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IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Allison Berkeley Manager of Marketing and Public Relations @worcesterart.org 508.799.4406 x3073 NEW PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION TRAVELS THROUGH TIME AT WORCESTER ART MUSEUM (WORCESTER, Mass., June 26, 2009) — Worcester Art Museum launches the new exhibition, Printmaking Methods: Relief on Saturday, June 27. The fifth in a series of installations explaining the techniques of printmaking, this exhibition considers the relief processes, including woodcut, wood engraving and linocut. Printmaking will include relief prints from around world, dating from the 14 th century to the present. Printmaking includes color relief, wood engravings, carved wood and linoleum printing blocks and cutting tools from Europe, Japan and America. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated, didactic pamphlet, distributed free to the public, and funded by a gift from Bernard and Louise Palitz. Exhibition is on view Wednesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00pm, Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. through October 18. Located on Salisbury St., in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Art Museum opened in 1898 and is one of America’s most respected art museums. The Museum is world-renowned for its 35,000-piece collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, drawings and new media. For more information, visit our new website at www.worcesterart.org. # # #

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Page 1: NEW PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION TRAVELS THROUGH · PDF fileIMMEDIATE RELEASE . MEDIA CONTACT: Allison Berkeley Manager of Marketing and Public Relations . @ 508.799.4406 x3073 . NEW PRINTMAKING

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT: Allison Berkeley Manager of Marketing and Public Relations

@worcesterart.org 508.799.4406 x3073

NEW PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION TRAVELS THROUGH TIME AT WORCESTER ART MUSEUM

(WORCESTER, Mass., June 26, 2009) — Worcester Art Museum launches the new

exhibition, Printmaking Methods: Relief on Saturday, June 27. The fifth in a series of

installations explaining the techniques of printmaking, this exhibition considers the relief

processes, including woodcut, wood engraving and linocut. Printmaking will include relief prints

from around world, dating from the 14th century to the present.

Printmaking includes color relief, wood engravings, carved wood and linoleum printing blocks

and cutting tools from Europe, Japan and America. The exhibition will be accompanied by an

illustrated, didactic pamphlet, distributed free to the public, and funded by a gift from Bernard

and Louise Palitz.

Exhibition is on view Wednesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00pm, Saturday from

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. through October 18.

Located on Salisbury St., in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Art Museum opened in 1898 and is one of America’s most respected art museums. The Museum is world-renowned for its 35,000-piece collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, drawings and new media. For more information, visit our new website at www.worcesterart.org.

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