The Dayton/Kyoto Invitational is an international print exchange between the Dayton
Printmaker’s Cooperative and Gen Studio Group in Kyoto, Japan. Additional prints
created by a third group (Japanese artists from Print House OM in Yokohama) will also
be included.

Each year a theme is determined by one of the two original groups. The theme
chosen for this portfolio is “FOOD”. Participating artists interpret the theme and create
an image using a printmaking process or a combination of processes. The first
exchange and exhibition occurred in 2003. In 2007 the theme of “BRIDGES” was
selected to represent the bridging of Dayton and Kyoto. Some members from each
city have traveled to see the exhibitions in the past – crossing that “bridge.” During the
last portfolio exchange, the Dayton Printmaker’s Cooperative hosted four Japanese
artists in the studio. One of the artists created her “STORM” print while she was in
Dayton. Visiting artists from Japan have included: Iwao YAMAGEN, Kiyoko NAITO,
Yuko INNAMI, Atsuko HONDA, and Machiko HONDA

Exhibiting Venues

2003, Faces, Tobei Gallery, Kyoto/ Wright State University
2004, Metamorphosis, Hakubutsukan Museum, Kyoto/ 2005, Dayton Metro Library
2006, Four Legged, Hakubutsukan Museum/ Riverbend Art Center, Dayton
2007, Bridges, Hakubutsukan Museum/ Dayton Visual Arts Center
2009, Hibernation, Hakubutsukan Museum and Toyohashi City/ Wright State
2010, House & Home, Hakubutsukan Museum/ Springfield Museum of Art
2013, Forest, Hakubutsukan Museum/ Glen Helen Building, Yellow Springs
2015, Song, Dayton Visual Arts Center
2016, Storm, Springfield Museum of Art
2018, Food, Sinclair Community College
Dayton Printmakers Cooperative & Gen Studio Group

Dayton Printmakers Cooperative & Gen Studio Group
The Dayton Printmakers Cooperative was founded in 1983 by Ray Must and Mary
Campbell-Zopf at the Dayton Art Institute (DAI). When the DAI renovated in 1994, the
printmaking space was phased-out and the Print Cooperative searched for a new
home. In 1996 the Print Cooperative members found a suitable location to lease at
913 Keowee Street. All presses and equipment were moved and the members formed
the new Dayton Printmakers Cooperative with the Dayton Visual Arts Center (DVAC)
as their fiscal agent. The Keowee facility is over 1500 sq. feet of studio space,
accommodating relief, intaglio, stone lithography, silkscreen, and letterpress printing.

The DPC has continued to grow, supported currently by over twenty full-time
members.

The Gen Studio Group came into being when the artists Sherraid Scott and Keiko
Yuasa were looking for a place to do etching in Kyoto, Japan.  A Kyoto Seika
University graduate, Iwao Yamagen, had a studio and became their teacher.  Both
Scott and Yuasa became involved in the process and with their fellow students at the
studio.  They decided to call themselves the Gen Studio Group after their teacher
YamaGEN.

In the 1990's Scott became a full-time artist in Yellow Springs and Kyoto.  She studied
printmaking with Professor David Leach and Professor Kim Vito at Wright State
University and in Japan with Iwao Yamagen at the Gen Studio.  Later when Scott
joined the Dayton Printmakers Cooperative in 2002 it seemed a perfect chance to
start up an exchange between these two printmaking groups and the Dayton/Kyoto
International Print Exchange Invitational was born.