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Platemark Episodes

Aug. 30, 2022

s3e7 Elizabeth Wyckoff, curator

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 Ellison Simmons...

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Aug. 16, 2022

s3e6 Bill Hall, collaborative printer

In s3e6, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Bill Hall, master printer (retired) at Pace Prints for nearly thirty years.

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Aug. 2, 2022

s3e5 Miranda Metcalf, podcaster

In s3e5, Ann Shafer talks with fellow podcaster and print lover Miranda Metcalf, whose show, Hello, Print Friend, is the internet's most popular podcast about prints and printmaking.

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July 19, 2022

s3e4 Tom Hück, artist

Platemark’s series three offers its first interview with an artist, Tom Hück, Evil Prints' bad boy woodcutter.

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July 5, 2022

s3e3 James Wehn, curator

In s3e3, Ann Shafer and Ben Levy talk with James Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about prints, museums, curatorial work, and Israel van Meckenem.

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June 21, 2022

s3e2 Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek, collaborative printe…

In s3e2, Ann Shafer and Ben Levy sit down with the three master printers at Tandem Press: Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek. Find out what makes a dream team in a print shop.

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June 7, 2022

s3e1 Paula Panczenko and Russell Panczenko

In this first episode of series 3 (interviews with luminaries of the print ecosystem), Ann Shafer and Ben Levy sit down with Paula Panczenko, executive director of Tandem Press, and Russell Panczenko, retired director of the Chazen Museum of Art. Both entities are affiliated with the University of …

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May 24, 2022

s2e20 History of Prints Rembrandt (religious scenes)

In s2e20, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their discussion of Rembrandt van Rijn, the man who made etching was it is today and humanized biblical figures.

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April 26, 2022

s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)

Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever

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April 12, 2022

s2e17 History of Prints Hendrick Goltzius

Muscles on muscles on muscles

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March 15, 2022

s2e15 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part two)

Martin Luther and prints by Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach

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March 1, 2022

s2ep14 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part one)

The Protestant Reformation opens up all sorts of possibilities for artists

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Feb. 15, 2022

s2e13 History of Prints The Italians (Ghisi and Barocci)

Reproductive or autographic? Barocci does both simultaneously

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Feb. 5, 2022

BONUS EP Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair

A new print fair for Charm City

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Jan. 18, 2022

s2e11 History of Prints The Italians (Parmigianino)

Mannerist painter/printmaker Parmigianino in the spotlight

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Jan. 14, 2022

BONUS EP History of Prints Tru's Artist's Manifesto

On Tru Ludwig as artist and art historian

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Jan. 4, 2022

s2e10 History of Prints The Italians (MarcAntonio Raimondi)

MarcAntonio Raimondi, Veneziano, and Diana Scultori

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Dec. 7, 2021

s2e8 History of Prints The Italians (Pollaiuolo)

Early Italian printmakers contrasted with Northern counterparts

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Nov. 23, 2021

s2e7 History of Prints Techniques: Intaglio

All about engraving, etching, mezzotint, and drypoint

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