July 28
We talked about "Something Wicked" and the Tagawa Gardens event and next year and sat beneath the lovely catalpa trees and were protected from the brief showers.
Wicked entrants drop-dead date has arrived...
Send forms
and fees now to racereaton@aol.com. If
you put it in the mail tomorrow, it might get there by Saturday, August 1. Send to: RMSBA Wicked
Show, % Sharon Eaton, 10685 Yates Drive, Westminster, CO 80031.
Creating Botanical Illustrations with
Line Etching
Two-Day
workshop - October 12 & 13, 2015
10:00 am -
2:30 pm
Instructor:
Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Cost:
$125.00 + $15 materials fee
Maximum class
size – 8
We have put
together a two-day workshop to learn the process of line etching. Our
Instructor, the etching artist featured in Amy Stewart’s book Wicked Plants, is coming all the way
from Vermont. She will be a guest at the opening reception of “Something Wicked”
and then will teach and demonstrate the good stuff. The workshop (described
below) will be held the Aurora Cultural Arts District gallery. Sign up early
for this great opportunity, as the classroom size is limited to 8. To reserve
your seat, contact Vanessa Martin at martin.vanessa655@gmail.com; she
will have details about submitting payment for the class at time of
reservation.
Line
etching or Hard Ground etching is a printmaking process in the category of intaglio
printing, or printing in the “carved” or incised lines. This process allows
artists to create finely-detailed images and multiples of an image. In this
basic workshop, students will draw botanical images, and then make them into
copperplate etchings. Through demos and one-on-one instruction, students will learn
how to prepare plates, coat them with hard ground, etch the plates, and print
them. Students will leave the workshop with an etched copper plate and at least
three fine-art prints. The workshop is open to students at all levels, whether
printmakers, botanical artists, or totally new to it all.
About Briony Morrow-Cribbs:
Briony Morrow-Cribbs
currently lives and works in the hills of rural Vermont. Morrow-Cribbs
graduated from the Emily Carr Institute in 2005 and completed her Master of
Fine Art degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. From 2012 to
2014 Morrow-Cribbs taught etching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Currently, Morrow-Cribbs teaches printmaking at the Putney School in Putney, Vermont,
and is an adjunct professor of drawing, book arts and printmaking in the New
England area.
As a printmaker,
Morrow-Cribbs has shown both nationally and internationally with solo
exhibitions in the Davidson Gallery in Seattle, Washington the Artisan Gallery
in Paoli, Wisconsin and the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As
an illustrator, Morrow-Cribbs launched her career with two New York Times
Bestsellers: Wicked Plants: The Weed that
Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities and Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered
Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects, both written by Amy Stewart
(published by Algonquin Books). Since then, Morrow-Cribbs has also illustrated
a book of short stories titled Unnatural Creatures
(edited by Neil Gaiman and Maria Dahvana Headley, published by HarperCollins)
and created cover work for The End of the
Sentence by Maria Dahvana Headley and Cat Howard (published by Subterranean
Press).
Save the Date (Party!)
Mark your
calendars for Sunday, August 30, from 1-5 pm: RMSBA Backyard Bar-Be-Que at
Vanessa Martin(the President)’s house, 21494 E Greenwood Pl, Aurora. We invite
members to bring a guest who might be interested in joining our organization –
as artist or art lover. We also invite students (and a
Visiting Instructor, Ikumi Kayama) from
the School of Botanical Art & Illustration at Denver Botanical Gardens.
Besides the swell food, drinks, and charming companions, the BBBQ offers an
excellent opportunity for non-members to get to know us and learn about all of
the benefits of membership.
As part of
this event, we of course want a little fundraising activity. We ask members to
donate artwork, prints, books or art supplies for party-goers to buy. The funds
raised as we find those perfect items
will help support the Stanley Hotel two-day vacation that RMSBA has donated to
the upcoming ASBA annual silent auction. To donate appropriate materials, contact
Vanessa Martin at martin.vanessa655@gmail.com to coordinate delivery.
Seeking
Volunteers -- to sign up to bring side dishes. Also looking for willing hands
to help set up the fundraising tent and tables, and to get all ready for the
party. Please contact Vanessa Martin if you can help out: (720) 870-1488.
So that we
have a general idea how many people are coming, we ask that you RSVP by August
20 or thenabouts to Vanessa at martin.vanessa655@gmail.com.
