"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.
