Hi everyone,
Thank you Maryly for inviting comments on this.

I don’t think we are proposing that ‘green’ printmaking be a prerequisite to submit to the exhibition on climate change, but I am also uneasy about having ‘green’ printmaking as a
criteria of some sort. I am just not so sure about our assumptions of what is green and what is not. Some things are obvious, like nitric acid but what about ferric?  It seems to me that there is a whole spectrum between ‘green’ and toxic and I, for one, wouldn’t be able to judge where products or practices fall on that spectrum. It goes beyond the inks, solvants and acids too. I am not sure, for example, how green the process and chemicals involved in the fabrication of the pronto plates are. Or the linoleum blocks. Or the brayers. It gets complicated.

Because of the challenge of determining what practices/products are green, I lean on having a theme (climate change related) for the call for entry, but not making it about green printmaking.

That’s my 2-cents.

Geneviève
www.genevievelheureux.com

> On Mar 23, 2018, at 22:45, Maryly Snow <xxxxxx@snowstudios.com> wrote:
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> Is there a “green” or “climate-friendly” equivalent of screen printing? And if yes, what would it be called?
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> Are “pronto-plate” prints the “climate-friendly” equivalent of lithography?
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> Are monoprints made with water-soluble inks considered “green” or climate friendly?
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> Just asking.
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> You’ll notice that I didn’t ask whether solar plate or photopolymer intaglio was the green equivalent of etching because IT IS!
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> Why the questions?
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> Because CSP will be hosting an open-call national juried exhibition in September 2018 in San Francisco to coincide with, as an affiliate event with, California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit.
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> Put on your thinking caps.
> Let your creative hand-eye-brain trio get going!
>
> Deadline for entry will probably be in June.
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> Details will follow eventually.
>
> Maryly Snow
> for Joanna Kidd and Helene Coté
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