PAN and the Art of Printmaking - Part 1: Virtual Lecture

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Too often, as we consider art, we find ourselves appreciating how something looks even as we do not understand how it was made. On the occasion of the exhibitions, PAN: Prints of Avant-Garde Europe,1895-1900 and William H. Bradley and The Chap-Book from the Collection of Richard H. Driehaus, we offer a two-part, interactive experience that will illuminate the experimental artistic techniques and methods that made PAN so revolutionary in its fin-de-siècle moment, and show how its artists forged a path for the next century’s vanguard approaches to printmaking.

In Part I, Bridge Journal Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman will be joined by Deborah Maris Lader, founder and director of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative for a lecture. Together they will delve into how and why artists who produced avant-garde magazines, manifestos, and other publications employed a variety of ancient and modern techniques. Punctuating each historical highlight, Lader will demonstrate a historic technique (such as a woodcut, etching, or lithography) and reveal how artists used, manipulated, and evolved it and other processes over time.

In Part II, on the Saturday following the lecture, Lader will host an interactive demonstration showing the progression of printmaking technologies, with a particular emphasis on etching techniques. The workshop will run for two hours and take place at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative at 4912 N. Western Avenue in Chicago.

Tickets may be purchased separately or click here for a specially-priced package to attend both events.