The Washington Print Club has two exciting programs coming up. This newsletter contains registration information for both of them, so please be sure to scroll down.
Please Join Us for
An Online Program on Artist Joyce Scott’s
Works on Paper
With Joyce Scott and
Amy Raehse of Goya Contemporary Gallery
August 28, 1:00 pm
Via Zoom
Please join us on Wednesday, August 28, 1:00 pm for an online program on works on paper by artist Joyce Scott with the artist herself and Amy Raehse of Goya Contemporary Gallery (Baltimore).
MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948, Baltimore, MD) is best known for her figurative sculpture using bead weaving techniques, blown glass, and found objects. As an African- American, feminist artist, Scott confronts difficult themes as diverse as her subjects which include race, misogyny, sexuality, stereotypes, gender inequality, economic disparity, history, politics, violence, and discrimination.
Joyce Scott is also a printmaker. An installation of 30 of her works are on view at Goya Contemporary until September 2. The exhibition allows visitors to dive into Scott’s printmaking history, with works she has made across the United States with a number of presses and master printers including early pulp paper works from the 1980’s produced with Helen Fredrick at Pyramid Atlantic. More information about the Goya Contemporary exhibition is available here.
Scott and her work have been the subject of countless scholarly books and articles, and she has received numerous awards and prestigious honors. Scott is represented in the collections of major museums worldwide including the Baltimore Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, which co-organized her 50-year retrospective.
Amy Raehse is executive director and partner at Goya Contemporary Gallery. Raehse has worked in the museum, gallery, and academic sectors of the arts. A writer, educator, independent curator, and specialist on the work of Dr. Joyce J Scott, Raehse has authored catalogue essays and scholarly articles. She is also a trustee at the International Fine Print Dealers Association as well as Trustee of the IFPDA Foundation.
Washington Print Club members have priority registration for this event. Registration will be opened up to non-members on Friday, August 9, so please be sure to RSVP right away to ensure your place on Zoom.
Please use the blue “button” below to RSVP.
Please Join Us for a Visit to the
Studio of Artist Joyce Wellman
Saturday, September 7, 11:00
This program is In-person and Members Only
Please join the Washington Print Club on Saturday, September 7, 11:00 am for a visit to the studio of artist Joyce Wellman, located in Northwest DC.
About her practice, the artist says, “Coded Messages is how I think about and understand how my artwork ‘works’. My purpose has been to create a ‘visual gateway’ that can encourage a dialogue between the viewer and the work of art. Using the synergy inherent in abstraction, I populate my work with seemingly random numbers, marks, words, and symbols, letters, multiple degrees of vibrant, cool/hot color, and the narrative imagery of storytelling. I want my art to encourage broad, diverse audiences to explore, conjecture, wonder, recall memories, and experience ways that visual imagery can connect us to our spiritual yet universal selves. Using abstract geometry as a compositional structure, and the sacred in art as a ‘content guide,’ I create the magic of a poetic, meaningful, and moving art. My prints are inspired by the work of Khrishna Reddy, a master printmaker and sculptor who, along with artist Kaiku Moti, developed color viscosity etching while at Stanley Hayter’s innovative printmaking studio Atelier 17.”
You can learn more about the artist on her website here.
Registration for this program is limited to 15 people. Washington Print Club members may register for themselves and one guest. Please use the blue “button” below to register.
Artist Member News
Delna Dastur’s work is included in the Delaware Contemporary exhibition Mixed Messaging. Until August 25.
Mary Higgins, Cross The Meadow: Drawings by Mary Welch Higgins, September 5 – October 15, Goodwin House – The Art Studio Gallery, 4800 Fillmore Ave, Alexandria, VA.
Robert Hunter’s print Divergent received a Juror’s choice award in the 2024 Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community’s National Juried Art Exhibition held at the Park Gables gallery in Harrisonburg VA. Robert also had two of his artist’s books selected for the 13th Juried International Exhibition – The Art of the Book, August 20 – November 30, 2024.
June Linowitz’s show Elemental will be at the Fred Schneider Gallery September 7 – October 27. Opening reception September 7; artist talk October 6.
Kate Lowman leaf & luminosity: constructed prints and photographs will be on view at the Washington Printmakers Gallery August 29 – September 29. Reception September 8, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
linn meyers and Soledad Salamé have artwork in the Kreeger Museum’s 30th anniversary exhibition. Until October 5.
Elzbieta Sikorska, Susan Due Pearcy, Gail Shaw-Clemons, and Clare Winslow have work in the Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition, hosted by the University of Maryland Global Campus. Until September 8.
Rosemary Feit Covey is a finalist for the prestigious Trawick Prize. Work by Trawick finalists will be on view at Gallery B (Bethesda, MD) September 5 – 29. Reception September 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
A video of Ruth Fine’s presentation on the Brandywine Archives’ exhibition (re)FOCUS@BWA: Prints by Women, Then and Now is available on YouTube here.
Work by Cianne Fragione was selected for inclusion in the 2024 Wiregrass Museum Biennial. The exhibition focuses on work by artists in the Southeastern United States.
The exhibition Eternal Paper, which features work by WPC members Cheryl Edwards, Helen Frederick, Randi Reiss-McCormack, Soledad Salame, and Gretchen Schermerhorn, is now on view at the Paper Academy in Gilleleje, Denmark.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery From Wood To Paper and Back Again, a group show which includes work by members Elzbieta Sikorska and Susan Goldman. Until August 10.
Addison/RipleySummer Selections. Until August 23.
Hemphill, Belkin – Caldwell – Shull, a three-artist group show. Until August 24.
Pyramid Atlantic, Destinos, contemporary prints by Mexican artists. Until August 18.
Washington Printmakers Gallery, National Small Works Exhibition and Competition until August 25. Awards and reception August 10, 2:00 – 5:00 pm. Upcoming: exhibition of work by Kate Lowman (see above).
Save the Dates
September 17, A tour of the Phillips Collection exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage with curator Adrienne Childs.
September 28, a tour of an exhibition of works on paper by South African artists at George Mason University’s Arlington, VA, gallery with gallery director Alissa Maru and WPC member Cheryl Edwards.
October 5, A visit to the studio of artist Delna Dastur.