Fellowship program: Women's Studio Workshop

Check out the work produced by artists in this program at women's studio workshop
"Women's Studio Workshop is a visual arts organization with specialized studios in printmaking, hand papermaking, ceramics, letterpress printing, photography, and book arts. Artists are invited to work at WSW as a part of our Fellowship Program, Artists' Books Grants, Residencies, Internships, or to learn new skills in our Summer Arts Institute and community workshop series.

Artists' Books

Women's Studio Workshop has been publishing artists' books since 1979. WSW took a leadership role in the emergence of the genre by initiating the book arts grant program over 30 years ago and today WSW IS the largest publisher of hand printed artists' books in the country."


 

Ashes

embers and ashes
vivid and warm

burn the hand that attempts to hold them.

ashes and embers

starving, fade away

flames too hot to remember.

ashes and ashes

cold and tired

no spark of recollection in them.

ashes and change

dust away, deep below

one flicker remains.

ashes and scars

time and friction

ignition.

handful of caution,

there is light.

-slk

Featured Artist: Ann Rea

http://www.annrea.com/collect/originals/wilderotter/framed_16_x_20_original_oil_vineyard_painting_flowers_and_vines_ii_357.asp
 This link leads you to the Ann Rea website where you will find vibrant, vivid colors of natural life moving across the canvas.
This particular painting is called flowers and vines II.
These paintings were an unexpected discovery on an internet search for live/work studio space.
Visit Ann's site to see so much more of her work.

Featured Artist-Kimberly Camp

Kimberly Camp began her career as a professional artist 37 years ago with a sidewalk exhibition in Woodbury NJ at the age of 12. Since then, her paintings and dolls have been shown throughout the US in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. Her list of solo exhibitions is extensive, including the American Craft Museum, Smithsonian Institution, International Sculpture Center, University of Michigan, the Hand Workshop, Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Bomani Gallery, CRT Craftery Gallery and Manchester Craftsman’s Guild. Visit her site to learn more about this gifted artist.
http://www.kimberlycamp.com/

Still Standing Installation Complete

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Still Standing is on display at Jones Memorial Hospital for the remainder of the season at the request of the Rehabilitations Services Director. Currently seeking additional locations for display.
This work is dedicated with many thanks to the healing hands of Anne Galvin who cared when no one else could anymore.
Additional thanks to:
The Jones Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Services staff for their patience and kindness when I was not myself.
ARA The Counseling Center’s Terry Smith for your time and guidance.
Dante, Crystal, and Kierra Carlton and Joseph Curcio – you inspire me to be the best me that I can be.
Paul & Cecy Curcio for everything you do for the people around you.
My family and friends - for your patience when I could no longer participate.-slk
Still Standing is a photographic documentation of the cyclic nature of the chronic pain experience. Each frame demonstrates the artist's interpretation of a season in the cycle of coping with chronic pain. The work illustrates the balance that may be found in adaptation. The circular installment and positioning of each frame displays the endless repetition of the cycle and the grace that can be found in the fleeting moments of acceptance. Each photograph was taken by the artist to record locations on the road to recovery. (These are scenes from the Greenway Snowmobile trail that runs through Belfast, NY.) The images are framed by paper sculpture which amplifies the significance of the view at each location. The paper sculpture process was used as part of the artist's personal healing process to recover fine motor skills from May to September 2009. This work is intended for display in pain management and rehabilitation clinics.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Inside-Chronic-Pain/Lous-Heshusius/e/9780801447969

new work series Facing Phases

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Facing phases is a collection of observations made by the artist. Each image in the series documents the ebb and flow of our engagement with life. The viewer is strongly encouraged to confront each stage of change directly with the knowledge that this too shall pass. "The only constant is change. Change constantly influences perspective. Awareness of perspective gives one the power to change it. Face each phase as it comes. Take the time to know the character of each for you will inevitably see it again. "-slk

Featured Artist

Peter Callesen

Amazing Paper Sculpture!

A true master of perspective manipulation.

http://www.mcescher.com/Shopmain/ShopEU/facsilimeprints/prints.html

I have always loved the way that Escher pushes the viewer to consider the shifting nature of perception.

Featured Art Topic

Learn more about Partners for Arts Education   http://www.arts4ed.org/

"Partners for Arts Education inspires learning and leadership for arts in education in Central New York and throughout  New York State. We provide funding and support to deepen and enrich educational experiences in and through the art for students, teachers and artists."

Partners for Arts Education
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Syracuse NY 13204 315 234 9911
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portfolio

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This slideshow contains large and small works that I have managed to fit into my life. Assembling this collection has been an exercise in establishing my own identity as an artist within my own perception of myself. This slide show consists of numerous chapters in the story of the evolution of my work. The chronilogical nature of the show has permitted me to view it as such. Through this activity I have manage to select specific pieces that I feel will be suitable for grant applications and shows. It is much easier to use this as a tool for the process of selection than it would ever be to actually view all of the work during that process. If for no other reason than this I am determined to continue to learn more about the digital resources available to artists. I am behind the times but I will share what I learn as I get caught up. I hope that it helps me learn to market my work and provide some insight for others trying to do the same.

Featured Artist

Captive Bird-Gabe Brown. See more by this artist at gabebrownstudio.com

Night Garden

Night Fire

finally!

Artist Statement at Still Standing Display

Perceptive perspective

Is your destination an illusion?

In your aimless meandering are you exploring,

Or escaping from the shelter that became your confinement?

Has your stabilizing anchor become the albatross that holds you down?

Does your protective mask blind you?

Have your braces become your obstacles?

Have your sanctified boundaries become insurmountable limitations?

Has your desire become impotent obsession?

Do you feel safe in the darkness or the light?

Are you safe or STIFLED?

Has the sweetness you once craved begun to make you nauseous?

Is it too complacent to compete with the obstacles we all must overcome?

After your escape and celebrated freedom,

Were you lost?

Opposing forces shifting, shape our world.

We move between, around and among them.

Obstacles fall before us and around us.

Perception stagnates in the façade.

In the shadow of momentum’s change

Art is the power to influence perspective.

slk

ARTIST STATEMENT

Do not confront the simple darkness that holds us as we contemplate

the moments of the closing day and anticipate the promise of tomorrow. 

Confront the suffocating ashes of disillusion and despair that deny Today.

Hope and despair exist in the same moment. 

The dual nature of perspective gives me a choice.

Art gives me the power to document the balance. 

It allows me to record the simultaneous existence of both. 

Balance is necessary to compete against the unknown thing that feeds 

on our forgotten dreams and burns the bridges to our achievements. 

It is the unknown thing that forces us to exchange our hope for drudgery

as it blinds us to the grand, fleeting moments of grace that happen in an instant. Without the stability to perceive Grace, life is just motion looking for a place to rest. 

This work is not about observing moments of grace. 

It is about living them. 

slk

Still Standing 2009

Multi-media: photography and paper sculpture.
This piece surrounds a sample of the artist's original written work. Each frame in the piece displays the artist's interpetation of the phases in the cycle of coping with chronic pain. From healthy social interaction to the agony and isolation that attaches itself to this existence the artist shows the balance that may be achieved in adaptation. The artist also acknowledges the endless repetition of the cycle and the grace that can be found in the fleeting moments of acceptance.