Up now at the Georgia Museum of Art: American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print From the GMOA website: This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.  The exhibition, created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported by America’s Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of the Wallace Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this exhibition and others, visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/american-letterpress-the-art-of-hatch-show-print
UGA 2011 MFA graduate An Pham is featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution! Pham’s work is featured in Spruill Gallery’s “Emerging Artists 2011” show.  From the article: “The artist works with a wide palette of materials, from handmade paper and old books to plastic strips, scotch tape and – most wondrously in this exhibit — rubber bands. Pham crochets, plaits, knots, coils and otherwise manipulates this mundane item into mysterious sculptures, which she presents like the gifts they are in hand-made boxes. It’s a good thing that Pham wants you to touch them because they are irresistibly tactile. They also give off that rubber-band smell and, more profoundly, the feeling of intensity that comes from the hours of repetition and minute manipulations that making these works require. She manipulates books and their pages with similar inventiveness. I’m watching her.” Read the entire article here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/lucha-rodriguez-at-swan-1143048.html Visit Pham’s website here: http://www.an-pham.com/
Selected galleries will be showcasing Bob Dylan’s latest print series, “Drawn Blank” From ArtInfo.com:  Dylan created the artworks from 1989 to 1992 while on tour to “relax and refocus a restless mind.” The pieces loosely draw inspiration from the style of the post-Impressionists, even using a bowl of fruit as one of his subjects, just as Paul Cezanne did. Dylan captures the seemingly mundane of aspects of everyday life, like a sidewalk café or big rig truck, injecting his own touch. Read the entire article here: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38173/i-shall-be-released-new-limited-edition-prints-of-bob-dylans-art-hit-the-market/
Up on display through December 13th: BFA Exit shows in Photography, Printmaking, Jewelry & Metalworking, Graphic Design, and Fabric Design.  Includes works by: Ashley Doliber, Heather Leake, Abigail Morris, Alex Palmour, Andrea Tabacchi, Andrew Ferrer, Anna King, Candace Frieden, Carolyne Teston, Chelsea Elliott, Danessa Reyes, Erin Freeman, Margaret George, Jeff Gess, Jennifer Lindell , Jessica Caldas, Kate Lindsey, Mallory Ingram, Rachel Cook, and Sara Nguyen. For more information, check out the LDSOA website: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=3&id=256 http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=3&id=261 (Graphic Design) To read Adam Carlson’s article in the Red & Black about UGA’s exit shows, visit: http://www.redandblack.com/2010/12/03/students-put-forth-best-art-for-exit-show/ Image: Fabric detail by Candace Frieden (http://www.cadmiumvibe.com/)
This Friday, June 25th: 3 Artists ! Graduate students Brian Hitselberger (Painting & Drawing), Janie Askew (Printmaking), and Phil Jasen (Printmaking) are displaying work at Anchor Tattoo and Gallery from 7-10pm. Come out and bring all of your friends! RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116810145#!/event.php?eid=107212059327916 Event image by Phil Jasen (http://philjasen.wordpress.com/)
TONIGHT! (Saturday, June 19th) opening reception from 7-9pm: ATHICA Emerges IV: Uncertainty “ATHICAEmerges IV: Uncertainty introduces Athens to four artists whose works all have a metaphorical relationship to the uncertain times we face. Through installation, painting, printmaking and sculpture the selected artworks explore the precarious interconnectedness of our world, reminding us that we must all tread lightly.” Curated by Katherine McQueen and Katherine Holmes For more information: http://www.athica.org/index.php?ID=60&action=More RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=127925040574273&index=1 Melissa Dickenson, Pawn-route (2010), acrylic and ink on cut paper, 40” x 40”
Opening reception TONIGHT, Friday, June 4th from 6-7:30pm in the Suite Gallery on the 3rd Floor of Lamar Dodd See you there!
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers “In Mexico, November 2 is best known as El Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. It was on this day in 2006 that the politically charged artist collective Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca was born. ASARO is comprised of individual artists ranging from 15-31 years old. Wielding printmaking skills taught to them by Mexican and Japanese master printers, the members of ASARO were compelled to action by teacher protests that escalated into civilian fatalities at the hands of the federal police. With ASARO’s wheat-pasted prints and graffiti shouting their messages of protest up and down the streets, the world took notice of the collective and the situation.”http://www.marwen.org/site/epage/87619_431.htm
“Boxers in Red and Blue”, etching by Greg Stone, 3rd year printmaking major http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonethekid/
“Jebidiah F. Whiskerwillow” hand colored variable edition etching from the series “The Magical Matriculating Mustachioed Men” by 3rd year printmaking major Greg Stone http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonethekid/
Poster designed by printmaking graduate student Grace Zuniga http://www.gracezuniga.com
Visiting Artist: Kelly Clark  Lecture this Thursday, April 22 from 5-6pm in room N100 From artist statement: “The majority of my experience in the classroom, as both student and educator, revolves around printmaking. However I have gradually left the pressroom in order to work more at home, to limit my contact with solvents and inks, and to conserve paper, which I compost in my backyard with my kitchen scraps. This change of practice is certainly temporary, and leaving behind the vagaries of the media has heightened my interest in the vocabulary of Print.” http://www.kellyjohnclark.com/ RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=116799535005869&ref=mf
TONIGHT: BFA Printmaking, Photography, and Jewelry/Metals Exit Shows! The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exit Showrepresents years of study and practice, culminating in a professional group exhibition and celebration. BFA I features students in Photography, Printmaking and Jewelry/Metals, including Elizabeth Gaby, Bryan Hilley, Eric Lotzer, Danielle Tobin, Gabriel Bratton, Britt Gantner, Steven Hall, Susan Kent, Goodloe Yancey, Brittany Dowdell, Lulu Gyoury, Ashley Hall, Michelle Hall, Kristen Mapes, Emily Mayo, Kaylyn Mitchell, Cynthia Nist, Travis Oneal, and Lauren Smith. Congratulations to everyone! RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=62700665#!/event.php?eid=367229678436&ref=mf
Printmaker Lisa Bulawsky is coming to UGA to participate in a collaborative project honoring the season of Spring. Printmaking students of all persuasions have been working hard to create magnets with spring imagery, which will be attached to cars and paraded around campus on Friday, April 9th, while blasting the “Rites of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky.  Bulawsky will be giving a lecture Thursday at 5pm in the art school, and the parade will take place from 1-2pm on Friday. http://www.lisabulawsky.com/
“The Tea Party,” hand-colored lithograph by Greg Stone, 3rd year printmaking major http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonethekid/
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