MICHIGAN ORIENTAL ART SOCIETY - Our 39th Year
DATE: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 1:30 pm
SITE: St. Johns Hospital – Oakland: Education Center
27351 Dequindre Rd (West side); Madison Heights
(North of 11 Mile Rd • South of 12 Mile
Conveniently located North of I-696 and East of I-75)
Meeting Information: Patricia Beer @ (586) 558-9767
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Demonstration and lecture:
Making of Moku Hanga Woodblock Prints
by Mary Brodbeck, Artist
Mary Brodbeck, Woodblock, Islet (2005)
Mary Brodbeck makes woodblock prints the traditional Japanese way. She learned these techniques in Tokyo as a recipient of the prestigious Bunko-cho Fellowship from the Japanese government in 1998, and has been dedicated to this process since. The mission of the fellowship was to bring foreign artists to Japan to learn and help keep traditional Japanese arts alive throughout the world. Mary’s teacher was Yoshisuke Funasake.
In keeping with the fellowship’s mission, Mary will share with MOAS her knowledge of the Japanese woodblock printmaking process including giving a PowerPoint presentation of her work and influences, as well as give a printmaking demonstration.
A Michigan native, Mary Brodbeck currently lives in Kalamazoo. Her undergraduate degree, from Michigan State University, is in Industrial Design. Mary worked for a dozen years in the West Michigan office furniture industry before dedicating her professional energies to printmaking in the early 1990’s. The multiple blocks/layers/colors involved in the Japanese woodblock printmaking process suits Mary’s predilection for design.
Mary received her Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Western Michigan University in 1999; her fellowship in Japan was part of her graduate studies. Mary has taught drawing and woodblock printmaking at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and has given woodblock printmaking workshops around the country as well as at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone, Japan. Of late, Mary is taking a break from her teaching as her prints have become more and more in demand.
The Great Lakes are Mary Brodbeck’s primary subject. She recently completed a series of ten prints entitled Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes, which are now in the permanent collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Her work is also in the Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo, and in many notable corporate and private collections. Mary has received state, national and international accolades for her woodblock prints.
A selection of Mary’s prints will be available for viewing. After the meeting's adjournment many prints will be available for purchase. Further information about her work may be found on her website at: www.marybrodbeck.com
A series of ten woodblock prints begun during a three-week artist -in-residency at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore are discussed and may be viewed at: http://marybrodbeck.com/projects/sleepingbear.htm
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SITE NEEDED: Third Saturday August 21, for our annual MOAS members only Pot Luck Social – usually 25 – 35 people.
Next Meeting to be determined, announcement will be sent in advance.
