SDA NY Member News October 25, 2009

LARRY SCHULTE

“ Larry Schulte: Pattern and Order” will be at the Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, December 8, 2009 through March 28, 2010.

Opening Reception, Friday, December 11, 5:30-7:30 PM

Artist's Talk, Saturday, December 12, 1:30 PM

This exhibition contains three bodies of works. The first are 34"x34" woven painted paper pieces based on the Fibonacci Sequence. The second are 12"x12" unique screenprints from the Chaos Series. The third are 30"x22" unique screenprints from the Web/Net/Veil Series.

Flag 3 by Larry Schulte

WNV-16 by Larry Schulte

Barbara L. Kuhnman Foundation, Inc. Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Scholars Exhibition

The Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation, Inc. provides annual scholarships to students in the Fiber Arts and Apparel Design programs at Cornell University’s Fiber Science & Apparel Design Human Ecology Department. Here is a sampling of the student scholarship winner pieces that were on display in October at Cornell:

“Monsters Under My Bed”, by Nhu-Thu Nguyen

“Red Skies” by Nicole Castelli

Innovative work by these students – you would have enjoying seeing the creativity and craftsmanship in these pieces.

SDA Member News October 11, 2009

Sharon Bottle Souva had two pieces chosen for RUDE AND BOLD WOMEN, which was held October 2&3 at 81 State Street (5th floor), Binghamton, NY.

Urban Pathways 2: Curbside, by Sharon Bottle Souva

This annual art show highlights visual and performance women artists from the region and beyond.

See www.rudeandboldwomen.com or find it on facebook.
Two of Sharon’s quilted wallhangings, Moonseed and Urban Pathways 2: Curbside were chosen for the show this year.

Jeanne Raffer Beck will present a lecture, “Written: Word as Image” at SOFA Chicago on Saturday, November 7, at 10:30 AM. In her talk, she'll discuss how combining fragments of contemporary and ancient texts and letterforms with invented language has become a rich source of inspiration for her work.

Phoenix Gallery Reviewing Artists for Membership:

PHOENIX GALLERY, CELEBRATING ITS 51^st YEAR, 210 Eleventh Avenue @ 25^th St., Chelsea, New York, NY 10001, is accepting applications for ACTIVE, INACTIVE or ASSOCIATE membership. Download info from Website: www.phoenix-gallery.com or Send SASE for membership application/or Email: info@phoenix-gallery.com

SDA Member News September 27, 2009

Cornell University College of Human Ecology Student Exhibition

The Mann Library at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY is currently displaying the Barbara L. Kuhlman Scholars' Fiber Arts & Wearable Arts Exhibition, which  runs through October 17th. 
Gallery Hours:
Mon through Thurs 8am to midnight.  Friday 8am to 6pm.  Saturday Noon 6pm.  Sunday 10am to midnight.

Patricia Hickman

Eye Chart by Patricia Hickman

Pat Hickman is exhibiting art work in an invitational group show entitled “Designing Women” at the Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Sept. 12-Oct. 24. She is part of an invitational exhibition, “Knitted, Knotted, Netted” at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Oct. 11, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010. Other artists in that group exhibition, funded by the Coby Foundation, Ltd., include Karen Ciaramella, Abigail Doan, Kazue Honma, Ed Bing Lee, Norma Minkowitz, Ruth Marshall, Leslie Pontz, Ann Coddington Rast, Hisako Sekijima, Noriko Takamiya, and Carol Westfall.

Pat will teach a workshop, “OPENINGS: Knotted and Knotless Netting” at the Hunterdon on Nov. 15.

She is also participating in “Garnerworld”, Oct. 16-Nov. 15, an exhibition celebrating the history of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, an old calico factory built in 1838, where she has her studio.

“Through the Eyes”, her solo exhibition, will be at the Phoenix Gallery, NY, Nov. 4-28, 2009.

Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe, Kris G. Moss, Diane Evans and Joanna Monroe Exhibiting in ARTTA show

As part of the Hyde Museum's "A Season of Degas", the Adirondack Regional Textile Artists' Alliance (ARTAA), has just opened a show at Kris and Joanna’s shared studio in the Shirt Factory, 21 Cooper Street in Glens Falls, NY.  All the work in this exhibition is inspired by Degas' "Dancer with Red Stockings", a piece from the Hyde collection.

This show will be up through October 18: Wed - Sat, 10 - 4, and Sun, !2 - 4. More info is available from the Hyde Museum. Participating SDA members are Patricia Spillane, Barbara Vanseloe and Joanna Monroe.

 

"Grace", 25.5" W x 15" H. Acrylic painted image on satin, commercial cottons, machine quilted using cotton & metallic threads.

 

Deux Danseuses: Hommage a Edgar Degas, by Diane Evans.

Rouge et Noir, by Joanna Monroe

Ballerina I, by Barbara Vanseloe

Marilyn Henrion

 

Disturbances 7 by Marilyn Henrion

In conjunction with their major quilt exhibition, “Full Spectrum: Quilts & The Textile Arts”, Binghamton University Art Museum presents internationally recognized quilt artist, Marilyn Henrion, giving a trunk show-lecture chronicling over 30 years of her life and work. Date and Time: October 10, 3-5 PM. Admission: $5. For further information, contact Jack Braunstein, (607) 777-2911.

SDA Member News September 13, 2009

Suzanne Punch


Liberty House display window featuring work by Suzanne Punch

This month, Suzanne Punch will be featured in articles in both the SDA Newsletter and in the Silkworm, an international journal for silk painters.

Both articles focus on the relationship between Suzanne and Liberty House, a boutique in Manhattan near Columbia University. This store shows both fine art and hand-painted wearables by Suzanne. Often there is one of her large silk paintings in the window, along with BoHo clothing, local artisan-made jewelry, African carvings, folk art furniture and hand-woven rugs.

Mary Hertert is the author of a monthly column in the SDA Newletter. This month’s article is “Business Bites: Marketing- Two Artists’ Perspective”.

She interviews Nelda Warkentin and Suzanne Punch about how they are getting through this economic downturn. Liberty House integrates fine art with the every day life of the store, for the enrichment of all.

Betty Vera

Four of Betty’s Jacquard weavings will be exhibited in “Environs,” a group show at the Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon, October 2–30, 2009. Opening reception will be Friday, October 2, 6-8 PM. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 11AM - 4PM.

Nest by Betty Vera

“Nest,” Jacquard tapesty, 47 x 46 inches, cotton, 2008, shown on this image, is one of the pieces that Betty will have in the exhibit. Further details of the exhibition are available at www.eou.edu/art.

Kathy Velis Turan

Day Becomes Electric, K. Velis Turan

KATHY VELIS TURAN solo show
September 2nd- September 27th, 2009
Opening: Sunday, September 13th -
2-4pm
Wellington’s Herbs &Spices
649 Rickard Hill Road • Schoharie, NY 12157
518-295-7366 —
Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat—10am-4pm , Sun—11:30am-4pm
For more information please
contact Kathy Velis Turan
@ 518-731-8615 or
kvelisturan@hotmail.com

Jeanne Raffer Beck

List, Jeanne Raffer Beck, 30” x 30” framed

Three of Jeanne’s pieces will be part of the Empire State College 4th annual art exhibition September 14-30, 2009

Location: Lower Link Gallery, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Ave., Rochester, NY. 14604

Reception: October 1, 2009, 5:30 PM Artist Reception, 6:00 PM Discussion with the Artists

Barbara Hillery Van Elsen

Teaching New Class September 26 – FreeForm Knitting and Crochet

"Swirls, Twirls and Spirals", is a three-hour knitting and crochet class that can be used as an introduction to freeform. You’ll learn patterns and routines that will enable you to play with the colors and textures of different types of yarn and learn how to combine them.

Date: September 26 in the afternoon in Plainview, NY. People can email anjanette.s.cooper@hofstra.edu for a copy of the registration form and more information.

