Letter from the Director Dear Friends, I hope this newsletter finds you enjoying the glories of summer: warm days, outdoor play, fresh food! Summer

         

Letter from the Director

Dear Friends,

I hope this newsletter finds you enjoying the glories of summer: warm days, outdoor play, fresh food! Summer at Zea Mays Printmaking means lots of workshops, busy member artists and many new and familiar faces. It is also our busy residency time, and we will welcome three new residency artists in the coming weeks.

This summer is also when we will be building out our new silkscreen studio. We were gifted an old Filbar screenprinting press and have decided to turn our downstairs kitchen into a designated silkscreen studio. The washout sink has just been installed, and the carpentry is well on its way. I hope to have it up and running by September.

This newsletter highlights many of the opportunities available to printmakers at Zea Mays, including our summer workshops, residencies, exhibitions and our interns' latest research project. It's really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what one can do at our studio. I encourage you to come visit, see some great art, take a workshop or private lesson or stay for an extended time through our residency program. There are so many ways to connect to our community, and I truly hope that you will.

Liz

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Residencies at Zea Mays Printmaking

Art needs time and attention and our Residencies provide just that. Come to Zea Mays Printmaking for a Residency and work in our cutting edge green printmaking studio. Our Residencies are designed to fit an artist’s unique needs and desires. The core of the Residency is a prolonged time to work in the printmaking studio (private or community). In addition, an artist can add workshops, personalized instruction and individualized critique to their residency experience. It can be a time of learning and experimenting, or editioning or the execution of a pre-conceived project. Our residencies are unique in that they can offer an intensive learning experience from knowledgable instructors who will help you gain proficiency and independence in your artistic practice, as well as time and space to work. Live on-site in our charming 2 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath guest suite and immerse yourself in your work. Details here.

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Summer Workshops Overview

It's not too late to learn a new technique or deepen an existing practice with a workshop at Zea Mays this summer! Check out the lineup below or click through on the workshops page of our website to get the full description.

Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Print

With Louise Kohrman
Thursday - Saturday, July 10-12, 10-5
$375 non-members $350 members

Are you curious to explore your prints three-dimensionally? In this 3-day studio workshop, participants will foster a 3-D way of mind into printmaking. Learn more.

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The Art and Craft of Woodcut

With Julie Lapping Rivera
Saturday & Sunday, July 19-20, 10-5
$275 non-members $245 members

This workshop introduces all you need to know to get started or to expand your woodblock carving and printing techniques. Learn more.

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New Developments in Etching

With Liz Chalfin
Wednesday - Saturday, July 23-26, 10-5
$475 non-members $445 members

Only 1 space left!
This workshop will cover all the latest research we've been doing at Zea Mays in intaglio printmaking. Learn more.

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Intaglio Printing Strategies Tutorial

With Peter Pettengill
Tuesday & Wednesday, July 29-30, 10-5
$275 non-members $245 members

This tutorial will cover the fundamentals of printing, from paper to ink to press set up under the expert guidance of Master Printer Peter Pettengill (Wingate Press). Learn more.

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Ink to Paper: The Direct Experience of Monotype

With Lynn Peterfreund and Joyce Silverstone
Wednesday - Sunday, August 6-10, 10-5
$575 non-members $525 members

Monotype printmaking is a versatile way of making one of a kind prints that can be painterly, graphic, spontaneous, and/or constructed in layers. Learn more.

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Engraving

With Barry Moser
Wednesday - Friday, August 13-15, 10-5
$575 non-members $525 members

Relief Engraving is medium that ranks with mezzotint and fresco in its degree of difficulty, yet Barry Moser presents the process in clear and simple terms. Learn more.

Trace Monotype

With Joyce Silverstone
Saturday & Sunday, August 16-17, 10-5
$275 non-members $245 members

Do you love the kinetic experience of fluid motion in drawing? Trace monotypes, or transfer drawing is a method of transferring ink with the touch of a tool to the surface of the paper. Learn more.

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In the Sanford Gallery @ Zea Mays Printmaking

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8 Rooms - New Work by Sally Clegg

June 28 - July 19, 2014

“8 ROOMS” is comprised of eight etchings and six collages. Together the series conveys the experience of hypervigilance: a heightened sensitivity to one’s environment where ordinary spaces and their contents are perceived in a contorted way. In the etchings, the viewer is invited to experience each impossible space through this lens. In the collages–built from those eight original source images–the Rooms are once again manipulated to become something entirely different.

