{"id":39,"date":"2012-09-25T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learn.bowdoin.edu\/courses\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2012-09-25T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T03:31:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The Project<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project brings a guest artist to Bowdoin College for one week every semester to produce an edition of \u00a0prints with the aid of current printmaking students. This gives students the opportunity to participate in an intensive workshop with a nationally renowned artist. In the process, students learn new techniques of printmaking and encounter different approaches to image-making.\u00a0At the end of the project, each student keeps a print created with the visiting artist.<\/p>\n<p>The project opens with a lecture which is open to the community, bringing attention to the art of printmaking. Also included is a visit to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to view its collection of etchings by Marvin Bileck (which were on view along with Emily Nelligan\u2019s drawings during the 2000\u00a0exhibition\u00a0<em>Littoral Abstractions)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Artist Emily Nelligan\u00a0started the project in honor of her late husband, Marvin Bileck, a lifelong artist and teacher. He served as Professor Emeritus of Queens College, New York, and his work has been described by critics and art historians as comparable to such artists as Holbein and Rembrandt.\u00a0The couple lived on Cranberry Island, Maine during the summer months for many decades, a landscape reflected in Emily Nelligan\u2019s atmospheric charcoal drawings and Marvin Bileck\u2019s detailed etchings. The couple\u2019s work is often exhibited together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project The Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project brings a guest artist to Bowdoin College for one week every semester to produce an edition of \u00a0prints with the aid of current printmaking students. This gives students the opportunity to participate in an intensive workshop with a nationally renowned artist. In the process, students learn new techniques &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-marvin-bileck-printmaking-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}