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Series Three Episodes

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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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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s3e23 Kimberly Henrikson
April 11, 2023

s3e23 Kimberly Henrikson

In Platemark s3e23, host Ann Shafer speaks with Kimberly Henrikson, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. CCP offers myriad services from contract printing to artist’s residencies, classes, workshops, and exhibitions.

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s3e22 Laura Einstein
March 28, 2023

s3e22 Laura Einstein

In Platemark s3e22, host Ann Shafer talks with Laura Einstein, manager of the Gallery at the Met Store. Tucked away on the mezzanine of the bookstore at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a gallery space where limited edition, fine …

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s3e21 Pam Paulson
March 14, 2023

s3e21 Pam Paulson

In Platemark s3e21, host Ann Shafer talks with Pam Paulson, founder of Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, California. After earning her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982 (she was a teaching assistant for Robert...

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s3e20 Kimberli Gant
Feb. 28, 2023

s3e20 Kimberli Gant

In Platemark s3e20, host Ann Shafer talks with Kimberli Gant, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. While Kimberli’s specialty isn’t in prints per se, she is one of those unusual non-print curators who likes and...

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s3e19 Maryanne Ellison Simmons
Feb. 14, 2023

s3e19 Maryanne Ellison Simmons

In s3e19, host Ann Shafer talks with Maryanne Ellison Simmons, collector, printer, and owner of Wildwood Press in St. Louis, MO. Along with her husband, baseball hall-of-famer Ted Simmons, Maryanne collects contemporary prints. A large portion of the...

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s3e18 Susan Teller
Jan. 31, 2023

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 …

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s3e17 Jeannot Barr
Jan. 17, 2023

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...

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S3e16 Hope Saska
Jan. 3, 2023

S3e16 Hope Saska

Curator, University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum

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s3e15 Julia D'Amario
Dec. 20, 2022

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 …

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s3e14 James Ehlers
Dec. 6, 2022

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 …

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s3e13 Tom Hück (an update)
Nov. 22, 2022

s3e13 Tom Hück (an update)

Artist, with an update on his new, epic print edition, Monkey Mountain Kronikle

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s3e12 Maureen Warren
Oct. 25, 2022

s3e12 Maureen Warren

Curator, Krannert Art Museum

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