Tonight: Educators Happy Hour At Paper Politics
Posted September 17, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
We are happy to present this evening by and for educators at Paper Politics: An International Exhibition of Socially Engaged Printmaking. Please come have a bite and a drink and network with other educators working with art and social change---share lesson plans and strategies, see and use the Mobile Silkscreen Unit in action, and enjoy a presentation and discussion with Justseeds' Shaun Slifer and Bec Young, editors of Firebrands: Portraits of the Americas.
Firebrands, Celebrate People's History posters, and other pertinent Justseeds goods will be available for purchase.
Most crucially, see Paper Politics and learn how to bring your students to engage with this exhibition of over 300 handmade prints on issues of our time.
Paper Politics Educators Happy Hour
Friday September 17
5:00-8:00pm
Space
812 Liberty Ave
FREE
(donations requested to cover the cost of refreshments)
6:00 Live silkscreen demonstration with Mobile Silkscreen Unit
(hands-on silkscreen printing ongoing)
7:00 Presentation & Discussion with Shaun Slifer and Bec Young, editors of Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (2010, Microcosm)
Space is free and open to the public
Hours:
Wednesday and Thursday 11:00am-6:00pm
Friday and Saturday 11:00am-8:00pm
Sunday 11:00am-5:00pm
About Paper Politics
Paper Politics is a major collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. The exhibition showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Paper Politics has traveled to a dozen cities in North America and features artwork by over 200 international artists; an eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.
Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing by hand: relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph, collagraph, monotype, and photography. In addition to these techniques, included are more traditional media used to convey political thought, finely crafted stencils and silkscreens intended for wheat pasting in the street. Artists range from the well established (Sue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortez) to the up-and-coming (Favianna Rodriguez, Chris Stain, Nicole Schulman), from street artists (BORF, You Are Beautiful) to rock poster makers (EMEK, Bughouse). In 2009, PM Press published Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, a full-color book to document the exhibition, edited by Paper Politics curator Josh MacPhee.
In Pittsburgh, Paper Politics expands to feature a component of prints from Pittsburgh artists, including youth. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, SPACE and other venues around Pittsburgh will host guest speakers and events exploring the intersection of art and activism, print and social engagement.
About Firebrands:
A Justseeds book published by Microcosm Publishing in May 2010, Firebrands is "full of art, American history, and dangerous information. These beautifully illustrated mini-poster pages showcase radicals, dissidents, folk singers, and rabble-rousers, from Emma Goldman to Tupac, Pablo Neruda to Fred Hampton. As say editors Shaun Slifer and Bec Young in the introduction, the book is for "anyone who has sat trembling with frustration and disappointment in a history class that was neither stimulating nor inclusive. It's for those tired of hauling to classes heavy textbooks that have been carefully removed of anything interesting or useful. It's for all our ancestors, especially those misrepresented in those textbooks, left out because they were too brown, too female, too poor, too queer, too uneducated, too disabled, or because they daydreamed too much." This is a real people's history, a book packed with dynamite, desire, and above all, courage."
Justseeds contributors include: Alec "Icky" Dunn, Mary Tremonte, Colin Matthes, Chris Stain, Melanie Cervantes, Josh MacPhee, Meredith Stern, Kevin Caplicki, Kristine Virsis, Roger Peet, Molly Fair, Erik Ruin, Favianna Rodriguez, Jesus Barraza, Nicolas Lampert, Fernando Marti, Jesse Purcell, Dylan Miner, Pete Yahnke, Shaun Slifer, and Bec Young.
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I know this show has traveled to a lot of locations, but I have yet to see it! I wish I didn't live 13hrs away from Pittsburg, or I'd be there :) I love the poster- Baskin meets Kollowitz
Posted by: Julianne Gadoury at September 20, 2010 10:12 AM