Next up @ the Sanford Gallery

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Lynn Peterfreund - Sky Prints

July 25 - August 23, 2014

Reception: Friday, August 1, 6-8 PM

The Sanford Gallery @ Zea Mays Printmaking Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday and Wednesday: 11-8
Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 11-4

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Alternative T-Base Research

On Tuesday, July 1st, Zea Mays interns Mike Barrett and Angela Zammarelli presented their research project and recipe for 'Magswell,' a substitute for the discontinued Faust transparent base, to an audience of 12 studio members.

When Faust discontinued their wonderful transparent base for oil based inks, Zea Mays' membership felt an immediate void. What could replace the buttery, beautiful T-base that we had all grown accustomed to?

Mike and Angela have spent their internship analyzing the Faust t-base and painstakingly testing mixtures for possible substitutes that included combinations of magnesium carbonate, aluminum hydrate, and Hanco Setswell, as well as modifying other commercially available bases.

The final transparent base recipe, which Mike and Angela have dubbed 'Magswell,' nicely reproduces the buttery-yet-viscose quality of Faust transparent base, produces beautiful and detailed prints, and has proven to hold up well weeks after being mixed up.

Be sure to keep an eye on the research page of the Zea Mays website for the 'Magswell' recipe, as well as the rest of the documentation of Mike and Angela's research.

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Member News

Wendy Ketchum is exhibiting her recent woodcut monoprints in 'Adventures in Printmaking,' at the Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Sandwich, NH, July 9th through the 22nd.

Elizabeth Bannish illustrated the recently released children's book "Noodles and Albie," written by Eric Bennett and published by Small Batch Books. Gersh Kuntzman of the New York Daily News writes that "Liz Bannish's watercolor illustrations delight in Noodles & Albie's sheer cuteness. A sweet, fun story by Eric Bennett of penguins and friendship." The book is available for purchase online, and more of the work can be seen at lizbannish.com.

Susan Rood has a show at Marty's in Washington, CT from 8/1 -8/29. Her work is included in the Norfolk Artists & Friends Arts Weekend Show at the Battell Stoekel Gallery, Norfolk, CT, 8/8-8/10.

Memory Full Volume 4, published by HQ Press and edited by Esther S White & Trevor Powers, was released on June 27th at Flying Object in Hadley, MA as part of COL•LATE, a zine exhibition and pop-up shop. Memory Full is a group publication, first created in 2011, to share cell phone photography off-screen.

Roads is new series of work by Peter Cangialosi inspired by commuting through the back roads and highways of the Pioneer Valley. Opening reception will be on Friday August 8th from 5-8pm at the wonderful Sticks and Bricks (9 Market Street, Northampton MA). They make custom and refurbished furniture. The show will run from August 8th - August 28th.

Joanne Desmond's show "looks can be deceiving" is on view at the Harvard-Allston Education Portal in Allston, MA through August 28th. A review of the show can be found on bostonartunderground.com.

Nature as Medicine, Nature as Companion features the work of Erika Radich and Jae Ok Lee and opens on July 31 as part of the Letterpress as a Public Art Project, 49 Main Street, North Adams, MA. Through their work, these two artists examine the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. Artist reception: July 31, 6-9pm.

Marsha Humphrey has two prints in the Gallery A3 First Open, juried by Loretta Yarlow, Director of University Museum of Contemporary Art, (UMCA) Amherst. There will be an artist's reception on Saturday, July 12, from 4-7 and an Art Forum with Loretta Yarlow on Creating an Exhibit on Thursday, July 17 at 7:30.

Elisa Lanzi has work in the International Association of Handpapermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) Congresso Exhibition at the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana in Fabriano, Italy from July 1 - August 31, 2014 and the Gallery A3 First Open in Amherst, MA from July 3 - August 2, 2014.

Judith Bowerman is in a family exhibit titled Related Matters at A.P.E. downtown Northampton. The show will be on view from July 5 - 26, with the opening reception on Arts Night Out - July 11.

Nancy Haver has been chosen as a 2014 artist-in-residence at Petrified Forest National Park and Catoctin Mountain Park, and as a 2015 artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park.

