THE PORTFOLIO

Special Collections at UWM is a collection of print-based primary sources, from books and periodicals to posters, broadsides, pamphlets, brochures, and sheet music. It also holds hundreds of original prints, many of them in published portfolios. As a sampling, this exhibition presents a selection of prints from 14 portfolios in the collection in a variety of different print media, including relief prints, intaglio prints, lithography, photogravure, silkscreen, and letterpress, by artists from around the world. Artists represented include Mark Brueggeman, Alec Dempster, Karen Fitzgerald, Louise LaFond, Mary Laird, Nicolas Lampert, Tom Phillips, and young printmakers from La Ceiba Grifica in Veracruz, as well as silkscreened posters from the Occupy movement, prints by Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative/Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68, typographic posters commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, and early color lithographs of Indian architectural details from the Jeypore Portfolio of Architectural Details, 1890-1913.