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President's Letter,
October 2007
Dear Members,
The 64th Members Exhibition will be held at the Plastic Club in Philadelphia, November 4th through November 27, 2007. This is our home base, and every November we have our exhibitions here. This is also where we have our meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 1 pm except for holidays and summer vacations. We invite our members to come and join us in the work of this organization.
This November our Juror will be Mr. Rodger Lapelle, Director of the Lapelle Gallery, which is located on Third Street in Olde City, Philadelphia. (He wishes to be known as "General Practitioner of the Arts.") This exhibit will feature a new award. A gracious donor and member, Joyce Harris Mayer hasgiven an American Color Print Society prize of $75.00 for a print in a traditional medium. ACPS is appreciative of all awards and respects all donors' wishes; however, the board must approve all awards. Please consider giving an award in honor of, or in memory of a loved one or dear friend.
This year ACPS will also have a special exhibition of the prints of the late Michael Lasuchin. These will be displayed in the Board Room of the Plastic Club during our Members' Exhibition. We would like to continue this tradition every year by honoring outstanding printmakers past and present.
ACPS will also present lifetime memberships to all Presidents of the Plastic Club, both former and current. These include Michael Kunchevich and Michael Gwinn. Betty MacDonald, however, the ACPS Treasurer, and former President of the Plastic Club, does not wish to accept the award at this time.
Our National Exhibition at the Cheltenham Art Center was a great success. Printmakers came from across the United States. We had a special juror, Anne Fabbri, for the Michael Lasuchin prize of $1000, given by his wife, Dorothy Roschen Lasuchin and his brother, Victor Lasuchin. Selma Bortner won this award for her collagraph, "The Red Boat". Mili Dunn Weiss gave a $100 prize, also, in honor of Michael Lasuchin. The many prizes and their recipients are listed in this issue.
Our future venue for Spring '08 will be The Philadelphia Public Library.
To strengthen our ties with future generations, ACPS traditionally continues to welcome new student members from art institutions. Please come to the meetings and help with the work of the club.
MY DREAM: A full-color catalog of our members and their prints. Can someone out there make this happen? We need a chair for this project. See you and your prints in November.
Idaherma Williams
President, ACPS
ACPS 63RD OPEN EXHIBITION
CHELTENHAM ART CENTER
AWARDS
THE MICHAEL LASUCHIN MEMORIAL AWARD $1000
Generously donated by
His wife Dorothy Roschen Lasuchin and his brother Victor Lasuchen
Award selected by Anne Fabbri, writer, Art Matters
Sema Bortner, The Red Boat
Awards Selected by Eileen Foti
THE FIRST STELLA DRABKIN MEMORIAL AWARD
Victoria Goro-Rapaport, Darwin vs. Leonardo, etching
THE SECOND STELLA DRABKIN MEMORIAL AWARD
Libby Newman, From the Ashes, woodcut-monoprint
THE THIRD STELLA DRABKIN MEMORIAL AWARD
Mike Stevens, La Mafia di Arte di Corpus Christi, woodcut
THE FOURTH STELLA DRABKIN MEMORIAL AWARD
Alan J. Klawans, Baghdad, original digital print
THE MICHAEL LASUCHIN MEMORIAL AWARD $100
Generously donated by Mili Dunn Weiss
Betsy R. Miraglia, Buffalo Run, collagraph/collage
HUGH M. HUTTON & DOROTHY W. HUTTON AWARD $100
Mary Mark, View from Orvieto, linocut
THE OTTO LAMBERT GREVER AWARD $100
For Lithography - Wayne Kimball
The Consummate Professional Cat and His Ancestral Hero
JEAN CLAIRE MEMORIAL AWARD
Generously donated by Joyce Harris Mayer in honor of her sister
Marlene d'Orazio Adler, Night Gathering, collagraph
THE GRAPHIC CHEMICAL & INK SUPPLIES AWARD
Victoria Goro-Rapaport, Palestine
THE PEARL PAINT ART MATERIALS AWARD
Kathleen Chapman, Spirits Rising #1, monotype/collage
HONORABLE MENTION
Judy Bergman Hochberg, The Sailboat, polymer plate intaglio
HONORABLE MENTION
Idaherma Williams, Purple Orchids, woodblock print
HONORABLE MENTION
Herb Appelson, Pompeii Revisited, mixed media.
