Panorama: The Annual Members’ Exhibition

Exhibition on display: Sunday, April 1 – Sunday, May 27, 2012 at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, 299 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06850 (map)

Opening reception: Sunday, April 1, 2 – 5 pm, admission free

Dynamic panoramas, artwork in an extremely wide horizontal format, evocative of widescreen TV, computer, and movie screens. On view are over 80 original, handmade prints by the artist/printmakers who are members of CCP.

Awards

Best in Show (detail above) | Courtney Johnson, Chicago
Second Place | Karen Sorensen, Extended Family, 2012, Monotype
Third Place | Nina Jordan, Rt. 208, 2012
Fourth Place | Cindi Ford, Cleanse, 2012
Honorable Mentions | Michael Arike, Alana Fagan, Renee Frentrop-Santhouse, Vijay Kumar, Ellen Lazarus, Channing Lefebvre, Will McCarthy, Eve Stockton

Awards Juror | Dr. Clare Rogan, Curator, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Pronto Plate Printmaking

Printing with Pronto Plates is a totally unique experience. Commonly used in commercial printing, these plates are inexpensive, readily available, and require none of the chemicals used in traditional lithography. Images can be created directly on the plate with pens and markers, or digitally buy running the plates through a laser printer or copier. Once drawn, they are ready for inking and printing. The plates can be used indefinitely to create an infinite number of prints.

Dates: Saturday, April 28th and Sunday, April 29th from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: The Silvermine Art School, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT (map)

Eligibility: Open to all levels.

Registration fee : $280

To register : Contact the Silvermine Art School at 203-966-9700, or online here at silvermineart.org.

Pronto Plate Printmaking for Bookmaking

Printing with Pronto Plates is a totally unique experience. Commonly used in commercial printing, these plates are inexpensive, readily available, and require none of the chemicals used in traditional lithography.  Images can be created directly on the plate with pens and markers, or digitally buy running the plates through a laser printer or copier.  Once drawn, they are ready for inking and printing.  The plates can be used indefinitely to create an infinite number of prints.

Dates:  Friday, June 8th and Saturday, June 9th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location:  The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, 299 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT (Next to the Stepping Stone Children’s Museum) (map)

Eligibility:  Open to all levels.

Registration fee : $250 For Members / $275 For Non-Members

To register : Contact The Center for Contemporary Printmaking at 203-899-7999, or online at contemprints.org

The Illuminated Journal

The journal is a place to work out among other things one’s thoughts, desires, and discoveries.You are going to create a special journal which will be something you and generations that follow you will treasure.  Through a series of exercises which will be enlightened by the landscape you will first create some of the pages for the journal.  In the process you will be introduced to several different medias including pen and ink, watercolor, collage and printmaking and ways to create interesting methods for combining text with each.  On this journey you will discover (or rediscover) what you love most.  Finally you will put the pages into an artist book which will be finished off with a special coptic binding.  The course is designed for all levels.

Dates: August 27-29th, 10 – 3 p.m.

Location: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Educational Center, Boothbay, ME (map)

Journeys – A Juried Exhibition

Please join me, and thirty other local artists, as we display our creative works in Journeys, a juried exhibition at the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery at the Fairlfied Public Library, 1080 Old Post Road, Fairifield, CT. The show runs February 27 – April 6, 2012. For more information visit www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org. Gallery hours: Monday -Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Friday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Sept to June).