Screenprint: Beyond DIY Culture

Themed Portfolio Exchange organized by Myles Calvert

Description

Relating directly to the MAPC theme of “Power of Print: Resistance, Revolution, and Resilience,” artists are asked to respond using only the medium of screenprint.

The rich history of screen-based printing is the ideal medium when addressing industry, mass-production, economic restrictions, speed, incorporation of advancements in technology, and popular culture. These facts are nothing new. Screenprint is also the most accessible, DIY, and effective way of making a print that is precise, bold, and colorful.

Artists are asked to resist and revolt, while using the power of print, by challenging the MAPC 2022 theme with a new twist. Elevate the preconceptions and DIY culture of screenprint by focusing on layers, technology, precision, ink modifiers, surface variation, and concept. Consider the exact terminology used and incorporate them into your own research practice:

Resistance - push and pull, a barrier, not giving in to threat, temptation, a stance, oil and vinegar, masks, layers, blocking light

Revolution - turning the tables, more than an uprising, a message, a vision, a different way or direction, new approaches

Power - with or without it, force, electrical, steam, political, physical, mental, water pressure

About the organizer

Myles Calvert was born in Collingwood, Ontario. He attended the University of Guelph with a focus in printmaking, before travelling to London, UK where he completed his MA in Printmaking, at Camberwell College of Art (University for the Arts, London). Major bodies of work included installations of screen printed toast and the idolization of popular British celebrity culture. During this time, he worked for the National Portrait Gallery before moving to Hastings in East Sussex, to teach printmaking at Sussex Coast College and become Duty Manager of the newly built Jerwood Gallery (Hastings Contemporary). Myles' toast-based work continued with a 43000 slice installation during the Queen’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ with college students, drawing BBC media attention. Recent residencies include: Art Print Residence (Barcelona, Spain), Proyecto’ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Catòlica del Perú) in Lima, Peru, the Tamarind Summer Workshop, and most recently The McColl Center in Charlotte, NC. Myles is currently an Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at Winthrop University, South Carolina.

Participants

Victoria Marie Barquin, Thomas J. Logan, Sheila Goloborotko, Myles Calvert, Mizin Shin, Lisa Turner, Justin Diggle, Justin D. Barfield, Jessie Hornbrook, Heather Huston, Dave DiMarchi, Christina and Dennis Jacobs, Chloe Strang, Ashley Fuchs, Arron Foster, Alison Filley, Alexis Kurtzman

Hours

10am-5pm Sunday

Location

Donna and Stewart Kohl Corridor

Cleveland Institute of Art ground floor

11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland

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