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Platemark episodes and shorts on YouTube

July 11, 2024

s3e58 Anna Trojanowska, artist and professor

In s3e59, Platemark host Ann Shafer continues talking to artists included in Print Austin’s 5x5 exhibition, juried by Myzska Lewis, a curator at Tandem Press. Second up is Anna Trojanowska, an artist and lithographer from Wroclaw, Poland. Anna creates collages made from lithographs, which she creates on a single marble…

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July 11, 2024

s1e1 Critiques and Studio Visits

In series 1 episode 1, Ann and Ben talk about critiques and studio visits, focusing on a program they developed in partnership with the printmaking department at the Maryland Institute College of Art. At the start of the senior year, Ann and Ben held critiques with MICA printmakers as they…

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July 11, 2024

s1 Introduction

In the first, short episode, Ann and Ben introduce listeners to Platemark Season One. Over eight episodes they discuss all manner of topics relating to museums and curators, critiques and studio visits, market value and conceptual value, redefining the Western art historical canon and decolonization, and prints and printmaking. The…

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July 11, 2024

s3e59 David Avery, artist

In s3e59, Platemark host Ann Shafer sits down with David Avery to talk shop. David is an etcher, who restrains his work in both size and palette, but manages to tackle big topics. His social commentary is stinging and remarkable in that it comes in such a small package. These…

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July 11, 2024

s3e60 deep dive on Dox Thrash with Ron Rumford, dealer

African-American artist Dox Thrash is in the spotlight on s3e60 of Platemark. Podcast host Ann Shafer speaks with Ron Rumford, director of Dolan/Maxwell, a private gallery in Philadelphia, which has a particular specialty in the prints of Stanley William Hayter and the associated artists of Atelier 17, as well as…

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July 2, 2024

Platemark s3e60 the print ecosystem: Ron Rumford

In s3e60 of Platemark, podcast host Ann Shafer speaks with Ron Rumford, director of Dolan/Maxwell, a private gallery in Philadelphia. Dolan/Maxwell deals in 20th century art, with a particular specialty in the prints of Stanley William Hayter and the associated artists of Atelier 17, as well as Black artists of…

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June 21, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Ron Rumford on the power of the WPA

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June 21, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Ron Rumford on being nourished by art

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June 21, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Ron Rumford on how our tastes change as we age

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June 21, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Ron Rumford on buying art for investment--don't do it

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June 18, 2024

Platemark s3e59 the print ecosystem: David Avery

In s3e59, Platemark host Ann Shafer sits down with David Avery to talk shop. David is an etcher, who restrains his work in both size and palette, but manages to tackle big topics. His social commentary is stinging and remarkable in that it comes in such a small package. These…

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June 3, 2024

Platemark s3e58 the print ecosystem: Anna Trojanowska

In s3e59, Platemark host Ann Shafer continues talking to artists included in Print Austin’s 5x5 exhibition, juried by Myzska Lewis, a curator at Tandem Press. Second up is Anna Trojanowska, an artist and lithographer from Wroclaw, Poland. Anna creates collages made from lithographs, which she creates on a single marble…

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May 21, 2024

Platemark s3e57 the print ecosystem: Karen Kunc

In s3e57, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Karen Kunc, an artist who manipulates reduction woodcuts in an amazing and unique way. Karen is a retired professor and is owner of Constellation Studios in Lincoln, NE. Karen retired from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, four years ago after a long…

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Annalise Gratovich on sketchbooks

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Annalise Gratovich on cuteness as a legitimate quality

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Annalise Gratovich on how ideas move so much faster than executing the work

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Annalise Gratovich on her monumental series Carry Things from Home

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: David Avery on reality outstripping any imagination

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: David Avery on standing on the shoulders of giants

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May 20, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: David Avery on is it derivative

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May 17, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Anna Trojanowska on visual language

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May 17, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Anna Trojanowska on Sol Le Witt

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May 10, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Karen Kunc on taking the hard route to a resolve composition

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May 10, 2024

Platemark SHORTS: Karen Kunc with her elevator speech

Karen Kunc's work is all nature-based lyrical abstraction.

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