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Platemark

OUR SHARED VISUAL CULTURE: THE POWER OF PRINTS AND MULTIPLICITY

What is it about prints and printmaking that draws such fervent practitioners, collectors, and fans? How are prints relevant to all our lives? What do all those people in the "print ecosystem" do anyway?

Series one looks at prints and printmaking in the context of museums, the market, critiques, and the print ecosystem. Series two offers a history of prints and printmaking in the West. Series three offers interviews with the colorful characters of the print ecosystem. Join us and the wonderful fans of prints and printmaking.

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Recent Episodes

s3e27 Emma Nishimura
June 6, 2023

s3e27 Emma Nishimura

In Platemark s3e27, host Ann Shafer talks with Emma Nishimura, an artist and professor based in Toronto. Emma works in printmaking, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her work addresses ideas of inherited memory and trauma with a specific focus...

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s3e26 Jennifer Mack-Watkins
May 23, 2023

s3e26 Jennifer Mack-Watkins

Platemark s3e26's guest is Jennifer Mack-Watkins, an artist and children's book illustrator based in Savannah, GA. Her work looks at social conformities that limit us and box us in, whether beauty, relationships, body image, power, or gender roles....

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s3e25 Michael Barnes
May 9, 2023

s3e25 Michael Barnes

Platemark s3e25's guest is Michael Barnes, an artist and professor at Northern Illinois University who specializes in lithography. In addition to deep knowledge of how lithography works, Michael is also an historian of the technique and a collector.

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s2e28 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part two)
May 2, 2023

s2e28 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part two)

In s2e28, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their two-part conversation about Claude Mellan. An encounter with Mellan’s best known work, The Holy Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Sudarium, is to be a witness to greatness.

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s3e24 Steve Goddard
April 25, 2023

s3e24 Steve Goddard

In s3e24, host Ann Shafer speaks with Steve Goddard, curator emeritus from the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, whose specialty is prints of northern Europe (1450–present).

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s2e27 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part one)
April 18, 2023

s2e27 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part one)

In s2e27, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig begin a two-part conversation about Claude Mellan, who engraved the most astonishing portrait of Jesus Christ in the history of art. In fact, if it weren’t for his print of the Holy …

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Recent Blog Posts

A History of Prints Top 10, lithograph by Tru Ludwig

Tru Ludwig and Leo Zhao co-published a lithograph, A Brief History of Prints Top 10 (Nein, 11), 2023

Putting together a podcast episode for Platemark

Platemark host Ann Shafer shares her workflow putting together the episode with Steve Goddard, curator and professor (retired), Spencer Museum of Art, Un…

Platemark s3e20 Kimberli Gant, curator, Brooklyn Museum

Podcast host Ann Shafer talks with Kimberli Gant about museums, prints, Jacob Lawrence, and the Mbari Club..