Celebrate a trophy catch the way the Japanese fishermen did 200 years ago. A traditional Japanese art form that you can to do at home with an IKO "Gyotaku" fish print kit. Every year about this time I ...

HAMILTON — A Beverly artist who specializes in Japanese-style fish prints is showcasing more than 20 original works of art at the Hamilton-Wenham Public Library. Peter Concannon’s fish prints depict ...

Fish out of water don’t last long. But prints of their dazzling scales, pressed into pools of ink, can preserve the aquatic creatures’ forms for centuries. Since the mid-19th century, Japanese fishers ...

The Artery presents “A Life Among the Fishes: 50 Years of Japanese Fish Printing,” a retrospective of Christopher M. Dewees’ Japanese fish prints (gyotaku) as well as many new works, running from Nov.

Before artist Heather Fortner arrived in Iquitos, Peru, in 2014, the villagers only had one use for fish: eating. Fortner offered the indigenous Peruvians a profitable alternative — she taught them ...

For centuries, fishermen in Japan have been creating ink prints of fish and sea species in a practice known as Gyotaku (魚拓) or “fish rubbing” in English. Originally used to record catches or brag ...

Som Park, an artist learned in the skill of traditional Japanese fish prints, visited the Jamaica party boat in between its weekend sea bass trips, demonstrating the art form known as Gyotaku to ...

It took Nate Garrett four years to find his pogie person. A practitioner of the Japanese art of gyotaku, in which a fish acts as a printing plate, Garrett wanted to honor the important role pogies ...

The Artery presents striking Japanese fish prints (gyotaku) by Christopher Dewees and superb woodcarvings of Tom Thompson from July 1 to Aug. 1. With this exhibit, Dewees honors his great, good friend ...