Free Parking: WD Printmaking

Description

Join the American University Museum for a salon on works inspired by Percy Martin’s Mount Pleasant printmaking studio. Featuring panelists Percy Martin, Joyce Wellman, Jarvis Grant, and Gail Shaw-Clemons. Please let the museum know if you plan to attend by RSVPing to tinyurl.com/AlperTickets.

This exhibition traces the evolution of the DC-based WD Printmaking workshop, which began with Percy and Alice Martin opening their Adams Morgan home as a collaborative artists’ studio fifty years ago. The aim was to create a place where all artists (not necessarily trained in printmaking) could come together to explore the printmaking craft and create original prints. Emphasis was placed on experimentation and innovation. The studio was open to the artists twenty-four hours a day.

The workshop moved with Martin and his family into the basement of their home on Lamont Street in Mount Pleasant. Alice Martin recalls the time when the WD Workshop ran classes, presented demonstrations, and held regularly scheduled critique sessions. Artists were coming and going during all hours of the day and night. Participating WD artists achieved successful printmaking careers working in diverse styles. Featuring historical and recent work by members of the workshop. Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art. On view September 3-October 20, 2019.