Category: Printmaking

Rondo

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture is honored to have its first Printing Press Artist-in-Residency this summer from July 17-August 14, 2023. Artist Lisa Mackie won the residency through the Inspiration Plus, a nonprofit organization from Sag Harbor, NY that promotes creativity through arts and sciences with focus on printmaking.  The award was given in 2020 at the height of COVID-19, now three-years later, the Josephy Center can host the residency.

Lisa is a master printmaker from New York City and has been a working artist for over 45 years. This is her first trip to Eastern Oregon. Lisa’s residency includes an Art Talk on Wed., July 26 at noon, an Exhibition “Rondo” with an Opening Reception on Thursday, July 27 at 5:30 p.m. Rondo runs from July 27-August 11. The Josephy Center is open for viewing, Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Art will be for sale. Lastly, Lisa will teach a two-day Monoprint Workshop on Saturday, July 29 and Sunday July 30 from 10-4pm.

Lisa Mackie is a visual artist known for storytelling in provocative color, euphoric imagery and materials that teeter on the seemingly familiar and unfamiliar. Through her wide array of abstract and figurative compositions, Mackie evokes fable-like tales that incite imagination and exploration for her viewers. Within all of Mackie’s works is a compilation of picture fragments that she has photographed, drawn, written, and remembered. The images deal with a delicate balance between cognition, process, and memory. Through her own intuitive explanation, she meticulously traces, scrutinizes, and hones the evolution of each image, resulting in a type of infinity.

In her exhibition “Rondo” a term in reference to a musical form that contains a principal theme which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, Mackie explores the process of visual memory, evolving imagery, and continuous motion through her journey in India in 1999. Her prints, paintings, and installations become narrative devices used to transcend time and space and immerse viewers into her own reminiscences of her time in an enchanting new place. Through an elephant ride, on a boat behind the Taj Mahal, a hike through the Ganges the viewer is invited along a sensorial voyage.

Rondo Exhibit Walkthrough

Modes: Making Art, Jazz and History

A new exhibit, Modes: Making Art, Jazz and History, opens with a reception at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture April 7th from 7:00-9:00.  Lostine print artist Nancy Clarke will conduct at walk-through of the exhibit for docents and interested people at 6:30, before the reception.  The exhibit explores connections between fine art prints, jazz and Oregon’s cultural history. The Center has selected works that complement the premiere performance of “From Maxville to Vanport” which takes place the following Friday at the OK Theater in Enterprise. 

“Jazz musicians improvise independently but within a particular mode and structure to create a unified and unique performance. Print artists also experiment with a variety of modes to express their ideas visually,” said curator Jane Pagliarulo.

The Center is launching a print arts program. To inspire established and emerging artists Pagliarulo has chosen broad selection of prints that demonstrate the many different ways that ink can be applied to paper. Educational material about how prints are made will be displayed. Lostine print artist Nancy Clarke will conduct a walk-through of the exhibit for docents and interested people at 6:30 before the reception.

“This show includes works by some of Oregon’s top artists,” said Cheryl Coughlan, Executive Director. “We have two winners of the Governor’s Arts Award represented:  Avie Smith and George Johanson. Also winners of Oregon’s highest award for print artists, the Ray Trayle Prize, will be shown.”

The exhibit will run through May 28th. The exhibit is sponsored in part by the Oregon Cultural Trust and the Collins Foundation.

Print by George Johanson

Oregon Printmakers from the Collection of Christy Wyckoff

April 1 – May 30

Josephy Center for Arts and Culture presents an exhibit of prints curated by Christy Wyckoff. The show features Oregon artists, who are part of Wyckoff’s artistic communities. Wyckoff grew up in Eastern Oregon and taught printmaking at Pacific NW College of Art in Portland for over 30 years.

Exhibit opens on Saturday, April 1 at  7 PM with an opening reception with fun hands-on printmaking lessons with multiple types of prints for all to try. Also a big closing party reception on May 26 at 7 PM and Christy will present a slide show presentation about his career as an artist and as a collector as part of our artist lecture series, “Live and Up Front” at 8 p.m. as part of the reception. Both events are free but donations are welcome. Printmaking fun will have pricing that will be determined.

Christy Wyckoff:

Wyckoff’s work in printmaking, painting and photography is focused on an intersection between abstraction and representation. His work has appeared in museum exhibitions including The Plates: International Contemporary Print Art at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music; One of a Kind: Monotypes from the Permanent Collection at the Portland Art Museum; Waters Edge: Landscapes by Contemporary Northwest Artists at the Maryhill Museum of Art; What’s Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Oregon and Washington at the Alternative Museum, NYC; and In Touch: Nature, Ritual and Sensuous Art from the Northwest at the Portland Center for Visual Arts.

He has had solo exhibitions at the Alysia Duckler Gallery and Blackfish Gallery, in Portland; at the Pendleton Center for the Arts in Pendleton and at Gravura Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil and the Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba in Curitiba, Brazil. Wyckoff’s paintings, drawings and prints are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Minnesota Museum of Art, the Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba, Brazil, the Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum at University of Oregon and the New York Public Library.

In 2014, Wyckoff’s prints were included in the Tacoma Museum of Art’s survey Ink This! Contemporary Prints in the Northwest. In 2015, Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska exhibited works on paper at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. The exhibition Tom Prochaska and Christy Wyckoff: In the Footsteps of Charles Heaney chronicled their project revisiting sites of Charles Heaney’s Oregon landscape paintings. Wyckoff received a BA from the University of Oregon and an MFA from the University of Washington. In 2012, Wyckoff retired as Professor Emeritus from his position as Chair of the Printmaking Department of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland.

