MAPC 2024 Conference - From the Ashes: Printmaking, Preservation, & Renewal

are hard at work hanging themed portfolios for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes! We can’t wait to see everyone this October in Kansas ✨🌻🔥

🚨 Online registration closes September 9, this upcoming Monday!!! 🚨 Make sure you register for MAPC 2024 so you don’t miss out on this awesome themed portfolio “Heliocentric” organized by Lisa Wicka 🔥✨🌻

Our world revolves around the Sun, offering light, life, and spiritual meaning to many cultures and religions throughout history. Our connection to the Sun gives us the natural world, nourishment, and a change in seasons. It is this same Sun that we look towards as our climate becomes ever more unpredictable, our temperatures rise, and wildfires roar. This portfolio will highlight the complicated relationship we have with this star, while channeling its energy to create a collection of prints.

This portfolio will feature artists using light-sensitive techniques to investigate the complexity of the Earth/Sun relationship. Cyanotype, serigraph, photopolymer plate, and other experimental or non-traditional light sensitive approaches will be encouraged, and it is suggested that the source of this light is the Sun when possible.

Participants: Curtis Bartone, Isreal Campos, Kassie Corroy, Kobe Elixson, Aaron Foster, Serena Perrone, Ina Kaur, Robert Torres Mata, Mandy Moeller , Ryan Parker, Jesse Shaw, Beth Sheehan, Lisa Wicka, David Wischer, Tamsen Wojtanowski

Friendly reminder: Make sure to book your hotel room by September 10th to ensure you receive conference rates! Our room blocks are held until Sept. 10 and then they open to the public. Make sure to choose one of the 3 hotels by Campus if plan to walk, and the other hotel options if you will be driving to campus 🌆✨ All information, group names and codes to ensure you receive conference rate can be found at our website! (Hotels shown above are all within walking distance of Kansas State!)

https://fromtheashes.k-state.edu

https://fromtheashes.k-state.edu/Travel-and-Accommodations.html

2024 MAPC outstanding Printmaker Melanie Yazzie’s exhibition is up and ready for the conference! 🥳✨🔥 This exhibition is being held in the Kemper Gallery at Kansas State Universities Student Union, 1st Floor. Make sure you check it out! Also friendly reminder that early bird registration ends September 1! 💥📢 Make sure you sign up so you can see this awesome exhibition this October!!!

Early Bird Registration has been extended to September 1! 🥳✨We can’t wait to see you all in Kansas 🌻🔥

Be on the lookout for the portfolio “As the Phoenix” at MAPC this fall, organized by ! 🌿🔥🍂

“As the Phoenix” is a themed portfolio about all types of rebirth. So many of us have overcome hardships that have required us to rebuild and start over. Whether it’s a cancer diagnosis, the death of a loved one, or the realization that our dream might not become reality, we adapt, pivot, and persevere. Being reborn, in the spirit of the Phoenix, means picking ourselves up again and starting over.

The artists in this portfolio will each create a print that touches upon the idea of rebirth and the Phoenix, experiencing hardship and rising from the ashes. Artists are welcome to reflect on this theme both in process and imagery, from a personal experience or a universal issue. In addition to the MAPC Conference exhibition copy and the permanent collection copy, one edition of this portfolio will be acquired by the Department of Cancer Biology of the University of Kansas Medical Center. This portfolio will be donated to the Department with the purpose of being framed and exhibited in the new Cancer Center building. In this way, we hope that the prints created can go on to offer hope, empathy, and inspiration to the many patients, friends, families, loved ones, and medical professionals who may be working through similar life changing experiences. 🌻✨

Participants: Katharina Bossmann , Jason Scuilla , Bryan Raymundo , Marco Hernandez .hernandez1988 , Dennis Ahearn , Kailey B. Prior , Blaire Phillips, Molly Lohman , Benjamin Ingle , Brett Taylor , Caitlynn Buckler , Amanda Joy-Petersen , Heather Parrish, Mitchell P**n , John W. Hilton Jr.

