Anchor Graphics

Last updated

Anchor Graphics is a non-profit fine art printshop and gallery in Chicago, Illinois that is part of the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago. It was founded in 1990 by David Jones and Marilyn Propp. [1] It is known for the quality of its prints as well as its educational programming. [2] [3]

Contents

Programs

For twenty years, Anchor provided free classes for high school students, and had an outreach program called Press on Wheels (POW) which brought printmaking into schools, galleries, museums, and community centers. [3] Workshops were open to students of all ages who learned to create handmade prints. During the Toulouse-Lautrec and Rembrandt exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, a press was brought to the museum, and Anchor staff demonstrated the print processes and tools used by both artists. Ann Weins writes in DEMO 3, pages 24–28: "Anchor Graphics maintains an impressive schedule of classes, workshops, residencies, and lectures, all the while publishing exquisite, hand-pulled prints." [3]

The Artist-in-Residence Program was created to provide uninterrupted use of the shop by national and international printmakers for research and the development of new work. Scraping the Surface, [4] a free lecture series open to the public, presented talks by artists, curators, museum specialists, conservators, collectors, and others with an interest in prints, [5] and was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art from 2006 - 2010. [6]

Located in Ukrainian Village, and then Chicago's River North, Anchor moved to the South Loop upon becoming a part of the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago in 2006. According to David Mickenberg, former director of the David Museum and Cultural Center, and of the Block Museum at Northwestern University, " [Anchor's reputation] has to do with. . . the balancing act between education and collaborative printmaking. . . " [7] Anchor provides Artist-in-Residencies, open studio time for the Chicago community, adult classes, and publishing and contract work.

Master Printers David Jones and Chris Flynn have published editions by artists such as the late Ed Paschke, the late Ellen Lanyon, Jim Nutt, Kay Rosen, Karl Wirsum, Phyllis Bramson, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris Kerry James Marshall, Rachel Niffenegger, Saya Woolfolk [8] and others. [7] [9]

Funding

Anchor Graphics is funded from private donations and from the Illinois Arts Council. [10] Previous funders include the MacArthur Foundation Fund for Arts and Culture [11]

Related Research Articles

Columbia College Chicago Private art college in Chicago, Illinois

Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, it has 5,928 students pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist living in Brooklyn, New York.

Smart Museum of Art Art museum in Illinois , United States

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection has over 15,000 objects. Admission is free and open to the general public.

Arthur Thrall American painter

Arthur Thrall was an American painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the United States and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and U.S. embassies. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel art critic James Auer said Thrall is one to "defy the dictates of fashion" and "whose high-styled uses of calligraphy rival those of the great age of the Ottomans." His work explores the abstract qualities of the alphabet and recalls "the elegant hand scripts in ceremonial documents and proclamations of an earlier age," re-creating "the tensions and rhythms emerging from a historic document."

Stephen Lapthisophon is an American artist and educator working in the field of conceptual art, critical theory, and disability studies.

Sanford Biggers is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. An L.A. native, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999.

The Business & Entrepreneurship Department is an academic department in the School of Fine & Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago. It offers undergraduate and graduate education in Music Business Management, Live and Performing Arts Management, Media Management, Film Business Management, Sports Management, Visual Arts Management, Arts Management, Design Management, International Arts Management, Marketing, and Advanced Management.

Eleanor Spiess-Ferris American painter

Eleanor Spiess-Ferris is an American symbolist painter cited as a significant surrealist, narrative figurative and feminist artist. Her numerous visual works display powerful influences of the Spanish and Native American cultures of Northern New Mexico, where she grew up. They often reference Penitentes, retablos, Kachinas and Native American fetishes and frequently incorporate themes of feminist spirituality, Indo-European mythology and personal memory.

Michiko Itatani is a Chicago-based artist who was born in Osaka, Japan. After she received her BFA (1974) and MFA (1976) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1974 and 1976 respectively, she returned to her alma mater in 1979 to teach in the Painting and Drawing department. Through her work, Itatani explores identity, continuation, and finding one's way in the modern world. Her work depicts nude figures in an expressionist style. Itatani has received the Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is collected in many museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Olympic Museum, Switzerland; Villa Haiss Museum, Germany; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; Museu D'art Contemporani (MACBA), Spain; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea.

