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Esther Bubley’s photographs of Dissin’s Guest House effectively launched her career. They offer a rare and intimate view into the life of World War II’s “government girls”―the young female clerks, typists, and stenographers who kept the wartime bureaucracy running. Bubley made these images in 1943, when she was a 22-year-old aspiring documentary photographer at the Office of War Information (OWI).
“It’s always collaboration when making a woodcut: the tools, the wood and me working together.” –Jeanine Coupe Ryding
In March of 2016, Jeanine Coupe Ryding began carving some images in wood blocks. After a quick, loose sketch on the block, she used her carving tools to make lines, marks and spirals into the surface. The wood was birch plywood and difficult to carve. So the marks became smaller as though the tool was taking a bite out of the surface. Ryding used a Dremel tool make the spiraling, sweeping lines that a carving tool could not in the hard surface.
“The shapes I carved had been on my mind for years. They are a medley of things I have seen and then simplified, a shield, a toy, a spear, and a barrel.” Ryding was thinking of them as drawings for sculptures, three-dimensional forms that could lie on a low pedestal or in the grass or balanced upright. The marks on the inside of the shapes, however, are graphic and make the shapes come alive with motion and depth. The lines, dashes and spirals create a three-dimensional appearance of space allowing the illusion of the third dimension and fulfilling, in part, her desire for sculpture.
In Ryding’s effort to leave out color and concentrate on marks and forms, she printed the wood blocks in Prussian blue. Although it is a color, it works like black in contrast to the light tone paper without the severity or finality of black. The blue also gives the appearance of a night sky viewed through an opening and mapped in lines and dots suggesting orbits and paths of motion. She went through multiple cans of Prussian blue ink as she carved more blocks and explored their two- and three-dimensional possibilities.
About the artist Jeanine Coupe Ryding’s work has been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad and her prints and artists books are in museum collections. She focuses primarily on woodcut prints, etchings, artist’s books, drawing and collage and founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston, Illinois for artist’s books publishing. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Iowa and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, Germany. Ryding has received various awards and residencies, including the Illinois Arts Council Award, Arts Midwest, Frans Masereel Center, Belgium and Anchor Graphics, Chicago. Her work is represented by: Atrium Gallery in St. Louis, Olson Larsen Gallery in Des Moines and August Art in London. Ryding has been teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991.
1981, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson
No admission fee. Cash bar available.
ArtStart Presents…
Great Movies of the Great War
This year marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, the worst apocalypse the world has ever known. To help remember The Forgotten War, ArtStart will host a fall film series showing movie masterpieces of World War I from some of the most celebrated directors and artists of the 20th Century. These films lack the graphic violence of modern movies but are all the more powerful because of it. Instead, they focus on the human toll of the conflict, both physical and spiritual, by looking at the war from the soldier’s point of view. These films will take you back to this forgotten time, to what the world thought was The War to End All Wars, and awaken you to the realities of modern warfare.
Live Music, Food, Dance Contests, Cash Bar
Tickets are $12.50 online, $15 at the door, Kids 12 and under are free
75 Years of the Biever Family Photographers, Historian and Washington Island native Matt Foss, has spent years working with the family of Vernon Biever, longtime photographer for the Green Bay Packers. Matt will highlight the work of Vernon and his two sons John and Jim, well known photographers in their own right, covering 75 years of Packers history.
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1969, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Maggie Smith, featuring Laurence Oliver and Vanessa Redgrave
No admission fee. Cash bar available.
ArtStart Presents…
Great Movies of the Great War
This year marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, the worst apocalypse the world has ever known. To help remember The Forgotten War, ArtStart will host a fall film series showing movie masterpieces of World War I from some of the most celebrated directors and artists of the 20th Century. These films lack the graphic violence of modern movies but are all the more powerful because of it. Instead, they focus on the human toll of the conflict, both physical and spiritual, by looking at the war from the soldier’s point of view. These films will take you back to this forgotten time, to what the world thought was The War to End All Wars, and awaken you to the realities of modern warfare.
Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 American drama anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starring Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland and Diane Varsi. It was based on the novel of the same name by Trumbo, and features an uncredited writing collaboration by Luis Buñuel.
No admission fee. Cash bar available.
ArtStart Presents…
Great Movies of the Great War
This year marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, the worst apocalypse the world has ever known. To help remember The Forgotten War, ArtStart will host a fall film series showing movie masterpieces of World War I from some of the most celebrated directors and artists of the 20th Century. These films lack the graphic violence of modern movies but are all the more powerful because of it. Instead, they focus on the human toll of the conflict, both physical and spiritual, by looking at the war from the soldier’s point of view. These films will take you back to this forgotten time, to what the world thought was The War to End All Wars, and awaken you to the realities of modern warfare.
2006, Writen and Directed by Christian Carion.
Featuring Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, Gary Lewis, Bernard Le Coq, Daniel Bruhl, and Alex Ferns.
No admission fee. Cash bar available.
ArtStart Presents…
Great Movies of the Great War
This year marks the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, the worst apocalypse the world has ever known. To help remember The Forgotten War, ArtStart will host a fall film series showing movie masterpieces of World War I from some of the most celebrated directors and artists of the 20th Century. These films lack the graphic violence of modern movies but are all the more powerful because of it. Instead, they focus on the human toll of the conflict, both physical and spiritual, by looking at the war from the soldier’s point of view. These films will take you back to this forgotten time, to what the world thought was The War to End All Wars, and awaken you to the realities of modern warfare.
Uniquely structured children’s art classes inspired by the exhibition Capturing the Packers: 75 Years of Biever Family Photographs. Classes are meant to allow children to learn and explore art forms and themes through selected topics and activities taught by professional art instructors.
We want classes to be affordable for all families! We offer “on your honor” scholarships and sliding scale pricing! Please select the appropriate price option during checkout.
Uniquely structured children’s art classes inspired by the exhibition Capturing the Packers: 75 Years of Biever Family Photographs. Classes are meant to allow children to learn and explore art forms and themes through selected topics and activities taught by professional art instructors.
We want classes to be affordable for all families! We offer “on your honor” scholarships and sliding scale pricing! Please select the appropriate price option during checkout.