STOCKBRIDGE, MA—Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys, a new exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum will open Sunday, November 10, 2019 and remain on view through Monday, May 25, 2020. This special exhibition documents the complex emotional realities of adapting to a new life thousands of miles away from where their stories began, through compelling visual memoirs inspired by the personal journeys of four master illustrators, Frances Jetter, David Macaulay, James McMullan, and Yuyi Morales.
Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Plunkett worked with Curator Martin Mahoney on the terrific installation of these four artists' stories about ‘Finding Home."
The New York Public Library's
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers 2017-2018 Fellows
April 20, 2017 - The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis
B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 19th class
of Fellows: 15 exceptional independent scholars, academics, and creative
writers, whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections
at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Chosen out of 357 applicants from
38 countries, the 2017 class of Cullman Center Fellows includes:
Academics Sarah Bridger, Martin Puchner, Magda Teter, and Barbara
Weinstein
Fiction writers Georgi Gospodinov, Nellie Hermann, Lorrie Moore,
and Melinda Moustakis
Poet Lynn Melnick
Independent scholars Joan Acocella, Ava Chin, Hugh Eakin, Blake Gopnik,
Eyal Press
Visual artist Frances Jetter
Amalgam
At the Cullman Center Frances Jetter will be working on an illustrated
history about the life of her immigrant grandfather, his labor union, and his
American family in Brooklyn.
Artist’s Books from the Jack Ginsberg
Collection, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2017.
Virtual to Physical:
thepostdigitalprintmaker, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, Feb. 2017
Artists:
Casey Babb
Paul Catanese
Liz Chalfin
Erin Cross
Caleb Freese
Frances Jetter
Andrew Kozlowski
Izzy Liberti
Matthew McLaughlin
Scott Minzy
Lorella Paleni
Simona Prives
Flora Shum
Rob Swainston
Ani Volkan
Tomas Vu
Op-ed Art: Image in the Service
of Ideas, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, N.Y.
January 19 - March 25, 2017
OP-ED Artists: Doug Chayka, Brad Holland, Frances Jetter, Alex Nabaum, Eiko Ojala
and Bruce Waldman
"Unnatural Election:
Artists Respond to the 2016 US Presidential Election"
Over 150 international artists, curated by Andrea Arroyo.
OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 19, 2017, 6-8pm.
Kimmel Galleries, New York University.
60 Washington Square South, 8th Fl, New York, NY 10012.
Free and open to the public, the exhibit continues through the Spring.
Prints and Photographs
Frances Jetter illustration collection includes 24 prints:
Published: New York : 1977-2012.
Frances Jetter’s "Girdle House" is a
relief print extracted from her artist book six years in the making,
which examines the history of the artist’s immigrant grandparents
and their American family.
“New York Society of Etchers:
15th Anniversary Exhibition”
International Print Center New York presents 15th Anniversary Exhibition
of the New York Society of Etchers in commemoration of this milestone
in the Society’s history. The exhibition is curated by Stephen
A. Fredericks and will be on view in IPCNY’s Project Space at
508 West 26th St, 5th Floor, from June 11 – July 31, 2015. Presented
during IPCNY’s 15th Anniversary year and concurrently with New
Prints 2015/Summer, the show brings together prints from a handful
of current New York Society of Etchers directors and additional artists
who have supported the Society during its 15-year exhibiting history.
Also included will be catalogs, photographs, and various historical
items from the collection of Stephen A. Fredericks and the New York
Society of Etchers.
Artists are: Marshall Arisman, Will Barnet, Ann Chernow, Kirsten Flaherty,
Stephen A. Fredericks, Michael Goro, Frances Jetter, Martin Levine, Elana
Goren, Andy Hoogenboom, Frederick Mershimer, Lou Netter, Deborah Luccio,
Sarah Sears, Russ Spitkovsky, Bruce Waldman, Steven Walker, and Carol
Wax.
