This event is postponed to Wed 6/23 @ 4-5PM.
Wed 6/2 @ 4-5PM
The late artist Phyllis Sloane, who was known for her wide-ranging exploration of printmaking techniques, including silkscreen, lithography and wood and linoleum cuts, discovered her calling for art while growing up in Shaker Heights, although during her life she moved around and finally ended up in New Mexico.
For six decades, she produced a variety of art, including painting, drawings, watercolors and of course, her prints, which provided her main creative outlet after 1960. She first appeared in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show in 1943. She won the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1982, when she was splitting her time between Cleveland and Santa Fe where she eventually ended up in the early 2000s.
Her children — two of whom are printmakers themselves and the other a collector of art — have preserved her studio. Her daughter Ginna Sloane will conduct a virtual studio tour as part of Artist Archives of the Western Reserve’s Print & Processes satellite exhibition at Judson Manor. She’ll talk about her mother’s life and artistic practice, including rare printing matrices and hand-painted cork prints.
In addition AAWR’s Kelly Pontoni, a printmaker and curator, will give an overview of the printing processes and talk about AAWR collaboration with the Cleveland Institute of Art to restrike prints from historic plates. The program will conclude with a Q&A with both Pontoni and Ginna Sloan.
Register for the program here.