Alma College Annual Statewide Print Competition

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Contact Information

Print Show Director — Sandy Lopez–Isnardi
989-463-7287 (office)
989-400-1233 (cell)
lopez_isnard@alma.edu

Administrative Assistant — Mary Ellen Yost
989-463-7220
yost@alma.edu

Notification

Begins Monday, September 27, 2010.

Accepted works

Can be hand delivered Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shipped work must arrive at the College by Friday, October 7 at 5 p.m.

Awards Reception

Saturday, October 30 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a juror’s talk at 3:30 p.m. followed by the awards ceremony at 4:30 p.m.

Juror Information

Marjorie Devon, Director of Tamarind Institute, has served Tamarind Institute on numerous levels since 1978. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico. She holds degrees from the University of New Mexico and the University of California Berkley and Santa Barbara. She has served as juror and consultant for several print shows nationally and internationally, including the University of North Dakota Print Show in 2010, Taller Actual Gráfica de Oaxaca, Mexico in 2008, and VI Encuentro Nacional de Grabado, Havana, Cuba in 2004. She has served as panalist for the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts, Museums and Visual Arts Grants and Policy Panel. She holds an impressive presentation record that includes: Seacourt Print Symposium, N. Ireland (2010), Museo de la Estampa, Mexico, D.F. (2010), Escuela de Artes de San Carlos (2009), La Curtiduría, Oaxaca, Mexico (2008), Japan Printmakers Association, City Museum of Kyoto (2008), and the College Art Association (2008), Dallas, Texas. She has served primarily as editor on several publications as Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty/Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming, 2010), Tamarind Techniques for Fine Art Lithography, with Bill Lagattuta and Rodney Hamon (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2008), Migrations: New Directions in Contemporary Native American Art (University of New Mexico Press, 2006), Photolithography: A Manual, (Tamarind Institute, 2002), and Tamarind: 40 Years (University of New Mexico Press, 2000). The most recent shows that she has curated are Impriendo historias: litografias del Tamarind Institute, Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico (2010), Kyoto Hanga, Collaborative Prints from American Workshops, Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan (2008), and Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum (2006). We are honored and pleased to have Marjorie as our final juror for the 30th Annual Alma College Statewide Print Competition.

Print Show Exhibition Traveling Schedule