Prints by Women and Urban Garden

Opening on Friday, November 28 (5:30-7:30 pm) are Prints by Women, and Urban Garden. Prints by Women showcases 100 years of printmaking by American and European women from the Georgia Museum of Art. Featured are lithographs, etchings, drypoints, woodcuts, linocuts, silkscreen prints, and stencil prints made by the likes of Mary Cassatt, Käthe Kollwitz, Berthe Morisot, Mary Nimmo Moran, and others who we consider to be among the best of women artists of the past. I was giving a short talk about prints before the show was hung, and suddenly was so taken by seeing these prints so close up, I could barely finish the sentence! If you like drawings, the lithographs and some of the etchings will delight you, as they reproduce exactly the drawn image.

Urban Garden, a collection of sculptural works by Michigan artist and educator Albert Young, is a fabulous exhibit of metal and glass sculptures. Some pieces are fabricated, others are made using found objects, but all are striking. Young will give a brief talk at 5:45 pm at the KAC.

A Kid’s Art Workshop will be offered during the reception on Friday, November 28, from 5:30–7:00 pm, where children will explore printmaking techniques in the studio while you enjoy the reception. This workshop is free for members and $10 per family for non-members.

Immediately following the reception, at 8:00 pm, Young will give a (free) demonstration at the Water Street Glassworks in Benton Harbor. Water Street Glassworks is a non-profit dedicated to teaching glass blowing, and is a fabulous place to visit. You can make your way through their gallery and shop to the catwalk where you can watch the glass artists work!

And don't miss the special art talk: On Thursday, December 4, from 6:00−8:00 pm, the KAC will present an Art Talk: Mary Cassatt, a Feminist? Join KAC curator, Tami Gadbois, for a discussion on how Cassatt’s lovingly rendered images of mother and child speak to or against feminism. Printmakers Anne Vandermolen and Kathee Kiesselbach (me!) will demonstrate basic printmaking techniques. This talk is free for members; $5 for non-members.

See you there!