Direct from the Director - Juneteenth
The Fairfield University Art Museum is very pleased to announce the acquisition of 40 artworks from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives. Works by Adger Cowans, Janet Taylor Pickett, Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar, and Larry Walker are among those in the new “satellite collection” at FUAM. The collection includes works from the early 1980s to today by primarily BIPOC artists, with more than 50% of the works by women artists.. The acquisition of these prints was partly funded by the museum’s Black Art Fund, created by the museum in early 2021 to address a lack of diversity in its permanent collections. The Black Art Fund is dedicated to the acquisition of contemporary art by Black artists.
Founded in Philadelphia in 1972 by artist Allan Edmunds, the Brandywine Workshop and Archives is a nonprofit cultural institution celebrated for its engagement with the local community and its educational programming. For five decades, the workshop has offered arts programming in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and sponsored printmaking residencies for both undiscovered and well-known artists. At Brandywine, collaboration and the exchange of ideas feed a culture of experimentation, in which master printers and artists continually challenge conventions of the creative process and push the technical boundaries of printmaking to produce exciting new works.
The Fairfield University Art Museum has acquired 39 works by artists from the Brandywine Workshop as part of the workshop’s initiative to place “satellite collections” in university art museums across the United States. According to Brandywine, the satellite program is intended to “bring the art of diverse cultures to institutions and communities that wish to enrich or diversify existing collections.” FUAM joins prestigious institutions including Harvard Art Museums, RISD Museum and the University of Delaware Museums.
Artists whose works are in the new Fairfield University Art Museum Brandywine Satellite collection include: Rick Bartow, Selma Burke, Adger Cowans, Allan Edmunds, Mikel Elam, Rodney Ewing, Maya Freelon, Curlee Raven Holton, Jacob Landau, Samella Lewis, Tanya Murphy-Dodd, Janet Taylor Pickett, Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar, Frank Smith, Larry Walker, and Jo Yarrington. The print by Yarrington, the 40th work in the collection, is a gift of the artist, who is a professor of Studio Art at Fairfield University. She did a residency at Brandywine in 1985, and has donated an impression of the print that she did there to the museum to fill out the collection.
A selection of these prints will be included in an exhibition focusing on the work of contemporary women artists. The exhibition, a curatorial collaboration between museum staff and Fairfield University student Phoebe Charpentier ‘23, will be on view in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries April 20 – July 15, 2023. A larger exhibition focused on the Brandywine Workshop and Archive is planned for Fall 2024. We hope you will explore the prints in this new Satellite Collection in the museum's online Collections Database, where you can view them individually or together in Brandywine Archive and Workshop Satellite Collections folder.
The works in Fairfield’s newly formed satellite collection have tremendously expanded the voices represented in our collection of contemporary prints and we are delighted to have been able to use our recently established Black Art Fund to partially finance this acquisition. However, we have spent almost all of the $30,000 which we have raised to date, so we hope you will help us to continue either through financial contributions or through donations of museum-quality artwork.
We know that this is ongoing work, and we are proud to share this step with you.
Carey Mack Weber
Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director
Captions:
Rodney Ewing (b. 1964), My Country Needs Me, 1996
Offset lithograph on paper. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022.
Mikel Elam (b. 1964), Veil, 2019, Offset lithograph and screenprint on paper. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022.
Frank Smith (b. 1935), Be Bop Vamp, 1986. Offset Lithograph on paper. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022.
Tanya Murphy-Dodd (b. 1965), Men of Color to Arms, 2011. Offset Lithograph on paper. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022.
Adger Cowans (b. 1936), Modus, 1995. Offset Lithograph on paper. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022.
1 note
·
View note
…….
Galileo’s Telescope
Hand bound/ Printed
Accordion Fold Book
Printed on a Vandercook Uni. 1
Using handset 10 pt. Baskerville lead type and polymer plate.
5”x7” closed
2016
The core of this book, in terms of both text and imagery was formed around an original “found” poem derived from a Galileo bio piece by the same title, which was written in the early 1950’s.
The larger gesture, (if there was one) is to underline the notion of hubris.
The text reads:
Ignorant of science, educated men recieved a great impetus
When statements in the bible spread in every land.
The first among them lived many years in opposition.
moreover people could not easily.
reconcile themselves to the fact that-man is not the center of the universe.
