The Art Students League is celebrating its 150th Anniversary this year!

A special collaborative portfolio was created by the five printmaking classes at the League. "The Art Students League Printmaking Portfolio 2025" includes 55 prints by the five teachers and their students.

The OLD PRINT SHOP, Inc., will be exhibiting the complete Portfolio from  July 1st – August 15, 2025.

The 2025 Portfolio: Created in Celebration

“I’m proud to be producing this year’s Art Student League Printmakers Portfolio alongside my colleagues Michael Pellettieri, Tomomi Ono, Georgia Küng, and Caroline Ongpin. As always, the sign-up sheet went up in the studio in September, with the deadline for the first week of May. We set the edition at 60: 55 participants, plus five additional sets reserved for donation, sale, and exhibition.

Though a few participants had to withdraw during the year, we had a waiting list of eager students ready to step in. The title page of the finished portfolio lists an extraordinary variety of techniques: etching, aquatint, soft and hard ground, chine collé, multi-plate etching, stone and aluminum lithography (including two-color lithographs), collagraph, two- and three-color linocuts, linocuts with hand-applied watercolor, woodcut, screen print (including three-color prints), photogravure, polymer photo etching, and letterpress from a photo-polymer plate.

My motto was simple: I want to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Art Students League in any way I can, and this is it.  I shared that spirit with my class and colleagues, and here we are.

The 2025 portfolio sets a new standard for artistic and technical excellence. Many of its contributors are members of the 
Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and have exhibited at The Old Print Shop gallery.

As part of a long-term vision for the portfolio’s legacy, we are strategically planning the exhibition and placement of the five reserved editions to ensure they become part of significant public and institutional collections. Portfolio #1 will be donated to the League’s permanent collection. Portfolio #2 has been acquired by our Board President, Robin Frank. Portfolios #3 and #4 will be exhibited and offered for sale at the Old Print Shop in New York City. Portfolio #5 will be offered to the New York Public Library’s distinguished print collection. This year, select participants’ portfolios will also be exhibited in Barcelona and through SAGA.” – Sylvie Covey