Members' News
Congratulations to Idaherma Williams and Joyce Harris Mayer. Exhibiting in the 118th Annual Exhibit of the National Women Artists in Hoboken, NJ, each won a prize. Ida won the Aida Whedon Memorial Award for Printmaking and Joyce won the photography award.
Alan Klawans will have a solo exhibit at Villanova University. Opening is February 22, 2008.
Mili Dunn Weiss and Daniel Miller were featured in the Senior Artists Initiative at Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Karen Cooper had a color print accepted into the "2007 National Small Works Show" at the Washington Printmakers Gallery. Her story behind monoprints was selected for publication in an upcoming book entitled, Through the Eyes of a Printmaker: Remembering 9/11.
Carole Meyers won third prize at the Plastic Club's Air Show in June. David McShane was juror.
Congratulations to Mary Brodbeck for her show in Japan. Here was her exhibition announcement:
Greetings!
I am happy to announce an exhibition I will be participating in September 24-29, in Tokyo - see attachment. It is a four person show including Yoshisuke Funasaka (Japan), Judith Lokie (England), Juhari Said (Thailand), and myself. Judith, Juhari and I have all received past sponsorship by the Japanese government to learn traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking from Mr. Fuanasaka, in Tokyo. This is our first show together.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Mary Brodbeck
Woodblock Prints
Kalamazoo, MI
www.marybrodbeck.com
SHARING A PERSONAL VISION WITH A WIDER WORLD
Burton Wasserman
As a result of sustaining a stroke and several other serious medical incidents that caught up with me in the late 1970s, I had to stop making original graphic prints and other forms of art. Until then, such studio practice had occupied my attention with regularity since 1950.
Eventually, I was able to resume my creative work but on a considerably curtailed basis. In 2005, I learned I could safely use a Macintosh OS-X Computer with an Appleworks 6 Program to both explore graphic ideas and print full color impressions in a scale that was compatible with my specific needs.
I have pursued this approach to printmaking ever since. In the spring of 2007, I showed many of these images in a solo exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
I find the new prints I have made thus far are very much in harmony with the essence of the contemporary digital age. In heir own special way, they appear to be imbued with a deep sense of the here and now.
For me, this presence of the current era is an intrinsic ingredient of my need to shape a language of form that constantly defines an intensely real infinite perfectibility. Without this foundation, I suspect my accumulated images might tend to appear merely as decorative novelties instead of a continuing effort to create serious artworks with something to say that genuinely matters in the contemporary scheme of things.
Clearly, my forms never try to imitate the overt appearance of any subject matter one may observe with the naked eye. Instead, I put together forms drawn entirely from my imagination. As such, they are poetic metaphors, rich with a saturated wholeness of their own. For me, they are pure fantasy forms, rooted in layers of subconscious memory associated with various glorious occasions, contradictions, perplexities and agonies I have encountered during my life. I often think of them as ordered panoramas of optical intensity, potentially accessible to everyone endowed with the gift of human vision.
Most of all, I hope my digital prints ignite deeply moving levels of response in my audience. I hipe such action takes place at the center of their being, where all their nerve endings come together.
In the final analysis, making these prints allows me to provide constellations of form that couldn't be put together any other way. They affirm the nature of their separate being because they are constructed realities with a life of their own.
Finally, I must add that I am deeply appreciative for whatever forces make it possible for me to have this privilege. I believe people endowed with an overwhelming drive to create significantly original art have been graced with a very special gift for which there is no substitute and for which I am especially thankful.
I OFTEN WONDER WHY by Burton Wasserman
REMINDERS
Make reservations to see ACPS collection at the Philadelphia Art
Museum, Wednesday, April 19th.
Please send membership dues - $30.00 to:
Betty MacDonald
205 Woodside Ave
Narberth, PA 19072
Send Ida your best slide to be publicized on the ACPS website.
Send Members' News to:
Carole Meyers
Box 625
Bryn Athyn, PA 19009
Or email me: CaroleLine@aol.com
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