visiting artist - Freda Fairchild - Oct 14

mark your calendar, print club members! Freda Fairchild will be visiting the print studio @ 5pm on October 14th. her studio is in Paducah, KY, and you can visit her website to see more of her gorgeous work.

while you're browsing websites, also check out her studio mate's work: Cricket Alexander.

collograph print day - july

some of the print club members gathered for a Saturday printing session, each bringing a plate or three. below are some images of the printing, prints, and plates done during the hours we were there.

recap, workshop in 2003

here you can see some of the various images taken during the collograph workshop in 2003, along with several of the finished prints. this should help you get excited about working on your plates before we all meet up to mix up some ink!

Collaborative Collographs (a note from Andrea)

Instructions for our collaborative collograph day, from Andrea:

1. Tear a 22 x 20 sheet of print paper the weight of BFK into 4 pieces = 11 x 15 (I have it in my office for $2.10 a sheet).
I also have the paper for printing.

2. Coat both sides with gesso or acrylic paint (house paint will work) and add textures no higher than 1/8. " Use Cut paper, textured paper, drawing with glue or acrylic medium etc.) Do control your urge to put thick objects on the plate because they cause miserable printing problems.

3. After you put your textures on, coat the plate with white acrylic paint, gesso or a combination of the two so that the plate is completely white.

4. Coat all surfaces back and front and sides with gloss acrylic medium, or spray the plate with spray shellac or white spray paint. (The plate needs to coated to withstand a lot of rubbings with ink and also be impervious to cleaning with mineral spirits.)

The plate need to be white so you can see the color ink on it and know how to wipe it. The most successful plates are very flat with no high edges to catch ink that will blob out under the weight of the press.

5. You can also score the plate with an X-acto knife for lines.

6. After we are finished, you can take home the pieces and finish them with collage, drawing, sewing...... whatever it takes.

We should start at 9:00 am and go to whenever you have had enough. Just as long as you don't leave me with a mess!

Print Club Meeting Minutes : June 5, 2008

print club minutes recorded by Jolene.

IMPORTANT:
Get your edition from the Sense of Place show to Andrea by Friday June 13 if you want to be a part of the exchange. You can leave your edition on a table in the print room at any time. Or you can leave the prints with Andrea during her class on TR from 9-12am.
(Remember the paper is 10x10)

Ideas for Print Club activities:

Road Trip with a printmaking destination
-visit to Bonnie’s farm and studio
-MAPC Conference Fall 2008- Fargo (yeah right!)
-Southern Graphics Spring 2009- ?

Visiting Artist
-Artist Frieda Fairchild from Paducah, KY check out her website: www.fredafairchild.com
Recommended by Kathleen.

News & Upcoming Events:

The Art of Collage
An Exploration of Materials and Techniques conducted by Randel Plowman
Two one day workshops:
Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 (repeat), 2008, 9 am - 4 pm
$40.00 per each workshop

These workshops will explore the full potential of collage and its
limitless possibilities in materials, themes, compositions, and expression.
Most supplies will be included in the workshop. Participates are
encouraged to bring an assortment of personal images to use in their
work. A more detailed list will be provided before the workshop.
Contact Andrea, Randel, or Lisa Jameson for more info.

Print Club Collaborative- Collagraph & Chine Colle Workshop:
Saturday July 12, 2008 (& possibly Sunday)
Everyone will bring previously made collagraphs to share for a fun day of printing together. Andrea will email an assignment to everyone before the workshop on how to make the collagraphs. If the day is a success we will use the prints for a show.

Mary Farrell may come to visit Andrea this summer. We can attend a show & tell lecture about her recent visit to China at Andrea’s house- possibly in August.

Jiri Anderle show will be at the CAM in September.
The artist will possibly be present for the opening. We should all go!

Visit http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 for a brain scientist’s lecture about a remarkable description of the separation between the left and right hemispheres of the brain and how each side defines our perceptions of who we are.

collage workshop @ nku, june 08

Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 2008

9 am - 4 pm


Northern Kentucky University
Fine Arts Building, Room 101 (Printmaking Room)

$40.00 per each workshop


Sponsored by the Northern Kentucky University
Printmaking Department


Randel Plowman will be conducting two, one-day workshops at
Northern Kentucky University on June 28th and 29th from 9 am - 4 pm.

