Award Winners for Fifth National Exhibition

Fifth National Monotype /Monoprint Juried Exhibition

Workshops and Programming:

• May 19: Introduction to Monoprint Workshop with Carol Macdonald
• June 22–23: Pochoir Stencil Monoprints Workshop with Claudia Fieo
• June 23: Gallery Talk – History of the Monotype with MGNE President, R. Leopoldina Torres
• July 27–28: Collographs Workshop with Joan Hausrath
• July 28: Artist Talk with Devon Mozdierz & Darryl Furtkamp
• Aug 11: Plein Air Printmaking Workshop with Carolyn Letvin (rain date: Aug 17)
• Aug 11: Artist Talk with Kelly Slater

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Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition at The Art Complex Museum: May 6 – September 2, 2018

Award Winners

First Place:
Sarah Crooks, Jacksonville, FL
My Great Great Great
Monoprint (24″x72″ )

Second Place:
Debra Claffey, New Boston, NH
Indigo Ice, # 6
Monotype (36″36″)

Third Place:
Lynda Goldberg, Newton, MA
Entangled
Monotype (30.5″x37″)

Akua Inks Materials Award:
Sarah Smelser, Bloomington, IL
No Small Talk, No Big Talk
Monotype (10″x 16″)

Arnhem 1618 Paper Materials Award:
Judith Greenberg, Needham, MA
You Are Here
Monoprint (26in x 26.5in)

Speedball Arts Award:
Susan M. Heggestad, Vermillion, SD. Because women are told they arent reliable witnesses to their own lives.  
Monoprint (29″x19″)

Artists and Craftman Supply Materials Award: Margot Rocklen, Woodbridge, CT
Winter Reverie Reflected II
Monoprint (34.75″ x 22.5″)

Atlantic Papers Materials Award:
Tim Armstrong, San Francisco, CA
Driftcarrot
Monotype (39″x25″x1.5″)

Blick Art Materials Award:
Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro, Sunnyvale, CA. Saturation.
Monotype (19.5″x15.5″)

Jerry’s Artarama Materials Award:
Sarah Sipling, Maryville, MO
Deteriorate 3
Monoprint (22″x30″)

Renaissance Graphic Arts Materials Award: Rachael Griffin, Madison, WI
Orange
Monotype (26″x44″)

Honorable Mention:
John Avakian, Sharon, MA
Portrait of Innocence
Monoprint (43″x30″)

Honorable Mention:
Barbara Ryan Gartin, Flagstaff, AZ
The Keep House
Monotype (4.5″x 4.5″)

Honorable Mention:
Joyce Jewell, Takoma Park, MD. 
Jequie Park
Monotype (6″ x 16″)

Honorable Mention:
Maryellen Sakura, Thornton, NH
The Forest Through The Trees
Monoprint (24″x12″)

Honorable Mention:
Marilyn Sherman, Needham, MA. 
Dear Parents Redacted #6 (Pink & Blue)
Monoprint (22″x16″)

Honorable Mention:
Mary Wojciechowski, North Attleboro, MA. 
Nature’s Imprint
Monotype (6″ x 12″)

Gelli Arts also provided five gelli plates as door prizes, which were raffled to our members at the 2018 Annual Meeting.

Accepted Artists

JUROR: 

JUDITH K. BRODSKY, Board Chair, New York Foundation for the Arts, is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Visual Arts, Rutgers University; Founder, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor; Founder, Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities and The Feminist Art Project, a national program to promote recognition of women artists; Organizer and Curator of The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society (2012); Founder and Chair of the international city-wide print festival, Philagrafika (2010); Past National President of ArtTable, the College Art Association, and the Women’s Caucus for Art; Former Dean, Associate Provost, and Chair of the art department, Rutgers campus at Newark; Contributor to the first comprehensive history of the American women’s movement in art,The Power of Feminist Art; An organizer of Momentum, a project focusing on women and transgender artists who use technology.

A printmaker and artist, Brodsky’s work is in many permanent collections including the Harvard University Museums, Library of Congress,Victoria & Albert, London, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and Stadtsmuseum, Berlin. Brodsky works in series. Her last series was titled “Memoir of an Assimilated Family,” over 100 etchings based on old family photographs. Her current series is “The 20 Most Important Scientific Questions of the 21st Century.” Learn more about Judith Brodsky here.