annie bissett

printeresting:

In case you were wondering what a $138 apron looks like.

It must be the leather straps.

Stellar lineup!

ipcny:

IPCNY is pleased to announce the complete artists lists for New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013 selected by Andrew Raftery: Lynne Allen, Kathy Aoki, Miguel Aragon, Katie Baldwin, Kristin Becker, Mildred Beltre, Allison Bianco, Douglas Bick, Doug Bosely, Alice Leora Briggs, Veronica Ceci, Liz Chalfin, Ann Chernow, Nick Conbere, Madeline D’Aversa, Amze Emmons, Richard Falle, Leslie Golomb, Art Hazelwood, Ellen Heck, Marco Hernandez, Yuji Hiratsuka, Jill Ho-You, Erik Hougen, Cary Hulbert, Jon Irving, Hans Johansson, Gabriela Jolowicz, Mehrdad Khataei, Joyce Kozloff, Brian Kreydatus, Dinh Q. Lê, Jim Lee, Kate Logue, Joseph Lupo, Nicole Maloof, Michael Menchaca, Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Florent Morellet, Kurt Pammer, Ryan Parker, Ester Partegàs, Lynn Peterfreund,  Kahlil Rintye, Jenny Robinson, Bill Salzillo, Hannah March Sanders, Jesse Shaw, Dan Steeves, Ivanco Talevski, Matthew Van Asselt, Art Werger, George Whitman, Michelle Wilson and Erin Woodbrey. 

"You are a bear lost in a forest, and there is an old woman with long gray braids baking pies for you, and your job is to keep following the smell of pie. That’s your job—learning how to keep turning toward what is most delicious to you."

Sydney Cohen’s advice to art students. Read more → (via sfmoma)

Congratulations to Smith College class of 2013!
love, Northampton

itscolossal:

The Human Printer. Unlike any other printer the human printer generates the printed product by hand by reproducing CMYK halftones created on the computer.

(via artistsmakingart)

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Sopheap Pich. Buddha, 2010. Woodblock print.

Ralph Kiggell is still one of my favorite contemporary mokuhanga artists.

lifeinfluxus:

Orb - Ralph Kigell (2011)

Class Picture: Another piece for my book, “God Is Our Witness.”

This is one of 46 blocks used to create Helen Frankenthaler’s mokuhanga print Madame Butterfly. It looks like all 46 blocks can be found at the National Gallery of Australia.

hlmcmordie:

I wish that my woodblocks looked like Helen Frankenthaler’s.

(block from Frankenthaler’s Madame Butterfly)

A Trusted Critic (good in life and in art)

tricycle-tumbles:

“If you really want to become skillful in your thoughts, words, and deeds, you need a trustworthy friend to point out your blind spots. And because those spots are blindest around your unskillful habits, the primary duty of a trustworthy friend is to point out your faults—for only when you see your faults can you correct them; only when you correct them are you benefiting from your friend’s compassion in pointing them out.”

—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Power of Judgment”