Manhattan Graphics Center

MGC will be part of the offerings at Powerhouse Arts as part of Open House New York. https://ohny.org/

RSVP for this group Artist Talk on Monday Nov. 4 6:30-8:30pm featuring recent Printmaking Fellows Ariel Wolf, Chrissy Brimmage,José Daniel Benitez, and Mickey Aloisio. You'll also get a peek at MGC's new space at Powerhouse Arts. https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/artist-talks

Our next session of Composition & Critique with Nandini Chirimar starts tomorrow Sept. 10 online! To reserve your spot visit https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/book-online?category=7513a0f2-f520-4d1d-8589-5599a6149fe0&page=

https://gofund.me/c34411e8

Donate to Support MGC's Exciting Move to Brooklyn, organized by Manhattan Graphics Center MGC is on the move! Building on our nearly 40 year history, Manh… Manhattan Graphics Center needs your support for Support MGC's Exciting Move to Brooklyn

We’re thrilled to finally share the news that after 13 years in our current location on the 5th floor of 250 W 40th, we’re packing up and bringing our community print studio to !

We are so excited about what this new space and our new neighbors will bring.

More details to follow, but for now MGC will be closed for the summer as we make the move and anticipate our full launch in September.

Be sure to sign up for Community Day at Powerhouse Arts (PHA) to tour the facility, meet partner organizations, and participate in demos and activities around PHA.

Powerhouse Arts Community Day
June 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
RSVP: https://powerhousearts.org/event/powerhouse-arts-community-day/

Finally, moving a print studio is an enormous job. If you are able to contribute in support of our efforts, please visit the GoFundMe we’ve set up: https://gofund.me/c34411e8

Great screenprinting workshop today with !

A few scenes from our Adventure in Monotype class with .

We’re really excited about our Screenprinting Workshop with Du-Good Press on April 21!

Leslie Diuguid founded Du-Good Press in 2017 where she specializes in making high quality screenprints for artists. Her practice is informed by thirteen years of work experience / apprenticeships in various NYC and Kansas City printshops where she accumulated an encyclopedic knowledge of how to print on what. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and teaches screenprinting at The Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York City.

In this one day workshop you will learn how to design efficiently and break an image down into single color layers. From there, preparing and developing the screen will allow students to make custom prints of their own. Leslie will instruct how to screenprint on fabric, paper, board, or a number of other materials as one offs or multiples!

Learn more here:

https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/service-page/screenprinting-workshop

MGC’s portfolio “Greenward” is in the works. We’ll have a preview at SGCI next week. Come check it out!

We’re headed to Providence April 3–6

MGC is proud to announce we will be attending SGCI this year! We’re eager to connect with you at the event. Be sure to drop by our booth to learn more about our printmaking community, classes, artist talks, exhibitions, scholarship opportunities, and more.

See you there!

Professional Practice Talk for Artists: Balancing Your Art Practice While Working for Art Spaces
With Kirsten Flaherty

Date & Time April 8, 2024 6:00 PM

Through a decade of experience in print-related organizations such as Pace Prints, IFPDA, International Print Center New York, and Dieu Donné Papermill, Kirsten Flaherty has also balanced her art practice. Specializing in mezzotint, she delves into the centuries-old technique known for its rich quality and meticulous process. Her prints have been featured in international invitationals, and she shares her expertise through numerous mezzotint demonstrations across the United States. Additionally, Flaherty serves an active role on the Board of Directors for both the New York Society of Etchers and Manhattan Graphics Center.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-yqrzIrGdHuuBLHzA0CNkoKyhWaDS-n #/registration

Harry Mendryk () and Luanda Lozano () working on plate exposing in Beth Ganz’s () photogravure class.

Beth’s next class, Printing Your Photogravure’s starts March 7.

https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/service-page/printing-your-photogravures

Woodblock Basics starts April 6.

Woodblock Basics introduces students to traditional Japanese woodcut techniques. Printmaker Sato Yamamoto will guide students through the steps of carving and printing a woodblock print by hand with a baren over the course of this weekend workshop. Students may also use an etching press to print their blocks.

13th is a Japanese bilingual artist inspired by culture and diversity. Born in Meguro, Tokyo – currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her unique style of art includes advanced ambidextrous and Ukiyo-e printmaking skills, that she uses in her artistic practice. Growing up in Japan, Sato used various techniques to create dynamic designs and expressive scenic views of the world around her. Her Origami art includes English translations of the Japanese diary “Ogura Hyakuninisshue” a historical Haiku book written by Japanese emperors, family, and their friends. Through their letter, Sato presents her experience and feelings in the big crowd of the city and how New York changed her perspective of her artistry.

https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/service-page/woodblock-basics-3

Linocut with starts March 6.

David Barthold is a printmaker and artist who uses linoleum cuts in a multitude of ways. In this class David will share recent work, demonstrating fundamental cutting techniques as well as sophisticated strategies for laying out and developing images. Experienced cutters will benefit from tips and tricks, and exploration of the range of standard linoleum cutting tools.

https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/service-page/linocut-5

Our next Drypoint class with starts March 11. Learn more at the courses link in our bio.

In “Drypoint I,” students will learn the fundamentals of traditional drypoint. Using copper plates, students will learn how to transfer images onto their plates, draw on their plates, register their plates, print their plates, and modify their plates. We will use roulettes, drypoint needles, sandpaper, and other non-acid based materials. Class time will be divided into demonstrations and printing together, with suggested assignments that progress in complexity. This course is ideal for beginning students who have never made prints before, as well as advanced students who wish to expand their printmaking practice.

Rie Hasegawa was born in Tokyo, Japan. She received her B.F.A in architecture design from Musashino Art University in 1993. She worked as a painter for a Stage Company before moving to NYC in 2000. She works in a variety of print media including intaglio, relief print, lithograph and monoprint. Her work in printmaking has been locally and internationally exhibited over twenty years.

Rie’s work can be found in the collections of Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Harry Ransom Center, among others and various private collections. Rie has also been featured in multiple international newspapers and publications such as Carrier Pigeon Magazine and Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

Rie currently works as a master printer and workshop technician at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and has taught various printmaking classes/workshops at New York Academy of Art, MoMA’s education center and Women’s Studio Workshop among others. As a master printer she has collaborated on editions and provided technical assistance to over 70 artists. Artist collaborators include Zarina Hashmi and Alexandra Bell.

Print: “FULLY EQUIPPED”, drypoint, 2023



https://www.manhattangraphicscenter.org/service-page/drypoint-i-5

“Bundle of Joy” and “One with Nature” from . Part of our exchange exhibition with Multiple Encounters on view through March 9.