The Society of American Graphic Artists

Today and tomorrow are the last days! Don’t miss the show! 9am - 6pm at the Arts Center in Governors Island 🍂🍁✨

Join us on October 26, 3-5pm at the Arts Center in Governors Island, for the opening of our 89th Annual Members Exhibition!

Public hours:
October 22 - November 3, 2024, Thursdays to Sundays, 9am-6pm, Tuesdays and Wednesday by appointment ([email protected])

Plan your visit from Manhattan: https://www.govisland.com/plan-your-visit/ferry
Or from Brooklyn: https://www.ferry.nyc/routes-and-schedules/governors-island/

The Arts Center, is located in building 110 next to Soissons Landing (Manhattan side pier). All ferries going to and from Governors Island, the island itself, elevators, and restrooms at the Arts center are wheelchair accessible.

See you then!
SAGA

Save the date! Opening reception: Saturday October 26, 3-5pm at the Arts Center in Governors Island, NYC.

The deadline for our 3rd Mini Gems Open Call is approaching fast! September 6, 2024.

SAGA’s Mini Gems is a national, juried miniature print exhibition, held in our gallery in Union Square, NYC since 2022. This year we will show 200 miniature prints on Saturdays from December 7, 2024 to January 4, 2025, giving over $1000 in awards. This is a call open to all print artists across the country. Tell your printmaking friends!

Entry form: https://form.jotform.com/241413488569062

Pictures are from our 2nd Mini Gems at SAGA Gallery in 2023.

Welcome to our new members!

1. Carole Turbin is a native New Yorker. Carole earned a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and over the years, has taught, researched, and published two books and numerous essays on US working women’s history. In the mid 1990’s she returned to art and became a printmaker. Akin to her scholarship on women’s underappreciated labor, her drawings and prints depict ordinary but often unnoticed objects and settings. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, 10.5 x 7″, lithograph. (detail)

2. Stephen Winiecki grew up in Buffalo, NY and moved to New York City in 2007 to earn his Masters in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2009. He lives and works in the Bronx. He specializes in woodblock (mokuhanga) and reductive printmaking techniques. His passion for rock climbing, cycling, and traveling inspire his landscape prints designs. Harvest Moon, 6 x 9″, reductive linocut. (detail)

3. Sherrie York is a self-taught printmaker and compulsive wanderer of landscapes, Sherrie finds her inspiration in the natural world. A long-ago college field trip to draw backyard chickens was the unexpected genesis of a career that encompasses environmental education, natural history illustration, birding, and printmaking. Through the medium of linocut (usually reduction cutting), Sherrie finds her way, inspired by personal experiences and discoveries in the natural world. Cruisin’, 18 x 18″, reduction linocut. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Michele Ramirez is a painter, mother, writer and granddaughter of a bracero in California's San Joaquin Valley. She was exposed to great Mexican muralists while on a family trip to Mexico City as a child. Later, at university, she was introduced to the art of Jorge Posada, and her lifelong love of woodcuts, lithography, intaglio, and drypoint was born. While many contemporaries seek to explore new media, Michele has been seeped in the tradition of oil and ink for over thirty years. Puller 2, 5 x 5″, drypoint & mezzotint. (detail)

2. Valerie Storosh is a native of Washington DC. Valerie developed her interest and passion in printmaking while spending time at the workshop of printmaker Lou Stovall. Her subsequent studies at Pratt Institute allowed her to focus on intaglio printmaking in Kathy Caraccio’s studio in NYC. Valerie continued her printmaking education overseas at Atelier 17, in Paris. Her prints explore her Eastern European and Ukrainian heritage, using a unique interpretation of the Old World iconography. Morning on Madison, 12 x 9″, relief & viscosity. (detail)

