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President's Letter,
November 2008
Dear Members,
The year 2008 has been very good for the American Color Print Society - even though the economy has faltered.
Maybe this is because the world needs art; and making prints, although costly, is not dependent on financial standards.
We do art and printmaking for love, and we hope that money will follow! Thus, art prevails in this time of crisis.
We all need something wonderful and uplifting. Printmaking fills the gap.
Let's look at past, present and future plans for ACPS.
We have just completed a successful exhibition in the West Wing Gallery at the Free Public Library of Philadelphia,
Vine St. and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, at Logan Circle in center city. This show was so popular that the Director asked if we could extend it another month, and we agreed.
Some prints were even accepted into the library's permanent collection of fine prints.
Burt Wasserman wrote a two page spread featuring photos of this show in the August issue of Art Matters, Philadelphia's monthly art magazine.
In November, the 67th Annual Members' Awards Exhibition is being held at the Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA. Several new awards were presented at the reception.
Our Past President Michael Kuncevich was honored with an exhibit of his work in the tearoom.
The current Plastic Club President Bob Jackson was honored with a lifetime membership in ACPS.
The Plastic Club graciously hosts our monthly meetings and November exhibits.
Presently - now in this issue of Color Proof - is a copy of a lithograph print entitled "Wyndmoor Forest I" by Libby Calamia. This mini lithograph was selected for the MINI INTERNATIONAL in Cadaques, Spain and toured Spain, France, and England. The original now resides in a permanent collection in Cadaques, Spain. Thank you, Libby, for sharing this accomplishment with us.
Future shows include two exhibitions in the spring: one at the Chestnut Hill Gallery and the other at Villanova University.
Art Matters will again cover the Villanova show.
We have many wonderful opportunities ahead!
Note: All this work could not be done without the wonderful help of the Board. We thank the group of board members who meet monthly.
Thanks also to Natalia Moroz who manages our web site from North Carolina: www.americancolorprintsociety.org.
Please join us and help with the club's work. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 1 pm.
Happy Printmaking!
Idaherma Williams
President, ACPS
67th Members` Exhibition and
Special Exhibition of Prints of Michael Kuncevich
Awards
The Michael Lasuchin Memorial Award:
$500 Nancy Alter "After the Harvest" collograph
The Stella Drabkin Memorial Awards:
First: $500 Jack Gerber " Shemerazada" woodcut
Second: $400 Peter Haarz "519 Protection" lithograph
Third: $250 Nancy Brodbeck "Sheltered" woodcut
Fourth: $100 Anthony Lazorko "Eat and Drink" woodcut
The Otto Lambert Grever Award for Lithography:
$100 Jennifer Hall "Taunts and Teases"
The Dorothy and Hugh Hutton Award for Intaglio:
$100 Mary Blackey "Celestial Tailspin"
The Jeanne and Charles Roseman Prize for Originality given by Sheila Letven:
$100 Lynn Castomiris "His Mother Revealed" collograph
The ACPS Award for Traditional Technique given by Joyce Harris Mayer:
$75 Thelma Grobes untitled etching
Honorable Mentions:
Art Breson "Triangles #5" silkscreen
Joyce Harris Mayer "Painted Shadows" digital print
Merle Spandorfer "Brazilian Candle" digital print
Graphic Chemical & Ink Co. Award:
$50 in art supplies Carole J Meyers "Unseated" monotype
Allegheny Art Supply Award:
$25 in art supplies Selma Bortner "Car Bomb" linocut with water coloring
Members' News
Congratulations to Idaherma Williams, who received The Ziegler Prize for her woodblock print, "Plants with Yellow Curtains", in the 96th Annual Members' Medal Show at the Plastic Club.
Kudos to: Alan Klawans, who featured his digital prints in the "Favorite Things" exhibit at the Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ during September & October.
Florence Putterman exhibited with TSZ Design Group in Selinsgrove, PA during July.
In need of "Time Out" is Joyce Harris Mayer. Over the summer she had works accepted in three exhibitions:
(1) New York Hall of Science, (2) Mill Pond House Gallery, NY and (3) The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT.
This fall she received a $1,000 Award and Medal of Honor in the exhibition at Google Works sponsored by NAWA.
Presently Joyce is exhibiting at Monmouth Museum, NJ, and California's Bonita Museum.
"Winds of My Mind" was the title of her one-person show at the Main Gallery, Medford, NJ.
This exhibit of digital prints was held over till November 14th to accommodate local art teachers and their students.
Kudos to: Dorothy Sloane, who was invited to show her work with artists who previously had solo exhibits at the Long Beach Island Art Foundation, NJ.
A photo and article describing her technique appeared in the NJ Beach Haven Newsletter this summer.
Dorothy has won the following awards: (1) Best of Show at the Diversity and Communication Show at St, John`s Lutheran Church, Melrose Park, PA in March;
(2) Honorable Mention at Beth Or Synagogue, Horsham, PA in May; and (3) Best of Show at LBI Art Foundation Show, NJ in July.
She is exhibiting presently at a solo show at St. John`s Creative Art Series till December 7th.
Hiposi Nakashima, the recently retired head of the printmaking department of the University of PA, and Dorothy's mentor, attended the reception for this solo exhibit.
Kudos to: Jack Gerber who displayed his work at The Noyes Museum of Art.
Villanova Exhibition
Hand Delivery Date: May 21, 2009
Opening Reception Date: June 5, 2009
Minutes from the Members' Show at Chestnut Hill Gallery: 4/5/08
Question: Should ACPS accept photography as part of their agenda?
Merle Spandorfer: For years I have been involved with all kinds of photography. Now photography and printmaking cross over in a new way to become the digital medium. It is hard to distinguish prints from photographs sometimes.
Joyce Harris Mayer: Photography should not be entered in ACPS. Digitally altered photographs transformed - become digital pigment prints. Do I have permission to show these prints because they are still based on photographs - if the photography has been transformed so much that you cannot tell or see any traces?
Merle: Bottom Line - If you take a photograph and put it on a screen, it is a print called a photo sikscreen. Scanned on an etching plate - an archival pigment print.
Millie Dunn Weiss: How do you define a scan?
Merle: An image that is photography - Photograph it and you can scan it. There is no difference between a photograph, photo Xerox, or a photo etching. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts has bought a digital machine to scan images in their printmaking department.
Idaherma Williams: Fine line - Where is it?
Merle: The fine line is disappearing.
Millie: Using the camera only is the pure form of photography. Originally defined - The image you end up with should be original to make it your own. Issue: The artist's integrity! The Louvre has all these etchings and is still printing them. They are still using so-called: re-strikes -- unsigned images as a matrix like the woodblock. The computer is a new form.
Michael Kuncevich: Black as a color - same print - put green ink on it - it is the same print.
Joyce: Reproductions of watercolor painting - No, reproduction of work recreated in another medium!
Merle: Reproductions have never been accepted. (exception: Picasso)
Idaherma: We will put this information is the next newsletter and the members will vote.
Merle: You are doing a great job, Idaherma!
Idaherma: Thank you! How can photography be a print? I will not make this decision on my own.
Unidentified: The digital process is used only as a tool - Then the artists use that tool to create an original image. Then it is a print.
(Special Thanks to Marlene D`Orazio Adler, who took these notes during the exciting discussion.)
Send Members' News to:
Carole Meyers
Box 625
Bryn Athyn, PA 19009
Or email me: CaroleLine@aol.com
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