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Don't miss the opportunity to have your work included in The Printed Image 7. The deadline to submit entries is quickly approaching! Juror's Award winners receive a cash prize and Purchase Awards will add pieces to the library's art collection.
The Printed Image supports national artists working in hand-pulled print media and offers art lovers an opportunity to view the latest trends in printmaking.
The exhibition is Sept 7 – Oct 21, 2018 and will be hosted at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas. The Printed Image is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
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Eligible Prints:
- Any hand-pulled print technique, including intaglio, relief, serigraph, lithograph, photogravure, collagraph, monoprint and monotype, and broadsides
- Three-dimensional prints and artists’ books
- All work must be hand-pulled, framed, and ready to display behind non-breakable plastic or plexiglass (no glass).
- Prints must be no more than 3 years old (2015 or newer) and not previously exhibited in The Printed Image.
Non-eligible Prints:
- photography, digital prints, photocopier prints
There is a $35 fee for up to three entries. Submit works by May 30, 2018.
Anyone 18 years old or older, currently living in the United States, is eligible to enter. All entries and fees will be processed through CallForEntries. Do not send your entry to the Sabatini Gallery. See Café.com for the image specifications and submission instructions.
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 MELANIE YAZZIE is a sculptor, painter and printmaker. She is a professor and the head of printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Yazzie often takes part in collaborative art projects with indigenous artists in New Zealand, Siberia, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Japan. Yazzie said, “It’s at these gatherings and traveling from place to place that fuels my work and revitalizes my spirit!”
Yazzie's work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Yazzie's work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Diné culture. Her early work focused on depictions of the harsh realities of Native peoples (racism, identity conflict, poverty, abuse, etc.) to bring Native issues to the forefront. More recently Yazzie is making work with a positive twist.
"My artwork is culturally based in my heritage of being a Diné (Navajo) person. The artworks stem from the thought and belief that what we create must have beauty and harmony from within ourselves, from above, below, in front, behind and from our core. We are taught to seek out beauty and create it with our thoughts and prayers. I feel that when I am making my art, be it a print, a painting or a sculpture, I begin by centering myself and thinking it all out in a ‘good way,’ which is how I was taught from an early age. My work speaks about travel and transformation." - Melanie Yazzie
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