{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Annie Bissett - Printmaker: You Design For The Error You Know You\u2019ll Make","description":"Annie Bissett is one of the most thought provoking and interesting mokuhanga artists working today. Her pieces allow the viewer to contemplate subjects and ideas which may never have entered their consciousness . Especially in the current political and cultural climate, her prints make all the more sense.  In this episode of The Unfinished Print I speak with Annie Bissett about her career in mokuhanga, what her \u201csociopolitical\u201d prints are meant to signify, her method as well as her philosophies on mokuhanga as a form of artistic expression. Please follow The Unfinished Print and my own print work on Instagram @popular_wheatprints, Twitter @unfinishedprint, or email me at theunfinishedprint@gmail.com Notes: notes may contain a hyperlink. Simply click on the highlighted word or phrase. Notes: Annie Bissett - website , Instagram  Matt Brown -  an established mokuhanga artist who is a mentor and leader in contemporary mokuhanga. website Instagram  s\u014dsaku hanga - an initial period of woodblock print making beginning in the early 20th century and dedicated to what I would call, natural printmaking. Omitting the traditional division of labour method of the publisher, carver, and printer, s\u014dsaku hanga printmakers create their prints entirely on their own. Although this is not always the case with some printmakers notably Sait\u014d Kiyoshi (1907-1997) who as he got older and more popular began to mete out his work for others to produce. A great history on Sait\u014d can be found here from the town of Yanaizu in Fukushima, Prefecture\u2019s website where the Sait\u014d Kiyoshi Museum of Art is located. Annie Bissett\u2019s map prints can be found here. Annie Bissett\u2019s \u201cWe Are Pilgrim\u2019s\u201d prints can be found here. a great article, albeit from 1958, on the development of early American woodcuts can be found as open access on JSTOR.  The National Security Agency in the United States has been accused of surveillance on the American citizenry. Annie Bissett\u2019s prints about the NSA can be found here. Smith College is a private liberal arts women\u2019s college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Annie Bissetts \u201cpots\u201d series of prints can be found here. John Alden was a crew member and Pricilla Alden was a passenger on the Mayflower, and were married. Annie Bissett\u2019s print of the couple can be found here. Printmaker David Bull\u2019s \u201cBaren Forum\u201d can still be found, here. It\u2019s chock full of information for printmakers of all levels. I Was A Twentieth Century Lesbian (series) can be found here. shunga - generally speaking is a woodblock printing style and motif that has to do with sex and sexuality. Much of the time it is gratuitous and fantastical. Usually banned throughout its history it was and still is extremely popular.  Annie Bissett\u2019s \u201cTwentieth Century Lesbian\u201d series is tasteful and powerful and, in my personal opinion, still connects to the shunga tradition through that tasteful and powerful light. Wood-like Matsumura - an incredibly important online and brick and mortar store located in Nerima City, Tokyo. I allude to the print, The Dream Of The Fisherman\u2019s Wife (\u86f8\u3068\u6d77\u5973) published in 1814. It is one of the most famous shunga prints ever made where a female figure is being made love to by an octopus. For an interesting take on this print look to photographer Sawatari Hajime and his series of photos \u201cHysteric Ten\u201d to see that print, essentially, come to life. PEN magazine in Tokyo wrote an article in English, here.   opening and closing credit background music:  Bruce Springsteen \u201cHighway 29,\u201d from The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) \u00a9 Popular Wheat Productions Disclaimer: Please do not reproduce or use anything from this podcast without shooting me an email and getting my express written or verbal consent. I'm friendly :) The opinions expressed in The Unfinished Print podcast are not necessarily those of Andre Zadorozny and of Popular Wheat Productions.            ","author_name":"The Unfinished Print : A Mokuhanga Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/theunfinishedprint.libsyn.com\/website","html":"