There is also a gallery of some of the class models that can be seen here: http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/7189493

SDA Member News August 30, 2009

EXHIBITIONS

Jeanne Beck

Jeanne Raffer Beck’s “Parables” is on display at the Ohio Craft Museum’s “Conversations in Fabric”, an exhibition of 30 contemporary quilts that incorporate text, word or language references.

Parables, 42” x 48”, 2008, silk broadcloth, screenprinted, machine and hand stitching.

Barbara Murak

Memories III, 151/4” x 25.5”, monoprint, machine quilted

Barbara Murak’s “Memories II” and “Memories III” monoprint quilts have been accepted into the Art in Craft Media 2009 exhibit at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, running from Sept. 12- January 3, 2010. 

Barbara will also be in the Invitational Exhibit for those artists who have been accepted to 4 or more shows (this is her 6th), that are judged by curators from U.S. Art Museums.

Gordana Vukovic

"MARK-Makers"
Nine artists, all New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) MARK Program 2008 Award Recipients, display nine ways of making their marks in oil, sculpture, textile, mezzotint, mixed media, installation, and video.  Participating  artists: Julie Casper Roth, Brendan Cohan, Katarina Holbrook, Gail Kort, Mara Lefebvre, Ingrid Ludt, Rebekah Rice, Denise Saint-Onge, and Gordana Vukovic

Where: The Arts Center of the Capital Region, President's Gallery, Troy
When: From September 19 through October 16, 2009
PRICE: Free
PHONE: 273-0552
Opening Reception: 5-9pm, September 25, 2009
Gallery Talk: 1:30pm, September 27, 2009

PUBLICATION

Sharon Bottle Souva

The Syracuse Cultural Workers have chosen Sharon’s "Above The Falls" for their 2010 Poster Calendar. It can be purchased through www.syracuseculturalworkers.com
They also have a Woman Artist Datebook available where another of her quilts "Autumn Reflections" was selected for 2010.

FOR SALE

For Sale:
Panasonic Wide Carriage Dot Matrix Printer KX-P2624,
with desktop stand, parallel cable, and documentation.
Worked fine when last used a few years ago.  Husband reluctantly parting with it.
The KX-P2624 was well regarded and beloved before laser printers took over.
$75.00 in cash.
If interested, please contact:
Bonnie Epstein
Phone: 212-866-0386
bonnie.epstein@earthlink.net

SDA Member News August 16, 2009

AWARDS

Congratulations to SDA member Jappie King Black, who  has been named one of the 2009 recipients of a NYFA grant.  Below are samples of the work that have earned her this highly competitive and distinguished grant award.

Collection 2009 is a mixed media installation, approximately 12' x 30' x 4'. It was made using various techniques: coiling, crochet, twining and wrapping of grapevine, bark, fiber, wood, wire, wax and quills. 

Three Figures is a grapevine and bark sculpture approximately 6' x 7' x 8'. It was part of Evolution 20 @ 10 at the Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, New Jersey.

Jappie lives in Brockport, New York and teaches during the school year at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.

EXHIBITION NEWS

An exhibition of Larry Schulte’s paper-weave paintings and prints, "Weaving Cosmic Reality into Art" is on display at Bayer Healthcare in Montville, NJ and Wayne, NJ from July 9 – November 4, 2009.

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SDA Member News May 25, 2009

"Lotus Shoe: Grandmother Chen" by Joan Pao.

SDA member Joan Pao's "Lotus Shoe:Grandmother Chen" will be part of the "Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories" exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA, June 6,2009 - January 3, 2010. Opening reception Sunday, June 14, 2009, 2-5 PM.

Joan constructed this shoe in memory of her paternal grandmother. She also made a "Lotus Shoe: Grandmother Wong" for her maternal grandmother as well. Both grandmothers had their feet bound. To recreate the shoes they wore, Joan used polyester curtain fabric with straight pins.


Larry Schulte's exhibit of woven painted paper at the Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue, NYC, has been extended through June 30, 2009.