New
World Border
New World Border is participating in the Border,
Walls and Security International Conference in Montreal Canada, October,
2013. This slide show will be presented at the conference. newworldborder.tumblr.com
Library
of Congress Acquires New World Border Exhibition
The Library of Congress recently acquired one entire set of the New World
Border traveling exhibition. The exhibition will remain at the Library
as a resource and a historical record of responses to the increased militarization
of the border. The New World Border show originally started with four
sets in 2011 subsequently traveling to 16 venues in 9 US states,
as well as in Tijuana, Mexico. The hard traveling for the shows caused
a need to consolidate down to three sets. The acquisition by the Library
of Congress still leaves two sets for further touring. Click on
Book a Show (above) to find out how to bring the show to a venue near
you.
“New World Border,” La Pena Cultural
Center, Berkeley, CA, traveled to venues including Meridian Gallery,
San Francisco, CA, The Hive, Phoenix, Az, Raices Cultural Center, NJ,
The Roots Factory, Barrio Logan, CA, traveling to Swathmore College and
Ingram Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico, 2011
On December 15, 2011, a reception was held at the New World Border show
at the University of New Mexico Gallup.
Photo: Walk-thru tour of the show by co-organizer Art Hazelwood
Plymouth State University, Lamson Library, Plymouth
New Hampshire Ringling School of Art and Design, Kimbrough Library, Sarasota,
Florida University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, Vermont
Lafayette College, Skilman Library, Easton, Pennsylvania, Baylor University,
Crouch Library, Waco, Texas University of Michigan,DePaul University,
Richardson Library, Chicago, Illinois
The
Art Gallery at the University of Maryland presents Network of Mutuality:
50 Years Post-Birmingham, an exhibition featuring provocative works by
leading contemporary artists and graphic designers--Julie Moos, Glenn
Ligon, Michael Platt, Ken Gonzales-Day, Archie Boston, Jefferson Pinder,
among others--who carefully examine the various social conditions and
components that energized the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as
well as continue the dialogue of race and equality in today's society.
The Executioner's Wrong- Texas will Execute Gary Graham
for a Murder He Almost Certainly Didn't Commit, 1993, Linocut, 11" x
16"
BLACK.WHITE.REaD Guest curator Cecilia
Rossey
Dadian Gallery, Washington DC, traveled to Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem
College, Winston Salem, North Carolina 2012-2013
Salem College exhibition probes increasingly changing culture
Tom Patterson/Special Correspondent Winston Salem Journal
The group show of prints and other works that opened early this month at
Salem College casts a broad, thematic net.
It deals with emotional and aesthetic extremes, the rise and fall of cultures
and the difficulty of processing “devastating news,” according
to guest curator Cecilia Rossey. The exhibition “probes our increasingly
complex society...,” she writes in a brief curatorial statement.
The sprawling assortment of themes is reflected in the varied styles and
mediums represented, as well as in its unwieldy title.
Although several pieces attempt to update abstract expressionism and geometric
abstraction, the exhibition is dominated by figurative works.
Some of them overtly reference current social and political issues, while
others are grounded in personal narratives and philosophical metaphors.
David Reed emphasizes the militarization of the Middle East in two collage-based
digital prints from his “Blank Map” series. The maps depicted
are blank only in the sense that they’re unlabeled. Otherwise, they
serve as grounds for appropriated photos and drawings of armed soldiers,
photojournalists, cameras, camels and oil derricks, among other imagery,
as well as lines suggesting roads and shapes indicating unidentified landmarks.
Alexandra Sherman creates a satirical emblem of domestic life and marital
relations in her delicately rendered drawing of a voluptuous, nude woman
struggling to carry a scale model of a three-story house almost as large
as she is. A tall column of smoke billows from the house’s top floor,
and its source is revealed in a cutaway view of an attic bedroom, where
the bed is on fire. This narrow, vertical drawing’s title, “Calcination,” indicates
a process of reduction by intense heat.
The nude figures in two woodcut prints by Justin Sanz are recognizable
as such, even as they appear to be morphing into gnarled, arboreal forms.
They’re beautifully rendered variations on an ancient motif, the
human-plant hybrid.
Also among the show’s highlights are collages and a collaged drawing
by Frances Jetter, whose dark backgrounds emphasize their morbid subject
matter. The figure lying next to an apple in Jetter’s “William
Tell” is collaged from photographs of Swiss cheese. The apple appears
to be intact, while the cheese is full of holes.
