Aug 29, 2023
In s3e34, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Jason Scuilla, artist and professor at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. The university is hosting the Mid America Print Council conference in the fall of 2024, and Jason was eager to talk about the conference and its call for proposals of all sorts. The deadline...
Aug 22, 2023
In s3e33, Platemark podcast host Ann Shafer talks with Ruth Lingen, printer and owner of Line Press Limited, located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Line Press Limited does just about everything except screenprinting. Ruth is a jack-of-all-trades, and loves book arts the most, from papermaking to typesetting...
Aug 20, 2023
What is it about prints and printmaking that draws such fervent
practitioners, collectors, and fans? How are prints relevant to all
our lives? What do all those people in the "print ecosystem" do
anyway? Give Platemark a listen.
Platemark podcast's host Ann Shafer looks at prints and printmaking
in the context of...
Aug 15, 2023
In s3e32 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer speaks with Ad Stijnman, an independent scholar of historical printmaking processes, specializing in manual intaglio printmaking techniques. He is also a professional printmaker.
Ad is the go-to guy on all sorts of things. When he speaks, we listen. Beaming in from Amsterdam, our...
Aug 8, 2023
In s2e29, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about Claude Lorrain, the arbiter of landscape painting in the 17th century. He worked most of his life in Rome and elevated landscape as a subject up the academic hierarchy by including small figural groups and naming the compositions with mythological or...