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NEWS ARCHIVE 2009
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Sergei Isupov sculptures on exhibit
(11/20/09) An exhibition featuring Sergei Isupov's latest body of work, including 14 large-scale sculpted heads and related drawings, is now on display at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Titled "Androgyny: New Works by Sergei Isupov," the show continues through December 6, 2009. The museum is located at 3201 West 16th Street in Sedalia, Missouri.
Andy Owen wins Award of Excellence
(11/20/09) Andy Owner was announced the winner of the Award of Excellence in Printmaking at the Von Liebig Art Center's "48th Founders Juried Awards Exhibition." The juror was Daniel Stetson, Executive Director of the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida. The exhibition will be on display through December 2, 2009. The Von Liebig Art Center is located at 585 Park Street in Naples, Florida. For more information phone 239/262-6517.
In memoriam: Bess Tamura Littleton
(10/17/09) Bess T. Littleton died on Thursday, October 8, 2009. The cause was cancer. She was born in Honokaa, Hawaii on April 7, 1926. As a young woman she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She met Harvey Littleton while both were students. They married in 1947 and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where Harvey Littleton taught ceramics and later glassblowing at the University of Wisconsin. The couple had five children. Mrs. Littleton was an active volunteer in Wisconsin and later in Mitchell County, North Carolina, where she and her husband moved in 1976. She served on the board of the Mitchell County Department of Social Services and was a founding member of Mitchell County Hospice. Mrs. Littleton is survived by her husband, Harvey K. Littleton and her children, Carol L. Shay, Thomas H. Littleton, Maurine B. Littleton and John C. Littleton and his wife, Kate Vogel. A sister, Dorothy Mangan, and a young daughter, Kathryn Tamara, preceded her in death.
Dan Welden to teach in Italy
(6/30/09) Printmaker Dan Welden and artist Cathy DeForest will co-teach a three week seminar in Florence, Italy this August. The course, titled "Creating Artists' Books in Florence," will be held August 6 through 27, 2009 at Santa Reparata International School of Art. Email Cathy DeForest for details at cathy@gallerydeforest.com.
Dan Welden to exhibit, teach in Oregon
(6/30/09) Illahe Gallery in Portland Oregon will feature the work of Dan Welden in October, 2009. Phone the gallery at 541/488-5072.for details. From October 3 through 5 he will teach a printmaking workshop at Rogue Gallery in Midland, Oregon. The workshop is open to beginning and advanced students. Phone Rogue Gallery at 541/772-8118 for more information.
Bonny Lhotka in solo show
(6/10/09) Bonny Lhotka's work is currently featured in a solo show at Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado. The nature-based work on display uses mineral pigments and 24K gold to illuminate and transform the ordinary. Based in part on infrared photography, the artworks incorporate alternative photographic processes, laser-engraved birch, gelatin transfers to glass, 3D macro photography and HDR Phantograms (stereo photographs). The exhibition is on view through July 11, 2009. For more information phone Walker Fine Art at 303-555-8955.
Congratulations to American Craft Council Award Winners
(6/9/09) The American Craft Council has announced its selections for the Aileen Osborn Webb Award for Philanthropy: Robyn and John Horn (2008) and Paul J. Smith (2009); and the Award of Distinction for Contributions to the Field of Craft: Helen W. Drutt English (2008) and Michael Monroe (2009).
The award recognizes exceptional contribution to/support of the American Craft Council. It honors those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement, leadership and service in the craft field.
Each award recipient will be featured in the October/November issue of American Craft magazine.
New Book from Corning Museum of Glass
(6/1/09) The Corning Museum of Glass recently published a book about a significant gift to its collection. Titled "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection," the book showcases the 240 art works by 87 artists that W. Heineman Sr. and his wife Natalie Goldstein Heineman collected between the years 1969 and 2005. Works by Harvey K. Littleton and John Littleton and Kate Vogel are included in the book. ISBN13: 978-1-55595-314-0
New catalog from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(6/1/09) A catalog has recently been published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in conjunction with its exhibition, "Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis Dubois Collection" (March 7-July 26, 2009). The catalog included full page, color illustrations of works by Harvey K. Littleton and his colleagues, including Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Fujita Kyohei, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brtychtová, Marvin Lipovsky, Paul Stankard, Therman Statom, Ann Wolff and others. ISBN: 978-0-300-14695-0
Dorothy Simpson Krause: Losing Ground
The affect of rising human population on the earth's environment is the subject of an exhibition and artist's book by Dorothy Simpson Krause. The exhibition will be on view from April 24 through May 3, 2009 at the South Shore Art Center, 119 Ripley Road in Cohasset, Massachusetts. For information about the exhibition and programs associated with it, please phone the South Shore Art Center at 781/383 2787.
One Passion Three Ways
(4/2/09) Dan Welden is currently featured with two other artists in the exhibition "One Passion, Three Ways" at Illahe Studios and Gallery in Ashland, Oregon. Welden will show current print series along with artist's books and broadsides by Cathy DeForest and mixed media works by Nancy Bardos. The exhibition continues through April 25, 2009. For more information about the exhibition please phone Gallery DeForest at 541-690-6976.
Dan Welden in upcoming solo exhibition
(3/1/09) Recent work by artist Dan Welden will be on exhibition at Suffolk Community College from March 8, 2009 through April 2, 2009. Painter, master printmaker, teacher and author, Weldon has had over 60 one person shows in a very active career. Abstract paintings and mixed media works inspired by the landscape of Peru will be the focus of his upcoming show at the Lyceum Gallery at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, April 2 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Mr. Welden will speak at 5:00 p.m. For more information, phone 631-477-0620.
James L. Tanner in solo exhibition
(2/14/09) Works by ceramic sculptor James L. Tanner are currently on view in an exhibition at Western Carolina University's Fine Art Museum. "Inside/Inside Out: A Profile of Awareness," features colorful, abstract, masklike ceramic forms. "I use the human...face as a vehicle to suggest psychological, emotional and spiritual being," Tanner says. " The exhibition is on view through March 7.
Congratulations to 2009 NC Living Treasures
(2/05/09) The Littleton Collection congratulates ceramics artists Cynthia Bringle and Norm Schulman on receiving the North Carolina Living Treasures Award. The honor is a biennial award, presented by the William Madison Randall Library of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The award is sponsored by an endowment from Martin Meyerson, M.D., in memory of his mother, Dorothy Meyerson. Harvey K. Littleton was a recipient of the award the award in 1993.
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