Art Bytes: Michael Sims, master printer – Lawrence Lithography by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The master printer and founder of the Lawrence Lithography Workshop reminisces about his storied career, the artists with whom he has worked, and the enormous patience required to produce stunning lithographs. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art invites all people to explore the art in its care, and through its broad…
TLLW at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Highlights from the Archive STARTS Dec 21, 2024 — Ends Jun 22, 2025 Composed of 24 prints from a newly established archive at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, this exhibition celebrates the creativity, talent, and collaborative spirit synonymous with The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (TLLW). Master printer…
Lawrence Lithography Workshop Archive Established at Nelson-Atkins
Archive Highlights Featured in Special Exhibition Kansas City, MO. Dec. 17, 2024–The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City announced that it has established an archive for The Lawrence Lithography Workshop, which, under the guidance of owner and master printer Michael Sims, has become nationally renowned, collaborating with more than…
🎄2024 Holiday Print Sale🎄
Roger Shimomura – Kabuki Rehearsal, 2012 (Set of 2) | $1,800 SALE $1,600 The Lawrence Lithography Workshop and Gallery is delighted to announce its highly anticipated 2024 Holiday Print Sale, running from November 30 through December 21. This annual event offers a unique opportunity to acquire exquisite prints from a…
Summer Hours
Kindly be informed that our Gallery Opening Hours have been updated. Summer Hours: Friday – Saturday 11am – 4pm Monday – Thursday by appointment only CLOSED IN AUGUST We can be reached via email, and our website is accessible around the clock: Email: [email protected] Website: LawrenceLitho.com Stay…
2024 McNay Print Fair
May 4 – 5, 2024 The McNay Print Fair is one of the sole events of its kind in the state and region. This year, we are celebrating 28 years of bringing together newcomers and seasoned collectors alike. On May 4 and 5, 12 dealers from around the United…
Benito Huerta: A Legacy of Collaboration
As Benito Huerta retires from The Gallery at UTA, the Arlington Museum of Art celebrates his impact on the arts in Texas. After twenty-five years, Benito Huerta will retire in June 2022 from his position as the Director and Curator of The Gallery at UTA at the University of Texas…
NICK BUBASH | September 7, 1949 – November 17, 2021
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Obituary At too young of an age and after a brief illness, Nicholas Robert Bubash passed peacefully on November 17, 2021, surrounded by his family and friends. Nick is survived by his beautiful, talented, and loving daughters, Isabella and Georgia Bubash, whom he carried in his heart; his…
New Additions to the AP/RC: Margo Kren
Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection ● AP/RC ● Art Division of the Museum of Texas Tech University Kren created this suite of lithographs, Dreams and Memories, with Mike Sims of Lawrence Lithography Workshop now located in Kansas City. Concerning this suite, she observed that, “(It) evolved in the early 1980’s while…
New Additions to the AP/RC: Lawrence Lithography Workshop
While the AP/RC focuses almost exclusively on printmakers who directly control their work from conceptualization through printing, on occasion we add artworks to the collection which were printed at a professional fine art print shop such as Lawrence Lithography Workshop (Missouri), Tamarind Institute (University of New Mexico), P.R.I.N.T. (University of…
A Minute Exhibit: Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward
Explore the exhibition Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward from your home with the JSMA’s video series, A Minute Exhibit. Over his long and prolific career, distinguished American artist and educator Roger Shimomura has channeled his outrage and despair into beautiful, provocative, often irreverent, and sometimes inflammatory…
Benito Huerta : Silence
Benito Huerta at CreativeMornings Fort Worth, December 2019 Benito Huerta is an artist, and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director and Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997. His work is included in the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts…
Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941)
Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 127.6 x 152.4 cm (Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist, © Roger Shimomura). A conversation with Dr. Sarah Newman, James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Dr. Beth Harris. This Seeing America video was…
