Monotype Guild of New England First National Show

MGNE has mailed the results for the first national show. The artist response was fantastic which made it challenging for the juror Aprile Gallant, curator of prints, drawings and photographs at Smith College Museum of Art. Guild information The print show is at the Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA and will run from September 6 to October 3, 2008.

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Free Printmaking Demonstration

Linda Germain is offering a free demonstration of several of the techniques that she uses to make her monotypes. Saturday, August 2, 2008,3 PM to 4PM Newburyport Art Association 65 Water St Newburyport, MA 01950. She will demonstrate gelatin plate prints, hand stamping with found objects and carved soft blocks, foam block relief prints and maybe even some sewn collage or perforated prints if time allows. This free demonstration is offered in conjunction with the 5th Annual Printmakers Group show at the Art Association. At the same time you will be able to enjoy work by 9 other printmakers including Muriel Angelil Susan Jaworski-Stranc, Barbara Nachmias-Kedesdy, Mary Arthur Pollak, Christine Riccardi, Charlotte Roberts, Glenn Szegedy, Mary Tuttle and Mary Carolyn Webber. http://www.linda-germain.com/index.html
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Student paintings and Self Portraits – videos

Linda Germain  just finished teaching the first week of College for Kids, at Northern Essex Community College. http://www.necc.mass.edu/ She was teaching experimental painting to 9 to 11 year old children. They did a series of one minute self portraits. See some of their work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W7DziFzhSQ. The children had plenty of time for self guided paintings and those are the subject of the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyP8N4qhPpc&feature=user There are 3 more weeks of the program and there are still openings in some of the classes for more information go to http://www.necc.mass.edu/collegeforkids/

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Mixed Media Monotypes at Newburyport Art Association

Linda Germain, and nine other printmakers will be showing their recent work at the Newburyport Art Association, Sargent Gallery, begining on July 24th and running through August 6th. http://www.newburyportart.org/ There will be an opening reception on Saturday, July 26th from 7PM to 9PM.
On Saturday, August 2, 2008, from 3PM to 4PM, Linda Germain will be giving a free printmaking demonstration. The demonstration will include: gelatin plate monotypes, collographs, relief blocks and hand stamping. Ms. Germain likes to use many different techniques in one print to create richly layered prints that appeal to many people on many different levels.

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