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September Online General Meeting

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2020
  • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Presenter: Dr. Miguel Rivera

Chair of the printmaking department at the Kansas City Art Institute

Topic: Moku Hanga

For our September General Online Meeting, we welcome Dr. Miguel Rivera from the Kansas City Art Institute.  He will present on Moku Hanga, a type of woodblock printmaking from Japan.   Miguel studied with renown Japanese artist Yukio Fukazawa, and his work heavily influenced him.   He will also share his exhibition in Japan and other Japanese print making techniques.  Maybe you can try them at home later!

He currently has a showing at the Kemper Museum of Art in case anyone would like to get a closer look locally at these techniques.

https://www.kemperart.org/exhibitions/gifts-art-2019-acquisitions?fbclid=IwAR3ehzJMDd_GWNmLijYdgR6bHNxW9-pY7qskRys_JNMR0HIJGE-4g71FKW4



About Dr. Miguel Rivera:

Miguel Rivera joined the KCAI faculty in fall 2008 to serve as chair of the

printmaking department. A practicing artist as well as an experienced

educator, Rivera has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Poland,

Mexico, Japan, China and the United States. Formerly he was chair of the art

department at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and also served as an

associate professor of printmaking and computers in art. Prior to joining the

University of Guanajuato in 1998, he was an associate artist at Inkling Studio

in Portland, Ore., and before that, he was an instructor at West Virginia

University in Morgantown, where he completed his M.F.A. degree in

printmaking and applied digital media in 1997. He earned a B.F.A. degree in

printmaking and painting in 1995 from Southern Oregon University in

Ashland and an associate degree in printmaking in 1992 from the University

of Guanajuato. Rivera also has given visiting artist lectures in Mexico, Peru,

Argentina and the United States, including Southern Graphics Council

conferences. He is a co-director with artist Cara Jaye of "Crossover", an artists'

collaboration project that started in Guanajuato, Mexico in 2006 and has

continued to develop and featured in the US, Mexico, China and Argentina. Lately

he has visited residencies in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Italy and China.

His work is included in several museums, universities, galleries and private collections .

His work is featured at the Kemper Museum of Art at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas

City, MO. He is represented by Kim Weinberger gallery in Kansas City and

Davidson Galley in Seattle WA.

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