Zea Mays Printmaking April 2008 e*newsletter
In This Newsletter ~
~ In The Gallery: Visual Fields - Nancy Van Deren, Sarah Creighton and Erika Radich
~ Featured May Workshops
~ Member and Studio News
~ Exhibition Opportunites
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In The Gallery -
Visual Fields: Nancy Van Deren, Sarah Creighton, Erika Radich
Exhibition dates: April 8 - May 9, 2008
Exhibition viewing hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 11-4, Wednesdays 12-8, 1st and 3rd Saturday and Sunday of the month, 11-4. The Gallery will be closed on April 19/20th, but will be open on April 26/27th.
This month in the Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking, we are delighted to be presenting three artists working in the painterly, abstract and intuitive language of nature. Although the language of landscape and abstraction weaves these three artists together, the excitement of the show comes from the particular way that each artist responds to simple forms and subtle color.
Nancy Van Deren's painting background is informing this current work. She is showing prints that include marks and looping lines within or behind color fields that define her found shapes.
Sarah Creighton is showing her new work that incorporates her experiences in the landscapes of the Connecticut River and intuitive abstractions focusing on reflection, pattern and the play of light.
Erika Radich's images are created in a layered approach. Her forms grow into roundness, tossed into shapes that live in and through multiple textures. As a whole, the "visual fields" that these three artists create leave us feeling open, curious, and looking very closely to light and form.
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Featured May Workshops - you can sign up for a workshop by downloading a registration form and sending it in.
Engraving
with Barry Moser
May 3/4, 10-5
$300 includes materials
Barry Moser will conduct his second workshop on wood and relief engraving at Zea Mays. A medium that ranks with mezzotint and fresco in its degree of difficulty, will be presented in as clear and simple terms as possible. We will discuss, explore, and learn the rudiments of how to draw for the engraving process, how to prepare a block, how to transfer images, how to hold and sharpen the tools, how to engrave an image, and finally how to pull a proof by hand. Wood is very scarce (and terribly expensive) so we will be using an inexpensive substitute called Resingrave, a material that Moser has used exclusively since 1995.
Barry Moser is represented in numerous collections, museums, and libraries in the United States and abroad, including The National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Library of Congress, The National Library of Australia, The London College of Printing, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Vatican Library, Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, The Israel Museum, and Princeton University to name a few. Mr. Moser has exhibited internationally in both one-man and group exhibits. He is a member of the Society of Printers, Boston; an Associate of the National Academy of Design elected in 1982 and made full Academician in 1994; and has been awarded the Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts (1999) and Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), and the Doctor of Humanities degree by Anna Maria College, Paxton, Massachusetts (2001). In addition to being an illustrator, he is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He is currently Professor in Residence at Smith College where he also serves as Printer to the College. The books Moser has illustrated and/or designed forms a list of over 300 titles including the Arion Press Moby-Dick and the University of California Press The Divine Comedy of Dante. We encourage you to look at his work online at www.moser-pennyroyal.com.
Photoshop Basics for Artists 
with Linda Price
Tuesday Evenings, May 6, 13, 20, 27, 6-9
$175 includes materials
This workshop will focus on three basic skills that artists need to learn in Adobe Photoshop: 1) How to prepare images for the web, for print and for sharing: getting images from camera, scanner or slides to the computer, dpi and images sizes and basic color management. 2) How to make a promotional postcard: inserting pictures and text, and conforming to standard printer's and postal requirements. 3) How to make a promotional tri-fold pamphlet: images and text and the pros and cons of printing at home vs. a commercial printer. Workshop participants will need to bring a laptop computer with Photoshop installed to the workshop. No previous Photoshop experience necessary.
Linda Suzanne Price received her BFA in 2004 from Tyler School of Art, concentrating her studies in traditional and digital photography techniques. She expanded her digital imaging skills working as an Editorial Assistant for the Photo Review, a Philadelphia-based fine art journal. Since then she has done freelance photo retouching and designed promotional materials for artists, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. Her photography, created using both traditional cameras and direct scans, explores the interplay between personal and familial history, and the role of objects in contextualizing memory and experience. She is currently working with her husband, the printmaker Justin Staller, to establish Tiny Media Empire, an artist collective and printing press based in Orange, MA.
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Claudia Sperry will be showing new work at the Oxbow Gallery May 15th – June 1st.
Opening reception is on Saturday May 17th 6-8. Her most recent work is an exploration of abstract imagery, craftsmanship and play. A series of hundreds of small wooden blocks have been painted with images evoking childhood, unselfconscious wonderment and discovery. The blocks are arranged variously: as freestanding sculptures, toy configurations and suspended form the ceiling along fishing lines. Also on view are a series of intaglio prints done in the last year. You can email Claudia for an appointment to see the show at claudiasperry@comcast.net or go to claudiasperry.com or oxbowgallery.com to see more work by the artist.
