Posts in Artists In the Studio
Across Time & Space: Sarah Peters in the Studio
Oct 23, 2013
This is the second of two posts on Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. If you missed it, read the first post here. “Sometimes I think this is really doable and sometimes I think this book is never going to get done,” Artist’s Book resident Sarah Peters said on October 3 amidst her final… View Article
Audrey Hurd Makes Her Mark
Oct 16, 2013
In the silkscreen studio, Audrey Hurd and WSW Studio Manager Chris Petrone are each pulling one half of a long squeegee across a 55×39” screen burned with a large halftone of a smooth and curving form. The ink – once thick as cake frosting – is finally the right consistency, and it pushes through the… View Article
Shu Mei Chan: The Artist is Present
Oct 09, 2013
A skeletal netted form is taking shape piece by twiggy piece on the laundry line behind the workshop. Gillian Jagger Legacy Artist-in-Residence Shu Mei Chan is behind the sculptural growth, carrying tubs of what look like bones of various sizes to the site and unpacking them in piles before linking them into the slowly-growing sheet… View Article
Fly Me to the Moon: Sarah Peters in the Studio
Sep 30, 2013
Over the next few weeks, we’re tracking our book resident Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. This is the first post in the series. If not for the hand-marbled paper, bits of abaca and Thai mulberry, polymer plates, and paper casts that look like chunks of lumpy lunar surface, you’d be forgiven for… View Article
Liza Macrae: The Beautiful & the Really Real
Sep 21, 2013
Liza Macrae likes to have her hands in a little bit of everything. Her eclectic photographic portfolio spans several processes and methods: digital and analog; color and black and white; calotypes, silver prints, platinum and palladium prints. Now in the last week of her one-month Ora Schneider residency, she can add photogravures to the list. Liza… View Article
Cheryl Paswater & the Importance of Being Playful
Sep 09, 2013
Cheryl Paswater has sprawled her double-sided 14×14” woodblocks across one wall of our intaglio studio, and she’s approaching her work the best way she knows how. “I’m about to try something I’ve never done, which should be fun,” she announces with a shrug and a laugh, inking a block. Cheryl is introducing chine colle into her… View Article
Summer Muggin’
Aug 26, 2013
Ceramics studio intern Meghan Hallock and volunteer Shannon O’Leary have been collaborating throughout the summer to create new mugs for WSW. They began by throwing solid forms on the wheel and making molds for each of 3 original mug forms. Separate molds were made for the handles to allow for efficient casting and the possibility… View Article
In the Studio: 2013 Chili Bowl Intern Britny Wainwright
Feb 13, 2013
Women’s Studio Workshop’s Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta is a beloved local event designed to burn-off the winter blues and refuel your inner furnace with great ceramics, fun music and a heaping dose of steaming chili. Every year the Workshop’s ceramics department gathers together a team of local artists and ceramicist volunteers to produce over 800… View Article
In The Studio: Antonia Aitken
Nov 30, 2012
Australian printmaker Antonia Aitken returned to Women’s Studio Workshop this fall to create an artist’s book born from her walking/drawing meditation practice. Her “walking book” will be made up from a series of plates etched during a weeks worth of walks around our Binnewater environs. Antonia first came to WSW in the spring of 2011… View Article
Rachel Frank: Drawing out the Shadows
Dec 06, 2010
A WSW Artist Profile By Lee Conell Rachel Frank was eating dinner when her home was flooded with images of torture: Hooded and humiliated Iraqi prisoners, some wearing leashes, some piled on top of one another, were crouched alongside American soldiers who offered toothy grins, gave thumbs up, and posed around or on top of… View Article