Newsletters and Updates
Newsletters and Updates
Here you can find the most recent news about what's happening at Anchor Graphics. An archive of Anchor Graphics Newsletters is also available as downloadable PDFs by clicking the links below. Newsletters include in-depth information on Anchor publishing projects, interviews with artists-in-residence, and special programing information.
Announcing a Special Manifest Celebration Sale
of Original Prints from the Anchor Graphics Archives!
These limited edition prints were all created and printed at Anchor Graphics between 1990 and 2012, and will be offered for sale during Manifest 2013 at special prices!
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Ellen Lanyon |
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Steve Campbell Angel Lithograph, 1997, 18" X 24" Original Price: $650 | SPECIAL MANIFEST PRICE: $325 |
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Cannonball Press (Mike Houston and Martin Mazorra) Untitled One-color lithograph on 100% cotton paper, 2012 29-3/4" x 22-1/2"" Original Price: $100 | SPECIAL MANIFEST PRICE: $50 |
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Michiko Itatani Childhood's End Eight color lithograph, 1994, 20-1/2" x 15" Original Price: $600 | SPECIAL MANIFEST PRICE: $300 |
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Richard Hull Echo Lithograph, 1999, 18-1/8" x 24" Original Price: $500 | SPECIAL MANIFEST PRICE: $250 |
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Arthur Binion
(2 prints)
Driving Through Mississippi In Detroit,
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Driving Through Mississippi in Chicago
Lithographs, 2009, each 22-1/2" x 26-1/2"
Original Price: $1500 each
SPECIAL MANIFEST PRICE: $750 each
~~~ But WAIT! There's more!~~~
Anchor Graphics renowned Slated Portfolio Series will also be on sale! Click on the link to learn more about the Slate Portfolio Series.
Coming soon!
Anchor Graphics' Second Release Series
Second Release is a new monthly series featuring the work of two different artists in the Anchor Graphics Special Collection archives. Each month on the Second Release page of the Anchor Graphics website Second Release will post an image and description of each piece, which will be available at a special price for a limited time only.
The inaugural Second Release will feature work by:
Louise LeBourgois
Three Stones
Four-color soft ground etching with aquatint, 2002
10-3/4" x 11-1/4" | Originally $400, SR price $200)
Elena Climent
Mesa de Mosaicos con Objetos
Lithograph, 1997, 30" x 22"
Originally $300, SR Price: $150
Check Anchor's website and Facebook page for the announcement! Don't miss this window of opportunity to add to your collection.
Anchor Graphics Rocks at 2013 SGC International Conference
Milwaukee was a printmaker's paradise from March 20–23 at this year's Southern Graphics Council International Conference, hosted by Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) and Peck School of the Arts (PSOA). Prominent in both the Awards presentation and the Publisher's Fair was Anchor Graphics, whose staff (Master Printers and artists David Jones and Chris Flynn) manned the well-attended Anchor Graphics booth, fielding questions from collectors, curators, and faculty and students from colleges around the world.
Anchor unveiled the latest work in their Columbia Multiples series, Margo Humphrey's limited edition print Black Madonna or Hold on I Gotcha. The fine art lithographic print, which is composed of 11 colors plus gold leaf, was on display at MIAD's Frederick Layton Gallery, as well as at Milwaukee's Peltz Gallery, a contemporary art exposition space housed in a Victorian landmark on Milwaukee’s East Side.
During the conference, Ms. Humphrey was recipient of the SGCI Printmaker Emeritus award. Anchor's David Jones, who is also on the SGCInternational Board of Directors, received the SGCI Print:Maker award for his work in fine art printing, print innovation, and publishing in the Midwest and nationally.
"We really notice that student interest and participation in the SGCinternational is growing," says Jones. "We are seeing more and more students eager to learn about print culture, and getting involved in all manner of print related activities, from fine are to multiples to 'zines. At the booth we were able to connect all these emerging printmakers with Columbia College programming, academics, and events."
SGCI is the largest print organization in North America, with its annual conference focused on the field of printmaking drawing artists from across the United States, Canada, South and Central America, and Europe.
Tours of Anchor Graphics
Faculty from art schools around the Chicago area are welcome to bring their students for a tour of our facilities, which includes an overview lecture of the etching and lithographic printing processes performed at Anchor. Recent visitors include Julie Nauman Mikulski's graphic design students from the Art Institute of Illinois/Tinley Park. The students were shown artists' prints from the Anchor Graphics Special Collection.
Chris Flynn and David Jones of Anchor talked to the students about how each visiting artist at Anchor works collaboratively with Anchor's Master Printers to complete a piece, exploring the different techniques of printmaking to achieve unique and expressive results.
