That's So Printerly

"That's so Printerly" will include panelists discussing the role of Print's inherent and often unique qualities as they manifest in other media. During the stages of planning out, making, looking at and critiquing prints, it is commonplace to refer to how 'painterly' or 'sculptural' a print is. It is to printmaking's credit that it can act as such a nexus for qualities from multiple media. As a reproductive art at its historic core, print is part changeling, mimicking other artforms. But this relationship moves in the opposite direction as well. Now more than ever artists working in media outside printmaking make printerly art and culture. The presenters will explore this relationship from various angles, looking at both historic antecedents and mostly contemporary work. The presentations will not be limited to just talks about one or a group of artists but may also feature cultural phenomena and ties to how print continues to inform popular culture and technological developments despite its long drawn out supposed death.