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