Recent Exhibitions and Events
United Theatre Gallery
5 Canal Street
Westerly RI 02891
Saturday, September 28 - Sunday, November 12, 2023
This exhibition of hand-pulled fine art prints highlights the newest collaborative work of the artists of the Printmakers Network: the Pearls Portfolio, created in celebration of the group’s thirtieth anniversary as an organization. Additional prints including hand print processes that include: intaglio, lithography, relief, silkscreen, and monotype by members of the group will also be on view.
Exhibiting Artists: Grace Bentley-Scheck, Shirley Bernstein, Claudia Fieo, Carol Strause FitzSimonds, Donna Frustere, Martha Jeffrey, Galuszka, Elizabeth Goddard, Sarah Gustafson, Joan Hausrath, Joan Jacobson-Zamore, Melody Knight Leary, Amanda Lebel, Jim Lee, Rhea Nowak, Barbara Pagh, Margot Rocklen, Julia Samuels, Mary Teichman, Kim Tester, Carmela Venti, David Witbeck, Jo Yarrington, Yuemei Zhang, and Elizabeth Bonner Zimmerman.
The Pearls Portfolio Exhibit
Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Rd., Cotuit, MA
Wednesday, April 19 – Sunday, June 18, 2023
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the PNSNE, this exhibition highlighted the artists’ newest collaborative portfolio, Pearls. In addition there were other works displayed in a variety of sizes and media including woodcuts, etchings, silk screens, lithographs, and new media.
Exhibiting artists were Grace Bentley-Scheck, Shirley Bernstein, Claudia Fieo, Carol Strause FitzSimonds, Donna Frustere, Martha Jeffrey Galuszka, Elizabeth Goddard, Sarah Gustafson, Joan Hausrath, Joan Jacobson-Zamore, Melody Knight Leary, Amanda Lebel, Jim Lee, Rhea Nowak, Barbara Pagh, Margot Rocklen, Julia Samuels, Mary Teichman, Kim Tester, Carmela Venti, David Witbeck, Jo Yarrington, Yuemei Zhang, and Elizabeth Bonner Zimmerman.
The Evocative Mark Twain Inspires the Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England
Mark Twain House and Museum
Hartford, CT
Mar 24, 2022 - Jan 23, 2023
On view were intriguing prints created by PNSNE artists in response to quotations by Mark Twain. Topics ranged from Twain’s observations of the natural world to his satiric commentaries on the human condition.
Featured Artists: Donna Frustere, Joan Hausrath, Barbara Pagh, Carol Strause FitzSimonds, Shirley Bernstein, Carmela Venti, Margot Rocklen, Julia Samuels, Rhea Nowak, Elizabeth Goddard, Mary Teichman, Amanda Lebel, Grace Bentley-Scheck, Melody Knight Leary, Joan Jacobson Zamore, Jim Lee, Yue Mei Zhang, Jo Yarrington.
Crossings and Transpositions Part I
The University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy
Guangzhou, China
April, 2019
PNSNE members Yumei Zhang, Jo Yarrington, Carmela Venti, Mary Teichman and Margot Rocklen participated in an exchange exhibition at the University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China.
In addition to the works of the five individual members, three PNSNE portfolios were on display: Print Cubed, Score 2012, and Collective Independence. A copy of the 25th Anniversary Catalog was donated to The University City Art Museum.
Crossings and Transpositions Extended: Reflections from China Venue
Fairfield University (CT) Loyola Hall Studio Art Galleries
Studio Art Program
Jan – Feb, 2022
PNSNE members Yumei Zhang, Jo Yarrington, Carmela Venti, Mary Teichman and Margot Rocklen exhibited prints inspired by their visit to China.
Visions/Revisions, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Center for Contemporary Prints
Norwich, CT
April 8 – May 19, 2017
A creative vision is born in the imagination; a mental image of something that is not yet fully realized. So begins the artist’s journey to bring form to an idea.
The Visions/Revisions Exhibit, marked the 25th anniversary of the Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England and highlighted this creative journey. Each artist presented an original work and a subsequent piece based on the first, thus allowing us to view the transformation that occurs in a second work of art through the use of materials, technique or style.
Proof Positive
Slater Memorial Museum
Norwich, CT
November 23, 2014 – January 18, 2015.
