Thank you Assistant Professor of Printmaking Brittany Gorelick and Mariah Dechant, president of the Creative Arts Society, for hosting me next week. Can't wait!
Digging this poster made for my upcoming visit to Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. I was invited by the Creative Arts Society, a student club at FHSU, and this will mark my first visit to Kansas since 2002.
Itβs an honor to have been included in the exhibit Impressions In Ink: Celebrating Printmaking In All Forms at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol, CA. One of my screenprints, From the Ashes, was selected into this national juried show.
On view: January 4, 2025 through February 2, 2025.
Itβs an honor to have been included in the exhibit Art of the State 2025 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. One of my recent screen prints, Firestarter, was selected into this show.
On view: January 216, 2025 through March 30, 2025.
Exhibition Photos, by Wes Magyar
Young me would look at current me with big, wide, bright, googly eyes. Last week I was a visiting artist at CSU Stanislaus! THANK YOU Marty Azevedo for the invitation. I presented work and gave talks about my process to 4 separate groups of students. There was also a more formal artist talk presentation. A definite highlight was being given the opportunity to print a new edition! THANK YOU Alexander Quinones for all your efforts and hard work to help me see this fireball-casting wizard come to life.
This was the first time I printed an edition on Rives BFK, black, to utilize the natural color of the sheet as the shadows; instead of printing those elements.
THANK YOU to the RiNo Art District for asking me to facilitate this round-table discussion about the needs of the printmaking artist community here in Denver.
Join RiNo Art District and artist Gregory Santos for a round-table discussion on printmaking. What are the greatest strengths and resources in the Colorado printmaking community? How can we foster community, access to materials, and connection during times of transition (e.g. graduation)? What vision do we have for the future printmaking ecosystem?
Tonight is the opening reception of the Big Draw Colorado exhibition at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities!
On view: June 8, 2023 through August 27, 2023.
I'm chuffed to not only be included alongside so many talented artists in this comprehensive exhibit focused on drawing but to also have my work selected for some of their promotional material.
As part of the galleryβs audio tour, you may listen to me talk about my drawing at this link.
What is a drawing? In this juried group exhibition, the Arvada Center Galleries invited contemporary Colorado artists to submit works that celebrate the traditional roots of drawing and challenge preconceived definitions of drawing through explorations in rendering, mark-making, gesture, abstraction, realism, form, medium, and beyond. β
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With 77 works from 71 artists, Big Draw Colorado illustrates the vast world of drawing across the state.β
"Kimberly (light green)"
crayon
30 x 30 inches
2010
Itβs an honor to have been included in the exhibit Five Points 2023 Printmaking Juried Exhibition at the Five Points Arts Center located in Torrington, CT. One of my lithographs, Oopsie, was selected into this national juried show.
Juror: Amanda Lebel
Amanda Lebel is a Professor of Art at Naugatuck Valley Community College.
On view: June 3, 2023 through July 28, 2023.
Itβs an honor to have one of my prints, #like4like, included in the exhibit Beyond The Norm 2022, juried by Carmon Colangelo, at the University Galleries of Illinois State University.
Thank you to all who came out yesterday to the CU Boulder Art Museum to listen to me talk about Mixed Grit, Art Gym, and ways to build community through printmaking. Thank you to the CU Boulder Art Museum for this two-week pop up exhibit of select prints from the Mixed Grit portfolio.
Itβs an honor to once again have work on display at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. This time, both the matrix and print were chosen to be part of the One Sheet: Wood exhibit. This 40x40 inche woodcut was printed in March, 2020, at a Big Ink printing event.
Itβs here! The newest episode of the Hello, Print Friend studio visits! Reinaldo Gil Zambrano visits me in Denver and we talk about sudoku, printmaking, resiliency, and community building.
I invite you to listen to my gabfest. Listen/watch the conversation on YouTube HERE.
You can watch all the Hello, Print Friend PrintMaking Documentary: Summer Road Trip USA videos HERE.
THANK YOU to Rachel Shelton for writing such a nice article for Vol. 34/35 of the MAPC Journal about the Printmakers Connect discussions I hosted and moderated for a full year on the social audio app, Clubhouse. And a greater thank you for co-organizing with David Wischer the Leave Quietly international portfolio exchange for the group of conversation participants.
I invite you to listen to my gabfest with Edie Overturf and Cammy York on the News Print Podcast! Available for listening on Spotify, Anchor, and Apple.
Listen to the conversation on Spotify HERE.
The News Print Podcast is a podcast about print news! Hosted by Edie Overturf & Cammy York. The website is a great source for current news and resources. View it HERE.
You can listen to all the News Print Podcast content HERE.
Enjoying this review by Maggie Sava, in DARIA, of the national printmaking exhibit βImpressed: Transcendent Glitch.β This was the fifth in a series of national, juried printmaking exhibitions in the Art Gym Gallery. As part of the Month of Printmaking 2022, this exhibit brings together prints from 27 artists across the country.
DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, a publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver and Front Range visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art.
Loving this article by Kalene McCort, in the Colorado Daily, of the Mixed Grit exhibit at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, CO. On view as part of MoβPrint 2022.
Enjoying this little piece about the weekly βPrintmakers Connectβ discussions I hosted and moderated on the social-audio app Clubhouse for a full year. 2-hours every Thursday, beginning March 25, 2021, through March 17, 2022.
Order your copy of Pressing Matters magazine, Issue 18 at www.pressingmattersmag.com
It was an honor to once again be the juror Art Gymβs Impressed exhibit, the fifth in a series of national, juried printmaking exhibitions in the Art Gym Gallery. As part of the Month of Printmaking 2022, this exhibit brings together prints from 27 artists across the country.
It was a real pleasure to be asked to present a slide show via zoom as part of the Western Wilds Collective Virtual Conference, part of MoβPrint 2022. I gave a forty minute presentation about Mixed Grit followed by another forty minutes of Q&A. That was fun!
Thank you to the conference organizers, Alanna Austin and Eve Kruger for this opportunity.
In conjunction with Denverβs Month of Printmaking (MoβPrint), I selected work from 18 of Art Gymβs 30 printmaking members to make up this exhibit. Itβs always an enjoyable opportunity to review and select prints for this show. The variety of printmakers at Art Gym is robust, and the print media on display showcases that variety.
Itβs an honor to have been included in the exhibit Art of the State 2022 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. One of my lithographs, Oopsie, was selected into this juried show.
On view: January 20, 2022 through March 27, 2022.
