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Hero Design Studio Print Event |
Free Transform Studio welcomes Hero Design Studio this Friday in room ASY 1317. Hero will be working with print faculty and students to produce a rock poster for Austin City Limits season 36 performers Rosanne Cash & Brandi Carlile. We'll be warming up the presses around 10am and print till we drop, hopefully completing 200 impressions of the three color design.
This is the first stop for Hero in their travels the Flatstock in Austin, TX. They will have a load of prints on display and for sale, also sharing their experiences as top professional designers and printmakers.
So come join us this friday, all the cool kids are doing it.
HERO is a multidisciplinary design studio dedicated to producing hand-crafted illustration and design, run by Buffalo-based husband and wife team, Beth Manos and Mark Brickey. Formed in 2003, Hero focuses primarily on design and illustration for the music industry and cultural institutions, yet have enjoyed collaborating on a wide range of projects for a variety of clients. Hero’s innovative screen prints have been featured in magazines such as HOW, Print, and SPIN, and design publications including Gigposters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century (Quirk Books), 1000 Garment Graphics (Rockport Publishers), and Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design(Gestalten Verlag). Their work has been exhibited in various museums and galleries including Museum of Design Atlanta, Gallery 1988 (LA), and Crewest Gallery (LA).
Limited Edition was an invitational printmaking symposium presented by the Department of Art at the University of Maryland-College Park. The event scheduled for October 23rd and 24th, 2009 featured color woodcut and chine colle demonstrations by Karen Kunc and Brian Shure. The symposium consisted of a small group of participants that included professionals, educators and students. Our focus was to introduce our recently renovated print facility and program to the mid-Atlantic region, while offering a personal insight to the research of world-renowned artists.
In tandem with Limited Edition, Judy Pfaff the Department of Arts and Humanities 2009 Artist-in-Residence, presented a public lecture on Thursday October 22nd, and an exhibition with Karen Kunc and Brian Shure at the University of Maryland Art Gallery opening on Friday October 23rd. All Three artists held an exclusive luncheon gallery talk for symposium participants on October 24th. Included in the symposium was a collaborative screen printing action performed by students, exhibited at the conclusion of the symposium.