The California Printmaker
The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers
2020
Variations on a Theme: How Printmaking in a Series Influences the Artist and the Art
Table of Contents
- Seriality as Strategy and Technique by Jill Ho-You
- The Value of Asking “What If?” by Emily Stokes
- Push Repeat and Play by Babette Cooijmans
- Aesop’s Fables Works In Series by Dan Welden
- Evolutionary Robotics: Automatons Across Graphic Media by Nathan Meltz
- Immediately Intimate by Niamh Fahy
- State Proof Lithography as a Narrative by Peter Nickel
- Mixed Emotions—a Series to Grow and Recover by Hailey Quick
- Variations on Variations on a Theme by Jane Gregorius
- The Unfolding Narrative by Caroline Case
- Telling Yarns by Denise M. Smith
- Propelling a Series: Project Volumina by Karen Kunc
- Capturing the 4th Dimension by Toru Sugita
- The Vocabulary of Sadness by Liz Wolf
2019
Social Statements
Table of Contents
- Sugar Blues: Silkscreen Using Chocolate Ink on Sugar Plates by Kamil Zaleski
- Between Image and Text by Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro
- How Politics Impact Printmaking—One Central Valley Perspective by Jared Barbick
- Printmaking as a Vehicle for Social Change by Lars Johnson
- Chicano Hybridity by Tony Ortega
- Transforming Printmaking: From Self-Reform to Social Change by Yasuyo Tanaka
- Welcome to the Game: Human Trafficking in America by Sarah Serio
- Johannesburg Printmaking as Collective Practice by Roxy Kaczmarek
- Printmaking, Politics and Society in New Detroit by Eno Laget
- On Press: Making Visible an Unseen Detroit by Lynne Avadenka and Lee Marchalonis
- Activism and Aesthetics by Robin McCloskey
- The Sleep of Reason: The Woodcuts of Hans Weiditz by Brian D.Cohen
- Resignation by Marcelo Román Kopp
- Polluta, the Floating Paradise by Michelle Kuen Suet Fung
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2018
The New Print: Marriage of Technology and Tradition
Table of Contents
- Sensing Surface; Making Sense by Randy Garber
- Under Siege: Strategies of Print, Preservation, & the Variable Copy by Jenn Law
- Technology & Touch: Intention & Serendipity in San Francisco & Reykjavík by Carrie Ann Plank and Robynn Smith
- Between the Archival & the Ephemeral; Thoughts on New Technologies in Printmaking by Masha Ryskin
- The Digitally Created Pigment Print: A Marriage of Technology & Tradition by Sydell Lewis
- Innovation in Action by Liz Chalfin and Sheldon Carroll
- Mark To Impress by Maria G Pisano
- The Versatile Screenprint: High-Tech Tools & Traditional Forms by Pantea Karimi
- Experimenting with Innovations in Printmaking, An Interview with Beth Fein
- Peter Milton: Going Farther, Going Digital by Brian D. Cohen
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2017
Evolution of Process
Table of Contents
- Tracing the Arc of Creative Pursuit—The Advancement of the White-Line Color Woodcut by William Evaul
- Echoes from the Past by Ian Chamberlain
- Trusting the Process: Making Etching Images as Poetic Laboratories with Safer Printmaking by John Graham
- Printed Fabric: A Personal and Global Evolution of Process by Tobin W. Keller
- Rolf Nesch and I—The Evolution of the Metal Collagraph by Bill Ritchie
- Finding Crooked Creek by Marissa Angel
- Invoking Mythic Women Project, Project Directed by Barbara Furbush, Reported by Kate Mulligan
- Imprints of spaces by Marine Lefebvre
- An Unconventional Printmaking Process Using Clay by Bonnie Randall Boller
- Aquatint photo-etching with acrylic floor finish by Mike McGovern
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2016
Collaboration
Table of Contents
- Sphere Project: A Collaboration on a Grand Scale
- Book Bombs: Narrative Prints in a Public Space
- Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here!
