Paperworks Monthly Meetings
Meetings
are held the second Thursday of the month, at St. Philips in the Hills,
at River and Campbell in the East Murphey Gallery, unless otherwise
indicated. There is a social hour from 9 am to 10 am. The business
meeting begins at 10 am and is followed by a speaker from 11 am to 12
noon.
September 8
Robert Renfrow
Digital Imaging: A Fine Art Approach
Robert Renfrow, photographer. Robert teaches photography and Photoshop at his studio in Tucson Arizona as well as conducting photography workshops internationally. He is an artist-in-residence for the Arizona Commission on the Arts and is on the faculty of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute. His artworks in both photography and video have been exhibited in Europe and throughout the USA. http://renfrowart.com
October 13
Kimberley Lund
Collographs: Methods & Materials
Kimberley Lund, artist, designer, educator & creatrix, is our featured speaker for our October 13th PW meeting! This woman of many talents has a BFA in fine arts printmaking, a masters in tertiary visual arts; and a PhD in fine arts administration and organization. As an undergraduate at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art, her printmaking teacher and mentor was a student of the renowned Stanley William Hayter of Atelier 17. It was there she began her lifelong love of color construction and deconstruction through printmaking. From 1997 to 2008 she lived and worked in the UAE, in the Arabian Gulf founding 2 different schools of art and design. Since 2008 she has lived in Tucson where she teaches art & design for Pima College, and works to enrich her growing print studio, Pencilkitty Ink. Kimberley will show us her work, explain her process and vision, and share great stories.
November 10
Beata Wehr
Artists Books: Stories and Ideas
Beata Wehr was born in Warsaw, Poland, and came to the United States in 1985. She lives in Tucson, Arizona traveling back to Europe every year. She graduated from Warsaw University in Poland with M.A. degree in art history and from University of Arizona with M.F.A. in painting and combined media. She creates one-of-a-kind mixed media books, prints limited editions of books and paints, examining in her work the ideas of home, place, time, transience and multicultural experiences. Her books were shown in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia and are included in over 30 public collections in the US and abroad. Beata is also an educator teaching classes at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, Tucson Museum of Art as well as workshops for adults and children. Learn more about Beata at her website: http://beatawehr.com
December 8
Thursday 10:00am to 3:00pm
HOLIDAY SHOW AND SELL
This year, we are opening up our show to the public, and extending the hours from 10-3 so more shoppers can attend! Tell your friends, family, and neighbors! Sign-up form is available under Forms on PaperWorks website.
January 12
Jill Berry
Personal Geographies
Her creative energy will inspire and motivate you, and she will share her excitement about the painted page and all the possibilities! Jill K. Berry has been a graphic designer and painter for 27 years, after an education in design and graduate studies in art in Florence, Italy. She has designed many books for various publishers, and began making handmade books in 1997. Her work is content driven with an emphasis on color and text, and is often centered on social issues. She was awarded the Newberry Purchase Prize in 2002 for an artist’s book on the goddess Vesta. Her work can be seen in Letter Arts Review, Somerset Studio, the Guild of Book Workers show and catalog, In Flight. Her paintings and artists’ books have been shown in national invitational and juried shows and can be found in public and private collections across the country. She lives in Superior, Colorado with her husband and two kids, who also make books. Her website ishttp://jillberrydesign.com/
February 9
Heather Green
Heather Green is our featured speaker for February! Her presentation will educate us about letterpress, and how she uses that medium in her installations and books.
A native of Tucson, Heather Green has frequented her family’s beach cabin in La Cholla, a headland near Puerto Peñasco, Mexico her entire life. Her projects and installations examine the communal and ecological narratives of this region, both documenting the diminution of biodiversity, undeveloped habitat and cultural memory, and revering the natural forms and processes found there. The collaborative nature of many of her projects and commissions has led her to work with a diverse range of individuals including poets, scientists, and fishermen.
Green earned both her BFA (1995) and her MFA (2008) from the University of Arizona. She is a recipient of the 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant, the 2010 Community Foundation of Southern Arizona/Buffalo Exchange Arts Award and the Oregon College of Art & Craft Emerging Artist Residency in book arts. She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College and is the proprietor of Cartagrafia, a letterpress and etching studio. Here is a link to her website: http://cartagrafia.co