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Thursday, July 23, 2026
Four images: a publicity poster for Gibbons' event, Lari Gibbons, • Show announcement with colorful artwork and information written in Japanese, announcing exhibition title, location, and duration, and names of participants and a black-and-white print by Gibbosn
Exhibition announcement graphics featuring the exhibition title, location, exhibition dates and participating artists and Lari Gibbons and her print AFM9, 21.0 × 29.7 cm, mokuhanga, 2024.

UNT Professor Lari Gibbons Featured in International Printmaking Exhibition in Japan

 University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design Professor of Studio Art: Printmaking Lari Gibbons is among the artists featured in the "MI-Lab 30th Anniversary Exhibition" at the Takefu Public Hall Memorial Museum in Echizen, Fukui, Japan.
 
The exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, known as the MI-Lab, an international artist residency dedicated to the traditional Japanese art of water-based woodblock printmaking. On view through Aug. 16, the exhibition coincides with "Echizen Washi & Contemporary Mokuhanga," which showcases newly created works printed on Echizen washi paper by Japanese artists, along with an international exchange project featuring artists from Japan and India.
 
Gibbons' exhibited work was created during her 2024 residency at MI-Lab, where artists, printmakers and educators from around the world receive intensive training in mokuhanga, the centuries-old Japanese technique of water-based woodblock printing. Located near the historic Echizen Washi Village, the residency also offers participants the opportunity to learn about the production of Echizen Washi, one of Japan's most celebrated handmade papers. Artists are selected through a competitive international application process.
Lari Gibbons pointing out prints on the wall as students look on.
Artist Asuki Tsutsumi and Toby Kobayashi, translator, discuss work in progress with Gibbons at the public MI-Lab Open Studio.
Gibbons has taught at UNT for more than 20 years and directed the Print Research Institute of North Texas, P.R.I.N.T. Press. Her research explores both traditional and emerging printmaking processes through collaborative and interdisciplinary practice. She teaches courses in printmaking and brings expertise in collaborative printing, intaglio, letterpress, monotype, relief printing, photopolymer techniques and post-digital applications, including CNC routing and laser cutting.
 
Gibbons' residency was supported in part by a University of North Texas Faculty Development Leave and a College of Visual Arts and Design Cornerstone Grant.
 
She earned an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a B.A. in art history from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. She has also completed advanced workshops at the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and studied low-toxicity intaglio with internationally recognized printmakers Keith Howard and Elizabeth Dove.
 
Exhibition
"MI-Lab 30th Anniversary Exhibition"
July 11-Aug. 16, 2026
Takefu Public Hall Memorial Museum, Echizen, Fukui, Japan
Visitors view artwork during the "MI-Lab 30th Anniversary Exhibition," celebrating three decades of the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory's international artist residency program in Echizen, Japan.
Visitors view artwork during the "MI-Lab 30th Anniversary Exhibition," celebrating three decades of the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory's international artist residency program in Echizen, Japan.