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.
