HOME SCHOOL: When Ink Meets Paper - A Conversation with Georgia Deal, Ruth Lingen, & Gretchen Schermerhorn
Wednesday January 6th, 7pm (EST)

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(IMAGE: Li Songsong, Swordsmanship (V), 2018,
75 x 85½ x 3 inches, monoprint with
handmade cast paper. Courtesy
of the artist and Pace Prints, NYC)
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Topic: HOME SCHOOL: When Ink Meets Paper
Time: Jan 6, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Join us as we host a dynamic discussion with Artists Georgia Deal, formerly of the Corcoran School of Art, Ruth Lingen of Pace Paper, and Gretchen Schermerhorn, Artistic Director at Pyramid Atlantic Center as they discuss their work for the upcoming issue of Hand Papermaking Magazine that Georgia was guest editor of. The issue centers around the featured artists who work in print and handmade paper, their collaborations, and the progression of their decades long careers.
Link to the magazine: https://handpapermaking.org/

ABOUT GEORGIA

Georgia Deal is a printmaker and papermaker whose mixed-media works on paper embody these processes. After Chairing the Printmaking and Papermaking area at the Corcoran School of Art & Design in Washington D.C. for many years. She recently has set up a new studio, Swannanoa Paper in Asheville, North Carolina. Georgia's work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum, The Corcoran Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Yale’s Beineke Library, the Nasher Museum of Duke University, the Kaizen Museum of American University, the National Gallery of Art, and various University and private collections.

ABOUT RUTH

Ruth Lingen lives and works in New York City, where she has established a distinguished career as a master printer, papermaker, and book artist. From 2008 to 2018 Lingen was the founding director of Pace Paper (a Brooklyn–based papermaking facility for Pace Prints), where she continues to work occasionally on paper/print multiples. She also directs Line Press Limited, a workshop in Brooklyn devoted to artist books and small- scale print editions. Lingen has collaborated with over 90 celebrated artists and writers. Her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Center, Brooklyn Museum, and Walker Art Center, as well as over 35 libraries including the New York Public Library and Harvard University Library.

ABOUT GRETCHEN

Ms. Schermerhorn is currently the Artistic Director at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, an art center dedicated to the contemporary creation of hand printmaking, papermaking and the art of the book, in Hyattsville, Maryland. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, and since then has completed artist residencies at The Women's Studio Workshop in New York, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern Ireland, California State University and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Florida. Her prints, installations, and works on paper works have been exhibited around the country and internationally, and her work is part of the Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Anne Arundel Community College's print collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. She has received individual artist awards from both the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.