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Open Call for Printmaking: "Contemporary Print - Traditional to Digital" curated by Essye Klempner
LIC Artists
04/28/2025
Long Island CIty, NY
Opportunity type: Call for Entry/Open Call
Opportunity Disciplines: Printmaking
Description
We invite artists working in print to submit to an upcoming exhibition curated by Essye Klempner in collaboration with LIC-A. The theme—Contemporary Print: Traditional to Digital—embraces the full range of print practices, from intaglio, lithography, and screenprint to risograph, digital print, and experimental hybrid techniques.
Rather than organizing the exhibition around fixed categories like abstraction or landscape, this show will focus on the shared energy, tension, and materiality that printmaking uniquely fosters—regardless of imagery or genre. We're interested in the intersections, overlaps, and unexpected connections across different approaches to print.
Eligibility:
Artists at any stage in their career are encouraged to apply. We welcome submissions from those working traditionally, digitally, or anywhere in between.
About the curator:
Essye Klempner is a co-Director of EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. For nearly a decade, she has led their residency and educational program, partnerships with colleges, museums and institutions; and activated their archives of over 20,000 prints; and most recently, initiated the Blackburn Oral History Project funded by Hauser and Wirth Institute.
She earned an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has been an artist-in-residence at Woodstock, NY’s Byrdcliffe Guild; Hunter College in New York City; St. Mary’s College of Maryland; and East 40 Garden and Ceramic residency at Northampton Community College. She has exhibited at Hunter College, Rutgers University, the RISING URBANIST Conference, and Queens Museum’s Queens International: 2018 Biennial, Volumes.
How to apply
Please apply through the submission link provided.
Location: LIC-A Art Space - The Factory LIC, Suite 105a, 30-30 47th Ave, Long Island City, NY
Exhibition on View: from June 11 to July 11, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 12th from 5-8pm
Accepted Media: Any form of printmaking
Submission Fee: $15.00 LIC-A or Blackburn members; $25.00 non-members
Submission Deadline: May19th @ 11:59 EDT
Notification of Acceptance: May 28th
Artists in Conversation Talk: Sunday, June 29th at 3pm
Exhibition Curator: Essye Klempner
Application Deadline
05/19/2025
Application Fee
$25.00