PRESENTERS & DEMONSTRATORS
Jennifer Anderson Print artist & educator, Terre Haute, IN
Barbara Banks Director/Curator, Lentz Center for Asian Culture, Lincoln, NE
Michael Barnes Print artist & educator, DeKalb, IL
Lynne Boyer Print collector, Lincoln, NE
Lisa Bulawsky Print artist & educator, St. Louis, MO
Catherine Clader Curator & educator, Iowa City, IA
Béatrice Coron Papercut artist, New York, NY
Margaret Craig Print artist & educator, San Antonio, TX
Brian Curling Print artist & educator, Lincoln, NE
Maritza Davila Print artist & educator, Memphis, TN
Lydia Diemer Print artist & educator, Iowa City, IA
Tim Dooley Print artist & educator, Cedar Falls, IA
D.B. Dowd Print artist, digital animator & educator, St. Louis, MO
Janice Driesbach Director, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Dika Eckersley Graphic designer, Lincoln, NE
Bob Erickson Print artist & educator, Stevens Point, WI
Robert Glasgow Print artist & educator, Iowa City, IA
Fred Hagstrom Print artist & educator, Northfield, MN
Joan Hall Print artist, papermaker & educator, St. Louis, MO
Outi Heiskanen Print artist & educator, Helsinki, Finland
Adriane Herman Print artist & educator, Portland, ME
John Hitchcock Print artist & educator, Madison, WI
Stephanie Hunder Print artist & educator, St. Paul, MN
Lois James Mixed media artist, Port Townsend, WA
Garry Kaulitz Print artist & educator, Anchorage, AK
Gail Kendall Ceramic artist & educator, Lincoln, NE
Sandy Kita Art historian & educator, Pittsburgh, PA
Lynwood Kreneck Print artist & educator, Lubbock, TX
Inari Krohn Print artist & educator, Helsinki, Finland
Karen Kunc Print artist & educator, Lincoln, NE
Akira Kurosaki Print artist & educator, Kyoto, Japan
Kari Laitinen Print artist & educator, Helsinki, Finland
Jon Lee Print artist & educator, San Antonio, TX
Kyle MacMillan Critic at large, Denver Post, Denver, CO
Dr. Christin Mamiya Art historian & educator, Lincoln, NE
Phyllis McGibbon Print artist & educator, Wellesley, MA
Monika Meler Print artist, West Lafayette, IN
Hugh Merrill Print artist & educator, Kansas City, MO
Tuula Moilanen Print artist & educator, Kyoto, Japan
Greg Murr Print artist, New York, NY
Bonnie O'Connell Book artist & educator, Omaha, NE
Deb Oden Print artist & educator, Lincoln, NE
Gail Panske Print artist & educator, Oshkosh, WI
Jukka Partanen Curator, Grafiikkakeskus, Jyväskylä, Finland
Mark Pascale Curator of Prints, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Todd Peterson Print artist & educator, St. Paul, MN
Judy Pfaff Installation and print artist, Madison, WI
Johntimothy Pizzuto Print artist & educator, Sarasota, FL
Endi Poskovic Print artist & educator, Whittier, CA
Ellen Price Print artist & educator, Oxford, OH
Kathryn Reeves Print artist & educator, West Lafayette, IN
Melissa Rountree Curator of Collections, Hallmark, Inc. Kansas City, MO
Jennifer Schmidt Print artist & educator, Boston, MA
Laurie Sloan Print artist & educator, Storrs, CT
Sarah Smelser Print artist & educator, Bloomington, IL
Mark Smith Director, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Tanja Softic' Print artist & educator, Richmond, VA
T.L. Solien Painter & educator, Madison, WI
Francisco Souto Print & book artist, educator, Lincoln, NE
John Stewart Founder, Amity Art Foundation, Hartford, CT
Carol Summers Print artist & educator, Santa Cruz, CA
Seiko Tachibana Print artist & educator, Oakland, CA
Takeski Takahara Print artist & educator, Ann Arbor, MI
Rochelle Toner Print artist & educator, Philadelphia, PA
Annu Vertanen Print artist, & educator, Imatra, Finland
Richard Vierk Print collector, Lincoln, NE
Valerie Wallace Print artist, DeKalb, IL
Dan Welden Print artist & educator, Sag Harbor, NY
Sarah Whorf Print artist & educator, Los Angeles, CA
John Yau Poet, critic, publisher, New York, NY
Therese Zemlin Mixed media artist, Andover, MA
(others to be announced...)
