mega888 Miguel A. Aragón http://aragonmiguel.com Visual Artist + Printmaker Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:24:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 44430661 http://aragonmiguel.com/archives/3064 Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:24:51 +0000 http://aragonmiguel.com/?p=3064

I have been nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award 2022. The winner will be announced in June.

The Queen Sonja Print Award has become the world’s leading award for graphic art and is presented every other year to a young, ambitious and promising artist who has excelled in the field of printmaking. A wide range of international professionals, curators, artists and art institutions nominate talented artists from all over the world for this prestigious prize.

The list of nominees include friends and other artists whose work I follow and admire; I am humbled and grateful to be among them.

To see the full list of nominees follow this link

]]> 3064 The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship http://aragonmiguel.com/archives/2181 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:15:02 +0000 http://aragonmiguel.com/?p=2181

The New York Foundation for the Arts has awarded me a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in the category of Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. In addition, I’ve been named one of two The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Fellow.

I would like to thank the Panelists as well as the Board of Trustees of New York Foundation for the Arts for this incredible honor and congratulate the rest of the awardees.

To read the complete announcement follow this link

]]> 2181 Artist Talk http://aragonmiguel.com/archives/975 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:51:32 +0000 http://aragonmiguel.com/?p=975 On Thursday, June 25th I gave an Artist Talk, co-hosted by NYC’s Manhattan Graphics Center and Philadelphia’s The Print Center.

It is now available to watch on Manhattan Graphics Center’s YouTube page.

If you are interested in watching it, click on the image or link below to be directed to the YouTube website.

Above left: Retrato No. 22 (Portrait No. 22), from the ongoing series Retratos de pérdida por el Narcotráfico (Portraits of Loss Due to Drug Trafficking). Hand-drilled paper with layered Xerox, 50 x 38 inches. © Miguel A. Aragón.
Above right: Photo by Xavier Minguella

Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=torm0C2WyR0

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