Opening Reception: Thursday, August 5th at 7:00 PM

Denmark Arts Center
50 West Main Street
Route 160
Denmark Village, ME 04022
ph: 207 452 2412

www.denmarkarts.org

Peregrine Press member Stephen Burt is showing work at Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 29 Forest Avenue, Portland. Along with his work are oil pastels by Michael Maltby and woodblock prints by Carroll Thayer Berry and Asa Cheffetz. The show will be up through September 15, 2010.

Opening reception: Thursday, August 5th from 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts
29 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11AM – 6PM
FMI: www.edpollackfinearts.com; or call: 207-699-2919

Addison Woolley Gallery will diverge from its usual format for the month of August with Atmospherics; a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Peregrine Press member Jeanne O’Toole Hayman.

Atmospherics
Oil paintings by Jeanne O’Toole Hayman
August 5 – 28, 2010

Opening reception Thursday, August 5th, 5 – 8 p.m.
Also open for First Friday 5 – 8 p.m.

Addison Woolley Gallery
132 Washington Avenue
Portland, ME.
(207) 450-8499 

Gallery hours:  Wed – Sat, 11:30 – 5
www.addisonwoolley.com

Big Grey (1962), © Will Barnet. Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery, NY

August 05 – September 25 2010
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is hosting a show of selected prints from five decades of Will Barnet’s work.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA)
162 Russell Avenue
Rockport, Maine 04856
Phone: 207.236.2875

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday: 1 to 5 pm
Closed Monday

For more information about this show see the CMCA website: www.cmcanow.org.

Dates: 3 August-29 August
Opening Reception and Awards: August 7, 1-4 pm
Juror’s Talk and Reception: August 14, 1-4 pm

About Washington Printmakers Gallery
Washington Printmakers Gallery is a cooperative print gallery which relocated to Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD in February 2010.  Current membership stands at 38 regional and national artists.  Founded in 1985, the Gallery is the DC area’s primary source for contemporary, artist-pulled fine art prints.

The first National Small Works Exhibition in Washington Printmakers Gallery’s new space at Pyramid Atlantic is the largest one yet, with 50 prints by 48 artists selected.  This year’s juror, Chris With, is the Coordinator of Art Emeritus at the National Gallery of Art and current President of the Washington Print Club, representing a group of print enthusiasts and collectors in the greater DC area.  Though the prints are small by requirement (maximum size is 170 square inches), they show an impressive breadth of technique, as well as subject matter, from all across the country. 

Current Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Thursday, Noon – 6 pm, Friday, Noon – 7 pm, Saturday, 10 -5 pm, and Sunday, Noon – 5 pm.

FMI: www.washingtonprintmakers.com

Pod IV, trace drawing monotype on Kozo, 9.25" x 12.5", © 2010

June 10 through August 15, 2010 Thomas Moser Freeport Showroom presents From the Maine Woods, paintings by Marguerite Robichaux, as well as work by Peregrine Press member Sissy Buck

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 10th from 6:00 – 8:30 PM

Thos. Moser Freeport showroom
149 Main Street (one block north of L.L. Bean)
Freeport, Maine 04032
For more information: call 207.865.4519, or visit www.thosmoser.com

The Mongolia Postcard Project
Opening reception with the artist: May 1st from 1–5 p.m.
Edge of Maine Frame and Gallery
182 Main Street; Brownfield, Maine

For more information about the Mongolian Postcard Project, see the the Mongolian Postcard Project post dated December 9, 2009.

For more information about the Edge of Maine Gallery call 207.935.2817, or visit their website: www.edgeofmaine.com

When: Friday, May 7, 5-8pm
Where: Bakery Studio Building, 61 Pleasant St. Portland
Who: Peregrine Press, a fine arts printmaking cooperative
Contact: Chris Beneman email: cbeneman[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com or 409-2023

We’re doing our spring cleaning, making room in our respective flat file drawers for lots of new work! Come support a bunch of really hard-working, talented printmakers Friday May 7th! Cash and checks only.