3. Joe Tsambiras is an artist, printmaker living in Savannah, Georgia. He received a BFA in illustration from SCAD and an MFA in drawing and printmaking from Georgia State University. He was a founding member of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio. Currently, he is a Professor of Foundation Studies at SCAD. In his work he juxtaposes found references, objects from life, and objects drawn from imagination. Initiation, 9 x 12″, etching & watercolor. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Kathryn Polk was born in Memphis, TN and studied art at the Memphis Academy of Art and Memphis State University. Twenty years ago, she began working with traditional stone lithography and is currently co-owner of L VIS Press, a print studio dedicated to the development and research of stone lithography. She is a visual storyteller who uses symbols, memories and current events looking through the eyes of all the women in her family. If you see Kay…, 20 x 15″, lithograph. (detail)

2. Mitchell P**n began printmaking after studying lithography at Cornell University, where he received his BA. He has since studied at the Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC) and SVA. This fall, Mitchell plans to pursue graduate studies in printmaking at RISD. He is inspired by his own experience as a second-generation Chinese American, personal mythology, Chinese symbolism and numerology, and the Dutch Vanitas painting genre. Kam Man Reimagined, 18 x 24″, photoplate lithograph.(detail)

3. Amy McGregor-Radin is a Michigan native and a New England transplant with deep roots, Amy now spends most of her time in Jaffrey, NH within sight of Mt. Monadnock. She studied the white line woodcut and other printing methods in and around New England and has led classes and workshops over the past two decades. While a white line woodcut can be printed many times over, each print is done individually and is unique. Alaska Range, 11 x 15″, white line woodcut. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Mark Pellegrino studied illustration and printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art and then followed his father’s footsteps to become a union electrician, based in Brooklyn, NY. Urban life has always been his greatest inspiration. His printmaking focuses on the details of the world around him- the tree-lined streets and the underground tunnels of the subway system. He prefers traditional relief printmaking and pulling prints by hand. Gowanus Canal, 15 x 20″, linocut. (detail)

2. Carlos Pisco studied Fine Arts and Civil Engineering in his homeland, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently lives in NYC and works as faculty at the SVA Printmaking Department. For over 30 years, he has been practicing printmaking including silkscreen, monotypes and most recently- woodcuts. He enjoys exploring different papers and color combinations to create very different prints while using the same matrix. On the Pool Deck, 9 x 12″, woodcut. (detail)

3. Andrew Polk is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, where he taught graduate and undergraduate printmaking for 32 years. After leaving the university, he and his wife, Kathryn relocated their home and studio to rural Indiana which inspires him deeply. Nature, in its silent conquest, reclaims what people construct. His images of pathos and joy speak to the universal implications about living and dying in this world. Cemetery Dogs, 16 x 20″, hand-drawn stone lithograph. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Yuke Li is a New York City-based visual artist with an MFA in Illustration from SVA. She started printmaking in 2019 and focuses on traditional etching, monoprint, and mixed media. Deeply inspired by nature, Yuke seeks to cultivate relationships among individuals, offer alternative perspectives, and inspire hope in her audience. Animal World, 9 x 12″, hard ground, aquatint, roll over. (detail)

2. Leonard Merlo is a full time artist living and working in South Plainfield, NJ with 25 years of art education experience in NJ Public Schools. He has served on the Board of Directors at The Print Center of New Jersey, and The Arts Guild of New Jersey. His prints are meditations on memory, time, place, and perception. Where My Shadow Used To Be, 9 x 12″, collagraph.(detail)

3. Traci Mims currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She has an undergraduate degree in fine arts and an MFA in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art. As an artist she wants to provoke thought, educate, and create change. Her work is about aspects of black identity and how black people are perceived and treated socially both presently and historically. Her work is focused on iconoclasm, identity and activism from the viewpoint of a black American female, often using self-portraiture. Street Blessings, 48 x 48″, reduction woodcut. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Theresa Kehrer trained as a geologist and a fine artist. Both disciplines instilled a love of botany, nature and the outdoors. Growing up in a family of scientists who were also artists, she was captivated by the precision of the scientific book illustrations. She strives for this level of realism in her art, while choosing themes she finds beautiful, joyful or whimsical. White line printmaking has become a welcome departure from the rigidity of realism, allowing her to be playful with a subject. Les Trois Amis, 12 x 16″, white line woodcut. (detail)

