2008 Year in Review

Various Artists’ Prints On Display In Ashford Gallery

Prints created by various artists are featured in “INprint: Artwork from Indiana Printmakers,” an exhibit on display through January 16 in Ashford University’s Cortona Art Gallery.

INprint is a regional association of 25 fine art printmakers based in central Indiana, formed in 1997 at the Indianapolis Art Center, and affiliated with the Center ever since. The purpose of INprint is to share, create, educate, and promote the media of printmaking; and to encourage, inspire, and enrich communities through its artwork, with focus on social, environmental, cultural, and spiritual issues.

Exhibiting members have degrees in fine art or significant studies, regularly exhibit in juried and one-person or group shows, and/or teach art in colleges, schools, art centers, or privately. While exhibiting membership is by invitation, beginners are welcome to come learn at demonstrations, studio visits, lectures, and museum tours.

The group’s artwork consists of original hand-pulled prints including etching, silkscreen, monoprint, monotype, collagraph, woodcut, linocut, lithography, and new non-toxic intaglio and relief.

After an annual print exchange, one complete set – a suite – is framed permanently for traveling exhibitions throughout Indiana and regionally.

Some of the activities the group shares are traveling exhibitions of annual suites, catalogues, demonstrations, workshops, studio visits, cooperative projects, annual print exchanges, meetings, museum tours, speaking at art groups, art fairs, slide lectures, sales, and newsletters. Since 1999, 29 traveling exhibits of nine annual suites have been shown throughout Indiana and in Michigan.

Located on the second floor of Ashford University’s Clare Hall at 400 North Bluff Boulevard in Clinton, the Cortona Gallery is named for Sister Cortona Phelan, OSF, former president of Mount St. Clare College and former president of the Sisters of St. Francis. For many years, Sister Cortona influenced the quality of education at the College through her teaching of American history and her love of the arts. She also served as MSC Academy Principal and as Dean of Students at the College.

The Ashford University Cortona Art Gallery is open to the public, free of charge, every weekday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and for private showings by appointment. For further information, please call 563.242.4023. About Ashford Founded in 1918, Ashford University® is a coeducational institution regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, with programs in education, business, accounting, criminal and social justice, computer animation and graphic design, and other areas. The University offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as a range of student activities and athletics, at its Clinton campus. Online degree programs are available in education, organizational management, business administration, psychology, health care administration, criminal justice and social science. The University is known for its high quality yet highly affordable on-campus and online programs, with tuition fees among the lowest in the U.S. compared to other private institutions. Its tagline is: “Higher Education Made Affordable”SM. For more information, please visit www.ashford.edu

by  Editor, theCity1.com
November 24, 2008