Oxbow Gallery is located at 275 Pleasant Street, Northampton Ma. Gallery Hours are Thursday – Sunday 12 –5 Friday 12 – 8Erika Radich is part of a three person exhibit at MURPHYARTS (a gallery in the Colony Mill Marketplace, 222 West Street, Keene, NH) April 14-May 31, 2008. The opening reception is April 18th, 6-8pm. The show is called "3" and features paintings by Carmela Azarro and Deborah Lloyd Kaufman; and prints by Erika Radich.
Judith Wolf will be exhibiting work at the Perkins Gallery at the Striar JCC in Stoughton, MA from April 10 - May 9. On Sunday, April 13 there will be a reception from 2 - 4 with an artists' talk at 3:00. The gallery is located on 445 Central St., Stoughton, MA. (781) 341-2016
Judith Wolf will be exhibiting paintings, prints, and collages at the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA from January 17 through April 30.
Nancy Diessner is showing one of her prints from the series Saudades in the Boston Printmakers traveling exhibition "Field Report." The show begins at the Barrington Center for the Arts gallery at Gordon College and will travel through 2010. She also just became a member of Bromfield Gallery, in Boston's South End, and will be having a one-person exhibition of prints and books in February 2009.
Ruth Ginsberg-Place has a book "Lila's Room" in the exhibition SHELTER currently at Wedeman Gallery,
Yamawaki Art & Cultural Center at Lasell College, Newton, MA. The show opens Thursday, April 10 from 4-7 pm. It runs through April 22 and is open daily from 12-5 pm. SHELTER will travel through 2009 to Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts center, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design, Wells College, Aurora,NY and the Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA as starters.
Directions are at: http://www.digitalfisch.com/lasell.html. Ruth also has work in the Boston Printmakers traveling exhibit FIELD REPORT, currently at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. This closes april 15th and goes to other venues.Anita Hunt will participate in "Field Report," a traveling exhibit of work by members of the Boston Printmakers celebrating the organization's 60th Anniversary. The exhibit opens in March at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, and travels to a number of venues in the US and abroad through 2010.
Woodblock prints inspired by animals both real and imagined will be on view at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts from March 4-September 7, 2008, in the exhibition Curious Creatures: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection. Japanese artists learned to draw and paint animals as part of their artistic training, often copying the work of their teachers to gain mastery of the subject matter. Some Japanese artists emulated the Chinese tradition of depicting animals as symbols of power rather than living, breathing creatures. Others observed animals in their natural habitat in order to render them realistically. Still others worked within the Japanese tradition of showing imaginary animals associated with mythology. Curious Creatures offers a glimpse into the varied approaches used by 19th- and 20th-century artists such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi, And? Hiroshige, ?hara Sh?son, Utagawa Yoshi-Iku, and Takahashi Shotei. From the delicate fins of a goldfish, to the menacing tentacles of an octopus, to the fierce eyes of a dragon, the prints represent the artists’ masterful techniques and exquisite use of color. The prints on view are all from the large collection of ukiyo-e prints and paintings donated to the Museum of Fine Arts by Springfield attorney Raymond A. Bidwell. Ukiyo-e, which means “floating world,” depicted the amusements and pleasures of the townspeople during the Tokugawa Period (1615-1858) in Japan. The Springfield Museums are located on the Quadrangle at 21 Edwards Street off Chestnut Street in downtown Springfield. Free parking is available in the Edwards Street parking lots. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (Science Museum open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.). Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and college students, $5 for children 3-17, and free for children under three and museum members. Springfield residents are free with proof of address. The fee provides admission to all four Springfield Museums and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden.
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Exhibition Opportunities, and such
Stand Up and Be Counted
The Artists Foundation and others have collaborated to create online tool, Stand Up and Be Counted, to better determine how many artists of all disciplines are living and working in Massachusetts. Artists in all disciplines are encouraged to fill out the survey, which will be used as an advocacy tool for the artist community.
Take the survey.The Monotype Guild of New England's Juried Exhibition at the Attleboro Museum, summer 2008. Entry deadline May 18th. Prospectus http://www.mgne.org/PDF/mgneCall_forEntriesV1.pdf
The fifth Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition will be held in June and July of 2008. The deadline for entry is May 10th 2008. For details and prospectus go to: BIMPE
The Society of Northern Alberta-Print-artists is excited to present Edmonton Print International 2008. Please refer to the EPI website for submission guidelines. www.EdmontonPrintInternational.com The 12th International Print Triennial Graphica Creativa ’09 – “Co-op” June 12 – Sep 27, 2009, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Kauppakatu 23, 40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland. The exhibition is open for any printmaker. We are looking for looking for new and interesting co-operative projects, which printmakers have taken part in. The partners could be for example other printmakers, painters, musicians, architects, authors, dancers etc. We are especially interested in already executed projects but we will also take under consideration plans of projects, which could be realized just for the exhibition. For more information, please go to our website http://www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/graphica_creativa/e_index
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