Southern Graphics Council Conference was held this year in conjunction with Philagrafika (formerly known as the Philadelphia Print Collaborative), in Philadelphia, PA. Peregrine Press members Chris Beneman and Sissy Buck attended the event — the result of 5 years of planning, “celebrating the role of print in contemporary artistic practice.” For more information on philagrafika check out their website: www.philagrafika.org

Chris and Sissy stayed at the Loew’s Hotel in center city, which was the center for the SGC, with lectures and presentations, and a vendor’s fair on Friday and Saturday. There were more than 80 venues, and over 300 artists participating all around Philly. Philadelphia is totally immersed in printmaking right now, through April 25 in most venues.

The City of Brotherly Love lived up to its name….everyone was very friendly and helpful. Especially the gentleman in the picture below who helped Chris, Sissy, Annie Silverman, and April Vollmer (that latter two are printmakers who have visited the Peregrine Press as part of the Kate Mahoney Memorial Fund Lecture program), find their way to one venue, even though he’d never heard of it!

the printmaking women, from left to right include: April Vollmer, Chris Beneman, Annie Silverman, and Sissy Buck

For a lot more about the various workshops, many links, and more pictures….

Wednesday: On our first night (a balmy spring evening), we went to the Print Center www.printcenter.org/ Latimer street was closed off, and the Drive By Press (yup, the same one that was in Portland for the first Friday artwalk this month) was set up outside printing t-shirts, while people looked on, strolling in and out of the Print Center – where there was an exhibit called “the Graphic Unconscious.” Check out this great youtube video of their process: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBr3WG8txQk

Thursday:
1. Carl Pope slide show and lecture at Loew’s Hotel Ballroom. There’s an interview with Carl on the Philagrafika blog

2. Artists’ Books at the Philadelphia Atheneum (an historic and beautiful gem). A small show, with 5 book artists choosing a book in the Atheneum’s collection, and creating their own book in response. We met Annie Silverman (Abrazos Press in Somerville, MA) and April Vollmer, Moku Hanga master,  at the conference and went to this show with them (see the photo above). Both April and Annie have done workshops for Peregrine Press.

3. Tyler School of Art at Temple Universtiy (www.temple.edu/tyler/) — an amazing art college with a new, state of the art, arts building.
-monoprint marathon for 5 mornings, with 9 visiting professors collaborating on each print…FUN! mostly screenprints, relief prints  and  monotypes, resulting in “Semographics II Monotypes” traveling exhibit.
-Exhibit by Rochelle Toner (amazing etchings)  www.rochelletoner.com
-Drumleaf binding with Joseph Lappie (professor at St. Ambrose Univ., Iowa)

4. University of the Arts… www.uarts.edu (they have a Masters program in Book Arts/ Printmaking.) — demonstration for printing and binding an offset artist’s book experimental broadsides on the Vandercook press, we each got to print and take home our own poster (check us out printing on the Vandercook here)

5. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts www.pafa.org–The SCG International Panel Philagrafika Exhibit and “Theme Portfolios”. This video was playing in the exhibition. It’s all woodcuts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7wuw9MlE4s&feature=player_embedded.

From the NYT, here is a link to a slide show of images from the various Philagraphika exhibitions: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/05/arts/20100205-PHILA_9.html

6. Univ. of Penn., Meyerson Gallery, “New Prints: Part II”
a beautiful campus on a warm afternoon. April Vollmer had a piece in this show

7. Institute of Contemporary Art www.icaphila.org “Maira Kahlman” a wonderful show.

Friday:
1.Tyler School of Art, demos in gelatin printmaking, non-toxic electro-etching….more demos that we didn’t get to…limited time and space.

2. Moore College of Art www.moore.edu – Japanese stab binding with Melanie Mowinski and Tara O’Brien

It was great and a little overwhelming to be immersed in PRINTMAKING! We didn’t go to as many lectures as we wanted in order to participate more in the hands-on offerings, and see the print exhibits. There are so many new techniques available to printmakers, it made my head spin a few times. All in all it was great to be back on college campuses where printmaking is alive and well.

For a few more pictures, click here!

Thanks to Sissy and Chris who wrote and submitted all the material for this entry.

The Bakery Building, Studio 203c
61 Pleasant Street, Portland

First Friday Art Walk
April 2nd
5-8pm