MEZZOTINT WORKSHOP

"Rock On" :Mezzotint Workshop II

If you have interest in learning more about the process and beautiful results of this acid-free intaglio technique, sign up! Entitled "Rock On", this workshop will be led by professional printmaker Julie Niskanen--specializing in Mezzotint and other intaglio processes. Julie, whose award-winning work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, brings not only extensive knowledge of the process to this workshop, but also custom-made tools to aid in the creation of mezzotints. For those possessing prior experience with the technique, you will be pleasantly surprised at the relative ease Julie's methods provide in both plate preparation and image rendition.

The workshop will be held September 16, 18, 23, & 25 at the Print Shop at 311 W Martin Street Galleries & Studios.

To see more about mezzotints please go www.julieniskanen.com/mezzotint.html

Workshop fee: $100

Space is limited, so sign up soon!!!

To sign up, contact Judy Jones or Julie Niskanen.

Judy Jones
jumpinjivin@bellsouth.net
919-821-2262

Julie Niskanen
julie@julieniskanen.com
919-880-5616

Andy Farkas at Flanders Art Gallery

Float
engravings, photographs, and silverpoints
August 01, 2008
General Opening: Aug.1st 6-9pm
Artist Reception: Aug.15th 6-9pm
Flanders Art Gallery will host artists Andy Farkas, Jeannine Cook, and Gina Fuentes Walker for Float, an exhibit looking at the delicacy and detail contained within nature's flora.

As Farkas debuts his new book River, he will include individual pulled prints that were produced to illustrate the new text. Farkas's works, notably his past wood engravings, are characterized by fine lines and are populated by animals and children attempting to make sense of their physical and psychological environments. He will also provide an explanatory installation of printmaking processes within the exhibit.

Selected from her Seasons on Sapelo series, Cook's pieces will showcase her silverpoint studies of the changing scenery on a barrier island in Georgia. Silverpoint is a medium that dates to the twelfth century, and it entails wielding a silver stylus over a prepared surface to produce the resulting image.

Walker offers transparency photographs that become sculptural endeavors as she presents translucent images of branches and ferns mounted between layers of glass.

Opportunity For Printmakers

Looking for collaborators for projects and exhibitions! Printmakers, especially artists working with woodcut, lino-cut, and etching processes are invited to submit portfolios for consideration. Materials will be kept on file and will not be returned. I will reply when/if there is a possibility for a project.

Send a CD of digital images to:
C. Brooks
122 North Church Street
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
27804.

Thanks kindly.
C. Brooks

More Images From PRINTED Opening

Thanks to Fort Grunt for these pics.

PRINTED opens at Green Hill Center for NC Art

There was a nice turnout for the PRINTED show at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art on Friday night (1/18). If you have any photos of the event please post them. The exhibition will be up until February 29th.

PRINTED!

Our fearless leader Bill Fick is the proud curator of a brand new show called: Printed: Contemporary Prints and Books by North Carolina Artists. You can see it at the Green Hill Center for Art in Greensboro, NC from Jan 18th to Feb 29th.

We were happy to make the three hour drive to attend the opening, which was VERY well attended! The show looked great, and it was good to see old friends again.



Matt Liddle, Bill Fick and Ryan O'Malley



Beth Grabowski and Heather Muise



Scott Betz



Craig Malmrose and Matt Egan

Opportunity for Printmakers

Prospectus for Entry – "The Illustrated Word"
April 4 – May 1, 2008

Art gallery Flanders 311 wishes to pair local writers with the Printmakers of North Carolina (PoNC) for an illustration exhibition to be held April 4 – May 1, 2008. In order to execute this exhibition, invited writers will be eligible to enter a self-contained story or poem for a PoNC member to later illustrate. The text must fit within the confines of an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper with 1" margins. Texts are due to the curator by midnight of January 18, 2008 . Invited writers may also sponsor up to two student works in addition to or in lieu of submitting their own pieces. As thanks for participation, each writer will receive an unframed print of the illustration specific to his/her piece. All text copyrights will remain the possession of each individual author.

PoNC members and other invited illustrators will receive their specific texts on January 22, 2008 via email. Editions of at least two must be produced; one must go to the author, and the other must be available for sale at the exhibition, with the artist receiving 50% of any sales. If more than two prints are available within any edition, then the printmaker must make this clear on any pulled print. Prints cannot exceed 8.5 x 11". It will be the responsibility of each participating printmaker to deliver to the gallery the finished prints framed alongside the text. The deadline for this delivery is 6 p.m. of March 29, 2008. Frames may not exceed 20 x 24".

All participants are invited to attend the opening reception April 4, 2008, 6 – 9 p.m. at Flanders 311. Flanders 311 is located in downtown Raleigh at the 311 West Martin Street Galleries and Studios. Participants' family and friends are also welcome.

If you are interested and expect to participate in this project, please contact

Flanders Art Gallery
Attn: Illustrated Word
18 Seaboard Ave., Ste. 160
Raleigh, NC 27604

Any questions and concerns should be addressed to Lauren Turner at 919.834.5044 or flandersartcurator@gmail.com.