Joseph Peller

Joseph Peller spent April 2013 at a month-long printmaking residency at the Guanlan Printmaking Base in Guanlan, China. While there, he completed six editions. During his travels, he visited Japan to view the work of Japanese printmakers Hokusai, Hasui, and Hiroshi. Inking the plate for printing Preparing to register the plate for printing Pulling and…

Richard Barnet

Richard Barnet is one of seven artists included in Summer Show: New Artists at the William Holman Gallery (65 Ludlow Street, NYC). The show runs from June 19 through July 19. While this group of paintings, large-scale watercolors, woodcuts, and sculpture encompasses a range of “abstract, objective and sculptural” styles, they all possess a careful…
When Elizabeth and I moved to Vermont nearly twenty years ago, the first thing we did was create a space to paint. Behind the attached garage there was a 16 x 24 ft. workroom the builder had used as his carpentry shop, which we thought would make a good temporary studio while we settled in.

In Pursuit of Art

Mid-nineteenth-century Grand Rapids, Michigan offered limited opportunities for education. In an illustration for Harper’s Weekly (Fig. 1), Frederick Stuart Church recalled his early school days in a Grand Rapids one room schoolhouse. Consumed by a desire to draw, young Fred occupied himself drawing with pencil on the blank pages of his school texts and on…
Connections is a departure from my past student concours. We wanted to show how the class work is cohesive and how it interrelates. We are many things, after all, not just sculpture students working in one way. Connections offers a whole new way to see the sculptures. It is a single piece of art: a…