These workshops will explore the full potential of collage and its
limitless possibilities in materials, themes, compositions, and expression.

Most supplies will be included in the workshop. Participates are
encouraged to bring an assortment of personal images to use in their
work. A more detailed list will be provided before the workshop.

Randel Plowman is a mixed-media artist living and working in Northern
Kentucky. His work is included in many public and private collections
in the United States and Europe.

His blog, A Collage A Day, has been featured in The New York Times, USA
Today, How Magazine, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Lexington Herald
Leader and other publications.



For more information please contact:

Randel Plowman at
studio@rplowman.com

Andrea Knarr
knarr@nku.edu

Lisa Jameson at
jamesonl@nku.edu

eclect ink III @ Gallerie Zaum

the opening is @ Gallerie Zaum Friday, February 1, 6-9pm. light refreshments & lots of printy goodness for those who attend!

Print Club - Keeping Track

future Workshop ideas:

blogging basics

handmade paper (the kind Nicci uses)

collographs (i would like to do another, because it's so darn fun! perhaps a demo with Margaret?)

(submit your idea and it will be added!)

future Show ideas/themes:

printing each other (randomly do a portrait/piece about another member, from Penny's brain.)

fine art valentines (addicted to hearts? they always make a good show, from Nicci's brain.)

(submit your idea and it will be added!)

note: there are still some dues/show fees outstanding. please see Penny if you think you may be one of those people and wish to remain on 'active' status!

inactive, bouncy emails:
Amber Reis

Print Club members, please comment here with your ideas!

A Sense of Place SHOW

A Sense of Place, the newest series of work by the printmakers of Northern Kentucky University's Print Club is currently showing though February 1, 2008 at Thomas More College's Eva G. Farris Gallery.

If you would like to go see the work, you can go to the University's page and download a PDF map to TM. The Gallery is located in the Library building.

Each of the various printmakers used techniques ranging from intaglio to serigraphy and collography. There is both black and white, and multiple color work exploring the various meanings, to each artist, of a 'sense of place'. The artists worked in the relatively small size of 5x5 inch image area, framed 12x12 inches to further explore this intimate subject. Styles are as varied as the artists behind the works.



Statement: “A Sense of Place”

The Northern Kentucky University Print Club is comprised of alumni and students who have developed a collegial relationship over many years of working together with teachers Andrea Knarr and Heidi Endres. We represent a tight-knit and happy mix of diverse tastes, talents and ages that energizes us to continue creating hand-printed images like the ones represented in this show. The group’s mission is to keep our love of printmaking alive, to stay connected as a group and to share the fruits of our efforts with the community at large by mounting regular exhibitions of our work.

“A Sense of Place” has meant something different to each of us. Some of us chose to depict places, internal or external, that elicit a personal and emotional response, and others chose to depict a more abstracted concept of what “place” means to them. All of the images in this show are printed by hand by the artist.

Andrea Knarr
January 3, 2008

Mary Farrell @ Spirit Gallery

Mary Farrell has a show going on @ The Art Spirit Gallery of Fine Art 12 October 2007 through 03 November 2007. The show is called Intimation and is made up of printmaking & painting, according to the website.

You can see her images on the Spirit Gallery Website.

Info for the image shown with this post, borrowed from the Gallery site:
Mary Farrell
Scatology, 2007
monotype
20 1/4 x 15 inches

Secret Artworks - Show

Secret ArtWorks is an annual fundraiser for ArtWorks. Local, national and internationally acclaimed artists are invited to create 5”x7” Secret Works of Art. The secret is the identity of each artist, which remains unknown until the work of art is bought and the signature is revealed on the back. 100% of the proceeds from Secret ArtWorks support ArtWorks programming for Apprentice and Professional Artists involved in ArtWorks.

November 15, 2007 @ 6pm in the Westin Hotel Fountain Room.

Learn more over on their website: Secret Artworks.

BFK from Daniel Smith

(from Andrea)

Hey everyone,
I just ordered 200 sheets of BFK from Daniel Smith at $2.00 a sheet with no shipping charge for my classes. If you want me to order more for you, let me know. I would need to get the order up to 100 sheets to get the discount price.
Andrea

Dolphin Paper in Indianapolis

I just ordered from Dolphin Papers in Indianapolis. I ordered over the phone, and they were very nice there. They also rolled the paper and packaged it very well, so that there was no crazy oversize shipping charge. It arrived in pristine condition, very fast. Their prices are good, and I definitely suggest using them. You can check out some stuff on their website: paperforart.info.

