Y is for YES
Kathy Clem invites you to come on over!
Just now I have an invitation card to the opening of a new art space in Rochester. It will be very interesting to see what will happen at Kathy Clem’s Museo de Arte! The space is attractive, and the location is out-of-the ordinary ( 3495 Winton Place in Rochester ). I visited the site months ago to talk with Kathy Clem and at the time the community installation was still in progress. The little shanty on the premises is going to have handmade pieces of felt to wrap around and give the building some interesting textures and colors. The opening is coming in April, on the 16th, so I plan to attend!
The Print Club of
Rochester
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Made On State
This winter, along with shoveling snow, I have been doing my research for a new book project, which will be in honor of The Print Club of Rochester. Today, I visited The Print Club archive and office on State Street, to look over the files and consider what I should say about The Club. My understanding is that this book will be a tribute to The Club which will be having its' 100th year anniversary soon, and The Club has a lot to be proud of! You may know that The Print Club is a community based group devoted to making and collecting fine art prints, some of which you can see in the photo above. Almost 30 years ago I was on the board of directors for The Club, and we did some amazing work to stimulate interest in this branch of fine art.
Making a Presentation print for The Print Club in the studios of R.I.T.
By belonging to The Print Club each year, members receive a Presentation print for themselves. During the early years of this 21st Century, I along with some volunteers made prints at R.I.T. as you see above. This was a group effort, and a very rewarding one, since at that time we were making editions of over a hundred prints for The Club.
Today, you can visit The Memorial Art Gallery and you will find prints like Audrey Flack's "Fourth of July Still Life" from 1975, once you walk in and view the show they call "Desire & Abundance"
Audrey Flack shows her serigraph in "Desire & Abundance"
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The Memorial Art Gallery
Then walk down the hall to see the new show at The Lockhart Gallery, that celebrates Picasso's big linoleum cuts, and walk through to view his progressive proofs. If you don't know how these prints were made there is an instructive video that accompanies the show, so stop and see this exhibit, it is really worth while!
Picasso and his Progressive proofs, in the Lockhart Gallery
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The Memorial Art Gallery
