Printmaker and teacher Hideki Kimura.

Japanese printmaking is the focus of a current exhibition at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art and of a lecture at the college at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Japanese Printmaking, Yesterday and Today, the lecture by artist and teacher Hideki Kimura, is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-8212.

Kimura, who teaches printmaking at Kyoto (Japan) City University of Arts, co-curated the exhibition Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers,” showing at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ through Dec. 14. Kimura also presents work in the exhibition.

This lecture is part of a residency at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ by Kimura and Redefining the Multiple co-curator Sam Yates, director of the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, where the show originated. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, they will meet with students involved in art, Japanese studies and museum operations.

Hideki Kimura, “Glass 2011-11-27,” acrylic ink squeegeed onto glass.

The residency and public lecture are supported by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Learning Associates Program.

The adventurous printmakers in Redefining The Multiple expand traditional concepts of what printmaking is and what form a print or multiple may take. They explore a wide array of imagery through contemporary and historic techniques and media. Media represented in the show include etching, aquatint, monotype, screen printing, photographic processes, woodcut and three-dimensional work in felt, cast resin and video.

Kimura creates monotypes that investigate translucence and opacity by squeegeeing acrylic onto glass. His work is in numerous collections including the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the Warsaw National Museum in Poland, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Kimura is the founder of the artists’ group MAXI GRAPHICA, and recently served as president for the Committee of Art for Print Studies in Japan. He studied oil painting and printmaking at Kyoto City University of Arts, and completed independent research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Fine Art.

Also showing at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art through Dec. 14 is Selections from Berenice Abbott’s ‘Portrait of Maine,’ ” comprising images from the museum collection that Abbott, a Maine resident and well-known 20th-century American photographer, made for her last book, 1968’s A Portrait of Maine.

The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Wednesdays while ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is in session. Admission is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6158.

The event, which is open to the public at no cost, is sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art. For more information, call 207-786-6158.

A member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1975, Yamaguchi lives in Santa Monica, Calif. Her landscapes have been described by Art in America as a synthesis of American Modernist painting with the stylized graphics of “ukiyo-e,” a popular style of Japanese woodblock printing.

The Los Angeles Times extended that comparison to include the influence of the abstract patterns of Japanese textiles and screen paintings. Her paintings “celebrate … the ecstatic beauty of the natural world,” a Times reviewer wrote.

Yamaguchi has exhibited extensively around the world. Her paintings are housed in several collections, including those of the Nevada Museum of Art and the Long Beach Museum of Art.

Born in Okayama, Japan, in 1952, Yamaguchi studied at the Rhode Island School of Design after graduating from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. She earned her master’s in fine arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Art conservator Elizabeth Coombs will lecture on the restoration of the museum’s rare 19th-century Toyokuni Kuniyoshi zatsuga-châ„¢ album of keyblock prints at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27 in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. The album was donated to the museum by Weston and Mary Naef.

Coombs’ experience reaches from studying first-hand with Japanese paper makers to working at major U.S. museums. Her specialization in the conservation of Japanese works on paper and intimate familiarity with the album will shed new light on both the album and the process of conservation.

Roger Keyes will lecture on rediscovering the Toyokuni Kuniyoshi zatsuga-châ„¢ keyblock print album at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center.

Keyes, a widely published scholar, has steeped himself in the history and tradition of ukiyo-e woodblock printing. His vast knowledge of Japanese art will place the museum’s album into historical context and underscore its significance.

Making Japanese Color Woodcuts, is on display through March 23 in the lower gallery of the museum. Also on display are the works of German-born photographer Elke Morris, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ arts faculty, in an upper gallery exhibit, Photographs: German Sites, through March 23. and, in the lower gallery, Contemporary Women Printmakers, a show curated by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumna Susannah C. Shaw.

The lectures are co-sponsored by The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art, the college’s art and history departments, Multicultural Center and the Japan America Society.

The Museum of Art at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, closed Mondays and major holidays, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

For tour scheduling and general information, call 207-786 6158.