Announcements & Events
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
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
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.