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2004 Delta National Small Prints
Exhibition to run Oct. 21 - Nov. 19

The 2004 Delta National Small Prints Eye of the Storm, by Janet BallwegExhibition will open to the public at 5pm on Thursday, Oct. 21, at the Bradbury Gallery in the Fowler Center on the campus of Arkansas State University.  The ninth edition of this popular exhibition promises to be as visually interesting, diverse and rewarding as ever.

The juror for this year’s exhibition, Shelley Langdale is the Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Langdale worked diligently to select an outstanding exhibition, including 18 Purchase AwardsHelix, by Lari Gibbons and 5 Sponsorships.  These 60 original works of art by 56 artists provide visitors to the exhibit the chance to enjoy fresh ideas and new imagery from artists living and working throughout the United States.

Langdale said of the exhibition,” The Delta National Small Prints Exhibition plays a crucial role in contemporary printmaking, celebrating printmakers who work on a more modest scale in a field that has increasingly expanded to encompass Three Craters, by Endi Poskovicall manner of oversized mixed media and installation formats (equally viable in their own right), and I hope it is a tradition that will continue for many years to come.”

Included in the exhibition are works by three Arkansas State University artists, Shelley Gipson and April Sheppard of Jonesboro and Marianne Williams of Paragould.  Gipson is an Assistant Professor of Art, Sheppard is a recent graduate of the Art Department and a technician at the Dean B. Ellis Library and Williams teaches Art Education.

The 2004 exhibition will once again feature the “Learning Gallery” a room designated to the understanding and appreciation of printmaking.  This year visitors will have the opportunity to see the development of the intaglio print, “Perseus and Andromeda” by Evan Lindquist.  Under normal circumstances an artist destroys preliminary sketches and early states of their prints.  For educational purposes Lindquist, the founder of the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, saved these initial prints and drawings.   These examples and Lindquist’s explanation of them help to explain the process he used to develop and create this work of art.

The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.  For more information please contact the Bradbury Gallery at 870-910-8115.

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