For more information, or to schedule a tour for a school or arts group, please call 312.369.6865.
Artist-in-Residence Lecture: Jaxon Pallas
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 5:00 P.M.
at Anchor Graphics 623 S. Wabash Ave., #201
312-369-6865 | anchorgraphics@colum.edu
Come join Jaxon Pallas, this winter's Anchor/CBPA Artist-in-Residence as he discusses his current project, The Institute for Encyclopedic Amalgamation, Volume1: Hands On Learning. The leture will begin at 6:00 p.m. followed by a Q+A adn light refreshments.
J. Thomas Pallas received his MFA from the University of Chicago in 2008, focusing on the dialectics of abstraction/representation, authenticity/appropriation, complicity/political activity, and ethics/aesthetics. He currently teaches at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, in the Foundations Department at the Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago, and leads the Teen Creative Agency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He earned BA degrees in Studio Art/Art History and English from Rice University with a thesis focused on contemporary queer drama, and has also studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin). His work has been exhibited in Chicago and at venues throughout the country, such as Arthouse at the Jones Center (Austin), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids), Truman State University Art Gallery (Missouri), Arizona State University, and the Indianapolis Art Center.
This project is sponsored in part by individuals; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; the Packaging Corporation of America; Columbia College Chicago; the Art+Design Department; and the Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Anchor Graphics Investigates Uses of Digital Color Proofing for Hand Lithography
Producing complex hand lithographic prints that can involve up to twelve colors requires consistent checks and balances each step of the way. Anchor Graphics' master printer Chris Flynn has devised an innovative way to view a pre-plate color proof that integrates new technology with traditional printmaking techniques.
"Working with visiting artists from around the country means that they are not always at Anchor during all phases of an edition's creation," says Flynn. "When we move forward to continue aspects of the project in the absence of the artist, asking questions via email and phone may not always clear up an issue or question." Flynn has found a way to use the masks for each color and Photoshop to create an on-screen proof that can give a fairly accurate on-screen proof of the final image.
Flynn photographs each hand-made mask for every color a print requires (including rainbow masks and double-burns), and brings the digital images into Photoshop. He composites them together in the order of lay-down, and comes up with a proof that will show how all plates will combine in the finished prints.
The technique has proven especially useful in prints requiring many colors, such as the "Columbia Multiples" edition by Margo Humphrey which is currently in production at Anchor. "When we made a composite of all the masks, we discovered that there was some shading and color missing which Margo had intended to put in the face of one of the characters,” says Flynn.
"We were able to pinpoint the missing area, and send Margo a digital proof through email to show her what we thought the problem was. She came back to Anchor to add in that essential drawing information before we started the final print run for the edition. If we hadn't caught it using this new proofing process, the next time Margo would have seen it would have been the final prints. We would have had to start printing all over from the beginning."
The Humphrey print Fear Not! I Got You, is being produced in a limited edition of 30 prints for the Columbia Multiples program. For more information on the program click here. For more information on editioning at Anchor Graphics, click here.
Anchor Graphics Newsletters Downloadable PDF Files
Summer 2012
Featuring work by Enrique Chagoya, Audrey Niffenegger, and Karl Wirsum.
Summer/Fall 2011
The amazing world of Saya Woolfalk, China Marks draws with fabric, and our latest publishing projects.
Winter 2010
Gordon Brennan and John Brown discuss their fascination with ephemera, exploring Mexican party games in a new print by Don Colley, and a preview of our current project with Industry of the Ordinary.
Spring 2010
Nicholas Sistler's imaginary hotel and Fred Stonehouse vs the Roman God Vertumnus.
Summer 2009
The life and times of McArthur Binion, Chris Dacre talks about his multi media installations, and a history of the cutting edge visual culture anthology BLAB!
Fall 2008
A preview of the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference, the art and activism of Sue Coe, and an interview with creator of printed environments Lauren Kussro.
Spring 2008
The International Print Center New York's New Prints: Autumn 2007 exhibition, the science of safer etching, and the lithographs of Margo Humphrey.
Fall 2007
New etchings from Lorie Hogin, an interview with the dynamic duo of print Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson, and a closer look at carborundum prints with Tom Lucas.
Spring 2007
An interview with Kartoon King's Chris Sperandio, the woodcuts and public health advocacy of Dr. Eric Avery, and making zines at Columbia College Chicago.
Fall 2006
Anchor Graphics and Columbia College Chicago join forces, our new facilities on campus, and the reopening of the Robert Blackburn Printmakers Workshop.
