

Participants

Leslie Diuguid, Grayson Cox, Hedya Klein, Mika Aono, Atlan Arceo-Witzl, Leslie Friedman, Syd Webb, Todd Irwin, Kyle Peets, Sarah Smelser, Ethan Brown, Ashlee Mays, Dutes Miller, Michael Neff, Noah Breuer

Hours

11am-4pm Tuesday through Saturday

Closed Sunday and Monday

Reception

6-8pm Thursday October 13

Location

3rd floor Atrium

Cummings Center

University of Akron

Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.