Permanent Ephemera! A new Call for Entries from Four Oceans Press.

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Permanent Ephemera! is a collection of Broadsides meant to be saved and cherished. The focus of  this show is on story telling, beyond that the subject matter is open. Send us your artwork!

This show is open to all artists working in any printmaking media. Check out the details of this exhibition below and send us your work.

This is a combination art show and exchange. Please see details carefully since this show is a bit different than our previous exchanges.

How it Works!

Permanent Ephemera! is an art show and exchange. Each artist will send three prints.

• 1st print is for the archive - We keep one and store it for posterity.
• 2nd print is for sale in the show -  We try to sell it and give you your share.
• 3rd print is for the exchange - We trade one of your prints with a print by another artist and send it back to you.

At the end of the show, you will get back your print or a check and a print by another artist. Those are the basics. Sign up and send us your Broadsides.

ART MUST BE DELIVERED TO
GALLERY BY:JANUARY 31st, 2013

EXHIBITION DATES:June 1 –  30, 2013

Click to read the full Call for Entry.

Ridiculously busy ...

I have been ridiculously busy at school (work) for the past few weeks and I feel like a slacker for not posting here. But I have been working quite a bit.

My work has been on display at Creative Framing in Oakland. Several Linoleum and Wood Block prints are hung on the walls and a big lithograph is in the window. I think they will be up for a few more weeks.

I am actually in the middle of several projects. I have at least three print half-way cut and I hope to finish up soon so that I can print them...

I just finished Baren Exchange #36. I will post it here soon. I also recently finished my spring print for the Four Oceans Press Spring Print. I am working on ideas for my Summer Print [For which signs-ups are still open - by the way!]

Four Oceans Press also started a new exchange, at the suggestion of our friend, Graham. The Fine Arts Photography Exchange is currently accepting sign-ups. We have a few people who have been in our print exchanges, some old friends and a few new friends in this exchange.

New cards, Winter Update and a new show proposal...

I have been really busy and have a lot of News.

We ordered a new business card for Four Oceans Press that is the same layout as the old business card, but has prints instead of paintings. The prints are by the same artists– Kathe Welch, Heather Piazza & Mark Knot – and appear in the same order as on the original card.

We have added new prints to the Winter Archive on Four Oceans Press. We currently have six finished prints and two proofs. The deadline to send in the prints has just past and new prints are arriving each day. The Winter Archive page should fill up fairly quickly. If you want to see the finished Fall prints check out the Fall Archive. And of course, sign-ups are now open for the Spring Exchange and the Food Alphabet.

We have written a proposal for a ‘Four Seasons’ show. ‘Four Seasons’ will highlight the work from our exchanges at a prominent art gallery in San Francisco in August 2008. If we are selected, all of the details we will be posted here.

Recruiting Printmakers

Last week we sent out nearly 200 copies of our call for entries for our Four Oceans Press print exchanges. Our call for entries has the same information as is on the Exchange page.

We sent out over 150 to Art Institutions in the United States and nearly 40 to international locations. We are so excited to be running this exchange and about ready to send out our First Set of Prints. The Fall prints were delayed because we had to wait for one of the artists, but they will be mailed out on Monday, January 14, 2008. These prints can be seen on our Exchange Archive.

If you are a Printer and haven't signed up yet, we think you should. Take a look at the Exchange Guidelines and sign up for Spring or the Food Exchange. Of course, if you need more time than what is listed you can sign up for a later exchange...

We are writing a proposal to get our exchange into a gallery in San Francisco in August. We will write more about that as we know more...

We are using our Four Oceans Press Google Group to list updates of what we are doing, upcoming exchanges and other projects. Feel free to join - click here to learn more.

Dinosaur

This is a quick Linocut I did last week...

Here is the color version...