“Proof,” in the world of printmaking, is a trial print that is created to test the progress of an image.
Proof Positive chronicled over two decades of work by members of PNSNE and included a wide range of techniques and diverse subject matter associated with contemporary printmaking; processes that revisit traditional techniques as well as new 21st century processes.
Included in the exhibit was the group’s latest portfolio, Print Cubed. PNSNE members were challenged to work within a six by eighteen inch format that would be folded and housed in a six by six by six inch cube box. The varied responses to this limited format are proof that each image was as distinct and individual as the artist.
INKINGS
An Ongoing Program of Interactive Printmaking Activities
Members conceived INKLING in 2009 as an educational outreach program designed to benefit hospitalized children and provide a valuable outlet for creative expression. The inaugural program took place in 2011 at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Hands-on workshops in various printmaking techniques were presented and followed up with an exhibition of the artwork. Since 2011 PNSNE has brought the INKLING programs not only to children’s hospitals, but also to adults in outpatient clinics and art therapy majors at Connecticut College.
The INKLING workshop and exhibits foster interaction between participants of all ages and the PNSNE artists as they share dialogue about the meaning and inspiration behind their images.
PNSNE EXHIBITS AND EVENTS 1993 - 2023
2023
“Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England,” United Theatre Gallery, Westerly, RI 9/28/23Demonstrations
“The Pearls Portfolio Exhibit” Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA 4/19/2023 – 5/14/2023Workshops and Demonstrations
2022
“The Evocative Mark Twain Inspires the Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England” The Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT 3/24/2022 – 1/23/2023Workshops, demonstrations, and online presentations. 3/24/2022 – 1/23/2023 Catalogue published
2021
Printmakers' Network of Southern New England ONLINE During the COVID pandemic, PNSNE members’ prints were exhibited online by Gallery 175 in Pawtucket, RI. 12/1/2020 – 4/30/2021
2019-2022
“Seeing is Believing: Crossings and Transpositions Part II” Five Chinese exchange artists, unable to travel due to the Pandemic, exhibited Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University Art Museum. 1/19 –3/5/2022
“Crossings and Transpositions Extended: Reflections from China” Loyola Hall Studio Art Galleries, Studio Art Program Five PNSNE members who had traveled to China exhibited.Workshops and Demonstrations 1/19/2021 – 2 /10/2022, Catalogs published
“Crossings and Transpositions Exhibition” Five PNSNE members traveled to China and exhibited their work along with the prints in three PNSNE Portfolios at The University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy in Guangzhou, China 5/2019
Workshops and Demonstrations, Catalog was published.
2017
“25th Anniversary Exhibition” Connecticut Historical Society / Museum & Library : Hartford, CT10/2017 – 1/2018
Catalog published
“Visions/Revisions, 25th Anniversary Exhibition” Center for Contemporary Printmaking: Norwalk, CT 4/2017
2016
“Pressing On: PNSNE” Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 1/21/2016-2/26/2016 Demonstrations
“Print Selections” Valentine H Zahn Community Gallery, Middlesex Hospital Shoreline Medical Center, Westbrook, CT 6/2/2016 – 8/13/2016
2015
“Proof Positive” Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT 11/16/2014 – 1/18/2015 Print 3: From Inception to Production
Catalog published
2013
“Members Exhibition” Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2012
“Score/2012” 20th Anniversary portfolio and exhibition, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT, 8/30/2012 -10/11/2012
“Inklings” Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT;
Workshops at Albert Magnus College and Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
2011
“Travel” Symposium, panel discussion and poetry reading with five printmakers and three poets, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, 4/7/2011
“Inklings” Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, including workshop where young patients and family members, hospital staff, and students at the Duke Ellington High School for the Arts made their own prints, and exhibited them in the hospital gallery, 6/26-9/23/2011
“Micro/Macro” exhibition Newport Art Museum, Newport RI Lectures, Demonstrations and workshops, 9/3-12/31/2011
“Under Pressure” portfolio exhibition, Corridor Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 9/30- 11/16/2011
“Micro” portfolio exhibition, Hasbro Hospital, Providence, RI, 12/2011
2010
