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Jenene Nagy's exhibition The Weight is now on view at the Helzer Gallery through May 4. There will be an artist talk and Gallery reception on Thursday, April 18, from 11am-1pm.

Included in this exhibition is a decade-long meditation on everything and nothing. The basic materials that comprise the work bind us to this earth and each other. The drawings investigate ideas of labor and ritual while exploiting the physical properties of paper and graphite, resulting in a seemingly unknowable yet familiar surface. The intimacy of this process is a welcoming, a space where quiet contemplation can lead to a deeper understanding of this world.

With these drawings, devoid of narrative, there is no spectacle, only attention. The simple mark is the moment, and the moment an infinite unto its own. Dense yet radiant, the works create an expansive space that opens the door to something unforeseen. The resulting surface is weighted by the patience to allow the poetics of nothingness to navigate uncertainty and instability in the contemporary world.

Jenene Nagy | The Weight
March 6 - May 4, 2024

Helzer Gallery
Portland Community College
Rock Creek Campus
Building 3 / Room 102
17705 NW Springville Road
Portand, OR 97229

Artist Talk and Gallery Reception
Thursday, April 18, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday 9 am – 4 pm
Saturdays 10 am – 4 pm (free parking)

Growing out of the sewing circle gatherings that have been integral to the artist’s practice, this printing circle is an opportunity for community members to come together and create printmaking plates and prints that will be integrated into future works by Watt. Attendees can also contribute their prints to an emergent installation in the Center’s Leslie and Johanna Garfield Lobby that will evolve over the course of the exhibition.

Important Notes
No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. Materials will be provided.

While supplies last, participants will receive a small print from Marie Watt in exchange for their time and participation.

RSVP is encouraged but not required; visitors may join at any time as space allows.

RSVP: https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/printing-circle-with…

Printing Circle with Marie Watt
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:00 PM 5:00 PM

Print Center New York
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY, 10011United States

Marie Watt (b. 1967) tells stories not only in her celebrated textile, sculpture, and installation work, but also in print. Over her career, she has collaborated with master printers at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, OR), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, OR), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), and Mullowney Printing Company (Portland, OR). This conversation with her collaborating printers will illuminate Watt’s enduring engagement with print as a key element of her material, conceptual, and community practice.

Including Julia D’Amario (Sitka Center for Art & Ecology) and Paul Mullowney (Mullowney Printing Company), and moderated by Marjorie Devon, Director Emerita of Tamarind Institute, with a welcome by Jordan D. Schnitzer.

This program is offered in conjunction with the IFPDA Print Fair. A ticket to the Fair is required to attend this program; no need to RSVP separately. Print Center New York Members receive a complimentary pass to the fair.

For information visit: https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/marie-watt-in-conver…

Join artists Heather Watkins and Katherine Shaughnessy for a conversation with author Sarah Sentilles about their practices, processes, and the ways that making art has helped each navigate experiences of illness. The talk is part of the exhibition Bodies of Work: Art & Healing on view at the Sun Valley museum of Art through March 23, 2024.

This is a free event with limited space, please register here: https://svmoa.org/exhibitions/2024/bodies-of-work?mc_cid=83a204aee2&mc_…

Heather Watkins & Katherine Shaughnessy in Conversation with Author Sarah Sentilles.
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Sun Valley Museum of Art
191 5th St E,
Ketchum, ID 83340
United States

From the Peabody Essex Museum
"Artists change the way we see and interact with the world.

The PEM Prize is presented to artists from any field whose work explores the catalytic relationship between creativity and civic engagement. Reinvigorating and reimagining the communities in which we live, these artists are leaders, connecting us to the possibilities that exist for a more inclusive and understanding world.

Along with a cash award, the PEM Prize recipient receives the opportunity to work with the museum on a project or series of projects that will be accessible to all. While each project will assume a different form, PEM Prize awardees will be individuals or groups who strive to deepen our global cultural connections, ignite our imaginations and inspire us to action.

This year’s PEM Prize is awarded to artist Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots). She will be creating a piece to be completed onsite, creating a multisensory experience in collaboration with the museum’s community as part of the PEM Prize from November 2023 through June of 2024.

The PEM Prize Awardee is selected by a committee of museum staff and leadership for their catalytic use of creative expression in civic engagement."

David Bianculli of NPR write
"FX is promoting Feud: Capote vs. the Swans as "the original Real Housewives," but it's a lot deeper than that — and infinitely more watchable. Based on the book Capote's Women, by Laurence Leamer, this eight-part series tells of Truman Capote's friendships with, and betrayals of, New York's most prominent society women — the ladies who lunch."

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
January 25 - May 18, 2024

Print Center of New York
535 West 24th Street 
New York, NY 
10011

“Print Center New York is pleased to present Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, the artist’s first traveling retrospective and the first to reflect on the role of printmaking in her ambitious interdisciplinary work. On view in the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery, the exhibition considers Watt’s printmaking both as a process and a philosophy—a medium that has had a nuanced and enduring impact on her career since 1996. Featuring over 60 works, it presents Watt’s etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts alongside a selection of her monumentally-scaled sculptures and textile works.”

More info: https://www.printcenternewyork.org/marie-watt

Joe Rudko’s work Stage has been acquired by the @themorganlibrary in New York City and will be included in Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography, on view January 26 through May 26, 2024.

“Seen Together showcases over forty previously unexhibited works acquired by the Morgan’s Department of Photography since its founding in 2012. The pieces selected, and their thematic arrangements, reflect the department’s two highest priorities: first, to build a photography collection that converses with other collections at the Morgan, including drawings, printed books, and literary manuscripts; and second, to draw from widely varied historical contexts and traditions for photographs that collectively tell larger stories about the medium.”

Congratulations, Joe!

Joe Rudko
Stage, 2017
32x45 inches
gelatin silver print collage
Courtesy of Von Lintel Gallery

More information: https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/seen-together

We are pleased to share that Heather Watkins work is included in Bodies of Work: Art & Healing at the Sun Valley Museum of Art. Bodies of Work: Art & Healing will be on view January 12 - March 23, 2024. Participating artists include: Katherine Shaughnessy, Heather Watkins, Renée Stout, Katherine Sherwood, Estelle L. Roberge, and Dylan Mortimer.

“The notion that making and experiencing the arts can be healing has a long history. At the beginning of the 20th century, tuberculosis patients “taking the cure” at sanatoria often participated in structured arts and crafts programs. Wounded soldiers recuperating during World War II were taught “lap crafts,” such as beading and embroidery, as part of their medical therapy. The arts have served as powerful medicine for both mind and body for centuries.
 
When planning for this exhibition considering the connection between art and healing began, the Covid-19 pandemic was dominating headlines around the globe. How do the arts help us process and/or recover from medical illness? How can they help us navigate the complex experience of what it is to be a medical patient facing serious illness in the 21st century? And how can art help us heal from other kinds of social and emotional trauma?

The exhibition features artwork by several contemporary artists who have used their practices as ways of exploring and processing their own experience of medical illness and also the experiences of others. Working in a range of media and from widely varying points of view and experiences, these artists have made art as part of their own healing and in order to enable the healing of others.”

THE MUSEUM
Sun Valley Museum of Art
191 5th St E,
Ketchum, ID 83340

HOURS
Tuesday - Friday
10:00 am—5:00 pm 
Saturday
11:00 am—4:00 pm 

Exhibition Page: https://svmoa.org/exhibitions/2024/bodies-of-work?mc_cid=83a204aee2&mc_…

Iván Carmona starts the New Year with a solo show, Nostalgia, at OSU in Corvallis, Oregon.