Ayanah Moor American conceptual artist

Ayanah Moor is a conceptual artist working in print, video, mixed media, and performance. Her work addresses contemporary popular culture by interrogating identity and vernacular aesthetics. Much of her works center on hip-hop culture, American politics, black vernacular and gender performance.

Katrina Andry American visual artist (born 1981)

Katrina Andry is an American visual artist and printmaker. She is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

David Mickenherg is an American author, art professor and former museum director.

Firelei Báez Dominican / American visual artist (born 1981)

Firelei Báez is a Dominican artist based in New York City known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture. Her art explores the Western canon through the elements of non-Western reading.

Paula Wilson American artist

Paula Wilson is an African-American "mixed media" artist creating works examining women's identities through a lens of cultural history. She uses sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodblock. In 2007 Wilson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Carrizozo, New Mexico where she currently lives and works with her woodworking partner Mike Lagg.

Barbara Tisserat

Barbara Tisserat (1951–2017) was an American artist and lithographer born in Denver, Colorado. She taught lithography at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. She was a member of One/Off Printmakers and also taught at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Robinson House lithography workshop with Marilyn Bevilacqua. She was active with the Richmond Printmaking Workshop and served on the Advisory Board of Studio Two-Three in Richmond, Virginia. She was a member of the Summer 2007 graphics faculty at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and was a visiting artist and lecturer in the Lyceum program at Emory and Henry College.

Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead, is an American painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for thirty-five years until her retirement in 2017. She has received awards such as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant, and a YADDO fellowship.

Joan Livingstone is an American contemporary artist, educator, curator, and author based in Chicago. She creates sculptural objects, installations, prints, and collages that reference the human body and bodily experience.

Lothar Osterburg German-American artist and master printer

Lothar Osterburg is a German-born, New York-based artist and master printer in intaglio, who works in sculpture, photography, printmaking and video. He is best known for photogravures featuring rough small-scale models of rustic structures, water and air vessels, and imaginary cities, staged in evocative settings and photographed to appear life-size to disorienting, mysterious or whimsical effect. New York Times critic Grace Glueck writes that Osterburg's rich-toned, retro prints "conjur[e] up monumental phenomena by minimal means"; Judy Pfaff describes his work as thick with film noir–like atmosphere, warmth, reverie, drama and timelessness.

Robin Holder American artist

Robin Holder is a contemporary American visual artist and activist Holder is known for her mixed-media printmaking and paintings which focus on themes of spiritual and racial identity, class, social justice, and personal experience. Robin Holder was commissioned to create several site-specific public art installations throughout the Northeastern United States, including New York City and New Jersey. A number of her two-dimensional works can be found in several collections, including the Library of Congress, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Robin has been involved in arts education for over thirty years.

References

  1. ↑ Buchholz, Barbara B. (7 June 1996). "Anchor Shows Printmaking Process As Well As Product". Chicago Tribune.
  2. ↑ Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995," by James Yood. Essays by Mark Pascale, James Yood, and David Mickenberg (Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, 1996), p. 50 and 51.
  3. 1 2 3 Wiens, Anne (2006). "The Fine Print". Demo3. Columbia College.
  4. ↑ "Winsor McCay". colum.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  5. ↑ "History". colum.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  6. ↑ "Anchor Graphics @ Columbia College".
  7. 1 2 Huebner, Jeff (25 June 2006). "Dropping Anchor at Columbia". Chicago Tribune.
  8. ↑ "Anchor Graphics". sayawoolfalk.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  9. ↑ "Publishing Projects". colum.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  10. ↑ "IACA Announces First Round of 2015 Grants". Illinois Arts Council.
  11. ↑ "Sixty-Five Grants to Chicago Arts and Cultural Organizations".

Coordinates: 41°52′25.4″N87°37′31.8″W / 41.873722°N 87.625500°W / 41.873722; -87.625500

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.