“Inked,” featuring readings from “Travel”, The Spirol Gallery, Quinnebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT, 1/28-2/18/2010
“Travel+” Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, 10/30-11/21/2010
Poetry reading, gallery talk and demonstrations
“Turning the Page: The Evolution of Artists’ Books” Wheaton College, Norton MA, 12/5-4/1/2011
2009
“A Symposium Exploring Creative Interdisciplinary Enterprises and Collaboration in the Arts”, “Travel” book on display, panel discussion, demonstrations and workshops, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 10/23-24/2009
2006
“Under Pressure” portfolio exhibition The Art Gallery, Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT
“The Art of Printmaking” a juried exhibition by members of ACPS and PNSNE, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport RI, 6/3-6/29/2006
Gallery talk
“Intimate Prints” portfolio on exhibit at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI
2005
“The Progressive Print” The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, 3/29-4/29/2005
“Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England” Strathmore Fine Art, North Bethesda, MD, 7/16-8/27/2005
“In Print”, “Intimate Prints” & “Collective Independence” portfolios, URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, Providence, RI, 8/29-9/23/2005
“Hot Off the Press”, University Galleries, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, 9/22-10/13/2005
“Off the Press – 10 Printmakers” Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, 11/3-30/2005
2004
“Collective Independence”, Art & Wellness Program, Windham Community Memorial Hospital, Windham, CT, 2/2004
“The Printed Image”, “Intimate Prints” & “Collective Independence” portfolios, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, 3/14-4/17/2004
Demonstrations
“At Issue: Prints and Social Commentary”, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, 9/7-10/7/2004
“Process to Print” progressive proofs to finished prints & “Collective Independence” portfolio, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, 9/10-10/23
2003
“Collective Independence,” Jewish Community Center, New Haven, CT, 3/9-4/21/2003
“Collective Independence” portfolio on exhibit Southern Graphics Conference @ at Mass College of Art, Boston, MA, 4/2-4/5/2003
“Collective Independence” Converse Gallery, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT, 6/15/- 9/6/2003
“Collective Independence,” Duffy Fine Arts Center, Canterbury School, New Milford, CT, 9/18-10/20/2003
“Intimate Prints,” Westover School, Southbury, CT, 9/20-10/9/2003
2002
“Trends in Printmaking” 10th Anniversary Exhibition, “Intimate Prints Portfolio”, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 2/– 3/2002
Artist’s panel discussion
“The Print: Process & Content”, Choate Rosemary Hall, Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT, 5/4 - 5/22/2002
Demonstrations and video
2000
“Intimate Prints” Converse Gallery, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT, 1/30-3/9/2000
“Intimate Prints” Jorgenson Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 10/29-12/31/ 2000
1999
“Intimate Prints” Wickford Art Association, Wickford , RI, 4– 5/1999
“Pushing the Boundaries in Printmaking,” & “Intimate Prints” Portfolio, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT 6/1999
Demonstrations
“Intimate Prints” Quinnebaug Community College, Danielson, CT
1998
“Intimate Prints” Small Works Gallery, Hartford, CT, 6/1998
1997
“Demo Day” Creative Arts Workshop New Haven, CT, 10/1997
“Printmakers’ Network ‘97” Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
1996
Member’s Exhibition Converse Gallery, Slater Museum, Norwich, CT, 2-3/1996 “Demo Day: Pushing the Boundaries in Printmaking” – Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven –New Haven, CT, 4/6/96
“Unabridged” portfolio, Burr Homestead, Fairfield, CT
“Printmakers’ Network ’96” University of Rhode Island, Corridor Gallery, Kingston, RI, 9/1996
1995
Water/Etch Print Portfolio Project, Southern Graphics Conference, Knoxville, TN, 3/15/1995
“Unabridged” Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT, 3/30 – 4/22/1995
“Unabridged” The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
“Unabridged” St. Marks School, Southborough, MA
“Pushing the Boundaries in Printmaking” Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT 9/95 Demonstrations
“Printmakers’ Network ‘95” Housatonic Art Museum, Housatonic Community Technical College, Bridgeport, CT, 11/-12/15/1995
1994
“Unabridged” Fairfield University, 3– 4/1994
“Unabridged” Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, 7/1994
“Unabridged” Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT, 10/1994
“Unabridged” Quinnebaug Community College, Danielson, CT, 9/1994
1993
“Tools of the Printmaker Exhibition” Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT, 6/4- 8/30/1993