Check out his website: http://www.christywyckoff.com

Below: Juniper

Print by Christy Wyckoff

Native American Art Show

Featuring Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts prints, Indian art, & regalia. 

June 4 – 28

The Josephy Center’s third annual Native American Art Exhibit opens on June 4 at 5 p.m. The exhibit is a mixture of old and new Indian Art; twelve prints from Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art, including work from Lillian Pitt, Jim Demonie, Wendy Red Star, Rick Bartow and more; and historical regalia from private collections (Celeste Whitewolf and more)….The opening reception includes refreshments, music and libations, and will be in conjunction with the annual Joseph Art Walk, which goes from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.. The exhibit runs through June 28.

During the month of June we will have complimentary programs to the exhibit. First, Brown Bag Lunches will be held on three Tuesdays. First, June 7 we will be welcoming Nez Perce Fisheries; on June 14, Wil Phinney, editor of the Confederated Umatilla Journal. Finally, on June 21, at noon, we will show two 20-minute Nez Perce films “Of One Heart” and “Nez Perce: Portrait of a People.”

This year we welcome two Native artists in residence: Celeste Whitewolf and Allen Pinkham, Jr.  Celeste will teach a basketry workshop from June 21-June 24, and Allen will be here at different times during the summer and fall to work on a traditional dug-out canoe. More news on this as the project grows.

 

www.crowsshadow.org 

Native American Print Show

An opening reception for a Native American art show at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture at Joseph takes place, Friday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Josephy Center, 43 N. Main St.

The exhibit runs Nov. 8–Dec. 2, according to Cheryl North Coughlan, who became executive director five weeks ago. She has resided in Joseph with her family since 2001.

The Native American art is from the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, based on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton. Curator for the exhibit is Joe McCormack, known for his art shows at Wallowa Lake Lodge.

The 30 images are provided by the Crow’s Shadow Institute, located in the St. Andrews Mission Schoolhouse. Renowned artist James Lavadour of the Walla Walla band and friends incorporated Crow’s Shadow in 1992. The non-profit organization aims to provide opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. With an emphasis on contemporary, fine-art printmaking as well as a venue for teaching the traditional Native arts practices such as weaving, bead working, regalia making of the Columbia Plateau region.

Several of the artists whose work will be displayed live in the northeast Oregon area. Featured artists are James Lavadour (Walla Walla), Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Marie Watt (Seneca), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), Ramon Murillo (Shoshone/Bannock), Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs), Jeremy Red Star Wolf (Umatilla/Cayuse/Walla Walla), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), George Flett (Spokan), Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee),Vanessa Enos (Walla Walla/Yakama/Pima), Ric Gendron (Colville), James Luna (Luiseno), Jim Denomie (Ojibwe) and Frank LaPena (Wintu).

Rivers (Grand Opening)

The grand opening of the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, which coincided with the opening of the Rivers art exhibit, exceeded all expectations Saturday night, Jan. 19. “It was fantastic”, said Lyn Craig, executive director of the non-profit center, which started hosting classes last fall. “We think we had 300 people. It blew us away. People came to see the art, and they stayed and they stayed. There was such good energy.”

The Rivers art exhibit featured the photographs of local biologist Mary Edwards, the bronzes of local sculpture Tim Norman and prints of lithographer Dennis Cunningham of Portland. This is the first art exhibit hosted by the Josephy Center and it will remain open for viewing through Feb. 16; it is running in conjunction with the Wallowa County Reads program. Show directors are Ed Pitts and Rodd Ambroson, who both drew everyones attention to the handsome metal painting hangers, designed by Tim Norman and fabricated by Chuck Frasier.

The next Josephy Center exhibit, scheduled for Feb. 27-March, will be of American and European art collected by local artist Steve Arment, titled Artists Eye Collectors Passions.

A juried show is being planned that will feature art collected by Wallowa County residents. The grand opening event included a slide presentation of underwater photographs of fish on the Lostine River, shown by Edwards, and a fly tying and fly fishing demonstration by Fishtrap writer-in-residents Cameron Scott. Josephy Library of Western History and Culture curator Rich Wandschneider was on hand to introduce the library, which is located in a large upstairs room. Music was provided by Roger Magee on his hand-crafted flutes and food by Lears Main Street Pub and Grill.

The Josephy Center, sited in a handsome Main Street log building that was originally the home of Bank of Wallowa County (now Community Bank), is the fulfillment of a dream for a group of local art and music lovers who started planning for a cultural center in Wallowa County over four years ago. One of the group, Ann Stephens, purchased the long-vacant log building last summer, with the idea eventually the non-profit that was formed would buy it. We have a tremendous gift here and we hope we can utilize it far into the future, said Pitts. While Rivers was the first art exhibit for the center, it has already hosted music and other classes, and a community Christmas concert organized by Wallowa Valley Music Alliance.  I thought it was wonderful, Stephens, who serves as chairperson of the centers board of directors, said of the grand opening. There were lots of people here and everyone was smiling. She added, Everything has come together. Its even better than I imagined. This building deserves to be an art center.

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By Elane Dickenson

Read more at: https://wallowa.com/2013/01/22/josephy-center-opening-attracts-crowd/