INSTALLATION ARTISTS
Gary Day Print artist & educator, Omaha, NE
Kyle Olson Print artist, Seguin, TX
Kathy Puzey Print artist, Nebraska City, NE
Janet Williams Ceramist, Marquette, NE
EXCHANGE PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS
"Children of the Corn"
Michael Barnes Print artist & educator, DeKalb, IL
"Symbiosis"
Maritza Davila Print artist & educator, Memphis, TN
"Cultural Landscapes: An Artist Print Exchange
between North Ireland and North America"
John Hitchcock Print artist & educator, Madison, WI
"Political Figure, Exquisite Corpse Exchange Portfolio"
Stephanie Hunder Print artist & educator, St. Paul, MN
"Free Speech Zone"
Garry Kaulitz Print artist & educator, Anchorage, AK
Gail Panske Print artist & educator, Oshkosh, WI
PANELS
"Why Americans Understand Japanese Prints: Changes in the Scholarship on Ukiyo-e"
An art historical perspective on Japanese prints, from the Ukiyo-e
woodcuts to the modern creative print movement, and why Americans
with no special knowledge of Japan can still appreciate and
understand Ukiyo-e.
Sandy Kita
"The Thriving Finnish Printmaking Scene"
A conversation with Finnish artists about their training,
member associations and support, where artists are highly regarded contributors to a rich cultural life in the far north. The influence of Scandinavian design, environment, values on influential artists.
Karen Kunc, moderator
Inari Krohn
Kari Laitinen
Tuula Moilanen
Jukka Partanen
Annu Vertanen
"Keynote Artists Interview"
Moderated conversations with 3 distinguished international artists
to learn about their lives, developments, creative influences, teaching, and
viewpoints on art and life.
Gail Kendall with Outi Heiskanen and
Akira Kurosaki
Dr. Christin Mamiya with Judy Pfaff
"Print Language as Content"
An examination of the relationship between form and content in print works - a focus on printedness. This inquiry begins with the premise that there are inherent "meanings" associated with printed marking languages and our recognition of them may be instantaneous. These "meanings" are transferred to a printed work of art and may become a significant part of it's content, regardless of the specific subject or theme of the work or the intention of the artist. The term "Print Language" is intended to be inclusive - vocabularies of familiar marks derived from traditional drawing based art media, as well as those resulting from print translations of photographic, textual and digital sources. Input from numerous sources has resulted in an expansion of the inquiry beyond "marking languages" to include the visual cues in operation when issues of historical or cultural reference, multiplicity, distribution or target audience are at the core of artistic practice.
This panel will expand the verbal and visual dialogue about ways in which formal issues involving marking languages, procedural methodologies and conceptual intentions support/become meaning in printed works. Do graphic marks and passages have inherent meanings or "known" associations with usage in our culture both within and outside fine art contexts? Is such recognition/ interpretation immediate? Is it universal - does it cross cultural or geographic borders? How has the traditional definition of "formal" been expanded by artists for whom print strategies are very consciously employed to determine meaning, interpretations and response? Is the proliferation of contemporary mixed-media/discipline/dimension works containing printed components a response to embedded meanings in "print language?"
Robert Glasgow, moderator
Lydia Diemer
T.L. Solien
Catherine Clader
Adriane Herman
"Reciprocal Interpretations: Mentor & Protégé"
Teachers and students will analyze each other for an enlightening exploration of artistic developments, creative sharing, and mutual influence. A look at teaching and learning as the ultimate collaborative experience.
Kathryn Reeves
Monika Meler
Michael Barnes
Valerie Wallace
"The State of the Art"
The heart of the conference will be the conversation by those in the know and in the trenches, offering perspectives on print art and the current state of affairs of the art world from the print study room, the critics eye, the academic/administrative arena, the idealism of the young teacher, through the observations of a poet.
D.B. Dowd, moderator
Kyle MacMillan
Mark Pascale
Sarah Smelser
Rochelle Toner
John Yau
"Open Conversation" - moderated discussion groups
All conference participants are invited to continue the conversation in small groups over lunch with designated moderators. These reactions to the State of the Art are the informal comments and discussions that need to be heard and shared as the conversation expands and incites ongoing discussions.