- Save the Oceans
- Navigating Liminal Terrain
- When Printmaking Collaborates
- Combining Methods: Bob Rocco & Signblast Tape Stencil Relief Printing Journal Article Technicale
- Close Encounter of the Collaborative Kind
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2015
Residencies: A Closer Look
Table of Contents
- CSP AIR
- Carrie Ann Plank / Paul Mullowney, Master Printer: Direct Gravure at Mullowney Printing
- Joanna Kidd / John Gruenwald, Master Printer: Stone Lithography at Gruenwald Press
- Toru Sugita / Thomas Wojak, Master Printer: Screen Printing at The W.O.R.K.S. “Pushing the Boundaries”
- Residencies Remarkable
- Residencies: Evolution of Experience by Barbara Foster
- On Residencies: Dan Welden by Susan Howe
- The Canging World-wise Face of Printmaking by Frances Valesco
- Constellation Studios: New Resideny Program by Karen Kunc
- A traditonal Workspace Alternative by Dana Harris
- 2014 Commissioned Print by Jonathan Barcan
- CSP’s First Annual Print Exchange by Betsy Barnam
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2009
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Joan Finton
- Angelica Carrasco interviewed by Gloria Morales
- Kim Fink edited by Peter McCormick
- Shari Arai DeBoer interviewed by Linda Yoshizawa
- Calixto Robles by Joan Finton
- Shane Weare interview by Lila Wahrhaftig
- AV Pike interviewed by Ginger Tolonen
- Robin McCloskey interviewed by Linda Yoshizawa
- Sylvia Solochek Walters by Joan Finton
- Anthony Lazorko interviewed by Joe Ramos
- Juan Fuentes interviewed by Gloria Morales
- Sarah Sanford interviewed by Ginger Tolonen
- Alice Gibbons interviewed by Lila Wahrhaftig
- George Woodward interview by Peter McCormick and Joe Ramos
- Mary Tift interview by Joe Ramos
2008
A photo essay
2007
Prints in All the Wrong Places, Art Hazelwood, guest editor
Table of Contents
- San Quentin
- Prison Block Prints, Katya McCulloch
- On the Street
- Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca,
- Calixto Robles
- Celebrating Secret History, Josh MacPhee
- The Industrial Revolution of Street Art,
- Ryan ‘Mose’ Benford
- Graphic Collectives in the Mission, Calixto Robles
- 30 years of political posters, Lincoln Cushing
- San Francisco Print Collective
- Middle of the Road Prints, Jenny Robinson
- Without Housing, DeWitt Cheng
- Exhibitions
- Yo! What Happened to Peace?, Mark Vallen
- Art and Intimidation, Stephen A. Fredericks
- Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex,
- Carol Wells
- Paper Politics, Josh MacPhee
- Propaganda III, Art Hazelwood
- Where Will it End?
- Weaving Prints into Tapestry, Nick Stone
- Screenprint into Billboard, Favianna Rodriguez
- Muertorider, Artemio Rodriguez
- Corn in the Service of Revolution,
- Great Tortilla Conspirators
- Art and Disability: NIAD Printmaking, Joan Finton
- Prints in All the Wrong Places:: In the Paper of Record?
- OP – ed – Art, Frances Jetter
2005
Traces: Chiaroscuro to contemporary printmaking
Table of Contents
- Collaborating Through a Medium: A New Chiaroscuro Woodcut After Parmigianino by Andrew Raftery
- Additive/Subtractive Method with Chine Collé in Four Color Intaglio Printmaking by Yuji Hiratsuka
- David Smith-Harrison: An Unconscious Dialogue Through the Centuries by Mary B. Moorhead
- About Printmaking as an Indirect Art by Herlinde Spahr
2000
Guest Editor: Raymond Wilson
Table of Contents
- Printsaurus and the Nature and Status of Prints:
- Artist Cooperatives in Japan by Koichi Kiyono
- More on Printsaurus by Yuriko Miyoshi
- A Brief Introduction to Modern Printmaking in China and Taiwan by Arthur Mu-Sen Kao
- Important Exhibitions of Printmaking by Taiwanese
- Artists in 1999 and 2000 by Chung You-hui
- The Australian Print Workshop by Anne Virgo
- The Printmaking Scene in Manitoba by Dan Dell’Agnese
- A Brief History of the Print Club of New York by Marvin Bolotsky
- New York City Commercial and Non-Profit Printers and Publishers
- for Printmakers by Roberta Waddell
- The Icelandic Printmakers’ Association by Valgerdur Hauksdottir
- Eastern European Printmaking Trends by Ondrej Michálek
- The Alchemy of Oleg Denisenko or the Knight of the Silver Key by Oleg Dergachev
- “Graphic Life” in the Ukraine by Oleg Dergachev
- Prints and Printmaking at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Meira Perry-Lehmann
- Where Did They Eat? by R.L. Wilson
- Of Pressure and Printmaking by Herlinde Spahr
- Pacific Prints 2000 by Edith Smith
- CSP Artist Profile: William Wolff by Louis Girling
1999
Guest Editor: Sandy Walker
Table of Contents
- Interviews: Alex Katz, Janet Bishop, Doris Simmelink, Karin Breuer, Ruth Fine, David Bonetti, Sheila Marbain, Anne Morgan Spalter
- Comments by Pat Gilmour from the Print Collectors’ Newsletter
- Pat Gilmour by Robert Conway
- Portrait of Two Bay Area Collectors: Harry and Herta Weinstein by Robert Dance
- Cooperative Galleries in General: The Washington Printmakers
- Gallery in Particular by Carolyn Pomponio
- The Artist and the Internet: Marketing 101 by Roxane Gilbert
- On the Edge of the Century by Louis Girling
- Faultlines/Watermarks: What’s in a Name? by Laura La Forêt Lengyel
- Reflections on Small Works at the Claudia Chapline Gallery by Joanna Present
- CSP Artists Speak: Robert Brokl, Joan Finton, Art Hazelwood, Daniel Robeski, Herlinde Spahr
- CSP Artist Profiles: Kate Delos by Richard Whittaker, Linda Lee Boyd by Benny Alba
1998
Guest Editor: Robin McCloskey
Contributors: Linda Lee Boyd, Robert Brokl, Leona Christie, Jessica Dunne,
Sherana Harriette Frances, Roxane Gilbert, Jane Gregorius, Art Hazelwood,
Karen Kunc, Jimin Lee, Laura La Forêt Lengyel, Barbara Milman,
Glen Rogers Perrotto, Daniel Robeski, Gary Shaffer, Herlinde Spahr, and
Frances Valesco
