EXHIBITIONS

BRADBURY ART MUSEUM

DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION

January 23 - February 26, 2025

The juror for the 2025 DNSPE was Pedro Barbeito, Associate Professor at Lafayette College, Director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, and a practicing artist. He selected 54 works from nearly five-hundred submissions by artists around the world. The exhibition showcases prints made through both traditional and experimental processes by established and emerging printmakers alike.

The word “print” comes to English from an Old French word which itself came from the Latin “premere” which means “to press.” Pared down to its simplest form, a print is a mark left from pressure—the drum of a press, the act of moving a squeegee across a screen, even the rollers that transport paper through a digital printer. Printing is also the second stage of a print’s life; it is the conclusion of prior labor. If the matrix is never made, the printing process does not occur. The paper remains blank. 

One of the extraordinary things about printmakers is that they commit to the mystery. They make their work knowing that one stage or another of their labor will likely remain unknown to viewers once the print journeys out into the world.

—excerpt from Curator’s Statement, Madeline McMahan

Below are the prints selected for inclusion in the 2025 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition. You can access a digital catalog of the exhibition by clicking here.