Also lying on its back is the headless quadruped in Jetter’s “Dead
Thing with Figure,” a drawing in which a childlike figure kneels
alongside this mysterious creature with its long, stiff-looking, upward-pointed
legs.
Jackie Reeves makes effective use of classical figure-drawing in “Mother,
Fire,” a narrative composition on unstretched, unprimed canvas. A
little girl wearing a dress confronts the viewer with an unhappy frown
and a defiant pose as she stands in front of an angry-looking woman. The
woman holds a cigarette to her lips with one hand and, in the other, clutches
a rock she looks like she’s about to throw. Posted alongside the
canvas is a related written narrative, in the form of an identically titled
poem about an ornery mother who hurls a rock at a neighbor’s child.
Noteworthy for its delicate intricacy and mysterious content is “An
Honorable Death,” an etching by Elaine Su-Hui Chew. It suggests a
diamond-shaped kite caught in a configuration of tightly strung wires,
loosely tangled strings and what appear to be spider webs and starbursts.
Also among the show’s more intriguing pieces is Jan Gilbert’s “La
Favorite: In the Deep, Deep Country of St. Etienne.” Housed in a
wall-mounted vitrine, it consists of an open, handmade book filled with
abstract collages and displayed upright in a small, otherwise empty black
suitcase.
Guest curator Rossey, who divides her time between Cape Cod and South Carolina,
is an independent curator as well as an artist who works in several mediums.
She has included three of her own small etchings in the show, as well as
a handwoven plaid tapestry.
This is the latest of several exhibitions that Rossey has curated for Salem
College in recent years.
“2012
Printmaking Invitational”, Miller Gallery, Kutztown University,
Kutztown, Pa., 2012
Curated by Evan Summer
"What an amazing night! I think this was one of
our best ForePlays ever, in part because of the quality of scripts; in
part because of the pairing of actors with roles and Kelly's playful
direction; in part because of the beauty of the space and the spirit
of the crowd; with all of the parts cohering into a really enjoyable
whole.
It was also our first time partnering withCarrier
Pigeon, the
amazing fine arts and illustrated fiction magazine. Artist Frances
Jetter shared a work to help inspire the playwrights, and she spoke
with us a little about her process. If you have not yet become a subscriber
to this gorgeous publication, we highly recommend it." By August
Schulenburg
they said in the Ministry of Love, where they had ways
to make you talk. But I had nothing to tell.
“Cry Uncle,” an
artist’s book by Frances Jetter; A graphic response to man’s
inhumanity to man in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram and other places
of torture.
November 1 – 26, 2010 Artist’s Reception
Monday, November 8th, 5:30-8:00 PM NYU Langone Medical Center Art Gallery 550 1st Avenue
(between 30-33 Streets, enter through revolving doors)
Dr. Keller, the founder and director of the Bellevue/NYU
Program for Survivors
of Torture, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Physicians
for Human Rights, will speak at the reception at 6:00pm.
“The Ethics of Cruelty” by
author José Ovejero, who will discuss his novels with Prof.
Jennifer Morton (Philosophy), Thursday, Nov. 10 @ 5 p.m., Rifkind
Seminar Room NAC 6/316.
Exhibit opening reception
talk "Torture and the United States of America: Why Accountability
Matters" by Dr. Allen S. Keller from Survivors of Torture, Bellevue
Hospital, Thursday, Nov. 17 @ 6 p.m., Cohen Library Archives.
“Torture within the
Army” talk by Prof. Marie Rose Mukeni Beya on her research
with Congolese children, Monday, Nov. 28 @ 6 p.m., Cohen Library
Archives.
"Cry
Uncle" is in the following
collections:
New York Public Library's Spencer Collection
The Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections, Washington,
D.C.
Lafayette College, Special Collections, Skillman Library, Easton, Pennsylvania
Plymouth State University, Lamson Library, Plymouth, New Hampshire
Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, UCLA, California
University of Washington Library, Special Collections, Seattle, Washington
Ringling School of Art and Design, Kimbrough Library, Artist Book Collections,
Sarasota, Florida
Rhode Island School of Design, Special Collections, Fleet Library, Providence,
R.I.