The image provided here was snagged from their website.

(They carry decorative papers, printmaking papers, and also that Mohawk Superfine Text paper we used for bookbinding! I just got some white & smooth. It's delish!)

xox
nicci

Local Art Blog - Sara Pearce

Sara Pearce's Art Blog over on cincinnati.com is a useful source for all things local. She lists shows, provides some images info, announces lectures and opportunities (including calls for art). You can find the link at any time from this blog. Just look over to the bar on the right, and scroll down to the Local Hot Spots & News section to find this link if you misplace it in the future:

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/art/

That said, if anyone's going to the Lightbourne Lecture Oct 10 @ 7pm over @ CAM, I will see you there!

The picture of Sara was snagged from her blog! And go check out the show up in the NKU Galleries right now. I hear it's neato.

xox
nicci

Letterpress Exhibition + Lecture

Northern Kentucky University | Department of Visual Arts | Nunn Drive | Highland Heights, KY 41099

Opening reception } September 27, 6 — 8 pm } Fine Arts Center, Main and Third Floor Galleries

With a public lecture by Jim Sherraden } September 27, 7:30 pm } University Center, Budig Theater

Printed By Hand - Show Announcement

An exhibition of original prints by:
Suzanne Chouteau, Rick Finn, April Foster, Saad Ghosn, Karla Hackenmiller, Terence Hammonds, Kevin Harris, Brian H. Jones, Katherine Kadish, Donald Kelley, Andrea Knarr, Theresa Kuhr, Craig Lloyd, Mary Mark, Mark Patsfall, Ellen Price, Thom Shaw, Alison Shepard, Sherry Sicking, Jon Swindler, Jim Williams, & Elaine Mullen Zumeta.

University Galleries on Sycamore
628 Sycamore Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

Opening Reception: Friday September 28, 2007, 5-8pm

Hours: 12-5 Tues-Fri; 12-4 Saturdays
Phone: 513-241-1400

Tax Free and Easy

Everyone, if you use enough frames and do enough business to have a tax number (even if you don't!), it is really easy. Then you can use Frame King . Just get form 10A100-FI(6-05) from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Revenue, P.O. Box 299, Station 20, Frankfort, KY 40602-0299, (502) 564-3306, or go to:
www.revenue.ky.gov and download the form. You will have to file for a few months on a monthly basis and then they go to a semi-annual basis.

The filing is easy too.

Penny

Paper Site

Several people at the workshop Saturday asked where I got the paper I was using, so here's the site -- they have a huge selection, and their inventory is searchable by color, which is a nice feature. The black paper with newspaper bits included can be found by searching for all their selections in black...and so on. They are really nice to deal with and often include extra samples when you order from them. Enjoy!

Kathleen

http://handmade-paper.us/

Kathleen's Book

Kathleen (Piecefield) created this book in the workshop led by Jennifer D. Anderson @ NKU this past Saturday.

Artists who attended the workshop made books of roughly the same dimensions, using various papers and embellishments on their books. When closed, most of our books measured approximately 9.5 x 13 x 1 inches.

Kathleen writes: "I finished the book with a little toggle made from a sliver of driftwood, and added a braided linen tie to wrap around it, which shows up in the detail shot. I am really loving the weight and flexibility of this book-- how good it feels in the hand! I like the smell of the new paper, and it even makes a pleasing sound....so it is engaging all the senses!"

This image is a detail of Kathleen's book--the toggle closure she mentioned in her comments. I think it's pretty sexy, and it is characteristic of her work, with a natural inclusion, and a certain elegance.

I would love to see this and other books in person. I hope we can all get together sometime in the near(ish) future to pass our books around and see what everyone has done with theirs. Posting them here, of course, is the next best thing!

Note: If you attended the workshop, and you would like to have us post your work here in the Edition Varies blog, please feel free to send the photo and any writing/description/comments you have about your work to Nicci.

Bookbinding Workshop at NKU

Photographs taken at the Bookbinding Workshop taught by Jennifer Anderson at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday, September 8, 2007