Name: Printmaking Extravaganza
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Location: Dennos Museum Center

Description

Printmaking Extravaganza
Saturday, October 19th
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Explore the 2024 Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection, engage with talented local artists, and try your hand at creating one of your own unique pieces. Enjoy a day filled with art, culture, and creativity as you learn more about the rich traditions of Inuit printmaking and support our vibrant community of printmakers.

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

Area artists will hold a printmaking sale and demonstration. A number of small printing presses will be on-hand and in-use, showing the step-by-step processes involved in linocut, electro-chemical etching, and drypoint printmaking. Learn about how artists think through the process (often in reverse) of making a print, from conception to rough drawing to transferring the image, to carving, engraving, or etching, to proofing and printing a final piece.

Brad Kik will be carving his 24” x 36” linocut piece “Dance of the Cosmos” while Glenn Wolff will be editioning a new print to be raffled off by the Dennos as a fundraiser for the education tour fund. Unframed prints from local artists will be available for sale at a variety of price points.

Image: Qavavau Manumie, Hoot. 2006, Stonecut, 23/50. From the collection of the Dennos Museum Center. Museum Purchase, FY 06/07. 2006.21.1.

*Please be advised that photographs and/or video will be taken at this event for use on the Dennos website, press, marketing materials, social media, and/or other NMC publications. By entering this event, you consent to the Dennos Museum Center photographing and using your image and likeness.

Date & Time

Sat, Oct 19, 2024 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Venue Details

Dennos Museum Center

1410 College Drive
Traverse City, Michigan 49686

Dennos Museum Center

The Dennos Museum Center builds community, sparks conversation, and inspires change for audiences of all ages through its exhibitions, programs, and the collection and preservation of art.

Opened in 1991, the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College is a premier cultural facility in northern Michigan offering a dynamic array of exhibitions and programs in the visual arts, sciences, and performing arts. The Museum includes temporary exhibition and permanent collection galleries, an elegant sculpture court, and a hands-on Discovery Gallery. The permanent collection features regional, national, and international art from the 19th-21st centuries. The Milliken Auditorium hosts events and concerts with performers from around the world. Visit the Museum Store for great shopping, including a fine selection of Inuit art for collectors.

The Museum's signature collection is Inuit art of the Canadian Arctic, one of the largest and most historically complete collections of these distinctive sculptures and prints in the United States. A significant collection of outdoor sculptures by noted international and Michigan artists surrounds the Museum on the beautiful campus of Northwestern Michigan College. In 2000, the Dennos Museum Center was recognized by ArtServe Michigan with the Governor's Award for Arts and Culture. The Museum expanded its original building in 2018, adding new galleries and auditorium spaces with wide support from the community.

In 2021, the Dennos joined a network of more than 200 other Smithsonian Affiliates in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Panama. Established in 1996, the affiliations program is designed to facilitate a two-way relationship among Smithsonian Affiliates and the Smithsonian to increase discovery and inspire lifelong learning in communities across America. Smithsonian Affiliates are collaborators on many of the Smithsonian’s strategic priorities, adding local content, context, and expertise to national initiatives to help tell a fuller story.

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