National Print Show Awards at Artlink

Artlink Awards National Printmakers

Exhibition runs through May 23, 2012
Free for Artlink members; general public $2 suggested donation

Thanks to the generosity of Lincoln Financial Foundation, Artlink presented $2,200 in cash awards to the nation’s best printmakers from its 32nd Annual National Print Exhibition. Lincoln has been the print show’s sponsor for the past 17 years. For 32 years, Artlink has sent out a call for entry to every university in the United States that has a print department. This year the exhibition was curated and the award winners were selected by Ladislav R. Hanka of Kalamazoo, Michigan. 45 printmakers from 26 states were selected by Hanka to exhibit 71 hand-pulled prints. The exhibit opened on April 13 and will continue through May 23 at the Auer Center, 300 E. Main Street, Fort Wayne. All artwork is for sale.

Seven Indiana artists are included in this exhibition. Fort Wayne artists include Art Cislo, art instructor from the University of Saint Francis, who was an award winner, and Christopher Ganz, IPFW’s print professor. Jon Detweiler of Roanoke was awarded the top prize of $300 for his zinc plate etching, Warm and Windy. David B. Johnson and his wife Sarojini Jha Johnson of Muncie, both print instructors at Ball State University made the cut with Sarojini winning a prize. Also included were Judy Leiviska of Indianapolis and Julie Wall Toles from Huntertown. A free print catalogue listing all participants is available at the gallery, along with a glossary of print terminology.

The juror, Ladislav R. Hanka of Kalamazoo, Michigan, received his MFA in Printmaking from Western Michigan University and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since the 1980’s.

In the Betty G. Fishman Gallery is an exhibition of nine oil paintings, Abstract Works by Nathan Taves. In the Feature Gallery is Re-Purposed, an exhibition by ten artists who reuse found objects by turning them into art. Artists include the Art Farm’s Lisa Vetter and Paul Siefert of Spencerville, Sayaka Ganz and Jim Merz, Susan Kline of Peru, Ron Ostlund, Jr., Rebecca Stockert, Clare Tarr, Eric Tarr and Josef Zimmerman.

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