MAPC

📣 REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Due to the overwhelming response, we’re extending the 2026 MAPC PRINTELLIGENCE Conference pre-registration deadline by ONE WEEK! 🎉
We hope this gives everyone a little extra time to navigate busy back-to-school schedules, start the semester, or work through any registration issues.
If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time to join us at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge! 🖤❤️
PRINTELLIGENCE celebrates innovation, collaboration, community, and the ever-expanding possibilities of contemporary printmaking through exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, panels, print exchanges, and opportunities to connect with artists, educators, students, and printmakers from across our community.
Don’t miss it! ✨

🍽️ HOW TO RESERVE A FOOD VOUCHER
Attending the MAPC Conference and could use a little extra support with meals? We’ve got you. ❤️

MAPC members can reserve food vouchers for the upcoming conference. Each LSU voucher is valued at $12, approximately the cost of one meal at participating campus vendors.

No application, explanation, or proof of need is required. If you could benefit from a voucher, you are welcome to request one with no questions asked.

🎟️ Vouchers are limited and will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

To help us support as many members as possible, we ask that each person reserve a maximum of 2 vouchers (approximately 2 meals).

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Deborah Maris Lader!

From Deborah: If you visit my studio at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, you'll notice the work is varied. I am primarily a printmaker who can’t help but veer off the path of litho stones and copper pl
ates into a sort of rabbit hole where I also experiment with assemblage, paint, glass, and found materials. Images of birds, fish, trees, and strange masked people with twining limbs inhabit my work as I let the process of making guide me where it wants to lead, and I'm often surprised by the resulting messages and visual information. I'm just not exactly sure why a school of fish just hopped into my litho, or why a girl’s hair turns into the sea in an etching, but with reflection, these images and objects are derived from both dreams and life, brought to light by ink and paint and endless hours of hard work. My recent, one-of-a kind etchings in glass address ideas about fragility - the fragility of our relationships, our faculties, and of our senses.

And then there's music - I'm in this 30-yr-old AltFolk outfit called Sons of the Never Wrong. My songwriting reflects my visual images, and my music fuels my studio practice.
Welcome to my planet.

Learn more at: deborahmarislader.com Deborah Maris Lader

MAPC Food Voucher Program 🍲

To help reduce food insecurity during the MAPC Conference at LSU, we are offering limited food vouchers to conference members in need.

Vouchers are partially funded through MAPC Silent Auction proceeds and can be used at participating LSU campus dining vendors.

✨ No application or explanation of need required
✨ First-come, first-served
✨ Limit 2 vouchers per person
✨ Each voucher covers approximately one meal ($12 value)

Reserved vouchers will be distributed with conference nametags at registration, with a small number also available onsite during the conference.

This program helps make conference participation more accessible for our printmaking community by reducing barriers to attending workshops, exhibitions, and events.

Please fill out the reservation form on the MAPC website if this support would be helpful to you. Questions and feedback are always welcome.

It’s time to help shape the next chapter of MAPC! 🎉
If you know someone whose leadership, creativity, and commitment would benefit our organization, please consider submitting a nomination.

If that person is you, we encourage you to submit a self-nomination. 🤓

We are excited to welcome a new group of leaders who will continue to guide MAPC and support the vibrant printmaking community we all value. 🖤❤️

Links to nominate are in the latest email from MAPC!

Hello MAPC wonderful members. We’ve been alerted that emails are being sent out from a “Brett Taylor” with the email above. Please note this is a fishing scheme and NOT FROM MAPC.
MAPC board members will never email you asking for money, etc., and they will never come from our personal accounts.
If you receive this or any other suspicious email please let us know and report as SPAM.

Thank you - we value and appreciate our members and followers. ❤️🖤

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Michael Barnes!!

“The recent body of graphic works by Michael Barnes depicts figures that wander or are stranded within the vacuum that has been created for them by the world in which they exist. They are oblivious to their immediate surroundings and the menial tasks to which they are assigned or have voluntarily adopted to cope with their existence. The work addresses the destructive nature and absurdities that so readily prevail for human kind, along with themes of mortality and the philosophical questions of existence in general. The images are concerned with environment, social decay leaning towards an inward and isolated path, and cynicism about the historical evolution of so-called civilization and its effects upon the world and its inhabitants.”
www.michaelbarnes.us

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Cheryl Hochberg!

Cheryl Agulnick Hochberg is an Arizona-based painter and printmaker whose projects explore the idea of “place”. She begins her projects by spending extensive time in locations where -at first- she is a stranger, and where people, ecology, landscape, and wildlife are all unfamiliar. By walking and exploring - but also through conversation and study – she gathers material that becomes her creative content. In the studio, she works in formats ranging from painting and printmaking to installation and public art. By way of these approaches, she strives to give voice to the land, and to represent the particular sensibility of each location.

Cheryl’s recent work has been generously supported by Artist Residency opportunities that allow her to work on site and to explore efficiently. In recent years (since 2016), she has worked at Ucross and Jentel Arts in Wyoming, Play Summerlake in Oregon, Guttenberg Arts in New Jersey, the Ratamo Center in Jyvaskyla, Finland, and most recently, the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in Shenzhen, China.

Particularly well-known for her printmaking, Cheryl has exhibited her relief prints both nationally and internationally. In the US, her work has been included in exhibitions at Manhattan Graphics (NYC), the Brinton Museum (Wyoming), the Oso Bay Juried Print Exhibition of the Americas (Texas), and the Lux Centre for the Arts (Nebraska). Outside the US, her prints were included in the 2024 Taiwan International Print Biennial, the3rd International Print Biennial in Yerevan, Armenia, in the Wuhan Biennial (China), and in several exhibitions at the China Printmaking Museum (Shenzhen, China).

Read more at www.cherylagulnick.com