print collectors panel discussion - nelson atkins print society

   On Saturday, April 20th, a Print Collectors Panel Discussion convened in the lower level of the Leedy Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Avenue, in the Crossroad District of Kansas City. It was one of six events held during the 1st annual Fine Prints & Paper KC Expo of 2013. The panel discussion event was presented by the Print Society of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

 

     Moderator Robin Gross (on the far right) asked for experiences from the following panel members: (left to right) Mike Lyon, Steve Pruitt, Jane Voorhees, Paul Sokoloff, and John Mallery. The cameraman was Eric Lehnert.....Enjoy.

 

 

Part 1 Thirty minutes. The gateway drug for us into prints.(Paul Sokoloff)   What do you need to know about prints? How do you educate yourself? (Robin Gross)

Books. Everyone starts from ground zero. (Steve Pruitt)    Take a print course, an art history course at Nelson or KCAI. (Jane Voorhees)    After you buy the second print you become a collector. (Mike Lyon)    An artist told me, when you first get into art, you realize that subject matter is not important. And that made my head spin around multiple times. (John Mallery)    The state of a print. (Paul Sokoloff, Jane Voorhees, Steve Pruitt, Mike Lyon)    Order of print. (Steve Pruitt)   When you buy something of 200 or 500 edition, are you buying fine art or a poster? (Paul Sokoloff)    Changes to etching plate changes its state. (Steve Pruitt) At Nelson library there is a 3-4 page resource bibliography to help you with printmaking, print collecting. I would encourage you to try that...Do you buy art because you love it, because it moves you, because it enhances your life, or are you thinking about the significance of the artist, investment quality, the technical sophistication of the work, or a whole list of different reasons? (Robin Gross)    The search for information, the history reading about the artists, where they came from. (John Mallery)
 

 

Part 2 Six minutes. Gems learned. (Robin Gross) It is not WHAT you know when you begin collecting. It is WHO you know. Nobody learns about art until you buy it, then once you buy it you learn. The best does the best. Name drives everything in the art world. (Steve Pruitt)

Part 3 Ten minutes. A gem of wisdom you wished you would have possessed in your early collecting career. (Robin Gross) Follow your heart. (Mike Lyon)  Collecting prints from the MET. (Jane Voorhees)  Do not be intimidated by collecting. (John Mallery) 

Part 4 One minute. John Mallery.

Part 5 Four minutes.  The value collectors put on their purchases. What does the print you buy do to you? (Robin Gross) Paul Sokoloff, Mike Lyon.

 

Part 6 Three minutes. Describe a print from your collection that speaks to you. (Robin Gross) Steve Pruitt, Mike Lyon

 

 

Fine Prints & Paper KC Expo 2013

Dates and Times:   April 19, 2013, 4 pm to 8 pm -- April 20, 2013, 10 am to 4 pm
Location:     Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center, 2012 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Attractions:  Over 20 fine print and paper artists and art organizations from Kansas City.

Special Events:  Friday, April 19th - 5:00pm - Paper Making Demonstration with Kelsey Elise Pike - 5:00pm - Intaglio Printmaking Demonstration with Art McSweeney - 7:00pm - The Archeology of the Sheet: Looking at Fine Paper, lecture by Mark Stevenson including antique and vintage papers

Saturday, April 20th - 11:00am - Relief Printmaking Demonstration with the Print Factory - 1:00pm - Calligraphy Demonstration with Calvert Guthrie - 1:30pm - Care of Art on Paper, a lecture by Mark Stevenson - 2:00pm - Print Collectors Panel Discussion, presented by the Print Society of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art