Early Bird Registration has been extended until 8/26! 🔥🥳✨ we are aware that there have been some issues on the MAPC site for registering for membership, so the date for early bird registration has been extended! Thank you all for your patience and understanding, we can’t wait to see everyone in Kansas soon!

Be on the lookout for the portfolio Man Vs. Insect at MAPC 2024 organized by Jolynn Reigeluth! 🐛🌻🦋

For centuries, humans have constructed civilizations, formed governments, and harnessed the Earth’s resources. Yet, amidst our quest for progress, some of the tiniest creatures on Earth persistently remind us of our place in the natural world. From the fleas that unleashed the Black Death to the saw-toothed grain beetles in the cupboards of your first apartment, insects have wielded their influence over humanity for millennia. 🪲✨

This portfolio, organized by Jolynn Reigeluth, invites artists to explore and express the intricate, at times volatile, relationship that exists between humans and insects, and capture the essence of this enduring connection. 🔥🦟🌻

Participants: Brett Anderson , Joe Petro , Jonathan Nicklow , Samantha Bares , Dennis Ahearn , Amanda Joy-Petersen , Sarah Beth Spina , James Ehlers , Greg Stone , Justin Diggle , Mariah Dechant , Zoë Gillis , Charlie Bloede , Marco Hernandez .hernandez1988 , Jolynn Reigeluth , Bryan Raymundo , Calliandra Marian Hermanson .marian , Laura Grossett , Kalleen Chilcote , Matthew J. Egan

“Interested in learning how to print letterpress?” 🔥🌻✨ There will be several demonstrations at MAPC on our newly restored vandercook sp-15” . The bed here has a boxcar plate and a custom one we made that allows us to print 3/4” birch laser engraved woodcuts!

You’re not going to want to miss this demonstration, Printing Out of the Pressroom, this Fall at MAPC 2024!
Demostrated by Steve Garst ✨🔥🌻

This demonstration will lead participants through making non toxic and accessible prints that can be used for outreach events. We will talk about ways that artists can use the Provisional Press and other accessible presses, like the Open Press to print images with groups to make prints with non-traditional media like LEGO, stamp pads, and crafting materials. will talk about the practical ways that people can build print-centric programming to engage folks young and old. This will also have a hands-on component where I will demonstrate the use of stamp pads, LEGO blocks, and other non-traditional media to make images in an engaging way. Participants will be invited to make their own print during the demonstration to show the accessibility of these techniques! 💫

This demonstration focuses on non-toxic elements that allow an artist to make prints with modular, reusable elements that encourage creativity through the natural limitations of the media. Make sure you register for MAPC 2024 this Fall at to attend this demo and a ton of other amazing events! Check out the link in our bio to register, and see a full line up of events for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes! 🌿🔥✨

Be on the lookout for this demo at MAPC 2024: Dust and Ash: Printing the Rust Belt, demonstrated by Taryn McMahon .mcm and J. Leigh Garcia .leighgarcia ! 🌿🔥🌻

Assistant(s): Michelle Eisen .art , J Carson , Alex Dolleschal, Danicko Rivera .rivera

Faculty and graduate students from Kent State University will make watercolor screenprint monotypes with participants at the conference. The watercolor pigments will be made from natural and manmade pigments found in Northeast Ohio and the midwest - rust, ash, soil, charcoal, etc. The participants and facilitators will meditate on their own experiences of the interactions between people and the environment in order to generate the images drawn on the screens. The event will be equal parts demonstration and interactive event.

The rust belt includes parts of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. In the early 20th century, industrial manufacturing flourished in this area due to its proximity to the Great Lakes and its rich natural resources such as coal and iron. Beginning in the late 20th century, the Rust Belt began experiencing the elimination or outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. The impact has been seen in the economic decline, population loss, and urban decay of the region. Northeast Ohio, where Kent State University is located, is a landscape rich with complex interactions between people and our environment. We will use this as inspiration for the images we produce with the pigments we create from the landscape.

