Flag books have wonderful sculptural possibilities. With multiple angles of view, they provide interesting double narrative potentials, contrasting viewpoints, or yin and yang, if you will.

“For many years now, I have found old family photos, from my family, as well as found photos, to be poignant and moving source material for a body of paintings I call ‘Garland of Hours’” says Gage Opdenbrouw. “The paintings are often torn apart and rebuilt, destroyed, and reconstructed again and again, in the course, of their development—a process analogous to both the passing of time and our experience of memory.”

Want to get into that show or gallery? Make sure your work is presented at its best for judges or gallerists. James Varnum, Memy Ish Shalom, and Garrow Throop will give you tips to improve photos taken with your iPhone.

This fun and informative demo features printmaker and book artist Stephanie Stigliano. This will be an interactive demo. She will show us how to make easy sample structures in paper. These three-dimensional forms fold flat for storage. You can adapt them for cards, books, or ornaments. She will also show you examples of how she uses […]

ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89460307355?pwd=Y2htUCtheDJja0RIUHB2RXdGYTIrQT09 Meeting ID: 894 6030 7355 Passcode: 989057 Collage artist Betsy Silverman works in a style she calls Fragmented Realism. Her primary materials are discarded magazines. She selects, cuts, and glues old images and text to create multidimensional portraits, still lifes, cityscapes, and representations of New England – especially the Boston area. She delights […]