Tom Gregg: Still Lifes for Tense Times
Alice Thorson, May 1, 2019 Grenades and a MAGA hat, apples and playing cards. They’re all fair game for inclusion in the paintings of well-known Kansas City artist Tom Gregg, whose luminous, enigmatic still lifes have been mystifying and enchanting art lovers in Kansas City and beyond for the better…
With America As His Muse, Kansas Painter Roger Shimomura Gives People Something ‘Stirring’
KCUR | By Julie Denesha Published April 5, 2019 at 5:00 AM CDT LISTEN: https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2019-04-05/with-america-as-his-muse-kansas-painter-roger-shimomura-gives-people-something-stirring Julie Denesha / KCUR 89.3FM Artist Roger Shimomura’s new show ‘Roger Shimomura: American Muse,’ subverts Asian American stereotypes with Pop Art. Roger Shimomura says he’s found “the deeper meaning of life in Pop Art.” Shimomura is…
Artist Pages – Russell Ferguson: “Data Riven”
KC STUDIO | Alice Thorson | March 20, 2017 Marc Wilson, former director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, called Russell Ferguson “one of the great draftsmen of his generation.” The longtime Kansas City artist is also a profound thinker, whose artworks embed a lifetime of travel and…
Roger Shimomura: Mistaken Identity
January 27 – March 10, 2017 Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery, together with the Twin Cities Japanese American Citizens League, are pleased to present an exhibition from prolific American artist Roger Shimomura. Throughout his extensive career, Shimomura’s work has provided stealth commentary addressing sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. The exhibition includes a…
Beloved Seattle ceramic artist Akio Takamori, ‘a very gentle soul,’ dies at 66
THE SEATTLE TIMES OBITUARY Originally published January 15, 2017 at 6:03 pm Updated January 17, 2017 at 11:33 am By Matt Day Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle ceramic artist Akio Takamori spent Wednesday working in his Magnolia studio. He put the finishing touches on some pieces with the help of…
Memories of Minidoka: An Interview with Roger Shimomura
Memories of Minidoka: An Interview with Roger Shimomura YouTube Beach Museum of Art Apr 14, 2016
Roger Shimomura – Third Thursday Visiting Artist’s Presentation
The views expressed in these presentations are not sponsored nor endorsed by JCCC. Artists are fully and solely responsible for the content of their presentation. Nerman Museum programs include artists’ lectures at exhibition openings, Third Thursday Visiting Artists’ Presentations, and Noon at the Nerman gallery talks. http://www.nermanmuseum.org For more information…
Why America’s Greatest Artists Come to a Tiny Shop in Kansas City to Do Their Work
Printmaker Michael Sims never intended to open a business, but over more than three decades he’s built Lawrence Lithography Workshop into a supplier for some of the country’s most prominent art galleries and museums. BY LEIGH BUCHANAN, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, INC. MAGAZINE @LEIGHEBUCHANAN MAY 4, 2015 Behind every print, there’s a story. In 1981,…
Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on My Mind
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JORcuhearw8 Roger Shimomura’s paintings and prints, including this series, Minidoka on My Mind, address social and political issues of Asian America and have most often been inspired by diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother that span the 56 years of her life. Minidoka on My Mind is the…
Figurative artist Akio Takamori
Sofa Expo Represented by Barry Friedman Ltd Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan on October 11, 1950. In Japan Takamori attended Musashino Art University. In 1974 he moved to the United States. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) and Alfred University. In 1993 Takamori began his teaching career at the University of Washington where he taught until he…
Roger Shimomura Oral History Interview
C-SPAN | March 18, 2003 American History TV Roger Shimomura Oral History Interview Roger Shimomura talked about his life. As a child growing up during World War II, he was detained along with his family and other Japanese Americans at the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. He later became an…
CRAFT IN AMERICA: Akio Takamori on craft and being an artist in America
Ceramic artist Akio Takamori on craft and being an artist in America. Filmed at the 50th Anniversary of Archie Bray Foundation in 2001. Akio Takamori (1950-2017) was born and raised in Japan. Takamori apprenticed with a master folk potter in Kyushu and met American ceramist Ken Ferguson, who encouraged Takamori…