2. Mariko Kuzumi was born in Tokyo, Japan and is now based in New York City. She received bachelor's degrees in fine arts and architecture from RISD. She studied Printmaking at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Her practice includes printmaking, collages, and 3D objects and picture books. In her work, she revisits and re-evaluate materials, subject matter, mediums, and the playful activities of childhood. Once upon Burlington, 12 x 8″, etching. (detail)

3. Brooke Lambert is a professional printmaker and painter, whose work focuses on the natural environment and ocean. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and shows her work widely in New England, New York, and beyond. Brooke works in her studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. She is currently a member of Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery in New York. Mystic, 36 x 24″, collagraph with akua inks & gouache. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Tony Holmquist was born in San Francisco and raised in Omaha, NE. Tony is a visual artist/printmaker and is also a musician who researches, interprets, and disseminates old-time music through the fiddle, banjo, and guitar. He currently resides in Durango, CO where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College. His work explores line and space through etched permanence, reconstruction, and transformation. Brushy Run, 30 x 22″, etching & aquatint. (detail)

2. Anthony Huang is a Taiwanese-American artist, received a BA in journalism. He then moved to the US to earn an MFA in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Recently he received his second MFA in Studio Art, with a Printmaking concentration, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Anthony is inspired by Daoist philosophy - exploring the relationship between the built and the natural world, inviting viewers to find solace there. Drops of Voyage, 9 x 18″, etching on chine collé kitikata. (detail)

3. Haley Kean is a printmaker from Newtown CT, currently based in Northampton, MA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University, and BFA in Studio Art from Keene State College. Her work derives from personal experience growing up in Newtown, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Shooting. Through this lens, she excavates the flexible psychological compartmentalization of place, and examines the inextricable link between trauma, and the land where it happened. Passive Forms II, 6 x 10″, intaglio. (detail)

3rd Annual Mini Gems Open Call!!

SAGA is happy to announce its 3rd Mini Gems Open Call. Get ready to submit your miniature prints for jurying consideration by September 6, 2024.

Mini Gems is a national, juried miniature print exhibition, held in our gallery in Union Square, NYC since 2022. This year we will show 200 miniature prints on Saturdays from December 7, 2024 to January 4, 2025, giving over $1000 in awards. This is a call open to all print artists across the country.

SAGA members are guaranteed at least one work in the show. Members who are participating in SAGA’s 89th Annual Members Exhibition can enter Mini Gems by submitting the multi-show entry form. Members who only wish to enter Mini Gems can select the member’s entry fee at the end of the form.

Juror: Katie Michel, founder & director of Planthouse Gallery, NYC.

Go to sagaprints.com to submit your Mini Gems!

Welcome to our new members!

1. William Demaria, After receiving his BFA from Cornell University with a focus on Intaglio Printmaking, he worked as a printer at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) for 3 years. Now William lives in Baltimore, MD where he works on his art and helps other artists print editions out of Ink Spot Press. He sees the landscape as a human subject like a portrait. William is interested in representing the emotions and memories he feels within the landscape. Burnt Salmon, 12 x 18″, intaglio etching with chine collé. (detail)

2. Rick Finn is a printmaker living and working in Cincinnati, OH. He learned printmaking in the late 1970s from a master printer who taught not only traditional skills, but advanced techniques such as making grounds from scratch to mixing their custom etching inks. While Rick’s primary focus has been on traditional intaglio techniques on copper plates, recently, he’s been exploring alternative photographic print processes such as polymer photogravure, cyanotype and gum bichromate.
Dead Weight, 5.5 x 7.5″, mokuhanga woodblock + drawing chine collé. (detail)

