Posts by Andrea Callard
Noah Baen
Noah Baen Noah Baen is an esteemed artist and naturalist. His work integrates environmental education, natural and social history with the visual arts. He has created collaborative public and site-specific projects, such as indoor and outdoor murals, school gardens and a restored wetland and coal mine. Baen’s work is in the Smith College Museum of…
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Lisa Bateman Learn more about Lisa Bateman’s recent public projects on her website https://www.lisabateman.com/ Lisa Bateman’s projects incorporate the history of particular sites and systemic learning. She makes installations using painted and colored surfaces, mirrors, optics, found objects and video. She has exhibited in over thirty group exhibitions and six one-person shows in both the…
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Andrea Callard Barn Theater (1985) Frogs at the Mountain Wall (1985) Old Wood/ New Life (1987) Hallway Warbler (1984) Warm Perch/ Mad Times (1984) Andrea Callard’s interdisciplinary cultural practice moves through fine art, communication media, education, and other areas of inquiry. Callard was an early member, officer, and documentarian in the artists’ group COLAB. In…
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Susan Spencer Crowe Susan Spencer Crowe has worked in a variety of disciplines—sculpture, painting, and printmaking. She has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley region and in New York City where she lived for nearly 40 years before moving to Kingston, New York in 2005. Recent one-person shows include Susan Spencer Crowe: Recent Paperworks the…
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Carter Hodgkin Carter Hodgkin has exhibited widely and has received fellowships from the Pollack Krasner Foundation, Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work appears in public and private collections including the Stanford University Art Collection, the ZKM Center for Art & Media, the Zimmerli Art Museum, the…
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Miriam Jacobs The Kremlin 1990 screen print image: 30″ X 22″ edition: 30 6 colors on Rives BFK, white border Miriam printed an edition of The Kremlin during her time at the Avocet/Art Awareness studio in Lexington, NY. She did not edition her other print Metro and there is one copy in the Avocet Portfolio.…
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Ann Messner Ann Messner‘s fierce native curiosity is focused on happenstance and power in life with a pursuit of meaning. She has shown internationally for many years. Her public installations have been sited at New York’s City Hall, Times Square, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Messner has been a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe…
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Gail Nathan Nathan’s work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Currently Gail is Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center where she is an outspoken and successful advocate for the value of the arts in privilege deprived urban…
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Cara Perlman Cara Perlman was an early member of COLAB known for her finger painted portraits of artist friends. More recently, she has produced a series of large paintings on canvas, nude portraits of her beloved husband. She has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an individual New York Foundation for the Arts…
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Kingsley Parker After Infancy, Kingsley Parker and Rand Russell worked together making prints at her studio Grin Graphics. Kingsley was then a member of Condeso Lawler Gallery which carried many prints. Kingsley made many prints while working at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan Graphics, Peter Kruty Editions, and with Betty Winkler. He made works at…
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Christy Rupp A sociopolitical eco art activist, Christy Rupp’s study of habitat degradation and economics explore the social costs of environmental disruption. Christy Rupp has exhibited widely and received two individual fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in sculpture. She was active in COLAB, instrumental in the founding of ABC No Rio, and…
Read MoreRand Russell
Rand Russell Rand Russell is a master screen printer trained in England. Russell made prints with many artists while directing Grin Graphics, a collaborative art studio specializing in digital imaging and water based screen printing. She brought unique technical expertise to Avocet including the use of textured films. Rand Russell’s print collaboration history is archived…
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