Kansas City, Mo. – The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) College of Arts and Sciences‘ Department of Art and Art History presents the UMKC National Print Exhibition 2011. The opening reception will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 at the Fine Arts Building’s Gallery of Art (Room 203), 5015 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo., and the exhibition will run through Oct. 29. For gallery hours, visit http://info.umkc.edu/art/umkcgallery/contact/.

Organized by the Department of Art and Art History’s Hand Print Press, the exhibition includes works by artists around the country whose pieces combine a variety of media with traditional printmaking processes. Established in 1992, Hand Print Press offers artists and professional printmakers a state-of-the-art studio space for printmaking. The press also acts as a mentoring organization for younger artists interested in the creation of prints.

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