Inkspot Member Highlight-Leslie Plimpton

Leslie Plimpton was juried into the Santa Barbara Printmakers 2016 Juried Spring

Exhibition at the Santa Barbara Jewish Community Center 

located at 524 Chapala Street,

Santa Barbara. 

The opening reception will be April 7th from 5-8pm. 

Exhibition datesare April 7 - June 22, 2016. 

Leslie's piece, "Trendsetter", a drypoint etching with hand tinting

will be part of this exhibition titled, "Wellspring." 

The juror was renowned printmaker and

teacher, Dan Welden.

Member News-Dominga Opaza

Inkspots member Dominga Opaza

featured in the Ventura Star

under

Artistic Touch

You can see her work HERE



Call for entries for the Santa Barbara Printmakers at JCC

CALL FOR ENTRIES

SANTA BARBARA PRINTMAKERS 2016 JURIED SPRING EXHIBITION

at the

Santa Barbara Jewish Community Center

524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

THEME: Wellspring

Definition:

1. the source of a spring or stream; fountainhead

2. a source or supply of anything, especially when considered inexhaustible

SCHEDULE  

Exhibition Dates: April 7 - June 22, 2016

Register and pay entry fee at CaFÉ (https://www.callforentry.org)

Deadline:  March13, 2016 at 10:59 pm.

● March 17           Notification of invited artists

● April 6      Delivery of invited artwork between 10 am and 12 noon

                    Note: No storage or shipping is available.

● April 7      Opening reception and awards from 5 to 8 pm

● June 22    Last day of exhibition

● June 23    Pickup artwork from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

JUROR: Dan Welden

PRIZES: Ten Awards of Excellence - $100 each

GUIDELINES AND FEES

ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists who can hand deliver prints on April 6 (10 am-12 pm only) and pick up them up on June 23 (11:30 am-1:30 pm only).

Note: Nude studies and violent images are not appropriate for this venue.

ENTRY FEE: $28 for up to three entries. Register and pay entry fee on line at CaFÉ (https://www.callforentry.org). Only credit cards are accepted.

MEDIUM: All types of original, hand-pulled prints, including but not limited to: silkscreen, linocut, woodcut, lithograph, etching, collagraph, monotype, monoprint, photo polymer etching, and these techniques combined with photochemical or digital printing, chine collé (not collage), transfer images and hand coloring with translucent media.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS: All artwork must be framed and wired for hanging. The frame must be sturdy and in good condition. Glass must be clean and mats must be white or off-white, without colored liners, with a minimum of 2” around the image (unless the artwork is floated).  Frames should not overwhelm the artwork.  Mats may not cover the plate mark (lithographs excepted). Images printed to the edges of the paper must be floated.

Please observe these guidelines. All accepted work is reviewed when delivered. The final arbiter of presentation requirements is the Santa Barbara Printmakers Organizing Committee.

DELIVERY OF ARTWORK: Artwork must be hand delivered to the Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street between 10 am and 12 pm, April 6, 2016.

SALES: Sales are handled by the Jewish Community Center, which takes 25% commission.

QUESTIONS?  Contact Sara Woodburn at 805-563-9668 or Santa Barbara Printmakers at mail@sbprintmakers.com.

Member News-Monica Wiesblott

The Big Draw

Catalyst Gallery

Beacon, NY

Member Monica Wiesblott has been juried into this exhibition in 

New York

Work will be part of a POPUP exhibition 

from February 26 - March 15th 2016

Member News-Christina Altfeld

Christina Altfeld won Best in Show 

in the  Buenaventura Art Association's 

30th annual open competition. 

Christina was juried by Katherine Chang Liu.  

"Volubilis" is a multicolor polymer etching.

See the work in person during:

Ventura First Friday Gallery Crawl

Friday February 5

Buenaventura Gallery 

700 E. Santa Clara Street

Ventura, CA 93001

Open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm

And see the article in the Ventura Star HERE

Art Around Santa Barbara

Poets Respond

The Santa Barbara Printmakers’ 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition provides a unique opportunity to the Santa Barbara community to view and learn about fine art printmaking today. Artists throughout California were invited to submit up to three works for the exhibition.

As part of the programming around the Printmakers' exhibition, the Poets Respond to Prints event will take place during 1st Thursday Jan. 7, 2016, from 5-8 p.m, with the reading beginning promptly at 6 p.m. in the Planning Commission Hearing Room adjacent to Channing Peake Gallery in the Santa Barbara County Administration Building, 105 E. Anapamu Street.

The event is moderated by co-curators Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Linda Saccoccio.

Other participating poets include Santa Barbara Poets Laureate Emeriti Perie Longo, David Starkey and Chryss Yost; Rhode Island Poet Laureate Rick Benjamin; Ron Alexander; Susan Chiavelli; Carol DeCanio; Richard Jarrette; Enid Osborn; Emma Trelles and George Yatchisin.

Starry Abyss by Bay Hallowell

The poets were inspired by prints created by artists using a variety of techniques, such as woodblock printing, photopolymer etching, viscosity monoprints and chine-collé.

Poets responded to artworks by Tony Askew, Cody Cambell, Rosemarie Gebhart, Colleen Kelly, David Graves, Bay Hallowell, Patricia Post, Karen Schroeder, Garrett Speirs, Nina Ward, Sara Woodburn and Don Zimmerman.

“Santa Barbara poets have an honored tradition of creating ekphrastic poetry inspired by the work of visual artists," Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Rolle said. "We are honored to be invited by the group to interact with their work. This symbiosis of words and images offers an expanded interpretation of the individual works for both the printmaker and the poet.” 

For more information on the Santa Barbara Printmakers, please contact Bay Hallowell at bayhallowell@gmail.com.

For information on Channing Peake exhibitions and 1st Thursday events in the gallery, please contact the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission at 805.568.3990 or online at www.sbartscommission.org.

— Elizabeth Hallowell represents the Santa Barbara Arts Commission.