3. Jani Hoberg has an undergraduate degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Oregon. She works in traditional copperplate intaglio techniques, focusing on figurative images combined with the outdoors of Oregon and Hawaii. Line quality and variety, negative space and composition guide her work from sketchbook to preliminary drawing to first proof to finished etching.
Bees, 16 x 16″, intaglio & chine collé. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Kyle Chaput is an Associate Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Baylor University, TX. His work attempts to reveal internal struggles with a chronic illness while referencing chaotic, often conflicting aspects of ‘border’ life. These aberrant sites and abandoned still lives reflect a broken condition within an alienated community, the Rio Grande Valley on the US/Mexico border. Bundle V, 11 x 14″, woodcut. (detail)

2. Jacob Crook holds an MFA degree in printmaking from Syracuse University and a BFA in painting from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He lives in Starkville, MS where he works as Assistant Professor of Art and Printmaking Coordinator at Mississippi State University. His preferred medium is mezzotint. He finds that the quality of light cast into these spaces can bring poetry to the prosaic, magic to the mundane, and beauty to the banal. Distillation, 12 x 9″, mezzotint. (detail)

3. John Decker received a BFA in Printmaking and Graphic Design from ESU (KS) and then worked as a graphic designer for 18 years in their marketing office. In 2010, he received an MS in Instructional Design and Technology. He recently joined the ESU Department of Art faculty as a professor of graphic design. His printmaking practice focuses mostly on intaglio techniques including hand engraving. The Bird Is The Word, 4 x 5.25″, hand colored intaglio. (detail)

Welcome to our new members!

1. Miguel A. Aragón lives and works in NYC and Berlin, Germany; he is an Associate Professor at CUNY College of Staten Island. Through his work, he explores subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, using erasure as language through reductive processes. Representations of the visible will always show residues and traces of the invisible; the images he creates connect the spheres of what can be seen and what can be only intuited.
T.R. T8, 27.5 x 22″, color lithograph. (detail)

2. Coco Berkman is a Cape Ann, MA artist/printmaker who is inspired by literature, the natural world and the free play inherent in drawing. She uses sharp Japanese tools to carve images into sheets of linoleum and then prints them one color at a time over several months to complete an edition. Coco studied printmaking at several studios throughout the United States, Ireland and South Korea.
Cake and Snowmen, 24 x 27″, reductive linoleum print. (detail)

3. Karen D. Beckwith earned a BFA in Printmaking and Illustration from The Cleveland Institute of Art and later, completed a Tamarind Institute Master Printer Fellowship. The work Karen creates explores rural and urban spaces showing evidence of existence without revealing the inhabitants. Buildings, entryways, doors, and back alleys offer continual fuel for her work. She is currently based in Cleveland, OH.
Bike Sharing System, 22 x 30″, lithograph. (detail)

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SAGA is at the SGCI Conference in Providence RI.
If you are here for the weekend, feel free to message us to connect and talk ✨

Open Call for New Members! Deadline May 1.
Go to sagaprints.com/membership to learn how to apply. SAGA’s mission is to promote contemporary printmakers, cultivate printmaking appreciation and education, and offer a collaborative and inclusive platform for print artists across the country.

Happy New Year Everyone!!
We are happy to announce our coming group show:

TIMELESS: Five Celebrated SAGA Printmakers.
Bill Behnken, Ann Chernow, Barbara Minton,
Merle Perlmutter, and Ellen Nathan Singer.

Opening: 2/17, 2-5 pm. at SAGA Gallery, 32 Union Square East, Suite 1214, New York NY 10003. On view Saturdays through 3/30, 12-5 pm. or by appointment at [email protected]. Save the date! More information coming soon.

Congratulations to Caroline Ongpin .ongpin, for winning The Award "In Memory of Linda Adato", Clementine Martinez , for winning The Murray Roth Memorial Award, Kyung Eun You , for winning The Conservation Framing Award in Honor of Nicholas Pavlick, and Yuji Hiratsuka , for winning The Kathy Caraccio Purchase Award in Color Intaglio, at SAGA's 88th Annual Members Exhibition held at The Old Print Shop.

Big thank you to Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Whitney Museum of American Art, for this year's awards selection, and The Old Print Shop .

1. Award in Memory of Linda Adato
Caroline Ongpin, Reflecting Pool IV (detail), Etching and linocut on paper, 30 x 22 Inches, 2023.