2 notes
·
View notes
The Prince of Tides (2022) There are certain distances that remain. Distances that cannot be crossed, erased, shortened, or even avoided. There is a measure in our minds that knows distance. The distance of centimeters and inches to kilometers and miles. The distance of time. One second, one minute, one hour. The distance of weeks to months and months to years. And then there’s the distance between breathes, between thoughts, between glances, between words, between one heartbeat and the next. The language of distances, measured and metered. Cell deep. What part of the body does not understand distance in all its nuances? Distances opening, distances closing. Danger, intimacy. Chasms and hairline fractures. It’s possible to know them all and still be caught by surprise. By the one that cannot be crossed. The distance that is to walk in place, in the same moment, from where there’s no going. The distance of a heart from chamber to chamber, wall to wall. I have walked my heart. And all I have gained with the passage of time is not distance. Time will take me no where, and the geographical miles keep me suspended in an illusory dance. The dance of distances. The distance between one body and the next. And the future into which we cannot step alone. Unique hand-finished monotype with mixed media on Hahnemühle 300gsm etching paper 78 x 104cm Private Collection #monotypie #monotype #printart #printmaker #sketch #printmaking #painter #painting #abstractart #atelier #art #artist #artwork #espacetemps #tracesdutemps #abtractworld #dualité #dualityoflife #contemporaryprint #artonpaper #dessincontemporain #estampecontemporaine #VAAWorkingArtist #VisualArtistsAssociation #VAAartist #VAACreativeHabits #draw #drawing #sketchbook #artcollector https://www.instagram.com/p/CmB-uduq-PV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
2 notes
·
View notes
Week 2..Thursday 13/October
Print Contemporary Practice
Attended a lecture by
Antonietta Covino Beehre
on Printmaking and sculpture
Even though she mentioned a lot of words and processes that as a first year student I have no working knowledge of I felt all the more inspired by the flexibility of Antonietta's results of using print/photography/digital/Triptych/sculpture.
2 notes
·
View notes
🔵➡️ @bainbridgeprint To celebrate 15 years of Bainbridge Print Studios we are delighted to be re-launching the Bainbridge Open 2023 🔵➡️ https://bainbridgeprint.com/bainbridge-open-2023 ⬅️ an open submission competition for print based artists across the UK. Our fabulous selectors- @eamesfineart and @ianchamberlainartist will be choosing the work to be showcased at @ascgallery in June. If you are an artist working in print whether professional, early career or student check out our website for details. Deadline for Entry: 21 May 2023 #printmaking #contemporaryprint #screenprinting #linocut #etching #intaglio #printcompetition #artistopportunity #cyanotype #photopolyergravureprint #photopolymer (at ASC Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrDYFAJof2B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
1 note
·
View note
💚➡️ @adamsgarratt Hi-vis bundles with printed straps 🦺 Some of the new work I have made for Embodied Labour. Reclaimed & donated hi-vis with screen printed straps on reclaimed event banners. These works are part way between found object & handmade form - sculpture & storage - industry & domestic. See them all @studio.kind from April 22. PV April 21, 1730-1930. #HiVis #WorkWear #RatchetStrap #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #screenprint #ContemporaryPrint @artsandcultureex @screenstretch @doubleelephantprintworkshop (at Studio-KIND.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq-5l2PoQIj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
0 notes
Unmake the Wild Light (2023) It is in a certain slip of light that time shifts itself from the clock. Becomes its immeasurable shifting self in shapes as fleeting as shadows. And sometimes, just sometimes possible to think of time as tidal, to feel adrift like living flotsam and jetsam upon its endless waves, rising and falling, ebbing and flowing. In this tidal time, all is caught in the web of ebb and flow, the current pulling forwards, tugging back, lifting clear, rinsing out. Places to anchor fall away beneath the waters. Time flows on, and we, the hapless traveler, go on with it, borne to destinations far beyond our own imaginings. The waters recede. The tide pulls out, leaving the memory of itself on a distant shore. Unique hand-finished monotype with mixed media and collage on Hahnemühle 300gsm etching paper - 106 x 78cm #art #artist #artwork #monotypie #monotype #printart #printmaker #printmaking #notebook #journal #abstractartist #abstractart #contemporaryprint #artonpaper #dessincontemporain #time #memory#estampecontemporaine#sketchbook #artcollector #contemporaryart #artlovers #kunst #kunstwerk #mixedmedia #mixedmediaartist #gallery #collage #dualité #dualityoflife https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKZewVKKS8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
0 notes
LAST CHANCE TO SEE! Sadly, it's the final day of our "Art (or "Asset", as our predictive text keeps trying to write it, so perhaps it's trying to tell us something 🙂) for all Seasons" exhibition, which ends today, Sunday 8 January. The weather forecast here this afternoon is not looking good for sun-seekers, so why not pack away the Factor 50, break out the umbrella and head over to @ferini_art_gallery Ferini Gallery in Pakefield while you still can!? To "crown" the end of this particular adventure, this is "Crown Zero" (mono plus screen-print) by @easterlyartists member @itsclarejohnson Clare Johnson. Keep following us for news of the next one! Ferini is at 27 All Saints Road, Pakefield NR33 0JL: opening times are Friday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm. Entry is free and all work is for sale. More details at www.easterly.org.uk/art-for-all-seasons or follow #art4allseasons. ----------------- #ferini_art_gallery #itsclarejohnson #easterlyartists #britishartists #contemporaryprint #modernartists #visualartwork #suffolkart #suffolkartist #suffolkartists #lowestoftart #monoprints #monoprintingart #monoprintmaking #monoprinting #screenprintinglife #screenprinter #screenprinting #screenprinted #originalprint #originalprint #originalprints #originalprinting #printmakers #printmaking #mixedmediaprints #urbanartist #urbanarts #urbanartwork (at Pakefield, Suffolk, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnJaGZPD1Cr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
0 notes