Understanding and Collecting Original Prints - A Lecture by Leslie Kramer, June 2 / 3:30-5:00 pm

Understanding and Collecting Original Prints

A Lecture by Leslie Kramer

Wednesday, June 2, 20213:30 – 5:00 pm. 

In person at Cape Cod Museum of Art. Virtual tickets (zoom) also available.

$15 Non Members / $12 Members

$10 Zoom ticket

Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, drypoint and lithography, while modern artists have expanded available techniques to include screen-printing, monoprinting, collagraph , and digital printing.

This talk will provide you with an understanding of various print making techniques. Leslie will show you works from her collection and explain the process. You will learn how to identify original prints – you will gain insights to become a knowledgeable art collector.

BIO

Leslie Kramer received her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and she studied printmaking for one year at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, France. One-woman shows and group shows have been in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Her prints are in the collections of The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, the Boston Public Library,  the Albuquerque, New Mexico Public Library, and numerous private collections. Her monoprints and etchings incorporate her interest in nature and the man-made as she employs innovative and sophisticated techniques. For 26 years, she taught printmaking and was gallery director at Elmira College in Elmira, NY. She has also taught at Smith College, Northampton, MA and The Rhode Island School of Design.  During the summer of 1999, she was Artist in Residence at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. She has received awards from The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass., and several Elmira College Faculty Development Awards. She has taught printmaking workshops at several colleges and museums in the Northeast and at Atelier du Livre in Montolieu, France.  She currently lives and works out of her studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and is represented by Cross Rip Gallery, www.crossripgallery.com

in Harwichport, MA.

Her website is: www.lesliekramer.wordpress.com