2. TheMurray Roth Memorial Award
Clementine Martinez, Evolution II (green), Stone lithograph hand-colored with iridescent watercolor. Fish-lotus creature from my ‘Evolution’ series. 11 x 15.25 Inches, 2022

3. Conservation Framing Award in Honor of Nicholas Pavlick
Kyung Eun You, January 20, 2023 (detail), Linoleum cut reduction print, 9 x 6 Inches, 2023.

4. Kathy Caraccio Purchase Award in Color Intaglio
Yuji Hiratsuka, Lady Berry Bomb & Madame Bit Nutty (detail), Intaglio and Chine Colle, 12 x 18 Inches, 2022.

Congratulations to Genevieve L'Heureux , for winning The Arun Bose Memorial Award for Intaglio Printmaking, Sachin Pannuri , for winning The Robert Conover Memorial Award, and Miki Nagano , for winning The In Memory of Gertrude Pferdt, a Beloved Teacher Award, at SAGA's 88th Annual Members Exhibition held at The Old Print Shop.

Big thank you to Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Whitney Museum of American Art, for this year's awards selection, and The Old Print Shop .

1. The Arun Bose Memorial Award for Intaglio Printmaking
Genevieve L’Heureux, Intersection, Spit bite and water bite etching with color monotype, 16 x 16 Inches, 2023.

2. The Robert Conover Memorial Award
Sachin Pannuri, Waltz for Nobody (detail), Aquatint, 6 x 17.5 Inches, 2023.

3. The In Memory of Gertrude Pferdt, a Beloved Teacher Award
Miki Nagano, Night Walk, Monotype, I reduced the multicolor printing technology of lithographs and etchings to monotypes and performed multicolor printing with several plates. I have been fascinated by the flow of clouds since I was a child. One cold night, I imagined seeing the cloud reflection during the night walk.
18 x 16 inches, 2021.

Congratulations to Steven E. Walker, for winning The SAGA Award for Outstanding Printmaking, Annie Bisset , for winning The "In Memory of Takayo Noda" Award, and DeAnn L. Prosia .artist , for winning The Ernest D. Roth Memorial Etching Award, at SAGA's 88th Annual Members Exhibition held at The Old Print Shop.

Big thank you to Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Whitney Museum of American Art, for this year's awards selection, and The Old Print Shop .

1. SAGA Award for Outstanding Printmaking
Steven E. Walker, Flag II (detail), Etching, aquatint, chine colle, 14.5 X 18 Inches, 2023.

2. In Memory of Takayo Noda Award
Annie Bissett, Fish Pot, Watercolor woodblock print (mokuhanga), from a series of vessels created for use in Woodblock Dreams Tarot deck. 13 x 13 inches, 2019.

3. Ernest D. Roth Memorial Etching Award
DeAnn L. Prosia, Reflection, Intaglio line etching. Copper plate with ferric chloride and printed on German Etching paper. No aquatint! New York City scene. 11.75 x 11.75 Inches, 2023.

Congratulations to Douglas Bosley for winning The Old Print Shop Excellence in Printmaking Award, Joanna Karatzas, for winning The Art Students League of New York Excellence in Printmaking Award, and John Parnell , for winning The John A. Noble Prize for Lithography at SAGA's 88th Annual Members Exhibition held at The Old Print Shop.

Big thanks to Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Whitney Museum of American Art, for the selection of awards this year, The Old Print Shop , The Art Students League of New York , and The Noble Maritime Collection

1. The Old Print Shop Excellence in Printmaking Award
Douglas Bosley, Saturn (detail), Mezzotint, 44 x 30 inches, 2021

2. The Art Students League of New York Excellence in Printmaking Award
Joanna Karatzas, Golgotha (detail), Copper plate etching, Aquatint, Chine Colle on BFK Rives, 32 x 24 Inches, 2022

3. The John A. Noble Prize for Lithography
John Parnell, Red (detail), Abstracted image of female figure. Lithograph in three colors. 16.5 x 12.75 inches, 2023