Don’t Strike Out Printmaking
Don’t Tear It Apart
This site is devoted to the preservation of traditional forms of printmaking.
The site will be under constant revision
The present issue is the attack that has been launched by the administration of Parsons School of Design in New York City against its Print Shop that has been a cultural resource for over 50 years.
The original memoranda as well as the new memoranda issued in the summer and fall of 2000 by the administration are here. So are some petitions the original and latest internal and external responses to the situation by students , art professors, printmakers and others outside the Parsons community, from all over the USA and abroad
The administration has changed its tactics. It is keeping the print shop open for the academic year 2000/01 and has appointed a "fact finding commission" to "review" the place of printmaking in the University. The commission was appointed by the administration with no input from the printmaking faculty and students and they have no representation on the commission. Even so, the administration does not consider itself bound by commission recommendations.
In the present situation, Continuing Education is particularly vulnerable. CE printmakers are mostly experienced, exhibiting artists who have been in the print shop for decades and were a major part of the activist core in this battle. Not only must this Print Shop be kept alive, allowing all the traditional forms of printmaking to flourish, but CE artists MUST continue to be part of it (They were the group for whom the New School was founded in the first place).
We need YOUR support .
Please write directly to :
University Commission on Printmaking
New School University
Room 800
66 West 12th Street
New York NY 10011
or e-mail to
Before
November 9, 2000