Check out this great article in Roll Magazine about our current Book Artist-In-Residence Tona Wilson:
www.rollmagazine.com/mar10/articles/art.php
Tona has been working with the WSW AIE program for the last ten years & using the silkscreen studio to produce her work. She is currently at work in WSW’s silkscreen studio ” completing a new composite book of her courts and prison sketches. A single box will hold four pamphlet-stitched sections of the book—which is really more like a hand-drawn graphic novel, to be accurate—with prison bars in the window on the box’s front”. Tona’s work is on display in WSW’s Gallery until the end of March. You can see more of her work on her website www.tonawilson.com

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Hello out there New Havenites! There will be a show highlighting The Beinecke Library’s collection of Erica Van Horn’s (Seven Lady Saintes) work  January 13 -through March 27th, 2010.

“Throughout her career, Van Horn has woven together her methods and preoccupations into a common fabric of artistic practice and subject. Her interest in exploring the daily aspects of her life though her art, for instance, is informed and determined by her frequent use and reuse of ordinary and cast-off materials as the raw materials of her work. In remembering and making beautiful mundane aspects of life, Van Horn celebrates the significant but often unnoticed habits and customs of family and friendship, the exquisite qualities of home, the work of making art.”

Erica Van Horn will visit the Beinecke Library for a public conversation with Beinecke curator, Nancy Kuhl, on February 24, 2010, at 4pm. Van Horn will discuss her development as an artist and writer, her artistic process, her influences and inspirations. The conversation will refer directly to materials on view in the current exhibition.

Born in Concord, New Hampshire, Erica Van Horn now lives in rural Tipperary, Ireland, where she is the publisher, with Simon Cutts, of Coracle, a small press producing creative and critical works of various kinds in small editions. Coracle Books

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/vanhorn/index.html
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Yale University, PO Box 208240, 121 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8240
www.library.yale.edu/beinecke
203-432-2977

Melissa Jay Craig in the WSW papermaking studio, Spring 2009

The lovely and talented Melissa Jay Craig is featured in the show Respite, at the Vespine Gallery in Chicago. Melissa spent the spring here with us at the workshop coaxing pulp into dazzling shapes and colors. She writes about her experience at the workshop, and at two other residencies she took part in this past summer at Ragdale & I-Park, on her Blahhg – melissajaycraig.wordpress.com/. There will be an opening reception for Respite tonight from 7 – 10pm. If you go, please send her our greetings!

You can learn more about Melissa and see her handmade paper works and artists’ books on her website: web.mac.com/melissajaycraig/

Respite Featuring book and paper artist Melissa Jay Craig with JE Baker, Shayna Cohen, Suzi Cozzens, Marnie Galloway, Amanda Meeks, Maria Jose Prenafeta, and Sarah Vogel. November 6th through November 28th Opening Reception November 13th from 7pm-10pm

Vespine Gallery 1907 S Halsted, 1st floor Chicago IL 60608 www.vespine.org

Post event update: The reception was a smash! Read more about it and see pictures here: http://melissajaycraig.wordpress.com

This month, join us in the WSW studios to view artwork by our current artists in residence as they discuss the methods and inspiration they use in the creative process.
Katherine Spinella – Art-in-Education, Etching Fellowship
Kyla Luedtke - Art-in-Education, Artist Book Residency

Tuesday, November 17th 7:30pm
free and open to the public
Located at Women’s Studio Workshop
722 Binnewater Lane, Rosendale, NY 12472

Katherine Spinella

Kyla Luedtke