LAFAYETTE TODAY
Celebrating Printmaking
 | | Artist Faith Ringgold and Riley Temple ’71 were among the honorees at the Experimental Printmaking Institute’s birthday bash. |
The Experimental Printmaking Institute’s 10th anniversary celebration continued with a summer exhibit entitled More
Than a Book at the Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center in San Pedro, Costa Rica.
Organized by EPI’s founding director, Curlee Raven Holton, professor and head of art, the show included handmade artists’ books and prints by Holton and other artists from Lafayette, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the University of Manchester in England. The exhibit, which built on previous collaborations between EPI and Costa Rican artists, will move to Mexico City and then to Manchester.
The student curator was Sara Smith-Katz ’07. Carolyn Burns ’09, Caitlin Chandler ’06, Alexis Gale ’05, Ellen Rose ’09, and Melissa Spitz ’06 had works on view.
“EPI is the only workshop of its kind in the United States that brings renowned artists and students together to experiment with the printmaking medium in a research and educational laboratory setting,” Holton says. “We want to make printmaking a prominent visual arts language and give it value as a creative means of expression. This fits with Lafayette’s mission of excellence, creativity, and achievement.”
Events marking EPI’s anniversary began in April with the creation of the world’s longest print. An exhibit entitled Master Artist/Master Printmaker Portfolio opens Oct. 20 at the Williams Center gallery. The institute also plans a show of artists’ books in Skillman Library and a spring symposium on printmaking.
EPI honored supporters at a special birthday bash Sept. 8. Among them were Riley K. Temple ’71, for the Temple Performing and Visual Arts Residency; artist and author Faith Ringgold, for her support of the arts residency; and Diane Windham Shaw, special collections librarian and College archivist, for Skillman Library’s Book Arts Program.
The institute also recognized
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tague and Christopher Tague ’00 for establishing the EPI Residency Fund and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Steele for providing a new printmaking resource library and setting up an internship program for Lafayette students at the University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.
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