The process will include applying the pigments to the screens, letting them dry, and then pulling extender base through the screens to transfer the pigments to the paper and make screen monotypes. Make sure you’re registered for MAPC 2024 to attend this demo and the many other amazing events planned! To register, and see a full layout of the conference schedule check out the links in our bio! ✨😊

Make sure that you are registered for MAPC 2024 this fall at to see the prints made for this portfolio exchange, Flyover Country, organized by ! ✈️🌻⛅️

Participants: Ron Abram , Dennis Ahearn , Brian Ames, Otto Chanyakorn .chanyakorn , Larry Cooper , Michael Diaz .l.diaz , Adrian Gonzalez , Christine McCarty .m.mccarty , Ali Norman , Robert Rivers , Jason Scuilla , Aaron Stefan , Ashley Taylor

The term “flyover country,” often used to describe the interior regions of the contiguous United States, carries a complex and multifaceted connotation. While some employ it as a neutral descriptor for a vast geographical expanse, others perceive it as a dismissive label, implying a lack of significance or appeal.

For many “flyover country” conjures images of disregarded landscapes, overlooked communities, and a homogenized cultural identity. This perception stems from the term’s casual association with hurried air travel, reducing the region to a mere glimpse from above. Critics argue that such a perspective overlooks the rich cultural tapestry, diverse populations, and unique features that characterize these central states.

Regardless of its intent, the term “flyover country” has the potential to reinforce stereotypes and diminish appreciation. It is crucial to acknowledge the term’s nuanced implications and approach its usage with sensitivity.

This portfolio showcases the diverse perspectives and artistic interpretations of the term “flyover country”. The artists’ individual expressions challenge and reframe the term’s connotations, inviting viewers to reconsider their perceptions of the region and its inhabitants.

We are thrilled for the 2024 MAPC outstanding Printmaker exhibition with the amazing Melanie Yazzie Professor of Printmaking, University of Colorado Boulder! 🥳✨🔥 The exhibition will be held in the Kemper Gallery, Kansas State University Student Union, 1st Floor.

As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Melanie Yazzie’s work draws upon her rich Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Her work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Diné culture. Her work is informed and shaped by personal experiences.

Ms. Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples. Her visits to New Zealand, the Arctic, the Pueblos in the Southwest, and to indigenous peoples of Russia, these travels have been the impetus for continued dialogue about Indigenous cultural practices, language, song, story-telling, and survival.

Ms. Yazzie has exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Print Collection, Providence, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Kennedy Museum of Art, Art Collection, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Rhodes University, Print Collection, Grahamstown, South Africa, to name a few. She has been reviewed in Focus Magazine, Santa Fe, the Los Angeles Times, New Zealand Herald, and she is mentioned in Printmaking in the Sun by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir and The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multi Centered Society by Lucy Lippard. She has had over 800 group and solo exhibitions combined. Yazzie makes prints, sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works. Her work can always be found at the Glenn Green Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Make sure you are registered for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes to see Melanie Yazzie’s phenomenal work!

Don’t miss out on this awesome panel that will be taking place during MAPC 2024 organized by Neil Daigle Orians !

Death and the Printed Object 🔥✨💀

Panelists: Caitlin La Dolce, Jialun Wang , John O’Donnell , Anthony Corraro .corraro , Neil Daigle Orians

The title of this conference, “From The Ashes”, evokes the myth of the immortal phoenix who burns to a crisp before being reborn into a new life. In order for one to be reborn, one must die. This panel concerns itself with the very nature of death as it pertains to our practice as artists. Panelists will be encouraged to consider death from multiple angles, including but not limited to: recycling/repurposing old work to create new; Roland Barthes’ “Death of the Author” and how that relates to visual arts; the unfortunate trend of not celebrating an artist until after their death; how in the creation of our materials, environmental destruction is often commonplace; printmaking’s status as a “dead” medium; environmental impact of wastes and residues of print techniques; how we are haunted by the perception of print being a capitalist means to an end rather than an artform itself; and so on. If we are to discuss innovation and rebirth, we must also take time to address and discuss the implied death that must occur as a result. What are we letting go of in order to pursue the future? What have we left behind that we should rediscover? What can we learn from interrogating our ghosts?

