PAN at the Gathering of the Guilds
We are excited to share that PAN has been invited back to the Gathering of the Guilds Show at the Oregon Convention Center. This three-day show runs from April 24th to 26th and draws over 13,000 visitors each year. Come browse hundreds of original works by PAN members available for purchase. In addition to selling prints, our members will be doing printmaking demonstrations adjacent to our gallery, so come learn more about many interesting forms of printmaking.
This year, PAN’s printmakers will be joined by the potters, handweavers, beadmakers, woodworkers, sculptors, metal arts, and faceters guilds. Only guild members are invited to show work at this event, so it’s a well-curated and high-quality show featuring the region’s finest craftspeople. Over 350 artisans’ works will be on display at over 200 booths.
April 24th-26th, 2026
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
Mokuhanga Demo
Art Demonstration: Japanese Woodblock Printing
Witness the magic of mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock printing, up close through this special demonstration of the process by Oregon-based artist Barbara Mason, assisted by Alex Prentiss. There will be a Q&A following the demonstration, as well as a display of the tools, woodblocks, and paper used in the art of mokuhanga, and a selection of finished prints to enjoy up close. This demonstration is a collaboration with Print Arts Northwest.
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 1:15PM-2:30PM
An active PAN member, Barbara Mason is an artist and printmaker based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally for the last 40 years. Mason practices different styles of printmaking including monotype, solar plate intaglio and mokuhanga. She is an advocate committed to art education: Mason founded the non-profit Golden Road Arts with the mission to provide free art programming to students and teachers. Alex Prentiss has been teaching mokuhanga workshops in Portland and around Oregon for over 20 years. In 2001, Prentiss purchased McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, the foremost relief printmaking supplier in the U.S., from her former mokuhanga teacher, Elaine Chandler.
CATHY RUDD CULTURAL CORNER, Portland Japanese Garden
Emerald Print Exchange 2026
Whiteaker Printmakers and Print Arts Northwest are delighted to announce the 9th annual Emerald Print Exchange.
Join us in our mission to engage with printmakers around the world, to exhibit new works in Portland and Eugene, and to raise funds for our non-profit organizations.
Each participating artist sends us an edition of twelve hand-pulled original prints. We send each artist ten randomly selected prints by other participants. We retain two prints from every edition we receive, to be exhibited and sold for PAN and WhitPrint fundraising. We use some of the images online to promote the Emerald Print Exchange.
The Emerald Print Exchange is open to all printmakers. It is limited to 200 participants, in order of registration.
A Sense of Space: A Show by PAN artists
This exhibition features 13 printmakers. Artists will be on hand for an opening reception on January 8th. Meet the artists whose work adorn the walls, and learn about the technically challenging processes that go into making the works. Featured Participants: Jules Altfas • Tallmadge Doyle • Jessica Hartman • Ikie Kressel • Yuji Hiratsuka • Barbara Mason • Hector Marquez • Katherine McDowell • Greg Pfarr • Rose Szapszewicz • Kim Fink • Marilyn Burkhardt • Catherine Gill
Exhibition Dates: December 1, 2025 — May 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, 2026 6:30–8:00pm
Location: Hosmer Chiropractic, 1030 NW Marshall St, Portland, OR
Get ready for Print Day in May!
Print Day in May 2026 is coming up on Saturday, May 2nd—how will you be celebrating? No matter where or how you participate in this free, worldwide event, be sure to share your results online for a chance to win prizes like inks, papers, workshops, and more! Print Day in May is a global celebration of printmaking that has taken place the first Saturday in May every year since 2007.
If your studio is planning to host an event for Print Day, consider posting it on the Print Day site for inclusion on the Events page. Learn how you can get involved at printdayinmay.com, or contact Portland-area printmaker, PAN member, and Print Day in May team member Carrie Gilbert at carrie+pdim@texturous.com.
Click on the website link below for more info.
Pop-up Print Sale
ONE DAY ONLY
Come browse through hundreds of prints by some of the Northwest’s most notable printmakers. There are original fine art treasures for every budget. You can also shop for art books and pick up some Emerald Print Exchange small-format prints—all in one easy stop. Proceeds from sales will go to the PAN Scholarship Fund. This sale coincides with Multnomah Arts Center First Friday Art Sale, so come for one, and enjoy both!
FRIDAY MARCH 6, 2026 from 10am-8:30pm
MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219. Main building: dance studio
PAN Printmaking Library Opens
Did you know that PAN has a lending library of print-specific books, covering all print techniques, print history, biographies, and collections of many printmakers? There are books as well for young learners and practitioners. The collection is available to browse through in the PAN Office during Wednesday office hours. Books may be signed out for at home enjoyment as well.
This reminder of the library is also a request to members for donations of printmaking books that you may be divesting yourself of. PAN would love to accept them as valued additions to the library.
Office hours are Wednesdays, 10 am to 12:30 pm. Appointments can also be made for donations. Thanks and happy reading!
-David Kessler, PAN Librarian
Time To Renew Your Membership
At the Annual meeting in December, we voted to raise the Artist Member dues to $100 due to a rent increase at our headquarters at the Multnomah Arts Center. It's important to PAN that you renew for 2026 ASAP.
If you're not a juried Artist Member, you can apply for Artist Membership or support PAN’s work through a Collectors Club or Patron or Supporting Membership (without having to apply).
If you have been a member in the past and want to be included on the Gallery page of this website and in PAN group shows, no need to re-apply, just pay your dues now for 2026.
Member Art Around Oregon
You can see Print Arts Northwest members’ work at the following locations:
The Rental Sales Gallery of The Portland Art Museum (ongoing); Atelier Meridian in Portland, OR; Burkhardt Gallery in Cloverdale, OR; Case Study Coffee Roasters, 5347 NW Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR; Case Study Coffee Roasters, 802 SW 10th Avenue, Portland; Glean, 322 NW 8th Ave, Portland; Grey Raven Gallery in Beaverton, OR; Karen Clarke Gallery, Eugene; Parkrose Historic in Portland.
Some of these shows might have already ended so please check with the host location before going.
Naturally Northwest at Whiteaker
PAN's solarplate show will be exhibited at Whiteaker Printmakers from Jan 11-Feb 7 with an opening reception on Jan 11th from 1:00pm-3:30pm.
The opening will include poetry readings and print demos of solarplate, photogravure and other photopolymer etching techniques by Ray Bidegain and Jane Pagliarulo and Mezzotint Etching by Heather Halpern. The day will conclude with a print exchange for WhitPrint and PAN members.
Dan Welden of Solarplate.com has generously donated a cache of plates to PAN for the project, thanks to his long-time association with PAN and past PAN President, Barbara Mason. Poet Laureate of Oregon, Paulann Petersen, who has collaborated with Barbara on other print projects, has selected 26 poets and poems that are included in the project.
From January 11 to February 7, 2026.
Whiteaker Printmakers 1328 W 2nd Ave Eugene, OR, 97402