The entrance to Studio Arrabbiata

I've started a blog devoted to life around the studio.  It provides an inside look at what I'm up to- new work in progress, information about exhibitions, workshops and studio events, and whatever else I feel like.  Besides the many links to it on this site, you can go to it directly at http://studioarrabbiata.blogspot.com.

Social Animal Press hosts a discussion/critique group in the studio on the first Wednesday of every month, from 7 pm to 9 pm, or whenever it breaks up.  Artists in all media are invited to bring a piece or two and join the professional level discussion.  

My print on the right is part of a travelling group exhibition originating at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.  The show is called "Global Footprints", with a theme of man's effect on the environment and related topics.  The exhibition has now travelled to Kean University in Union, NJ, where it's on display in the James Howe Gallery beginning November 10.

Cutting a wood block in the studio.

This past July, I presented my artwork and did a demonstration of block cutting (see photo at left) and printing at the Ocean County Artists' Guild, Ocean and Chestnut Avenues, in Island Heights, NJ.  Those in attendance really enjoyed it.  I will have 3 prints in their Printmakers Invitational exhibition in February, 2009. 

To learn more about the Guild, go check out the OCAG website.

My next solo exhibition will be in the Bing-Davis Memorial Gallery in the Edgar Fine Arts Hall at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, from November 13 through December 18, 2008.  The print to the right will be among the 44 woodcuts that I will have on display.  The show also includes selections from my Everyman, Ecclesiastes, and Scenes from the Grand Opening series.  Examples of some of those works and the stories behind those series can be found here.  More gallery information is available at www.uiu.edu/art.

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