To attend this panel, and the other incredible events lined up for MAPC 2024, make sure to register! To register, or find the full line up of events for the conference, click the link in our bio! (Work displayed in post by !)

Want to learn how to make your own intaglio and relief ink? Then make sure to attend this demonstration by Vanessa Jo Bahr this Fall at MAPC 2024!

Ashes to Ink : Ink Making Demo ✨🌿🏔️

Learn how to make your very own oil-based intaglio & relief inks using natural pigments derived from plants, minerals and ashes collected from the remnants of burnt prints. The consumerism culture we exist within severely separates us from sourcing and harvesting elements used in the field of contemporary printmaking. Forming relationships with our ingredients is vital not only to deepen appreciation for the natural world, but to preserve its very existence. During this alarmingly over-extracted moment in time, the least we can do is attempt to restore our ecological bond through experimentation and the exploration of materials. Ink making is a radical reclaiming of an underrepresented and nuanced cornerstone within our print practice. Using ink personally crafted from intentionally chosen sources can significantly contribute to the meaning of your work and simultaneously strengthen connections to local landscapes. This demonstration is a rite of passage for anyone who’s ever bought a can of ink; an invitation to critically examine something we share such intimate moments with yet suffer such disconnect from.

To attend this demonstration plus a ton of other amazing events make sure to register for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes! Want to check out the full conference schedule? Then check out the link in our bio! 🔥

Here’s a themed portfolio to be on the lookout for during MAPC 2024 organized by Sage Perrott! ( Artwork shown by )

Do the batty B.A.T. bat bat!

Bats are interwoven in our cultures, and our ecosystems. This portfolio will be a celebration and exploration of bats – as environmental necessities, visual inspiration, and pop culture phenomena.
Images of bats appear in artwork throughout the ages. They symbolize a variety of ideas across cultures, including life and death, good or bad luck, change, and strength. Bats also regularly appear in popular culture – as cartoon characters, puppets, Halloween decorations, and more. And often, if not directly a bat, they appear as some inspiration for a character or creature—such as Batman, or Pokemon (Zubat, Golbat, etc.). In the printmaking field, a B.A.T. (Bon a Tirer) is the print by which the following prints in the edition are modeled.
There are over 1300 bat species globally. Environmentally, bats are an indicator of the health of an ecosystem.

Participants: Morgan Bakaletz, Caitlynn Buckler, Jesus De La Rosa, Belle-Pilar Fleming, Zoe Gillis, Sadie Goll, Laura Grossett, Jessi Hardesty, Heather Muise, Andrew Mullally, Daniella Napolitano, Sage Perrott, Kathy Puzey, Kristin Sarette, Gloria Shows, Kaleena Stasiak, Stacie Williams, Kath Yarkosky, Lance Yates, Elizabeth Jean Younce

Make sure you’re registered for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes to see prints by these awesome artists! Additionally, we would love to share what you are all working on in preparation for MAPC 2024! Tag us/make us co-creator on your post so we can share what you’ve been making for MAPC 2024! To register and see the full 2024 conference schedule, check out the link in our bio!

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Check out this amazing demonstration that will be at MAPC 2024 run by .nanavati !

Everything is Ink: Screen Printing with Organic Elements, will be lead by Al-Qawi Nanavati (and assisted by Heather Steckler,) who will show the viewer how to screen print using materials such as flowers, fabric, leaves and threads. The process of soaking and pulping will be explained and viewers will get a chance to try the process themselves.

Make sure you’re registered for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes to see this demonstration along with so many other amazing events! To register and see the full 2024 conference schedule, check out the link in our bio!

