Episodes
s3e18 Susan Teller
In s3e18, host Ann Shafer talks with dealer Susan Teller, whose eponymous gallery operates out of the Mana Fine Arts facility in Jersey City, NJ. Susan specializes in American paintings and works on paper of the mid-twentieth century. She also …
s2e23 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part three)
Platemark s2e23 continues hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. Once again, for clarity, a reproductive print is one in which an artist creates a design (a drawing, painting, sculpture) and another artist creates a...
s3e17 Jeannot Barr
In s3e17, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with print dealer Jeannot Barr, who organized the first (and many subsequent) New York Print Fair in 1984. They touch on pricing, buying at auction, fair organization, and a host of other business-of-art...
s3e15 Julia D'Amario
In s3e15, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with printer Julia D’Amario, who has been the printer at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, OR, since 2002. Formerly she printed for Pace …
s3e14 James Ehlers
In Platemark s3e14, host Ann Shafer speaks with James Ehlers, professor and chair of the studio art department at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. It turns out, Emporia State offers the only BFA in engraving arts in the United …
s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)
More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints
s3e13 Tom Hück (an update)
In a Platemark first we speak with a previous guest for a special update. Artist Tom Hück agreed to talk to hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig at his Evil Prints studio in Park Hills, Missouri, in August 2022. Hück …
s2e21 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part one)
Platemark series two, A History of Western Prints, returns with an episode about reproductive prints. In s2e21, Tru Ludwig takes listeners back to a time when lives were lived with no images save for maybe what one saw in church. …
s3e7 Elizabeth Wyckoff
In s3e7, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig sit down with Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to talk about the exhibition Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne …
s3e2 Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek
Tandem Press Master Printers Speak
s2e20 History of Prints Rembrandt (religious scenes)
Humanizing biblical figures
s2e19 History of Prints Rembrandt (genre scenes and portraits)
Facial expressions in five lines or less
s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)
Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever