AVAM Melting Pot: A Food Salon

Saturday March 20th from 11:30 - 8:30 the American Visionary Art Museum presents Melting Pot: A Food Salon. This day of hands-on workshops, demos, & speakers is in conjunction with the AVAM's exhibit Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I will be giving a rubber mold-making & chocolate casting demo titled "How to Make Your Own Chocolate Kisses" from 2:30 - 3:30 in the Barn. From 7 - 8 pm there will be a panel discussion focusing on the future of food and why we should be thinking more about what we eat. Panelists include Antonia Demas (President of the Food Studies Institute), Damian Mosley (writer, food scholar, & cook), Brian Hughes (organic farmer), & Psyche Williams-Forson (professor & author).

The AVAM is located at 800 Key Highway in Baltimore.

A Complex Weave Symposium - April 9th at Towson University

Put this one in your dayplanners.  Eleanor Heartney is a great speaker & I'm honored to be in a show she is speaking about. All the artists in the show & on the panel are inspiring.

A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Arts Symposium with Keynote Speaker Eleanor Heartney

Center for the Arts Lecture Hall Room 2032, Towson University

Friday, April 9, 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and author of numerous articles and books on contemporary art, including After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (co-author) and Art and Today.  She has written for many major art publications including Art News, the New Art Examiner, Sculpture, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.  She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism in 1992 and was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2008.  Other speakers at the symposium will be artists whose work can be viewed in the Complex Weave exhibition, including Blanka Amezkua, Helène Aylon, Siona Benjamin, and Sonya Clark. 

Admission is free.

Maryland State Art Council Grant

I just recently received an Individual Artist Award for $1000 from the Maryland State Art Council in the Works on Paper category. Bet you didn't even know I did that. This is my second year receiving an art council grant. Last year I received a $3000 grant for Sculpture. Here is some of the work that I applied with. Most of the works are deconstructed & collaged woodblock prints but some were gut doilies made from handpierced steel sheet & sheep gut.

Surface Design Journal Fall 2009

My work was the cover and a feature article (April Wood: The Body Explored) in the Fall 2009 issue of Surface Design Journal. Back issues are available to purchase online at http://www.surfacedesign.org

A Complex Weave: Women & Identity in Contemporary Art

This exhibition first was exhibited at the Rutgers University Stedman Gallery in the fall of 2009. It is currently on view at Towson University and is scheduled to travel the US through 2012.

A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art
Center for the Arts Gallery
Friday, February 12 – Saturday, April 17 (Closed Sunday, March 14 - Sunday, March 21)
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
OPENING RECEPTION RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 FROM 7:30 TO 9 P.M. DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Co-curated by Dr. Martin Rosenberg of Rutgers University, Camden and Dr. J. Susan Isaacs of Towson University. This exhibition presents the work of 16 artists of diverse backgrounds who address aspects of identity, including nationality, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Media includes sculpture, time-based, painting, prints, fibers, and photography. Artists include: Blanka Amezkua, Sarah Amos, Helène Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Sonya Clark, Zöe Charlton, Annet Couwenberg, Lalla Essaydi, Judy Gelles, Sharon Harper, Julie Haris, Fujiko Isamura, Tatiana Parcero, Philemona Williamson, Flo Oy Wong, and April Wood. Co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the College of Liberal Arts, the Departments of Women’s Studies and Art + Design, Art History, Art Education and the Women’s Center.

Admission is free.

Ambiguous Bodies exhibition at Goucher College

Ambiguous Bodies, an art exhibition exploring different interpretations of the human body, will be presented at Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery in the Athenaeum from Tuesday, November 3, through Sunday, December 13.

This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An artist's reception will be held Thursday, November 19, at 6 p.m. in the Silber Art Gallery. Call 410-337-6477 for more information.

The human body can be interpreted in diverse ways. In the exhibition Ambiguous Bodies, 10 artists employ the idea of ambiguity, dismantling notions of the classical and the ideal form, while simultaneously broadening the scope of the human form to include differences of beauty, race, sexuality, and gender.