2010
Visiting Artist: Bucks County Community College, Hicks Art Center, Newtown, PA [Conduct viscosity intaglio printing demonstration for both students of the college and the alumni group named ”BC3 Printmaking Society”, a printmaking club.]
Demonstrator: Intaglio: Viscosity Color Printing - Single Plate/Multiple Colors; Southern Graphics Counsel Convention, Philadelphia, PA; March 2010
This demonstration will pay homage to methods pioneered by Stanley William Hayter. Ink viscosities (degrees or amounts of plate oil) and the use of rollers with different durometers enable multi-color printing from one plate. The printing demonstrations will include a brief discussion on ways of etching the intaglio plate to have a surface configuration that will enable viscosity color printing.
Symbiosis: A Selection of 20th Century Prints by Philadelphia Artists, Curated by Tony Rosati March 6- June 27, 2010, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Woodmere Art Museum’s collection of prints represents a variety of printmaking methods by an array of artists. Symbiosis reveals a diversity of artists and their pluralistic approaches to making prints. The resulting symbiotic relationships among the artists, museums, art schools and colleges produced a fertile, cultured context for Philadelphia printmaking. This exhibition strives to show the historical evolutions and transformations of such enduring, lasting relationships and to celebrate the artists and their prints.
Sam Maitin-His Artwork, His Joy, Woodmere Gallery Talk by Tony Rosati, Professor and Chair, Printmaking Department, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, October 2010. Sam Maitin’s artwork demonstrates his superb proficiency and skill with a multiplicity of mediums. Whatever medium he commands - painting, collage, print, and installations - its content and intent is undeniably expressive of his joyful spirit and love of life.
2009
“Is Surrealism the Only Ism?”; Gallery talk at Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
