Save this date and please join attend a Region 7 workshop at the Trout Gallery on the campus of Dickinson College for a wonderful workshop with Dr. Eric Denker. Senior Lecturer in the Education Division at the National Gallery of Art.

Please join Wendy Pires and Melissa Gallagher on Saturday, September 18^th for a workshop on prints, curating and collecting original prints. Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer in the Education Division at the National Gallery of Art and member of the Trout Gallery Board will be the keynote presenter. Dr. Denker has personally purchased a number of the prints in the collection and has many stories and insights on identifying, collecting and curating prints. Details about this event are forthcoming, but we anticipate that this will run around six hours and participants will receive 6 Act 48 hours. Please check back to this space for details and look for an email from Wendy or Melissa with additional details. If you are not currently on our PAEA Region 7 email account, please contact us at:  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Bio on Dr. Eric Denker:

Dr. Denker is the Senior Lecturer in the Education Division at the National Gallery of Art, where he has been since June 1978. From 1998 to 2006, he also has served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran, overseeing the permanent collection and coordinating an active special exhibition schedule, including historical shows of John Singer Sargent drawings, James McNeill Whistler in Venice, Childe Hassam prints, and contemporary print exhibitions focusing on Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, William T. Wiley, and Rupert Garcia.

Dr. Denker also serves in Washington as an Adjunct Professor at both Georgetown University and at Cornell University. He frequently lectures in Italy for the Smithsonian Institute and for the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and around the Washington area on Venice, Italian art, Dutch painting, French 19th-century art, and the history and techniques of printmaking.