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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2020-2010 FINAL Normal Editions Workshop Veda Rives Aukerman, Interim Director and Master Printer Sarah Smelser, Professor of Art Morgan Price, Associate Professor of Art Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Wonsook Kim School of Art Illinois State University Campus Box 5620 Normal, IL 61790-5620 normaleditions.illinoisstate.edu e-mail: [email protected] Normal Editions Team Fall 2020 (first row after logo) Veda Rives Aukerman, Morgan Price, and Sarah Smelser, (second row) Jess Dowell, Erika Shiba, Peytin Fitzgerald, and Nicole Arnold Normal Editions Sponsors Awards Graduate Print award for her copper etching "Document Each year, Normal Editions sponsors a scholarship 5." The N.E.W. Best Undergraduate Print award went to recognizing outstanding artistic ability and performance Michael Monroe for his letterpress and relief print "As in printmaking. This competitive award is open to both the Universe, So the Soul." Erika Shiba also received the graduate and undergraduate art students with an Karen Deske scholarship and the Jen Franklin Memorial emphasis in printmaking and who will be attending Illinois award for her graphite drawing "Neurosphere." Jessica State during the following academic year. Tess Murphy, a Peterson received the fourth annual Richard D. Finch senior year undergraduate BFA major in Printmaking with Drawing and Printmaking award for her drawing "Hope." a minor in Women and Gender Studies, is the 2020-21 This award is sponsored by Kelsey and Jonathan DeGreef recipient of the Normal Editions Workshop Scholarship. in honor of Richard Finch’s 37 outstanding years of Normal Editions also sponsored two awards teaching drawing and printmaking. Jess Dowell, received highlighting achievement in printmaking for the 2020 the Elizabeth Stein Art Scholarhip. Antonia Diprima, Student Annual Exhibition in April. Erika Shiba, a received the ISU Glass award for her life-cast glass second year MFA student, received the N.E.W. Best sculpture, "When did I see you last?" Congratulations to all! 2020-2010 FINAL PHONE: 309-438-7530 FAX: 309-438-2215 WEB: normaleditions.illinoisstate.edu E-MAIL: [email protected] January 2020 - 2021 Number 29 Normal Editions Workshop (N.E.W.) is a Recent Publications non-profit, professional, collaborative print A 2020 completed edition is a research and publishing workshop founded color lithograph by Nazafarin Lotfi in 1976 within the Wonsook Kim School of which was printed early in the year Art at Illinois State University. Welcome to with curating and edition signing ac- our annual review of the year's events. complished in the summer. Nazafarin Who Works at Normal Editions? Lotfi, an artist and educator living and In addition to the Director and print- working between Tucson, Arizona and making faculty, printmaking graduate Chicago, Illinois, collaborated with students work here as part of their as- Normal Editions as part of the ISU sistantships. Other students take an Visiting Artist Program from September independent study course to experi- 2 - October 2, 2019. Her interest in ence the inner workings of this profes- exploring opposition, tension, and sional printshop and expand what they harmony thru spatial arrangements to learn in studio courses. The minimum create places for possibility and growth prerequisite is one printmaking class. resulted in a three-color lithograph Students participate in all aspects entitled Fold using drawn elements in of our activities: preparing for artists' close color combinations. Three layers visits and projects, working with of ink include a warm gray, medium visiting artists in project development, blue, and dark blue on BFK Rives Fold by Nazafarin Lotfi proofing and editioning collaborative white paper. Co-printers Veda Rives three-color lithograph, 19" x 14" prints, writing grants, framing artwork, Aukerman and Morgan Price lead this installing local exhibitions, organizing project. The image was accomplished New Woodcut Portfolio traveling exhibitions, documenting ac- using hand drawing on three Artex Project with PGOBA initiated tivities, and promotional materials. Mylars and photographic techniques Members of the Peoria Guild of Student Team members in 2020 on positive working photo lithography Black Artists (PGOBA) have embarked and 2021 include Jess Dowell, Tess plates. Lotfi’s interdisciplinary practice on a collaborative project to create Murphy, Erika Shiba, Peytin Fitzgerald, includes drawings, sculpture, and per- woodcuts printed by Normal Editions and Nicole Arnold. Staff and faculty formance. Team members. This new project include Veda Rives Aukerman, Morgan begun in the fall semester has the goal Price, and Sarah Smelser. of being collaborative while observing Interested parties may contact us at Covid19 restrictions for social dis- [email protected]. tancing. Woodcut has the advantage of being more easily mobile, less COVID19 Sends Work Online equipment intensive, more intuitive In mid-March our typical work for artists, and less complicated for patterns ended in response to the printing. Eleven participating artists COVID19 global pandemic. All curric- ulum was transitioned to online delivery from Peoria include Kevin Bradford, after an extended spring break to Alexa Carey, Domonick Holloway, prepare for the radical change. Edition Kameron Hoover, Chantell Marlow, printing at the lithography press cannot Alexander Martin, Erik Minnis, Morgan be accomplished while maintaining Mullen, Hannah Offutt, Brenda Pagan, proper social distancing. Thus two and Quinton Thomas. Test blocks have editions for Mark Ritchie and three been proofed and we look forward to for Bethany Collins are on hold until seeing the edition blocks early in 2021 on-site teamwork is allowed. While followed by edition printing soon after. Veda Rives Aukerman, Bethany Collins, there is plenty of work to accomplish Peytin Fitzgerald, and Erika Shiba stand For more information about the artists remotely,we all eagerly look forward with two signed "Right to Print" impressions and the PGOBA organization, see their to printing lithos again in the future. during the collaboration in February website: peoriagoba.com. featured in a solo exhibition at The collaborative print project University Galleries of Illinois with Mark E. Ritchie, Professor, State University titled Bethany University of Wyoming, Department Collins: A Pattern or Practice. of Art educator and artist, includes Bethany Collins’ February visit to two four-color lithographs. These ISU was sponsored in part by Normal editions are next on the production Editions, University Galleries, and printing docket at Normal Editions and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. we look forward to the opportunity The collaboration resulted in not to return to such activities after the one, but three impressions signed restrictions from Covid19 are lifted. "Right to Print" for editions of large Ritchie's untitled prints explore Bethany Collins and Morgan Price inspecting two-color lithographs entitled "and individuality and relationships while drawings on mylar over the light table while love all hearts entwine (God Bless featuring his gestural drawing preparing to expose photo-lithographic plates Our Sunday School)", "and love all methods using the subject of horses Projects in Progress 2020-21 hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday and birds. Ritchie lives and works in Normal Editions is currently working School)" II, and "all hearts beneath the Laramie, Wyoming. An award from on several collaborative projects sun (Let War's Tempests Cease)". the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust of with artists Bethany Collins, Jaimie Jaimie Warren, a multidisciplinary the Illinois State Foundation partially Warren, and Mark E. Ritchie. artist living and working in Brooklyn, supported his visit to Illinois State. Bethany Collins was a visiting New York is the Co-Director of a artist in residence February 3 - 7 community arts project and fake Plans for 2021 Spring semester 2021 continues collaborating with students, staff, public access TV show "Whoop Dee distance learning while plans for the and faculty to produce a limited Doo" through which she collaborates fall semester at this point assume edition print. An artist from Chicago, with art programs for youth and local a return to on-site work and edition Collins works in a variety of media groups. Warren collaborated with printing. Appointments will still be including drawing, painting, prints, Normal Editions as part of the ISU required for visits to CVA 129A. sculptures, and artist’s books where Visiting Artist Program in 2019. Her Plans for acknowledging the 45th she incorporates fractured or illegible interest in performance and popular anniversary of the founding of Normal phrases,