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Platemark Episodes

Sept. 26, 2023

s3e38 all about working with William Kentridge with printer Jillian R…

In this week's episode of Platemark (s3e38), host Ann Shafer talks with Jillian Ross, collaborative master printer and publisher with an eponymous imprint, Jillian Ross Print, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Ross returned to her...

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Sept. 19, 2023

s3e37 printer Phil Sanders on the future of the printmaking ecosystem…

In the second part of their conversation, Ann Shafer and printer/publisher Phil Sanders continue talking about the state of the printmaking ecosystem. They talk about why supporting artists is important even if you don’t...

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Sept. 12, 2023

s3e36 printmaking ecosytem forecast with printer Phil Sanders (part o…

In s3e36, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with printer/publisher and author Phil Sanders about the state of the ecosystem. Phil has a finger in nearly every pie in the ecosystem, so after a Platemark listener wrote in to ask about …

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Sept. 5, 2023

s3e35 behind-the-scenes at ULAE with director Larissa Goldston

In s3e35, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Larissa Goldston, director and owner of Universal Limited Art Editions, usually referred to by its acronym ULAE. We talk about ULAE’s founder Tatyana Grosman, and her harrowing escape from first Siberia...

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Aug. 29, 2023

s3e34 electrolytic etching with artist Jason Scuilla

In s3e34, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Jason Scuilla, artist and professor at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. The university is hosting the Mid America Print Council conference in the fall of 2024, and Jason was eager to …

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Aug. 22, 2023

s3e33 one of Jim Dine's favorite printers, Ruth Lingen

In s3e33, Platemark podcast host Ann Shafer talks with Ruth Lingen, printer and owner of Line Press Limited, located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Line Press Limited does just about everything except screenprinting. Ruth is a...

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Aug. 15, 2023

s3e32 all about intaglio prints, materials and techiniques, and histo…

In s3e32 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer speaks with Ad Stijnman, an independent scholar of historical printmaking processes, specializing in manual intaglio printmaking techniques. He is also a professional printmaker. Ad is the go-to guy on all sorts...

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Aug. 1, 2023

s3e31 photogravure deep dive with artist Lothar Osterburg

In s3e31 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer speaks with Lothar Osterburg, artist, professor and leading expert on the fine art of photogravure. These are basically photographs transferred to copper plates and printed as etchings. (It's, of course, more...

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July 4, 2023

s3e29 mokuhanga deep dive with artist April Vollmer

In Platemark s3e29, host Ann Shafer speaks with April Vollmer, an artist working in mokuhanga (Japanese color woodblock printing), who also wrote the indispensable guide to that form: Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop (Berkeley: Watson-Guptill...

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June 20, 2023

s3e28 on writing THE print history textbook with Linda Hults, art his…

In s3e28, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Linda Hults, retired professor of art history from the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Linda wrote THE textbook on the history of Western prints, which any student of the topic will undoubtedly …

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June 6, 2023

s3e27 processing inherited trauma of internment camps through art wit…

In Platemark s3e27, host Ann Shafer talks with Emma Nishimura, an artist and professor based in Toronto. Emma works in printmaking, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her work addresses ideas of inherited memory and trauma with a specific focus...

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May 23, 2023

s3e26 on illustrating You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce! with artist Jennifer…

Platemark s3e26's guest is Jennifer Mack-Watkins, an artist and children's book illustrator based in Savannah, GA. Her work looks at social conformities that limit us and box us in, whether beauty, relationships, body image, power, or gender roles....

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May 9, 2023

s3e25 lithography deep dive with artist Michael Barnes

Platemark s3e25's guest is Michael Barnes, an artist and professor at Northern Illinois University who specializes in lithography. In addition to deep knowledge of how lithography works, Michael is also an historian of the technique and a collector....

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April 25, 2023

s3e24 on being THAT professor for so many with curator Steve Goddard

In s3e24, host Ann Shafer speaks with Steve Goddard, curator emerita from the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Steve’s specialty is prints of northern Europe (1450–present), although he has been known to stray into...

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April 11, 2023

s3e23 on running a not-for-profit art center with Kimberly Henrikson,…

In Platemark s3e23, host Ann Shafer speaks with Kimberly Henrikson, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. CCP offers myriad services from contract printing, to artist’s residencies, classes, workshops, and...

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