PrintHouston: a biennial celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them.
JUNE 2024
NEXT 2024: Biennial of Contemporary Prints
We are pleased to announce NEXT 2024, a contemporary print biennial to be held during PRINTHOUSTON 2024. This exhibition showcases artists who are pushing the boundaries of printmaking techniques and materials, by creating innovative and challenging works.
Think INK!
PrintHouston Members Exhibition!
July 5 - August 17, 2024
The Silos at Sawyer Yards, HTX
The Nancy Luton Printmaking Education Fund
In 2020 we established an education fund to support students who are interested in learning about and enhancing their skills in printmaking. Nancy Luton, a Houston artist who donated her time, energy, and money to printmaking efforts at PrintMatters, Burning Bones Press, and the University of Houston, was one of our original members and we are proud to name this fund in her honor.
Applications open May 15, 2024 & close on September 7, 2024.
PrintHouston Presents
Rockin’ Rollin’ Prints Theme: Connections Sunday, November 12, 2023
Click here to find out more!
From Press to Table
A PrintHouston Print Fair!
In tandem with our popular Rockin’ Rollin’ Prints event, a juried selection of printmakers will be showcasing their prints for sale!
Join us at the historic Orange Show Center for Visionary Art to watch live large-scale printing and add to your print collection!
PrintHouston is pleased to announce Press Forward, a contemporary student printmaking exhibition to be held in Houston, TX in the fall of 2023. We are looking for exceptional works from current student printmakers that explore the wide range of traditional and innovative printmaking processes. Original works in all printmaking media are eligible, including lithographs, screenprints, relief prints, intaglio, monoprints, and letterpress.
Deadline to apply is September 11, 2023!
A Statement from the President
The importance and beauty of original prints! We are here to communicate our love of prints and to educate about their value and the joy of collecting them. We do this by exposing the public to as many artists and printmaking techniques as we can through exhibitions, events, and technical demonstrations. The appreciation of original prints occurs on many levels, from responding to artistic expression to understanding the skill required to accomplish its many techniques and the knowledge of the inks and paper/ materials used to make them. Printmaking is quite an extraordinary process!
Heads UP! I want to inform everyone that we are transitioning from being called PrintMatters to PrintHouston. Most print lovers already refer to us as PrintHouston after our popular biennial event. In any case, we thought this change would be less confusing and that you would find it a positive move forward.
-Andis Applewhite
President and Co-Founder of PrintMatters Houston 501c3
Become a member of PrintHouston today and enter a supportive global community of
printmakers and
print-lovers!
The organization’s mission is to promote traditional and non-traditional printmaking, encourage print collecting and further the professional growth of our members through city-wide outreach, public art functions, and annual member exhibitions.
PrintMatters is a member based, 501c3 non-profit arts organization based in Houston, Texas.