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To
read about new and upcoming events
visit our new site at www.marylandprintmakers.org
Below is coverage of
Past
Member Meetings
Maryland
Printmakers Spring 2001 Membership Meeting
Was held Saturday, April 28, from 1 - 4 pm, at the Corcoran College of Art and
Design, downtown print studio. General meeting was held from 1 -
2 pm, with refreshments from 2-2:30. Membres brought two of their most recent
prints for peer review and discussion, from 2:30 to 3:45, with the guest
curator/critic Jane Farmer.
Corcoran
College of Art and Design address and information page.
500 17th Street, NW - E Street Entrance
Washington, DC 20006
202-639-1800 ext. 455
Maryland
Printmakers Fall 2000 Membership Meeting
Was held at M.I.C.A.,
on November 12, 2000, at
the Maryland Institute, College of Art
Printmaking Department - Dolphin Building
100 Dolphin Street
Baltimore, MD 21217
410-225-2318
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| Annual
Maryland Printmakers' Members Meeting for 2000, in Progress. |
The
schedule was as follows:
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
10:30 - 11:00 am coffee and donuts
11:00 - Noon - Member Meeting
Noon - 12:30 pm - Lunch
12:30 - 1:00 pm - Demonstration
1:00 - 1:30 pm - Portfolio Exchange and Pick-up
Calvin Custen Presented
Photo Lithography using Pronto Plates
Photo Lithography using pronto plates as the matrix.
A digital image is printed from a laser printer and then
printed as a lithograph using conventional lithographic printing
methods. The following list of links will assist is you are
looking
for more information about Pronto and other similar products.
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Calvin
explains how an image can be rendered or
transferred to Pronto
(or similar) plates to make the matrix. |
How
to process the plate. |
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The
plate can be secured, on the press bed, in the
usual ways (with
water and/or tape) for printing. |
Calvin
sponges the plate and rolls it up in the
usual (litho) manor,
and then pulls a print. |
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| Voila! |
Below
are links to more info on Pronto (and similar) plates.
http://www.mediastreet.com/cgi-bin/tame/news/prqp.tam
http://www.art.uidaho.edu/artnet/printmaking/roberts/polyester.html
http://www.10mb.com/zacryl/
http://www.praga.com/imhoward.htm
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