MAPC

08/29/2026

MAPC Food Voucher Program 🍲

To help reduce food insecurity during the MAPC Conference at LSU, we are offering limited food vouchers to conference members in need.

Vouchers are partially funded through MAPC Silent Auction proceeds and can be used at participating LSU campus dining vendors.

✨ No application or explanation of need required
✨ First-come, first-served
✨ Limit 2 vouchers per person
✨ Each voucher covers approximately one meal ($12 value)

Reserved vouchers will be distributed with conference nametags at registration, with a small number also available onsite during the conference.

This program helps make conference participation more accessible for our printmaking community by reducing barriers to attending workshops, exhibitions, and events.

Please fill out the reservation form on the MAPC website if this support would be helpful to you. Questions and feedback are always welcome.

08/27/2026

🔥 MAPC NEEDS YOU! 🔥

The Mid America Print Council is looking for printmakers, educators, students, artists, and print enthusiasts ready to help shape the future of printmaking across the Midwest.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: MAPC EXECUTIVE BOARD 2026–2028
Want to get more involved in the printmaking community? Have ideas for where MAPC should go next? This is your chance to bring your voice, experience, and enthusiasm to the table.

You don’t have to be an established leader to make a difference. We want people who are excited about printmaking and invested in building a stronger, more connected community.
Whether you’re an artist, educator, student, printer, or printmaking enthusiast, there’s a place for your voice at MAPC.

✨ Nominate yourself. Nominate a colleague. Nominate someone whose ideas you want to see represented.

📅 Nominations are due September 15, 2026.

Help us shape the next chapter of MAPC. Your print community. Your voice. Your MAPC.

08/12/2026

It’s time to help shape the next chapter of MAPC! 🎉
If you know someone whose leadership, creativity, and commitment would benefit our organization, please consider submitting a nomination.

If that person is you, we encourage you to submit a self-nomination. 🤓

We are excited to welcome a new group of leaders who will continue to guide MAPC and support the vibrant printmaking community we all value. 🖤❤️

Links to nominate are in the latest email from MAPC!

08/07/2026

Hello MAPC wonderful members. We’ve been alerted that emails are being sent out from a “Brett Taylor” with the email above. Please note this is a fishing scheme and NOT FROM MAPC.
MAPC board members will never email you asking for money, etc., and they will never come from our personal accounts.
If you receive this or any other suspicious email please let us know and report as SPAM.

Thank you - we value and appreciate our members and followers. ❤️🖤

07/13/2026

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Michael Barnes!!

“The recent body of graphic works by Michael Barnes depicts figures that wander or are stranded within the vacuum that has been created for them by the world in which they exist. They are oblivious to their immediate surroundings and the menial tasks to which they are assigned or have voluntarily adopted to cope with their existence. The work addresses the destructive nature and absurdities that so readily prevail for human kind, along with themes of mortality and the philosophical questions of existence in general. The images are concerned with environment, social decay leaning towards an inward and isolated path, and cynicism about the historical evolution of so-called civilization and its effects upon the world and its inhabitants.”
www.michaelbarnes.us

07/13/2026

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Cheryl Hochberg!

Cheryl Agulnick Hochberg is an Arizona-based painter and printmaker whose projects explore the idea of “place”. She begins her projects by spending extensive time in locations where -at first- she is a stranger, and where people, ecology, landscape, and wildlife are all unfamiliar. By walking and exploring - but also through conversation and study – she gathers material that becomes her creative content. In the studio, she works in formats ranging from painting and printmaking to installation and public art. By way of these approaches, she strives to give voice to the land, and to represent the particular sensibility of each location.

Cheryl’s recent work has been generously supported by Artist Residency opportunities that allow her to work on site and to explore efficiently. In recent years (since 2016), she has worked at Ucross and Jentel Arts in Wyoming, Play Summerlake in Oregon, Guttenberg Arts in New Jersey, the Ratamo Center in Jyvaskyla, Finland, and most recently, the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in Shenzhen, China.

Particularly well-known for her printmaking, Cheryl has exhibited her relief prints both nationally and internationally. In the US, her work has been included in exhibitions at Manhattan Graphics (NYC), the Brinton Museum (Wyoming), the Oso Bay Juried Print Exhibition of the Americas (Texas), and the Lux Centre for the Arts (Nebraska). Outside the US, her prints were included in the 2024 Taiwan International Print Biennial, the3rd International Print Biennial in Yerevan, Armenia, in the Wuhan Biennial (China), and in several exhibitions at the China Printmaking Museum (Shenzhen, China).

Read more at www.cherylagulnick.com

07/13/2026

🌟Member Spotlight🌟 Today, we are sharing the work of Doug Billings! 🎉

From Doug: As an artist, my primary purpose is to create images, either acrylic paintings or hand pulled prints, based on my interests; which function as pictorial interpretations of my experiences. As a contemporary artist, I use forms of expression; methods, techniques, and processes that are considered to be "modernist" in style.

Find out more @ https://www.wichitagallery12.com

07/11/2026

Have you added your printshop to the MAP(C) map???

This is for universities, community print shops, shared space, AND individuals!!! We encourage YOU, our beloved MAPC members to add yourself. 🎉

More info below:

In an effort to connect, support, and promote, MAPC is collecting information for the Printmaking MAP(C), featuring Universities, Printshops, Supply Stores and more. Whether you are looking for specific programing, interested in investigating local shops or supplier options, or simply curious to explore the vast network of printmaking, this map is intended to act as an accessibility and community building tool for those dedicated to all things print.

Links to add and view printshops in our linktree as well!

07/07/2026

07/01/2026

Welcome to the Printmaking MAP(C)! In an effort to connect, support, and promote, MAPC is collecting information for the Printmaking MAP(C), featuring Universities, Printshops, Supply Stores and more. Whether you are looking for specific programing, interested in investigating local shops or supplier options, or simply curious to explore the vast network of printmaking, this map is intended to act as an accessibility and community building tool for those dedicated to all things print.

More info to come! Please see the MAPC website for all the deets!