Platemark: prints and the printmaking ecosystem
Why do fine art prints (etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, screenprints, etc.) and printmaking draw such fervent practitioners, collectors, and fans? Find out how prints were the first internet disseminating images since the mid-15th century. Find out why it takes a village to make, sell, study, and collect these affordable beauties. Who are all these people in the print ecosystem, anyway?
Series one looks at prints and printmaking and how they fit in in the context of museums, the market, critiques, and the print ecosystem. Series two offers a history of prints and printmaking in the West. Series three offers interviews with the people who perform various roles in the print ecosystem. Join us and find out why prints and printmaking occupy the best little corner of the art world. We'll turn you into a fan, too.
Platemark offers a bit of art history, artistic creativity, and introduces listeners to artists, printers, dealers, print publishers, gallerists, art historians, curators, and scholars.
Host Ann Shafer is a curator specializing in prints and printmaking. Formerly she was a curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. She's a podcaster, blogger, and organizer of the Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair (baltimoreprintfair.com).
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 146
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
s3e56 word-salad screenprints with artist Briar Craig
In s3e56, Platemark host Ann Shafer introduces a five-part miniseries with the artists in 5X5, an exhibition that was part of PrintAustin 2024. First up is Briar Craig, one of five artists selected f…
s3e55 Mexican cartels and conceptual rigor with artist Miguel A. Aragón
In s3e55, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Miguel A. Aragón, artist and professor at the City University of New York, Staten Island. They talk about CNC routers, drills as woodcutting tools, gro…
s3e54 domesticity and wallpaper with artist/engraver Andrew Raftery
In s3e54, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Andrew Raftery, artist, professor, scholar, and wallpaper designer. Andrew works in several modes, most notably in engraving. The through line in the w…
s3e53 mezzotint technique and history with artist and author Carol Wax (part two)
In s3e53 of Platemark, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their conversation with Carol Wax, artist and author of The Mezzotint: History and Technique. Carol recently published the second editi…
s3e52 mezzotint history and technique with artist Carol Wax (part one)
In s3e52 of Platemark, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk with Carol Wax, artist and author of The Mezzotint: History and Technique. Carol recently published the second edition of The Mezzotint, ex…
s3e51 inside Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl with Chris Santa Maria
In s3e51, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Chris Santa Maria, artist and gallery director at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl. As director of the New York gallery, Chris is responsible for show…
s3e50 contemporary Japanese prints with dealer Allison Tolman
In s3e50, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Allison Tolman, a private dealer handling prints by contemporary Japanese artists. The Tolman Collection has branches in Tokyo and New York and works wi…
s3e49 making lithographs at Tamarind with printer Valpuri Remling
In s3e49, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Valpuri Remling, collaborative printer and manager of the pro workshop at Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, which was establish…
s3e48 lithography deep dive with printer/publisher Deb Chaney
In episode s3e48, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Deb Chaney, Tamarind-trained master printer specializing in lithography. She has an eponymous imprint, Deb Chaney Editions and has started a ne…
s3e47 behind-the-scenes at Rago Auctions with Adam McCoy
Leading off 2024’s series three episodes is s3e47 in which Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Adam McCoy, Senior Specialist in Fine Art, Rago Auctions. Adam has worked in various auction houses fo…
s3e46 engraving deep dive with Latvian artist, Reinis Gailitis
In s3e46, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Reinis Gailitis, an engraver from Riga, Latvia. The magic of the internet is fully on display today. Without it, finding Reinis's work would have been …
s3e45 singer-songwriter Bob Schneider's etchings
In Platemark s3e45, host Ann Shafer talks with Bob Schneider, who is best known for his music but is a serious artist as well. You may know some of his best-loved songs like 40 Dogs (Like Romeo and J…
s3e44 on the importance of art in hospitals for patients and staff with Naomi Huth, director of art collection and curator, NYC Health + Hospitals
There's often a ton of art in medical spaces, but who are the curators of those health system collections?
In s3e44, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Naomi Huth, chief curator and director of th…
s3e43 printer Craig Zammiello on collaborating with Johns, Rauschenberg, and others
In s3e43, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Craig Zammiello, an artist and collaborative printer with over 40 years of experience in all areas of printmaking. He worked for 25 years at Universal L…
s3e42 Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries with curators Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl
In s3e42, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl about their exhibition on view at Print Center New York through December, 23, 2023. A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowen…
s3e41 Art in Print editor Susan Tallman on loving amiguity in art
In Platemark s3e41, host Ann Shafer talks with Susan Tallman, an art historian and essayist who co-founded the journal Art in Print and served as its editor for its entire run, 2011–2019. A regular c…
Powerhouse Arts Printshop's Luther Davis on Hello, Print Friend
In this bonus episode, Hello, Print Friend creator and guest host Miranda Metcalf talks with Luther Davis, master printer and director of Powerhouse Arts Print Shop, Brooklyn, about his background …
s3e40 starting a new printshop in Brooklyn at Powerhouse Arts with Luther Davis
In s3e40, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Luther Davis, master printer and director of Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn. This is a two-parter. For this interview, Platemark collaborated with its sister…
HoP deep dive on ONE PRINT: Käthe Kollwitz, Battlefield
Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig offer up a bonus HoP episode featuring a conversation about a single work of art. Occasionally we will drop a BONUS EP ONE PRINT, which will take a single wo…
s3e39 social justice and satire with artist Sue Coe
In s3e39, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Sue Coe, an artist and social activist. The pair were joined in the conversation by Tru Ludwig (Sue is one of Tru’s art heroes) at Sue’s home in the Ca…