Check out this incredible print by ! Also be on the lookout for panel- Tenders Sight: Recycled Image Making and Collage at MAPC 2024 From the Ashes this upcoming fall in Manhattan, Kansas at Kansas State University! ✨

Check out this awesome print by ! To the Ropes Final Threads
11x14
2024

Relief, Digital Drawing, Screenprint, Poetry
Man vs Insect Portfolio
MAPC 2024 From the Ashes Conference

This portfolio was set up by for the in Kansas this October.
“From The Ashes: Printmaking, Preservation, and Renewal will explore the relationship between printmakers and the natural environment.” Make sure to sign up for MAPC 2024 to see this amazing print and many more! We also want to share all of your incredible work that you’ve been doing in preparation for MAPC 2024, so make sure to tag us on social media, or DM us with any photos and information you would like to share! We can’t wait for October 😁✨

It’s staring to feel like summer on the Konza Prairie! The Konza Prairie preserve is home to over 600 documented species of plants, and a wide a range of animals including Bison, amphibians and reptiles, grassland birds and a multitude of insects. This beautiful ecosystem will be highlighted at MAPC 2024, with the opportunity for individual exploration or guided tours!

The MAPC 2024 schedule and featured guests are now live on our site! Check out all the exciting things that will be taking place at MAPC this upcoming fall now by clicking the link in our bio ✨🌻 also friendly reminder that earlier bird registration is open! Register for MAPC 2024 today!

Exciting news: The MAPC Members’ Exhibition is now open for applications! ☺️🎉 This year, we are excited to have Norman Akers as the juror. Akers is an Osage artist who teaches painting and drawing at the University of Kansas.

Click on the link in bio and apply by June 1st!

The exhibition will be hosted at Kansas State University in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery during the 2024 MAPC Conference. Work will be on display from September 16 to October 11. Make sure you don’t miss this awesome opportunity!

Please email questions to [email protected] with “2024 Member Show Question” in the subject line.

Late-breaking conference panel alert for MAPC 2024 From the Ashes!

Using Every Part of the Print: Creative Reuse as Studio Ethos

Panel Chair: Marika Christofides

Panel description:

In its most traditional forms, printmaking requires the artist to harness and control a process in pursuit of an end goal - the print edition. The trial and error involved has the potential to create waste in the form of failed and faded prints, old transparencies and matrices, paper trimmings, and nixed ink colors. Participants in this panel will look at upcycling, recycling, and creative reuse as practical and conceptual frameworks for approaching a studio practice. How can printmaking be reimagined as a cyclical process? How can embracing mistakes lead to unexpected results? And how can foregrounding process open the door to new forms and possibilities that are unique to printmaking?

To apply, submit a brief statement (150 words or less) describing how your work relates to the subject of creative reuse as studio ethos as outlined in the panel abstract, along with three images of your work and a link to your website if applicable. Images should 72 dpi and no longer than 1920 pixels on the longest dimension. Applicants will need to be a registered member in order to be considered.

Please email this materials to Marika Christofides ([email protected]) with the subject header (Using Every Part of the Print - First Name, Last Name) no later than May 10th, 2024. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by May 15th.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions!

Are you a part of a Panel, Demonstration, Exhibition, or Print Exchange that will be taking place during MAPC 2024? We want to hear about it! Send us what you’re working on in preparation for the conference, and we’ll post it on our page. Feel free to make a post and tag us as co-collaborator, or send in videos and photos for us to share! We’re excited to see what everyone’s working on! 🔥🌱🌻✨

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today we wanted to post some pictures from in and outside the Kansas State Union, which will be the location for extensive events during the 2024 MAPC conference 🌻🔥✨ Open portfolios, the annual bowling night, demonstrations, exhibitions, and more will be housed in the numerous spaces out Union has to offer! We will be highlighting these individual spaces as the conference approaches, so make sure to stay tuned and go apply for MAPC From the Ashes 2024 as early bird registration is now open!