Curator Shelley Langdale will be in conversation with printer/scholar and friend of BFAPF Phil Sanders. Langdale is the curator and department head of Modern Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art. She has deep experience in major museums, having worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. At the National Gallery, she is responsible for some 60,000 prints and drawings. Sanders and Langdale will talk about collecting for a large institution, organizing exhibitions, and conveying the intricacies of prints to a general public.

The talk is free with your entry ticket.

BFAPF exhibitor Tom Hück sits down with Fine Arts Baltimore VP Ann Shafer to talk about this Outlaw Printmaker’s large-scale, multi-panel woodcuts that skewer rural life in the American Midwest in all its unabashed weirdness and glory. Hück’s most recent edition is a rumination on American gluttony called Monkey Mountain Kronikle. It’s a double-sided woodcut triptych that opens and closes like a traditional altarpiece and stars Lord Aporkalyptus and his bevy of brides. They talk about this masterpiece plus print history, Albrecht Dürer, and the print ecosystem.

The talk is free with your entry ticket.

Catalyst Contemporary artist Caryn Martin and Childs Gallery artist Joan Hall will be in conversation in the BFAPF 2023 programming space. Before coming to hear them speak, check out their creative installations in two projects spaces within the Print Fair. In their work, Martin and Hall use paper and print to create print-based three-dimensional installations that jump off the wall. Both artists are examining landscapes and oceanscapes, our relationship to each, and our responsibility to safeguard the planet—the only home we have.

The talk is free with your entry ticket.