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Intaglio à Go-Go: Etching Moves Forward
Friday, March 20, 2009|6 p.m.

A panel of local print­mak­ers work­ing in etch­ing and other intaglio processes will dis­cuss why they con­tinue to work with these ancient tech­niques and how it con­tin­ues to res­onate with the very con­tem­po­rary con­cerns of their work.

Panel: Amze Emmons|Don Forsythe|Shelley Thorstensen
Moderator: John Caperton, Curator, The Print Center
Free and open to the public

Parkway Central Library|1901 Vine Street|Montgomery Auditorium
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For many years I have been involved with the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Print and Picture Collection, a won­der­ful pub­lic col­lec­tion of fine art prints and pho­tographs com­prised of works, mainly, by area artists. Each year, we honor the long­time cura­tor of this col­lec­tion, Robert Looney and hold an edu­ca­tional talk, exhi­bi­tion, and fundraiser in his honor.

This year, we are high­light­ing the art of etch­ing  by fea­tur­ing a panel dis­cus­sion called Intaglio A Go Go, Etchings Move Forward. In addi­tion, there will be an exhi­bi­tion curated by Ron Rumford fea­tur­ing a selec­tion of some the finest con­tem­po­rary intaglio artists that will be on dis­play for sev­eral months in the library. Following the panel dis­cus­sion will be our annual fundrais­ing event (invi­ta­tion attached) that includes a silent auc­tion of works by the artists fea­tured in the exhibition.

If you can par­take in any part of this event, we hope you will as it will be truly edu­ca­tional and enjoy­able. The panel dis­cus­sion and exhi­bi­tion are free and open the pub­lic, and the fundraiser is very rea­son­ably priced offer­ing sev­eral price lev­els to attend. We hope you
will join us.

Please feel free to for­ward this email to those you think would be inter­ested and thank you for sup­port­ing the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Diane Podolsky
for the Print and Picture Collection
Free Library of Philadelphia

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