Williams College, Chapin Library, Williamstown, MA.
Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library, Stanford, California
University of Colorado, University Libraries, Boulder, Colorado
University of Denver, Penrose Library, Special Collections, Denver, Colorado
Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Northampton, MA.
Jack Ginsberg, Artist’s Book Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
Miami University Libraries, Special Collections, Oxford, Ohio
Honorary
Mention Award for“Cry Uncle,” Pyramid
Atlantic Book Arts Fair, Silver Spring, Maryland 2010
“Food and Form,” Dadian
Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary. Washington, DC, October 25 - December
17, 2010
“Ink
Plots: the Tradition of the Graphic Novel”,Visual
Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, October 10- November 6, 2010
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Ink Plots:
The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA,” an exhibition of original
drawings, books, prints and animation by over 100 artists. “Ink
Plots” traces the development of sequential art over four decades
with selections by SVA faculty members and showcases the work of SVA
alumni who are pushing the boundaries of the graphic novel today. “Ink
Plots” is curated by Marshall Arisman, chair of the MFA Illustration
as Visual Essay Department, and Thomas Woodruff, chair of the BFA Illustration
and Cartooning Department.
“‘Ink Plots’ pays tribute to some
of the most important artists responsible for the invention and development
of the graphic novel,” says co-curator Arisman. “The years
many of these artists spent teaching at SVA has greatly influenced the
present generation of graphic novelists.”
Participating current and former SVA faculty members
include Sal Amendola, R. O. Blechman, Sue Coe, Will Eisner, Tom Gill,
Edward Gorey, Burne Hogarth, Klaus Janson, Frances Jetter, Ben Katchor,
Peter Kuper, Harvey Kurtzman, Keith Mayerson, David Mazzucchelli, Jerry
Moriarty, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, Jerry Robinson, David Sandlin,
Walter Simonson and Art Spiegelma
The
Puffin Foundation Ltd. awarded a grant to Frances Jetter for "Cry
Uncle" in May, 2010.
The Great Small
Works Temporary Toy Theater Museum, St.
Ann's Warehouse, DUMBO. Brooklyn May 30-June 13, 2010
Neointegrity: Comics Edition is an exhibition curated by artist Keith
Mayerson that includes over 210 cartoonists, illustrators,
animators, and fine artists who work with the spirit and power
of iconographic languages. With creators young and old,
historic, currently famous, and soon-to-be-famous, the exhibition
is also about the community and legacy of iconographic art
and its ability to productively influence the world. NeoIntegrity:
Comics Edition includes such artist as Peter Arno, Mark Badger,
Ruben Bolling, Jeffrey Brown, Robert Crumb, Liza Donnelly,
Bill Griffith, Peter Halley, Mike Kelley, Jack Kirby, Moebius,
Patrick McDonnell, Diane Noomin, Art Spiegelman, Raina Telgemeier,
Chris Ware, Lauren Weinstein, Gahan Wilson, Basil Wolverton
and many more. For the full list, please visit here.
Originally conceived as a utopic attempt to begin an art movement, the
first installment of the NeoIntegrity show was held in the summer of
2007 at Derek Eller Gallery in New York City. That show incorporated
over 180 fine artists, with some cartoonists and illustrators mixed in
to breach questions of high and low, rarified and pluralistic. NeoIntegrity:
Comics Edition takes the proposal a step further, showing the relatability
of creators harnessing the iconographic vehicle to express themselves
and to tell stories for a culture to understand itself in order for it
to become a better place.
Dark Visions: A Collection of
Printmaking From New York, Sacred Gallery,
Soho, NYC, July 31- August 29, 2010
New Faculty
Show: Glenn Grishkoff, Julia Salinger & Frances Jetter,The
Gallery at Castle Hill, Truro, MA.
June 29 - July 9, 2010
Lasting
Impressions, Mary
Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem College
, North Carolina. 2010
The Peacable
Kingdom, University of the Philippines
in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, 2010
In May,
2010, at the University of the Arts in
Philadelphia, Frances Jetter gave theArthur
Williams Lectureand was
the guest critic for the MFA Printmaking/Books
Arts Program
The New York Public Library's
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers 2017-2018 Fellows
