Here is your chance to get your design printed at the prestigious Flatstock conference during South by Southwest. The Great Texas Rock Poster Contest is open to all currently enrolled art and graphics students in Texas. As well as having your design printed you could win:
2 SXSW Wristbands, allowing you and a friend entry to showcase events all over Austin during SXSW week.
A studio-in-a-box screenprinting prize package consisting of screens, squeegees, emulsions, coaters, book, Inks, clamps and more.
Invitation to participate in a special 2 day poster screenprinting workshop at Coronado Studio.
A collection of signed posters from API artists.
Your poster will be screenprinted and featured at Flatstock 24 Rock Poster Exhibition during SXSW.
BONUS – The winner’s school also receives a deluxe screenprinting supply package from the industry’s leading suppliers.
Maximum of 2 entries per contestant contest closes March 1st.
See http://www.serieproject.org/texaspostercontest/ for full details.
Upcoming Serie XVII artist Maria Almeida Natividad is featured in a new publication from the Texas Tech University Press.
The book, Art of West Texas Women:A Celebration, will be released on April 15, 2010 and features 20 female artists from western Texas. Past Serie alum Tina Fuentes is also slated to be featured in the book, which hopes to serve as a sampler of creative expression in the region.
From the university press website:
Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog—impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region—the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these pages are as distinctive and independent as the solitary place that nurtures them. But they also share common threads: all of these artists came of age during the feminist movement of the 1970s and find the expansiveness and relative isolation of their landscapes an elemental influence.
As with Georgia O’Keeffe, herself an early interpreter of the West Texas Plains, the women featured here find that this land of wind and sky has liberated them and engendered a sense of expressive freedom and artistic strength.
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of giving a tour to Jason Urban from the premier blog on printmaking, Printeresting. Jason currently works as a printmaker and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.
It’s hard to find many sites online which grant decent coverage to contemporary printmaking in its totality, but Printeresting has been one of those sites for me. Their articles, posts, and shows do a good job of giving a glimpse into the mind of a community of artists producing genre-bending work. But Printeresting deviates from the norm (at least, for contemporary art blogs) by also hosting scholarly interpretations and articles without seeming haughty or exclusive. A good example can be found here with a lengthy post by Dr. Ruth Pelzer-Montada on The Attraction of Print.
Thanks again for Jason for being kind enough to feature us on his blog and share his thoughts on printmaking with us. You can view the full post here.
The Serie Project has recently partnered with UT: Austin’s U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project to present a series of mixed media prints by Sam Coronado.
All prints from this edition are available in extremely limited quantities, with proceeds going towards the ongoing work that the Oral History Project is involved in. Check out the entire collection in our gallery today!
Sam’s statement about the series:
In my World War II series, photographs act as an integral component to the images and the serigraph printing process. The chosen photographs represent the poignant time, during World War II, of Latino communities’ contribution to the U.S. armed forces.
The photos were used as part of a matrix that appears in some of the prints. The number and variety of the photos resulted in each print becoming a monoprint rather than an edition, with each one composed with a different color scheme, image and substrate. Since the screen-printing process is adaptable, the process used to create these prints was more of an experimental approach. Also, I felt the collage of photos is an important element because it did not limit me to only one method of including the photo process.
The prints express the human and personal quality the photographs provide, because the photographs are from private collections. It was important to convey this feeling of embedded emotion contained in each print to evoke the sentimentality of the photograph and the original scene. My technique of blending the disparate surfaces is important to convey this visual story of the images. The photos then act as visual catalysts to a past that was engaged in a struggle for freedom and equality on all land fronts.
This Valentine’s Day, show your love through a unique romantic gesture. The Serie Project offers a variety of traditional and contemporary serigraph prints, with themes ranging from playful to passionate. Original artwork is a charming and personal gift that has a longer lifetime than a bouquet of flowers. Since it is the Serie Project’s mission to make affordable art available to the public, this romantic gift is within financial reach. Until February 14, 2010, selected prints qualify for free shipping to any destination. Check out the sale gallery at www.serieproject.org/gallery/v/sale
I’m proud to announce that the Serie Project will now fill international orders made online.
