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Travel ScheduleCommon Ground, an international travelling exhibition from the American Print Alliance, shows prints and artists' books that foster a vital community among artists and the general public. The exhibition demonstrates how these media engage popular audiences, address topics that concern everyone, and translate between personal and universal experience. Prints, easily transported and disseminated simultaneously to multiple locations, and largely dependent upon images rather than diverse languages to carry information, have always brought ideas to the widest range of people and places. Printed images, from Renaissance herbals to postmodern advertising graphics, challenge limits and suggest interfaces between supposedly disparate people. Prints exemplify the belief of Carol Pulin, Director of the Alliance, that contemporary arts can encourage individuals to cross conceptual boundaries. Jennifer Saville, Curator of Western Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, selected thirty-five prints and artists' books by members of the American Print Alliance councils. Some artists sought to cross the lines established by tradition, lines between popular culture and "fine art." Several artists addressed the philosophical separation and recent re-merging of the arts and sciences, especially in respect to environmental concerns and, of course, hand craftsmanship working in concert with computers and high-tech imaging systems. Created with many different techniques and showing a great variety of styles, the sensitivity and the strength of these prints and books are compelling. The artists' statements reveal the exceptionally perceptive and expressive power of today's printmakers. Common Ground travels through 2000 and will be shown at neighborhood arts centers, small colleges and large universities from Georgia to California. These diverse venues will draw audiences from academic institutions and the community at large, from small towns and major metropolises. Viewers can expect to enjoy the aesthetic experience and be challenged by the ideas explored. Contemporary prints do more than depict scenes and events from different places and cultures, they embody the concept of translation. That's obvious in prints that borrow new technologies from the commercial, scientific and industrial worlds. It's equally true in the appropriation of images from other times to devise a new language full of the resonance of associated meanings. Prints are the current leaders of artistic expression because of their natural ability to borrow and adapt imagery, fragment and layer, create narrative sequences and use cultural icons. The major issues of today's world are reflected in prints that reach wide popular and sophisticated audiences. Common Ground demonstrates that the democratic art of printmaking is the new public art of the coming century. July 25 -
August 20, 1998 January 10 -
February 14, 1999 February 22 -
March 19, 1999 June 18 - July
17, 1999 August 5 -
September 10, 1999 September 29 -
October 29, 1999 February 28 -
April 10, 2000 May 2 - May 27,
2000 June 5 - August
6, 2000 August 26 -
September 15, 2000 October 23 -
November 10, 2000 December 2000 -
January 2001 (To show the exhibition at your school or arts center, please send an e-mail request to printalliance@mindspring.com or telephone 770/486-6680 noon-8 pm Eastern.) Exhibition List:
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