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Platemark Episodes

Jan. 16, 2024

s3e48 lithography deep dive with printer/publisher Deb Chaney

In episode s3e48, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Deb Chaney, Tamarind-trained master printer specializing in lithography. She has an eponymous imprint, Deb Chaney Editions and has started a new venture with Stéphane Guilbaud—D&S Fine Art...

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Jan. 2, 2024

s3e47 behind-the-scenes at Rago Auctions with Adam McCoy

Leading off 2024’s series three episodes is s3e47 in which Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Adam McCoy, Senior Specialist in Fine Art, Rago Auctions. Adam has worked in various auction houses for many years, including Christies and...

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Dec. 19, 2023

s3e46 engraving deep dive with Latvian artist, Reinis Gailitis

In s3e46, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Reinis Gailitis, an engraver from Riga, Latvia. The magic of the internet is fully on display today. Without it, finding Reinis's work would have been challenging. But his self-portrait in the style of...

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Dec. 4, 2023

s3e45 singer-songwriter Bob Schneider's etchings

In Platemark s3e45, host Ann Shafer talks with Bob Schneider, who is best known for his music but is a serious artist as well. You may know some of his best-loved songs like , , , and , but you will be delighted to learn about his print...

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Nov. 21, 2023

s3e44 on the importance of art in hospitals for patients and staff wi…

There's often a ton of art in medical spaces, but who are the curators of those health system collections? In s3e44, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Naomi Huth, chief curator and director of the art collection for NYC Health + Hospitals. Held...

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Nov. 7, 2023

s3e43 printer Craig Zammiello on collaborating with Johns, Rauschenbe…

In s3e43, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Craig Zammiello, an artist and collaborative printer with over 40 years of experience in all areas of printmaking. He worked for 25 years at Universal Limited Art Editions, where he collaborated with...

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Oct. 31, 2023

s3e42 Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries with curators Lauren…

In s3e42, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl about their exhibition on view at Print Center New York through December, 23, 2023. A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries is the first exhibition...

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Oct. 24, 2023

s3e41 Art in Print editor Susan Tallman on loving amiguity in art

In Platemark s3e41, host Ann Shafer talks with Susan Tallman, an art historian and essayist who co-founded the journal Art in Print and served as its editor for its entire run, 2011–2019. A regular contributor to New York Review of Books and...

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Oct. 17, 2023

s3e40 starting a new printshop in Brooklyn at Powerhouse Arts with Lu…

In s3e40, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Luther Davis, master printer and director of Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn. This is a two-parter. For this interview, Platemark collaborated with its sister podcast Hello, Print Friend. Miranda Metcalf,...

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Oct. 17, 2023

Powerhouse Art Printshop's Luther Davis on Hello, Print Friend

In this bonus episode, Hello, Print Friend creator and guest host Miranda Metcalf talks with Luther Davis, master printer and director of Powerhouse Arts Print Shop, Brooklyn, about his background and early career.  Powerhouse Arts is new player...

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Oct. 10, 2023

HoP deep dive on ONE PRINT: Käthe Kollwitz, Battlefield

Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig offer up a bonus HoP episode featuring a conversation about a single work of art. Occasionally we will drop a BONUS EP ONE PRINT, which will take a single work and pull it apart with an eye toward exploring...

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Oct. 3, 2023

s3e39 social justice and satire with artist Sue Coe

In s3e39, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Sue Coe, an artist and social activist. The pair were joined in the conversation by Tru Ludwig (Sue is one of Tru’s art heroes) at Sue’s home in the Catskill Mountains, New York.   Sue creates...

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Sept. 26, 2023

s3e38 all about working with William Kentridge with printer Jillian R…

In this week's episode of Platemark (s3e38), host Ann Shafer talks with Jillian Ross, collaborative master printer and publisher with an eponymous imprint, Jillian Ross Print, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.   Ross returned to her...

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Sept. 19, 2023

s3e37 printer Phil Sanders on the future of the printmaking ecosystem…

In the second part of their conversation, Ann Shafer and  printer/publisher Phil Sanders continue talking about the state of the printmaking ecosystem.    They talk about why supporting artists is important even if you don’t...

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Sept. 12, 2023

s3e36 printmaking ecosytem forecast with printer Phil Sanders (part o…

In s3e36, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with printer/publisher and author Phil Sanders about the state of the ecosystem. Phil has a finger in nearly every pie in the ecosystem, so after a Platemark listener wrote in to ask about breaking into the...

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Sept. 5, 2023

s3e35 behind-the-scenes at ULAE with director Larissa Goldston

In s3e35, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Larissa Goldston, director and owner of Universal Limited Art Editions, usually referred to by its acronym ULAE. We talk about ULAE’s founder Tatyana Grosman, and her harrowing escape from first Siberia...

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Aug. 29, 2023

s3e34 electrolytic etching with artist Jason Scuilla

In s3e34, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Jason Scuilla, artist and professor at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. The university is hosting the Mid America Print Council conference in the fall of 2024, and Jason was eager to talk about...

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Aug. 22, 2023

s3e33 one of Jim Dine's favorite printers, Ruth Lingen

In s3e33, Platemark podcast host Ann Shafer talks with Ruth Lingen, printer and owner of Line Press Limited, located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Line Press Limited does just about everything except screenprinting. Ruth is a...

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Aug. 20, 2023

Platemark Trailer

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? Give Platemark a listen. Platemark podcast's...

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Aug. 15, 2023

s3e32 all about intaglio prints, materials and techiniques, and histo…

In s3e32 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer speaks with Ad Stijnman, an independent scholar of historical printmaking processes, specializing in manual intaglio printmaking techniques. He is also a professional printmaker. Ad is the go-to guy on all sorts...

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Aug. 8, 2023

s2e29 History of Prints Claude Lorrain

In s2e29, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about Claude Lorrain, the arbiter of landscape painting in the 17th century. He worked most of his life in Rome and elevated landscape as a subject up the academic hierarchy by including small...

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Aug. 1, 2023

s3e31 photogravure deep dive with artist Lothar Osterburg

In s3e31 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer speaks with Lothar Osterburg, artist, professor and leading expert on the fine art of photogravure. These are basically photographs transferred to copper plates and printed as etchings. (It's, of course, more...

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July 25, 2023

Bonus: Tru Ludwig on creativity

In this bonus episode, Platemark host Ann Shafer coaxed co-host Tru Ludwig into talking about being an artist and art historian, and how being a professor in both disciplines plays out. It's a fascinating confluence of ideas and passions in one...

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July 18, 2023

s3e30 on being a beloved National Gallery curator with Ruth Fine

In Platemark s3e30, host Ann Shafer speaks with Ruth Fine, retired curator from the National Gallery of Art. Ruth was curator of modern prints and drawings there from 1980–2002, followed by an additional period working on special projects in modern...

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