Many Changes and we are back after COVID: May 2021
I am very happy to be offering summer classes once again at ABRAZOS PRESS. The studio is honoring COVID safety practices, with fewer students per class and open windows for good ventilation. The studio has been a safe and welcoming space for me during the pandemic and I tried to work almost every day. My website has been newly created by Mary Bucci McCoy of Big Picture Communications, and I am happy with it: www.anniesilverman.com.
Charlie Norris continues to rent space and carve detailed, mainly architectural woodblocks, with new experiments into very large formats of birds as part of the BIG INK PROJECT.
Chris Buchanan is also renting space, but to do very detailed drawings.
In 2018 Nina Wishnok and Sandra Butler left Abrazos Press. Hannah Smith came to the studio as a renter and did printmaking on glass etched plates.
In 2019 there were ongoing classes at the studio and for the first time there was a student “show and tell”, sort of like the piano recital, as one student quipped. The enthusiasm and originality from class to class seemed important to share among the groups. Since it is “grown up school” people could talk to the whole group, or in small clusters about their work, as they felt comfortable. Of course there were snacks!
It all started when...
Work exhibited here by Sandra Butler,Annie Silverman,Cobb, Charles, Norris, Emily Cobb Ania Gilmore, and Jeesoo Lee, as well as the wonderful wall text created especially for the exhibition by designer John Kramer.