More and more it seems like art is no longer bounded within defined, geographic regions. Some galleries and traditional artists may fear this transition away from a localized art scene, but ultimately it’s an opportunity for artists to gain what they crave most: exposure!
We started in 2009 with our efforts to modernize our approach to print sales by moving away from a Flash-based gallery. The former gallery really didn’t do our artists’ work justice, as each work was only available at a maximum resolution of 200px by 300px. At that resolution, no viewer to accurately estimate the amount of work and care that goes into a hand-printed serigraph. On top of that, potential buyers had no choice but to directly inquire for pricing information, as this was not included in our display of works.
Our new gallery and store goes a long way towards simplifying the purchasing process. Prints are available at more than twice their previous resolution. When you view an artwork in our gallery, you’ll find that available prints are listed alongside their current pricing, with the option to instantly purchase the item in question. Gone are the clandestine days of back of the gallery negotiations and unavailable prints listed as “available.” With an e-mail address and a Paypal account, you have all you need to purchase a print.
Ultimately, the bottom line is that selling works online has helped the Serie Project to survive turbulent times and markets in the past year by diversifying our supporter base. We’re no longer limited to the immediate surrounding regions of Austin. In the past year, we’ve managed to build a purchasing base from California to New York.
And now that international shipping is finally available online, it is our hope to continue to expand our small project into new markets in order to continue our mission to promote fine-art serigraphy from a Latino based print workshop. Look for more exhibits, collaborations, and news from us in the future from far off locales!
For the month of February the Oak Springs branch of Austin Public Libraries will be hosting an exhibition celebrating Black History Month. This years participating artists are Andrew Thompson, Annette Lawrence, Bernice Appelin-Williams. Bernice Montgomery, Deborah Roberts, Floyd Newsum, John A. Yancey, Leamon Green and Vicki Meek.
OAK SPRINGS BRANCH
Austin Public Library
3101 Oak Springs Dr.
For more information, call Carlos Brondo (512) 974-9920 or visit www.cityofaustin.org/library
The 2010 Serie Calendar is available for purchase on our website and in person at our office. We have a limited supply of about 20 of these large prints remaining, so buy yours today before you miss out!
2010 has begun, and with it a new batch of resident artists! Serie XVII has officially begun, beginning with the printing of Richard Duardo’s piece last November. But that’s only the beginning; we have a number of events planned this year that have us busier than ever.
Coming up soon, the Serie Project will have selected works available on sale in celebration of everyone’s favorite (or least favorite) holiday- Valentine’s Day. Show some love!
We’re also planning to make our debut at Flatstock in March this year thanks to a grant from the TCA. The Serie Project will combine forces with Andy MacDougall of Squeegeeville to operate a three day printing demo at the Austin Convention Center alongside some of the world’s premier poster artists. This is a good opportunity to learn more about our technical process while getting acquainted with the next batch of up and coming printmakers.
And as if that wasn’t enough, we’re extremely excited about an international exhibit of Chicano art in Slovakia this May, which will feature between 30 and 40 works from our program alone. What a busy year!
As always, I would like to thank you for your continued support of our work and our mission. We couldn’t accomplish a fraction of our work here without it.
Stephanie Syjuco has set up a parasitic workshop in which a small group of artists are making bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair. The artists is using basic and inexpensive materials and is working in a gallery stand at the fair in full view of visitors. The copies are being displayed in an adjacent gallery stand. Copystand: an autonomous manufacturing zone draws on Syjuco’s recent projects involving approximate copies: crocheted branded luxury goods, cardboard replicas of Charlotte Perriand furniture and body doubles.
The bootleg works are available to purchase from a stand next to H14 and opposite G16.
The Serie Project has recently partnered with UT: Austin’s U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project to present a series of mixed media prints by Sam Coronado.
