2024 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition
About the Exhibition:
The Pacific States Biennial North American printmaking exhibition is open to all artists 18 years or older presently residing anywhere on the North American continent, its islands, and outlying US territories. This premier Hawai’i biennial exhibition is hosted in conjunction with the Campus Center Gallery with support from the Student Activities Council. The PSBN will provide a color exhibition catalog for participating artists and online at: hilo.hawaii.edu/depts/art/gallery
Juror:
Laura Crehuet Berman is a native of Barcelona, Spain, where her love for pattern, design and bold colors originated. She has exhibited in over 150 exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally and her prints are widely collected.
More at: lauracrehuetberman.com
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2022 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition
The Pacific States Biennial National juried printmaking exhibition was established by the Art Department Print Studio at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1982 and is now the Pacific States Biennial North American. The exhibition is open to all artists 18 years or older presently residing anywhere on the North American continent, its islands, and outlying US territories. This premier Hawaiʻi biennial exhibition is hosted in conjunction with the Campus Center Gallery with support from the Student Activities Council.
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2020 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition
The 2020 Pacific States Biennial North American exhibition is open to artists 18 years or older presently residing anywhere on the North American continent, its islands, and outlying US territories. The juror for the 2020 PSBN is renowned artist, Kurt Kemp. Recently retired, Kemp taught printmaking at Sonoma State for thirty years. His narrative prints exhibit superb draftsmanship and have been shown extensively nationally and abroad. The first place PSBN award is a 10-day artist residency at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Additional purchase awards will be made. Entry due by August 21, 2020.
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2019 Artist Print Edition: Spring 2019 Volume 2
Printmaking Studio and Visiting Artist Program Initiative
Concept Development: Michael Marshall, Department and Gallery Chair
Print Studio Director and Master Printer: Jon Goebel
Printers: Kalai Blakemore, Tiana Honda, Katya Hutchinson, Liv Johnson, Rachel Kishimoto, Michael Marshall, Phil Sanders, Leslie Samson-Tabakin, Rosella Manja Vaughn
Box Fabrication: UH Hilo Art Department
Acknowledgements
The second volume of the Artist Print Edition project was established as a means to celebrate and document the succession of Visiting Artists to the University of Hawaii at Hilo Art Department program between 2014 through 2016.
The coordination of resources required to move this volume forward provided an extraordinary range of applied learning experiences for everyone affiliated with this presentation.
Special thanks to Student Activities Council (SAC) and Ellen Kusano, Director of the UH Hilo Campus Center, for her dedicated support of the Art Department’s Visiting Artist and Campus Center Gallery exhibition programs.
Artists
2014: Chakaia Booker, John Hitchcock, Crystal Wagner, Willie Cole
2015: Yuji Hiratsuka
2016: Lloyd Menard, Matt Egan, Michelle Martin, Michael Barnes, Marilee Salvator
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Selected works:
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2018 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition
The Pacific States Biennial National juried print exhibition was established by the Art Department Print Studio at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1982. The 2018 PSBN expands its call for entries to artists 18 years or older presently residing in North America and US Territories. The juror for the 2018 PSBN is Helen Frederick, a distinguished artist, curator, educator, international projects coordinator, and founder of Pyramid Atlantic. She has served on the boards of local and national alternative arts spaces, national peer-review panels, and fulfilled speaking engagements around the world. Read more about Helen on Wikipedia. The first place PSBN award is a 10-day artist residency at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Additional purchase awards will be made. Entry due by August 15, 2018.
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