The Larry Sommers Art Fellowship
The Larry Sommers Art Fellowship reception was held for Ben Moreau, the 2010 recipient of the of the Larry Sommers Art Fellowship and merit award winners Kelda Martensen and Lisa Hasagawa, on September 2nd, 2010 at the Tashiro Kaplan Vanderbrink Community Room. The artists' work looked terrific and reflected the high quality and diversity of artists working in print arts and works on paper. The evening was attended by people participating in the First Thursday Gallery Walk and by friends honoring the artists and Larry Sommers. Seattle Print Arts President, Dionne Haroutunian presented the awards and gave a lovely tribute to Larry.
Photos courtesy of Brian Lane.
Thank you to everyone who has generously donated to the Larry Sommers Art Fellowship. It is an honor for Seattle Print Arts to sponsor this award in memory of our friend and colleague Larry Sommers. To contribute to this fund, please go to seattleprintarts.org and click on the "Donate/Join" tab on the left. You do not need to become a member to make a donation.
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Seattle Print Arts is proud to announce that the recipient of this year’s Larry Sommers Art Fellowship is Ben Moreau. We are delighted to be making this announcement on August 17th, which was Larry’s birthday. The Fellowship was established in memory of Larry with generous donations from colleagues, family and friends inspired by his passion for art and union activism. The selection committee received twenty-nine applications. We were impressed by the quality of the work and diversity of media represented in all the submissions, making the decision very challenging. Ben has proposed to use the Fellowship to develop and expand his current body of self-portraits as etchings, mezzotints and drawings. In addition Seattle Print Arts is pleased to present Kelda Martensen and Lisa Hasegawa with Fellowship merit awards in recognition of their work and commitment to print arts. A reception will be held to congratulate the artists and publicly announce the award. Larry Sommers Art Fellowship Reception Thursday, September 2nd at the Tashiro Kaplan Vandenbrink Community Room 115 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle. Thank you to all the artists who applied; the excellence and range of the submissions reflected the commitment and passion Larry shared for works on paper. Thank you to everyone who has generously donated to the Larry Sommers Art Fellowship. It is an honor for Seattle Print Arts to sponsor this award in memory of our friend and colleague Larry Sommers. To contribute to this fund, please go to our homepage and click on the “Donate/Join” tab on the left. You do not need to become a member to make a donation. |
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The Larry Sommers Art Fellowship
Seattle Print Arts is pleased to announce the first annual fellowship in memory of Larry Sommers.
The purpose of this fellowship is to support artistic excellence in the areas of print arts, book arts and works on or of paper. The award will provide a stipend of $2,000 to produce new work or to support a project in progress. The selected artist will be determined by the artistic excellence of the work presented in the application by a panel of arts professionals connected with the fellowship committee of Seattle Print Arts. In addition to the monetary award, the chosen artist will receive a one-year Seattle Print Arts membership.
The deadline for 2010 applications has passed.
To contribute to this fund, please go to the our homepage and click on the "Donate/Join" tab on the left. You do not need to become a member to make a donation.
Over the past year, since our dear friend and colleague Larry Sommers passed away, we have raised several thousand dollars in his honor. Thank you to all who have contributed to this special fund.
Eleven dealers from the U.S. and Canada will be exhibiting and selling prints from the 16th century to the present.
Volunteer members from Seattle Print Arts will be present to show printmaking tools and answer questions about printmaking. In addition, Seattle Prints Arts will have a table with information about Seattle Print Arts, local printmaking schools and studios We hope you will join us for this very exciting event.
Ninth Annual Seattle Print Fair
February 12, 13 &14, 2010
Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Admission Free Saturday and Sunday
For more information please visit seattleprintfair.com/2010
Spirit in Lines an exhibit by acclaimed Chicano printmaker
Juan Fuentes
November 5 - January 5
Powerful images depicting the lives of workers, women, people of color and war.
Shoreline Community College Gallery
1000 Building at the main campus
16101 Greenwood Avenue North (just west of Aurora and north of Seattle city limits)
Contact: Natalie Niblack, 206-546-4101, x4433 nniblack@shoreline.edu
shoreline.edu/gallery
Gallery hours: 9-5 M-F
Co-sponsored by Sev Shoon Arts Center and Seattle Print Arts.
"I was fortunate to be chosen by Larry Sommers to receive the Anderson Ranch Scholarship offered to a Seattle Print Arts member for 2009. I attended Silkscreen: handmade and readymade by Kansas City printmaker and professor Laura Berman in August. Anderson Ranch supports printmaking collectives across the country with tuition scholarships – my roommate was from Maine and had received her scholarship through the Boston Printmakers collective.
Anderson Ranch is located near Aspen, in the Rocky Mountains. The programming includes clay, sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking and new media. While the printmaking studio learned silkscreen techniques, produced a print exchange and labored on individual work, the other studios were equally as engaged. It was a privilege to be a part of the group in that beautiful place, and a mark of how well-regarded Seattle Print Arts’ activities are, that we are included in their scholarship program. The exchanges with colleagues, ability to visit other studios, the lovely food, and above all the chance to work intensively in the studio in a learning environment were a great gift. I know Larry reveled in his time there, and I could imagine him in the studio, or engaged in the life of the place. I am hopeful the scholarship will be offered again in the future. " -Tina Hoggat
photo of Laura Berman
Check out Anderson Ranch online.
Seattle Print Arts hosted a conversation with Elizabeth Sandvig and Michael Spafford,
moderated by Sally Schuh at Francine Seders Gallery on March 10.
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(all photos courtesy of Spike Mafford)
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Elizabeth Sandvig: Turtle Dreams In 2007 Elizabeth Sandvig received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement from Artist Trust. Sandvig will be exhibiting a group of paintings and prints, inspired by a trip to Hawaii, full of intense tropical color and animated underwater scenes. |
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Michael Spafford: Images from The Odyssey Michael Spafford has followed up his earlier work from The Iliad (2005) with a suite of woodblock prints and related paintings from The Odyssey. The show will feature the earlier Iliad prints hanging alongside the Odyssey suite—forty-eight woodcuts in all. |
Missouri based Tom Reed, Master Printer for Island Press and Shop Coordinator at Washington University in St. Louis, presented an etching demonstration February 7th at the University of Washington. Tom printed Camp at Dawn, a multi-plate color etching and discussed transferring images, registration, and how he develops an image. This was a unique opportunity to see the evolution of a print from idea to execution and talk with the artist.
