3 in 1: Take Two (a collection of prints)

3 in 1: Take Two is an exhibition comprised of three portfolio exchanges initiated from CIA’s Printmaking Department. A portfolio exchange is defined by the idea that each participant produces an edition of prints to then exchange one print with each other member included in the portfolio. A container and colophon page including pertinent information typically accompanies each portfolio and often supports the theme of the exchange. A final set of prints in each exchange is earmarked as a presentation set and is intended for exhibition. For each one of the portfolios included in this exhibition, the presentation set remains in the archive of the Printmaking department and is used as an educational tool.

Caring for the Commons was co-curated by Maggie Denk-Leigh, printmaking department chair, for inclusion in the 2014 SGCI Printmaking Conference in San Francisco. Three presentation sets were produced for this portfolio: one for CIA, one for the permanent collection of the California College of the Arts in Oakland, and another for the permanent SGCI archive at Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia.

Trace is a portfolio organized by the students in the Advanced Topics Print course during the Fall 2013 semester. The students determined the theme, scale and media, and also produced the folio including a laser etched cover produced at Think[box].

Potluck is a non-traditional approach to a portfolio exchange, in which each edition does not conform to a standardized scale or media. Instead, the students of the Advanced Topics Print course this past Fall 2014, determined it important to respond to the theme “potluck”, by generating an edition to compliment a dish created by the participants to share as a communal meal.

This exhibition is FREE and open to the public. On view in the Reinberger Project Space located on the ground floor of the JMC building from January 16-- February 21.

Above image credit: Karen D. Beckwith, Bike Sharing System, Lithograph, 2014.

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