East, West and TDP Galleries:
​Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered
Co-Curated by: Chris Perry & Alice Walsh

September 19 - October 19, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20th, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

​1st Artist Talk: Friday, October 4th, 6:30 p.m.
Featuring: Charlotte Hedlund, Terri Tibbatts, and Roni Gross

​2nd Artist talk: Thursday, October 10th, 6:30 p.m.
Featuring: Erin Walrath and Anita Balkun

Robin Ami Silverberg – Brooklyn, NY 
Proverbial Threads (6 Continents)
Cecilia Levy – Sigtuna, Sweden 
A Bitter Cup
Julie Shaw Lutts – Salem, MA
​How to Eat Cake
This Exhibition contains 135 works by 53 artists representing seventeen states and two countries.
Artists:
Islam Aly
Pat Badt
Alicia Bailey
Anita Balkun
Ginger Burrell
Gaby Cardenas
Elizabeth Castaldo
Deborah Chodoff
Karen Cipolla
Ana Cordeiro
Beatrice Coron
Anne-Claude Cotty
Adele Crawford
Martin Demaine
Eric Demaine
Linda Ekstrom
Eileen Ferara
Anne Gilman
Ania Gilmore
Roni Gross
Sheila Hale
Karen Hardy
Lyall Harris
Charlotte Hedlund
Mary Heebner
Candace Hicks
Barbara Hocker
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​Kumi Korf
Carole P Kunstadt
Argent Kvasnikoff
Susan Lenz
Cecilia Levy
Julie Shaw Lutts
Pam MacKellar
Anna Mavromatis
Lisa Miles
Barbara Page
Sara Parkel
Emma Percy
Nicole Pietrantoni
Paulette Rosen
Miriam Schaer
Ilse Schreiber-Noll
Vivian Rombaldi Seppey
Ellen Sheffield
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Gregg Silvis
Joy Simpson
Terri Tibbatts
Mary Ting
Jean Tock
Erin Walrath
Thomas Parker Williams
Karen Cipolla - Ridgefield, CT 
Loose Leaf Notebook
Freed Formats: the book reconsidered  also welcomes Alumni and Faculty of Hartford Art School to the exhibition.
​Alumni Artists:
Traé Brooks 
Taylor Casey
Michele Cook
Autumn Cote
Susan Goldberg
Caya Tull
Faculty Artists:
Amy Borezo 
Jim Lee
Workshops: 
Let’s Make A Book! – A 45-minute class for children 8-12 
Saturday, October 5 @11:00am
Japanese Stab Binding – A 60-minute class for adults 
Saturday, October 12 @11:00am
Japanese Stab Binding – A 60-minute class for adults ​
Saturday, October 12 @12:30pm
Freed Formats received generous support from the following:
  • The Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
  • The program is made possible, in part, with public funds through the Arts Link Community Grant Program of the Putnam Arts Council (PAC) Mahopac, NY.  These funds are provided to PAC through the NYS Council on the Arts with support from Andrew M. Cuomo and the NYS Legislature
  • A Grant from The Sylvia B. Henschel Trust, a bequest to Mahopac Public Library
  • A Project Assistance Grant from the College Book Art Association (CBAA). CBAA supports and promotes academic book arts education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship, and criticism
  • A Grant from The Friends of Mahopac Public Library
  • The generous support from The Ridgefield Guild of Artists
  • With program support from the Ridgefield Library
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