Anita Hunt's series of 5 etchings, Untitled (void, hole, island, reflection...), was selected for inclusion in the 88th Annual International Competition at the Print Center, Philadelphia. The exhibit launched in June, and it will be displayed online for one year: http://www.printcenter.org/pc_comp_future.html. Anita has an etching in the SAGA 81st Exhibition at the Old Print Shop, New York, on view September 6 - October 11: http://www.oldprintshop.com/. Her recent edition, Subterranean II, was mentioned in the Jan/Feb 2014 issue of Art in Print: http://www.artinprint.org/. She will participate in the 7th Douro Biennial 2014 in Portugal this fall: http://www.douro-gravura.org. A selection of Anita's recent printwork will show for the month of September at the Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Libray, Northampton, MA, with a reception on Saturday, September 20th: http://www.forbeslibrary.org/events/gallery.shtml#future

Annie Bissett's nine-print series "Mixed Feelings" is currently on exhibition at Northern Print in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England for the 2014 International Print Biennale, through August 8. Annie's work will also be included in the International Mokuhanga Exhibition 2014, in Tokyo Japan, September 11 - 25, 2014.

Jean Allemeier Boot has a print that was accepted into the 4th Bienniel International Footprint Competition and Exhibition, at The Center of Contemporary Printmaking, in Norwalk, CT. The print titled, Lazio Town II, is an etching and aquatint, with Chine-collé. The exhibition will be on view from June 8 through August 31, 2014.

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Recommended Exhibitions, Events, Websites, etc.

On view through July 27th at the Freer/Sackler in Washington DC, an exhibit of woodblock prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika titled Kiyochika: Master of the Night. Using age-old Japanese woodblock techniques, Kiyochika mimicked the look and feel of Western photographs and engravings to express the huge social and technological changes taking place in Tokyo at the end of the 19th century.

Print Universe- it's free.

The Valley Arts Newsletter: Art Shows & Events in the Pioneer Valley Delivered Weekly to Your Inbox.

Interesting art blog: Hyperallergeic

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Exhibition Opportunities

New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery in Albuquerque, NM is inviting all printmakers to submit work for their 2nd International Juried Print Exhibition to be held at New Grounds from December 5, 2014 to December 27, 2014.

The Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, the largest show in Canada dedicated to printmaking, is accepting entries for its 8th edition that will be presented in Trois-Rivières from June 21st to September 6th, 2015.

The Okanagan Print Triennial (OPT) is now accepting submissions for thei juried print exhibition taking place March 19th to May 15th, 2015. In the spirit of acknowledging and celebrating the vitality and variety of approaches and techniques in contemporary work in printmaking, the OPT aims to bring the very best in current printmaking practice to audiences in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.

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Meet the Intern

Welcome to our summer intern at Zea Mays Printmaking, Chloe Anne Wilwerding.
Here is a little bit about Chloe:

Where are you coming from?

I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, but go to school at Middlebury College in Vermont. My parents still live in Nebraska, but my two sisters and I have all moved east for school.

What do you like to do outside of the studio?

Outside of Zea Mays, I am busy researching for my political science thesis. At Middlebury, I am a double studio art and political science major. I am just starting my senior thesis on human greatness, specifically in the arts, and democracy. Within the political science department, I mainly focus on political philosophy. I believe that thinking abstractly and philosophically for my political science courses has also helped me develop my ability to think conceptually about my art.

In addition to all of the reading that I’ve been doing this summer, I am busy training for the Middlebury College swim team. I took most of the swimming season off last year to go abroad to the Czech Republic. I was too engrossed in discovering Prague to worry about staying in shape for swimming, so I am now making up for lost ground to be ready for the upcoming swim season. Generally, I enjoy being active, reading, cooking, and exploring new places.

What type of art are you currently working on?

I just finished my first woodcut for Lyell Castonguay’s woodcut workshop and am interested in continuing to work with large-scale woodcuts. Since I’ve been at Zea Mays, I have to admit that I have been a little overwhelmed by all of the possibilities available for printmaking. Seeing everyone’s work on the drying racks and in the print archives has made me so excited about the varied ways to use different printmaking methods. It has left my head spinning with so many ideas that it’s been hard for me to focus in on one project. Overall, lately I have been making art that deals with spirituality and gender ideas. I think that I would like to continue to explore these concepts using techniques I pick up at Zea Mays.

What is something you are hoping to get out of your internship?

I am interested in gaining exposure to new printmaking methods. Zea Mays’s members and workshop students use printmaking methods that I have not had access to in the classroom setting, so I hope that I am able to build on my classroom learning through this internship. I also hope to learn more about the green side of printmaking. As a student, I think that I have been presented with one way of making prints, but have not known enough about the processes to ask questions about alternative and safer ways of printmaking. I hope that I will be able to question safety practices in the future rather than simply accepting traditional and toxic methods of printmaking.

What’s your favorite art supply?

I recently discovered Sarel paper. It’s a wonderful time saver. I’m also a big fan of X-acto knives. I find cutting and pasting meditative. I haven’t done much collage work, but I think I would enjoy it.

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