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Platemark episodes and shorts on YouTube

July 11, 2024

s3e24 Steve Goddard, curator

s3e24 Steve Goddard, curator

In s3e24, host Ann Shafer speaks with Steve Goddard, curator emerita from the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Steve’s specialty is prints of northern Europe (1450–present), although he has been known to stray into the graphic arts of the World War One era, as…

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July 11, 2024

s2e27 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part one)

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 Face on the Sudarium, Mellan may have dropped out of…

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July 11, 2024

s3e23 Kimberly Henrikson, executive director, Center for Contemporary Printmaking

s3e23 Kimberly Henrikson, executive director, Center for Contemporary Printmaking

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. It really does it all. As CCP’s executive director and administrator, Kimberly not only makes sure the…

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July 11, 2024

s2e26 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part two)

s2e26 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part two)

In s2e26, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their conversation about Jacques Callot, where there is always more than meets the eye. He's of interest for many reasons, including his practice of making faster-to-create etchings look like more-time-consuming engravings using his éschoppe. He is the first printmaker in Western…

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July 11, 2024

s3e22 Laura Einstein, manager, The Gallery at The Met Store

s3e22 Laura Einstein, manager, The Gallery at The Met Store

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 art prints are available for purchase. The Gallery (formerly known…

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July 11, 2024

s2e25 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part one)

s2e25 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part one)

In s2e25, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig take an in-depth look at Jacques Callot, who is the first printmaker in Western art to record the atrocities of war. He heads up any list of artists using prints to spread news far and wide about societal ills through visual means.…

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July 11, 2024

s3e21 Pam Paulson, owner, Paulson Fontaine Press

s3e21 Pam Paulson, owner, Paulson Fontaine Press

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 Colescott), Pam cut her teeth in printmaking at Crown Point Press in…

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July 11, 2024

s3e20 Kimberli Gant, curator, Brooklyn Museum

s3e20 Kimberli Gant, curator, Brooklyn Museum

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 appreciates prints and incorporates them into her projects. Among many projects,…

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July 11, 2024

s2e24 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part four)

s2e24 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part four)

Platemark s2e24 concludes hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. The stars of this episode are Hendrick Goltzius and Peter Paul Rubens. It’s about the business of prints, artists getting their designs out there, and how these very transportable pieces of paper travelled throughout Europe and became…

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July 11, 2024

s3e19 Maryanne Ellison Simmons, collaborative printer and collector

s3e19 Maryanne Ellison Simmons, collaborative printer and collector

In s3e19, host Ann Shafer talks with Maryanne Ellison Simmons, printer and owner of Wildwood Press in St. Louis, MO. She and her husband, baseball hall-of-famer Ted Simmons, also collect contemporary art. A large portion of the collection is now at the Saint Louis Art Museum where it was celebrated…

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July 11, 2024

s3e18 Susan Teller, print dealer

s3e18 Susan Teller, print dealer

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 works with multiple artists’ estates including Peggy Bacon, William Baziotes,…

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July 11, 2024

s2e23 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part three)

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 print after that original design. These can be sanctioned by the first…

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July 11, 2024

s3e17 Jeannot Barr, print dealer

s3e17 Jeannot Barr, print dealer

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 topics. They delve into the Ferdinand Roten Gallery (based in…

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July 11, 2024

S3e16 Hope Saska, curator

S3e16 Hope Saska, curator

In s3e16, host Ann Shafer speaks with Hope Saska, chief curator and director of academic engagement at the CU Art Museum, that’s the museum at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hope’s specialty is in 18th-century British graphic satire and caricature. But like so many curators of works on paper, she…

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July 11, 2024

s3e15 Julia D'Amario, collaborative printer

s3e15 Julia D'Amario, collaborative printer

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 Prints in New York from 1989–2008. In between all that,…

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July 11, 2024

s3e14 James Ehlers, artist and professor

s3e14 James Ehlers, artist and professor

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 States. Platemark listeners will know Ann has a soft spot…

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July 11, 2024

s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)

s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)

More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints

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July 11, 2024

s3e13 Tom Hück, artist (an update)

s3e13 Tom Hück, artist (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 is releasing his latest print edition on Thanksgiving Day, a…

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July 11, 2024

s2e21 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part one)

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. Prints were the way the first images were widely consumed;…

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July 11, 2024

s3e12 Maureen Warren, curator

s3e12 Maureen Warren, curator

In s3e12, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Maureen Warren, curator of European and (North) American art at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For ten years Maureen has been studying, researching, and writing about prints in the Dutch Republic, which was the basis of her…

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July 11, 2024

s3e11 LaToya M. Hobbs, artist and professor

s3e11 LaToya M. Hobbs, artist and professor

In s3e11, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with artist LaToya M. Hobbs whose commissioned installation will be on view as visitors enter the IFPDA Print Fair at the end of October 2022. The works will be front and center at the entrance and will no doubt garner lots of attention…

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July 11, 2024

s3e10 Julia Samuels, owner, Overpass Projects

s3e10 Julia Samuels, owner, Overpass Projects

In s3e10, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Ben Levy talk with Julia Samuels, master printer and owner of Overpass Projects, Pawtucket, RI. Ann and Ben were thrilled to visit Overpass in person for the recording of this episode. It’s so great to see what guests are talking about and to…

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July 11, 2024

s3e9 James Siena & Katia Santibanez, artists

s3e9 James Siena & Katia Santibanez, artists

In s3e9 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer talks with James Siena and Katia Santibañez. Both artists, who are married to each other, are painters and printmakers who split their time between New York City and Otis, MA. In the past few years, they have collaborated on four reduction woodcuts with…

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July 11, 2024

s3e8 Dave Cloutier, artist

s3e8 Dave Cloutier, artist

In s3e8, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Dave Cloutier who recently opened Center Arts and Studios (CAS) in the Mill Centre, Baltimore. CAS offers classes, equipment, critiques, guidance, and studio spaces to second-career artists. A passion project for Dave, it has long been his goal to encourage artists and…

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