Decorative Sunday
Anchored: AP3 and Friends Portfolio
Anchored: AP3 and Friends Portfolio is a 2025 portfolio of original prints by 11 Midwestern artists curated by Nikki Otten, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and produced in a limited edition of 25 copies as a fundraiser for Anchor Press, Paper, & Print (AP3), a non-profit community printmaking shop in Milwaukee founded by David Jones and Marilyn Propp, founders of the notable Chicago fine art printshop and gallery Anchor Graphics.
Otten writes that the prints submitted for Anchored:
demonstrated the wide range of approaches that Midwestern printmakers are using in their practices. . . . The artists represented in the portfolio are at different stages of their careers and come from several states around the Midwest -- Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, as well as Wisconsin. . . . Anchored . . . is the perfect title for this portfolio, which pays tribute to printmaking in the Midwest and AP3's role in supporting and strengthening this tradition.
The prints shown here are:
Cover: Teddy Dean Lepley III, screenprint.
Raven Higginbotham, Braided Strength, etching with chine collé.
Brian Wagner, With Any Luck, color lithograph.
Rachel Foster, Whirling Dervish, screenprint.
Maizia Xiong, Xauv Lock: Prosperity, cyanotype.
Connie Wolfe, Collide, mezzotint and aquatint.
If you are in or near Milwaukee on June 7 during Milwaukee PrideFest, stop by Grove Gallery (832 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee) between 1 and 5 pm for AP3's New Horizons Fundraising Festival where the prints will be on display and portfolios will be for sale. There will be food and refreshments, hands-on screenprinting, and a community print sale. All sales will go to support AP3’s move from its current Riverwest location to the vacant side of the Brasslight Building in the Menominee River Valley along with their House of Rad community. The move will expand on AP3's mission of "creating a community space for all to gain educational and hands-on experiences in fine art printmaking and papermaking."
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