Current & Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events:
MARK OF EMPOWERMENT
“MARK OF EMPOWERMENT”
Curated by Roberto Torres Mata
2022 Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 5:00PM –
EMILY DAVIS GALLERY, MYERS SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF AKRON, AKRON, OH
Open to Public: OCTOBER 10 – DECEMBER 16, 2022
Artists:
Marco Sánchez, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Barbara Justice, Adriana Barrios, Juana Estrada Hernández, Enrique Chagoya, Ernestro Yerena Montejano, John Hitchcock, Guerrilla Girls, Christie Tirado, Israel Campos, Kathryn Polk, Kill Joy, Monty Little, Dakota Mace, Ash Armenta, Derick Wycherly, Jennifer Mack, Elizabeth Jean Younce, Chema Skandal, Carlos Barberena, Emily Arthur
Current Events:
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2022
“Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2022“
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 5:00PM
ON VIEW:
FEBRUARY 1 – MARCH 30, 2022
BRADBURY ART MUSEUM
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, JONESBORO, AR. USA
REFUSING ERASURE
Southern Graphic Council International
SGCI Conference: March 16–19, 2022
SGCI Our Shared Future printmaking conference is a call to artists to consider how our studio practice makes culture and knowledge visible through socially engaged graphic arts of the past, present and future. Printmaking can deepen our understanding of the world, inherently challenge systems of oppression and can push against histories of colonization, unwarranted violence and systemic racism. Artists share in the responsibility to shape our future. Overture Center is proud to join the Our Shared Future conference and UW–Madison in our commitment to respect the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the other First Nations of Wisconsin.
Artist Statement
For me, art is a powerful form of communication that I employ to reflect on and question the issues that we encounter in a consumer society.
Some of my prints are focused on the work of activists who have defended their communities; I am interested in the histories and cultural inheritance that inspire these struggles, representing them through the images in the prints.
My work has also always focused on demonstrating the interconnectedness of migrants’ experiences to different spaces. My work is also focused on the unseen things people carry: memories, attachments, relationships and traumas. As a migrant myself, I have always been attentive to the ways that people ignore my humanity, sweeping aside all these elements of my experience.
My prints also take a critical point of view to corporation-friendly governments that are indifferent to environmental pollution and promote policies against immigration, labor rights and socio-political injustices.
ON VIEW:
December 2, 2021 – March 11, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, DEC 3 AT 5:00 PM
Open Gallery Hours: (Beginning Dec. 2)
Monday – Friday 10:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
LATINO ARTS INC. 1028 S 9TH ST. MILWAUKEE, WI 53204
About Carlos Barberena
Carlos Barberena (b.1972) is a Nicaraguan self-taught Printmaker based in Chicago, where he runs the printmaking projects: Bandolero Press & La Calaca Press. He is also a member of the Instituto Grafico de Chicago.
Barberena is known for his satirical relief prints and the use of images from pop culture, as well as from political and cultural tragedies. In his art, he has consistently reflected on the cycles of repression and resistance and its relationship to the Diaspora in which he has lived, throughout dictatorship, revolution, erasure, renewal, hope, dictatorship and repression. His prints center these types of life experiences occurring far beyond his country. He creates to bring awareness to the interconnectedness among them, focusing on injustices of social, political, economic and environmental injustice. At time he evokes with satirical images, at others, through the mundane, unseen things people carry: memories, attachments, relationships and traumas.
Cafe con Arte:
January 27, 2022
8:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
*This exhibit was supported in part by a grants from the City of Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to all of our sponsors.
Past Events:
February 9, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Carlos Barberena
Carlos Barberena is a Nicaraguan self-taught Artist / Printmaker based in Chicago, where he runs the printmaking projects: Bandolero Press & La Calaca Press. He is also a member of the Instituto Grafico de Chicago. Barberena has exhibited individually in Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and The United States of America. His work has been shown in Art Biennials, Museums, Galleries, Cultural Centers and Universities around the world.
All 2021-22 lectures will be FREE and offered virtually as pre-recorded events. Series supported in part by the UWM Black and Gold Committee & Differential Tuition funds, Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, The Queer Curatorial Fund, Print Club, and OBJECT.
Dates/ Time:
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Virtual Free Event:
This lecture will be available as a pre-recorded virtual event. The link to the recording will be posted the following day at arts.uwm.edu/artistsnow
Print Austin Presents: The Contemporary Print
Print Austin Presents: “THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT” Juried by John Hitchcock
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 7 – 10 PM
ON VIEW:
January 14 – February 15, 2022
BIG MEDIUM GALLERY 916 Springdale Rd Bldg 2, #101, Austin, TX 78702
MAPC 2021 Members' Juried Exhibition
Gráfica América at Taller 99, Chile
Gráfica América Print Portfolio at Taller 99, Santiago, Chile.
On View: September – October, 2021
Gráfica América presents works by artists representing print shops, publishing houses, and artist collectives from throughout the United States, México, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The exhibition celebrates the collaborative spirit of printmaking through historical prints and publications as well as contemporary traditional and experimental works made in collective studios and workshops established by Latin American and Latinx printmakers.
Gráfica América, is organized by the Museum of Latin American Art and is curated by Gabriela Martínez, MOLAA Curator of Education and Rogelio Gutiérrez, Professor of Printmaking at Arizona State University – School of Art.
Gráfica América en el Museo del Grabado ICPNA
“Gráfica América” Print Portfolio
OPENING RECEPTION: TUESDAY, MARCH 16TH, 12:00PM
ON VIEW:
MARCH 16 – MAY 29, 2021
MUSEO DEL GRABADO ICPNA
Av Javier Prado Este 4625, 15023 La Molina, Lima, Perú
Gráfica América at Museum of Latin American Art
Gráfica América presents works by artists representing print shops, publishing houses, and artist collectives from throughout the United States, México, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The exhibition celebrates the collaborative spirit of printmaking through historical prints and publications as well as contemporary traditional and experimental works made in collective studios and workshops established by Latin American and Latinx printmakers.
Gráfica América, is organized by the Museum of Latin American Art and is curated by Gabriela Martínez, MOLAA Curator of Education and Rogelio Gutiérrez, Professor of Printmaking at Arizona State University – School of Art.