Modern Japanese Prints Workshop

*Postponed until Summer 2011

From Ukiyo-e to Contemporary
Chatham University Shadyside Campus, Pittsburgh PA

Five days of seminars and two dinners with celebrated author and scholar, Dr. Sandy Kita.

An introduction to the Modern Japanese Print, this course is for anyone interested in prints, Japan, art, or the phenomenon of the Modern. Lectures cover the history of twentieth century Japanese woodblock printmaking, placing its development in context of social, political, cultural, and other changes in order to show why certain works became important and what deeper meaning they had. During this five day program, students also work with actual objects of art in the Carnegie Museum of Art and other local private collections to learn how to judge condition, quality, authenticity, and potential worth of Modern Japanese prints.