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
s3e9 exquisite corpse-like prints with artists James Siena and Katia Santibañez
In s3e9 of Platemark, host Ann Shafer talks with James Siena and Katia Santibañez. Both artists, who are married to each other, are painters and printmakers who split their time between New York City…
s3e8 on creating with our subconscious minds with artist Dave Cloutier
In s3e8, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Dave Cloutier who recently opened Center Arts and Studios (CAS) in the Mill Centre, Baltimore. CAS offers classes, equipment, critiques, guidance, and st…
s3e7 behind the scenes at the Saint Louis Art Museum with curator Elizabeth Wyckoff
In s3e7, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig sit down with Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to talk about the exhibition Catching the Moment: Contemporary …
s3e6 on collborative printing at Pace Prints with printer Bill Hall
In s3e6, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Bill Hall, master printer (retired) at Pace Prints for nearly thirty years. His earliest years in New York were spent working at the legendary Robert Bla…
s3e5 on supporting the printmaking ecosystem with podcaster Miranda Metcalf
In s3e5, Ann Shafer talks with fellow podcaster and print lover Miranda Metcalf, whose show, Hello, Print Friend, is the internet's most popular podcast about prints and printmaking. Hello, Print Fri…
s3e4 badboy artist Tom Hück on his satirical, monumental woodcuts
Platemark’s series three offers its first interview with an artist, Tom Hück. And what a great place to start. In s3e4, Platemark hosts Ben Levy and Ann Shafer sit down with Hück whose large-scale, …
s3e3 on Israel van Meckenem with curator James Wehn
In s3e3, Ann Shafer and Ben Levy talk with James Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about prints, museum…
s3e2 on dream team Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek, collaborative printers at Tandem Press
In s3e2, Ann Shafer and Ben Levy sit down with the three master printers at Tandem Press: Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek. Find out what makes a dream team in a print shop.
s3e1 on transforming the art landscape in Madison with Paula Panczenko and Russell Panczenko
In this first episode of series 3 (interviews with luminaries of the print ecosystem), Ann Shafer and Ben Levy sit down with Paula Panczenko, executive director of Tandem Press, and Russell Panczenko…
s2e20 History of Prints Rembrandt (religious scenes)
In s2e20, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their discussion of Rembrandt van Rijn, the man who made etching was it is today. In this third of three episodes on Rembrandt, they tackle his etchings o…
s2e19 History of Prints Rembrandt (genre scenes and portraits)
In s2e19, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig continue talking about the best etcher ever, Rembrandt van Rijn. In this second of three episodes on Rembrandt, they tackle genre scenes (those would be scenes of …
s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)
In Platemark e2e18, Tru Ludwig and Ann Shafer begin a three-parter about the master of etching, Rembrandt van Rijn. In this first episode on RvR, Tru sets the stage and takes us through some of Rembr…
s2e17 History of Prints Hendrick Goltzius
In s2ep17, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about one of their favorite engravers of all time, Hendrick Goltzius. A Dutchman, Goltzius was preternaturally gifted with a burin and made glorious prints o…
s2e16 History of Prints Pieter Brueghel the Elder
In s2ep16, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation that affected so much of the 16th century in Western Europe. The focus of the episode i…
s2e15 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part two)
In s2ep15, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig continue talking about game-changer Martin Luther and the effects of his 95 theses against the Catholic Church, which brought about the Protestant Reformation in …
s2ep14 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part one)
In s2ep14, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig look at Martin Luther and the effects of his 95 theses against the Catholic Church. Once the only patron of the arts, the Church faced a reckoning when Martin Lut…
s2e13 History of Prints The Italians (Ghisi and Barocci)
In s2e13, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about reproductive engravings and how they helped spread Italian art and style to Northern European countries. Italian Giorgio Ghisi worked for Antwerp publis…
BONUS EP Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair
Platemark host Ann Shafer is thrilled to announce the first Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair is scheduled for April 29-May 1, 2022. Ann and Tru Ludwig talk about the print fair's origins as a production…
s2e12 History of Prints The Italians (Titian)
In episode 12, Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig discuss the titan of Venetian painting, Titian, who happened to also make prints. Plus Ann and Tru take a deep dive into the epic first book of anatomy, Vesal…
s2e11 History of Prints The Italians (Parmigianino)
In s2e11, Tru Ludwig and Ann Shafer talk about chiaroscuro woodcuts before moving on to the Mannerist painter and printmaker Parmigianino. Coming off the High Renaissance and the Sack of Rome in 1527…