PrintHouston 2011

The members of PrintMatters have rolled up our sleeves and are busy organizing and promoting the first ever PrintHouston. This month-long celebration of the art of the print is scheduled for June 2011. We have three major events planned. Hot Houston, Cool Prints, two juried exhibitions at the Museum of Printing History, will kick off the month on June 2. On Saturday, June 11, Art Supply on Main will host an all-day steamroller and “dance-the-prints” event, Rockin’ Rollin’ Prints. The Midtown Management District is a promotional partner for the event. We are also planning a series of lectures about printmaking.

The model for PrintHouston is Philagrafika. A citywide, international contemporary art event, Philagrafika featured printmaking artists from throughout the US. The event received extensive national attention and drew over 7,000 visitors to Philadelphia this past spring. If Philadelphia can do this, so can Houston!

PrintMatters at WHAM 2010

PrintMatters had a wonderful showing at WHAM. We made several new friends, promoted our one-day workshops at Art Supply on Main, and signed up a new associate member, Benjamin Stiles who teaches high school art in Pearland. I have to admit, we have some natural-born sales people in our midst. Kudos, ladies. (I never liked doing the Glassell show because I don't really like to talk about myself or my art, but it was fun and much easier to talk about my fellow PrintMatters artists and their beautiful art.)

My friend and fellow critique group member Gwen Plunkett has a nice write-up about our booth on her blog: http://ancientvessel.blogspot.com/2010/11/wham-and-houstons-18th-annual-art-crawl.html

I was especially excited to meet Matt Messinger, a wonderful artist whose work I discovered last year at WHAM 2009. My goal is to get him to do a print project with me in 2011.

-Cathie Kayser

Artist Demos January 9, 2010

Artists giving demonstrations at the Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas.

Upcoming Events

We will be visiting Black Swan Screenprinting Studios on Saturday, February 13th from 1-2. If you are interested in joining us, please email us at info@printmattershouston.org.

Artist Talks in Gallery of Museum of Printing History

Artists at Museum of Printing History

Ruth Shouval and Andis Applewhite will be at the Museum of Printing History, Saturday, November 21 from 3:00 to 4:00pm to answer any questions about printmaking and our current show Paper & Ink. Drop in and look around.

OPENING RECEPTION of Paper & Ink

Ruth Shouval, Vivian Hordes, Ann Johnson, Andis Applewhite, Cathie Kayser