PRINTS SELECTED FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE MARY AND LEIGH BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Four prints completed in the UTK Print Workshop by prior visiting artists have been selected for the collection of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. The Block Museum is the fine arts museum of Chicago’s North Shore, offering focused visual arts programming for the Northwestern University community and the greater Chicago area. Their permanent collection consists primarily of works on paper with a nationally reknown collection of modern and contemporary prints.

For the past twenty years visiting artists have collaborated with students and faculty in the School of Art on a variety of print and book projects. These projects allow students to work directly with nationally and internationally known artists. Projects have been funded through several sources, including regular support from the Haines Morris Endowment in the College of Arts and Sciences. See the Visiting Artists in Printmaking link for a complete listing of recent artists from the program:

http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/visiting_artists/visart.html

Works selected for the Block Museum include a lithograph by New York illustrator, printmaker, and animal rights activist Sue Coe (pictured above), two prints by Dr. Eric Avery, a medical doctor and artist from Galveston, Texas, and a screenprint by Polish printmaker Mirek Pawlowski.