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Exhibit: Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

Posted on by Lynn Cunningham
GALC
The Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) at the Morrison Library exhibit, photographed Sept. 18, 2018, celebrates sixty years of U.C. Berkeley Library’s GALC program, which allows students and faculty to borrow framed, original lithographs, etchings, and woodblock prints. (Photo by Cade Johnson for the U.C. Berkeley Library)

 

Exhibit: Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection 

Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library is on exhibit in Doe Library’s Brown Gallery until February 28th, 2019. The exhibition celebrates 60 years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC), and includes highlights from the collection that have not been exhibited in over 20 years. Ephemera from the GALC program, including collection catalogs, newspaper clippings, posters, letters from the community, and campus memos are also on display. The exhibit also includes cases dedicated to the history of printmaking told through GALC prints, as well as cases featuring different printmaking techniques.

Exhibit Curators:

Alex de Courtois de Vicose
Lynn Cunningham
Ramon De Santiago
Aisha Hamilton
Jennifer Osgood
Scott Peterson

 

Opening Reception

Friday, October 5th 4-6pm
Morrison Library

The reception will feature talks by Professor Lauren Kroiz of the UC Berkeley History of Art Department and Bay Area printmaker Keith Cranmer. Tours of the exhibition will be hosted by Curator Ramon De Santiago at 4pm and 5:30pm.

A pre-reception event will take place from 2-3:30pm in the Printmaking Studio (265 Kroeber Hall), with a printmaking demonstration led by artist and Lecturer in the UC Berkeley Art Practice Department, Randy Hussong. Participants will have the option of printing their own souvenir prints at this event.

Both of these events are open to the public.

Details:
Friday, October 5th

Pre-Reception Printmaking Event
2-3:30pm
Printmaking Studio
265 Kroeber Hall

Reception and Tours
4-6pm
Morrison Library
101 Doe Library

 

Read more about the Graphic Arts Loan Collection on the the Library News site.  To browse the GALC collection and reserve prints, see the GALC homepage.