More information on moderators
"Print Media Blitz"
The panel will present topics and questions ranging from woodcut broadsides of the 16th century as the tabloid press of the day to our technologically dependent society as the new cultural norm that has led many artists to various hybrid art forms. A new visual language and didactic has emerged that deals with the fast-paced visual images of the internet and other computer sources without being devoid of human emotion and the psychological depth of the hand-crafted. The world is seeped in the printed image - how does this shape art students thinking, their imagination, ultimately the shaping of their own images. What is the fear that is perhaps embedded behind the question of the relevance of a traditional printmaking education in the world outside academia? This panel speculates on the relationship between technology and culture.
Johntimothy Pizzuto, moderator
Jennifer Anderson
Ellen Price
"Collectors Forum"
What are the passions, knowledge, drive that motivates collectors, the sales job and promotion that sets things in motion, and the institutional goals. Are there ways to strengthen the bond between collector, the institution and the print artist?
Janice Driesbach, moderator
Lynne Boyer
Melissa Rountree
Mark Smith
John Stewart
Richard Vierk
"Poetic Response to Nature"
This panel will examine our cultural attitudes toward nature in which nature is often devalued or taken for granted. While there is a common acceptance that we are facing grave ecological concerns, there is not enough discussion of the attitudes that fostered the devaluation of nature. How can art have a role in changing our values in regard to nature? Artists and ideas will be offered that revolve around understanding the beauty and logic of nature, and which celebrates nature as the basis of spiritual life.
Fred Hagstrom, moderator
Tanja Softic'
Takeshi Takahara
"The Methodical Impulse"
Why are we drawn to repeat ourselves? How have graphic systems shaped our imagination? This roundtable discussion consists of four artists intrigued by the widespread use of multiplicity, repetition, indexing, and accumulation in contemporary art. While repeatable gestures and methodical cycles are taken for granted by those who make prints, many artists are adopting task-based approaches using other media as well. What might this preoccupation with repetitive labor and multiplicity suggest? We will discuss not only the methodical impulse as it related to traditional printmaking but also how its extended practice perhaps reinvigorates our notions about what we are doing, and why.
Phyllis McGibbon, moderator
Brian Curling
Bonnie O'Connell
Jennifer Schmidt
"Out of the Frame: Innovative Installations"
Prints in the broadest definition are being presented off the wall, out of the frame and in alternative formats and arenas. How do these strategies come out of the deconstruction of the print? The use of print theory as the basis for multiplicity, quantity, repetition, sequencing, matrix explorations, has broadened print language and presentations as carrier of message and meaning.
Hugh Merrill, moderator
Lisa Bulawsky
Béatrice Coron
Tim Dooley
Bob Erickson
John Hitchcock
Banquet Presentation: "A Trip to the Printmaking Hall of Fame"
Lynwood Kreneck
DEMONSTRATORS & DEMONSTRATIONS
Click HERE for the Demonstration schedule
Béatrice Coron ‧ Papercutting & Stencils
Bob Erickson ‧ Intaglio Printing
Dika Eckersley ‧ A Book Designer's Perspective
Joan Hall ‧ Papermaking with a Renegade Twist
Outi Heiskanen & Inari Krohn ‧ Etching & Chine Collé
Lois James ‧ Fineline Stencils for Print & Papermaking
Akira Kurosaki ‧ Japanese Watercolor Woodblock Printing
Jon Lee ‧ Non-Toxic Backyard Lithography
Greg Murr ‧ Spatial Explorations in Multiple-plate Intaglio Printmaking
Bonnie O'Connell ‧ Die-cutting via Letterpress for Prints and Books
Deb Oden ‧ Large Scale Etching
Todd Peterson ‧ Reduction Water-base Silkscreen Printing
Endi Poskovic ‧ 4 Plate Woodblock Relief Print Process
Laurie Sloan ‧ Shaped Plate Printmaking - mixed Intaglio and Relief Processes
Sarah Smelser ‧ Serial Monoprinting
Francisco Souto ‧ Mezzotint
Carol Summers ‧ Color Woodcut Printing
Seiko Tachibana ‧ Intaglio Prints and Books
Dan Welden ‧ Solarplate: Multiple Color Intaglio & Relief Printing
Sarah Whorf ‧ Printing on Modified Credit Card Imprinters
Therese Zemlin ‧ Sculptural Prints
Demonstrator sponsored by Nebraska Art Teachers Association:
Margaret Craig ‧ Glue Prints: Press-less Etching
