1967 S. Campus Drive on the Arts Circle of the Evanston campus. Facilities are accessible to the disabled. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 8.
Admission is free to the gallery and outdoor sculpture garden.
In the 60 years encompassed by this exhibition, the visual arts in Chicago and the printmaking environment, in particular, have undergone substantial development. Cities make contexts, create the specific systems of response and provide the particular intellectual, cultural, historical, financial and sociological backdrop against which art is always produced. While Chicago has become a center of intense artistic production during the past several decades, the city has been characterized by a diversity of talent and has provided a multitude of opportunities for those interested in the medium of printmaking. Among the influences that made Chicago a leader in printmaking are the print workshop at Hull House during the Depression, the print activities that took place at the Graphic Studio, the artists of the New Bauhaus, the immense importance of Landfall Press, the printmaking facilities and courses of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the early activities of the Chicago Society of Etchers, the collecting trends and exhibitions of the Art Institute and the education and printmaking innovations by new presses such as Anchor Graphics. Many of Chicago's premier painters as well as those trained primarily in printmaking availed themselves of these opportunities and thereby participated in a culture of collaboration, experimentation and diversification that remains little known.