The Fine Print Fair, Cleveland’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fine prints, begins Thursday, September 25, 2014 with an opening night benefit preview and continues Friday, September 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, September 27th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, September 28th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art located at 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio. The Fine Print Fair benefits the Department of Prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and is sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland, a non-profit adjunct organization dedicated to supporting the museum’s print collection.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
A Prints of a Party, Opening Night Preview, 6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Come to the Cleveland Museum of Art for hors d’oeuvres, desserts and a cash bar. Enjoy the Curator’s Choice tour given by the Dr. Jane Glaubinger. Tickets required in advance. For reservations call 216-707-2579 by September 17.
7:00 p.m.
Due to its popularity, “Curator’s Choice” tour will return with Dr. Jane Glaubinger’s selection of works from each dealer in varied price ranges she considers of exceptional interest and worthy of acquisition by the museum. Dr. Glaubinger will lead a tour of the dealers’ booths at 7:00 p.m. at “A Prints of a Party” opening night preview. “Curator’s Choice” prints will be on view and available for sale throughout the Fine Print Fair. Dealers donate 10 percent of these sales to benefit the Print Club’s fund to acquire prints for the museum.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
The Fair is open to the public 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hourly door prizes
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
The Fair is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hourly door prizes
11:00 a.m., CMA Recital Hall
A program of interest to both beginning and experienced print collectors, Dr. Jane Glaubinger, Curator of prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will lecture on “Prints: The Multiple as Original.” This program is free and open to the public. Dr. Glaubinger will also be available to answer questions at the Fine Print Fair all weekend.
ACTIVITIES
12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Morgan Conservatory, paper conservatory, will be giving papermaking demonstrations.
The Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) will inform about paper conservation.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
The Fair is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hourly door prizes
ACTIVITIES
12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Zygote Press, a printmaking workshop, will be giving printmaking demonstrations.
The Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) will inform about paper conservation.
About the Print Club
The oldest print club in the United States, the Print Club of Cleveland has been a source of enrichment for print collectors and enthusiasts since 1916. Nearly 100 years old, the club has remained dedicated to the founders’ purposes of stimulating interest in old master and contemporary prints and print collecting, as well as augmenting the print collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Print Club has purchased some of the crown jewels of the museum’s print collection, including unsurpassed impressions of prints by masters of every period—including Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso. The commitment and support of club members continues unabated and about one-third of the museum’s superb collection of more than 20,000 prints are gifts from the club or its members. The Print Club’s activities include outreach to the larger community. By sponsoring lectures that are open to the public, as well as the Fine Print Fair, the club continues to educate the general public about printmaking and stimulate interest in the fascinating and enjoyable activity of print collecting.
The Fine Print Fair is the Print Club of Cleveland’s annual benefit for the museum’s Department of Prints. Each year fourteen dealers from around the country exhibit and sell fine prints—from old master to contemporary—plus drawings and photographs. The Fine Print Fair is a major art event in Cleveland and draws an enthusiastic crowd to the preview benefit, “A Prints of a Party,” as well as to lectures, demonstrations, and to view and purchase prints throughout the three day event.