IPEP boosts networking among printmakers and creates awareness about printmaking as an art form among its viewers. The exhibit opens this week and will feature 39 print artists from 21 countries.
 
Crisp Museum is hosting the opening during “First Friday with the Arts, Aug. 5, with a reception from 4-8 p.m. and an Artist Talk at 5:30 p.m.

“A threshold is a space of transition, a passage from one place into another. Each print itself is a threshold through which new ideas and feelings can be shared and explored,” said Nicholas Ruth, curator of IPEP India 2021. “International Print Exchange Program (IPEP) India gathered the work of artists from across the world and invited each artist to share the portfolio within their communities. In this way, we can stand in the thresholds envisioned by artists from places very different from our own, recognize what connects and separates us, revel in beautiful expressions of human experience, and build compassion as a result.”
 
The Crisp Museum is located in the Cultural Arts Center (CAC), of Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus, at 518 South Fountain Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.