After an unfortunate snow cancellation in the fall semester, we finally welcomed Terryville High School students to the printshop on Monday, January 28, 2019.
UDHR Booklet Creation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Booklet project is a collaboration between the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and Counterproof Press with Visiting Artist Professor Steve Bowden in the fall of 2018. The book was conceived and designed by UConn Graphic Design students in the UConn Art & Art History Department department and printed by UConn MFA in Studio Art candidate Chad Uehlein. Students: Caroline Amberg, Addicus Bagwell, Mitch Britton, Emilie Dufresne, Ed Ho, Maggie Hoynes, Emily Karam, Darrell Knighton, Deanna LaVoie, Katie Ouimette, Haley Stein, Connie Tao, Robert Varszegi, Sarah Woodward, Holly Zheng. UConn Art & Art History Department and graphic design students Cassidy DePaulo and Megan Cascella, and Adjunct Instructor Kelsey Miller helped to collate and bind the book.
Norwich Free Academy
Norwich Free Academy students visited the print shop on December 6th, 2018 and we had a great time working with them on a plastic plate intaglio project.
West Hill High School
Students from West Hill High School in Stamford joined Counterproof Press in the fall of 2018 for a printmaking workshop in the studio. For more photos, please visit our Facebook page.
Meredith Stern and CPP Celebrate UDHR Anniversary
As part of a statewide commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ (UDHR) 70th anniversary, renowned visiting artist and activist Meredith Stern was invited by University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute to give a presentation on art collaboration with social justice movements. She also presented a stencil-printing poster and sign-making workshop in collaboration with Counterproof Press. Students from the School of Fine Arts, the Human Rights Program and others created signs to bring to the #StandUp4HumanRightsCT rally that took place the following day on the steps of the Hartford Capitol building. To view more photos, visit our Facebook page.
Fall High School Workshops
This fall, we welcomed students from Classical Magnet High School and St. Bernard High School to the shop for workshops on printmaking techniques.
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William Villalongo arrives at UConn
Tonight we welcome William Villalongo to the University of Connecticut. Counterproof Press and Contemporary Art Galleries host this incredible artist for the opening of exhibit, “Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes.”
Exhibit on View: Sept 11 – Oct 12, 2017
Artist Talk & Reception: Sept 11 @ 5pm – 6:30pm
PLEASE NOTE: Artist Lecture and Talk begins at 5pm in the Art Building, Room 109, not 4pm as has been incorrectly listed.
From UCONN Today: “Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes, an exhibit featuring the work of Brooklyn, NY artist William Villalongo, opens at UConn’s Contemporary Art Galleries on September 11. The artwork weaves the artist’s aesthetic and social interests together with aspects of Pablo Picasso and Aaron Douglas’s visual vocabulary. Villalongo’s paintings, collage works and prints draw upon the distinct illustrative style and political forcefulness employed by Douglas, a celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist. Also evident is the artist’s creative contextualization and reinterpretation of these Modernist Era Masters’ Formalist experiments, their love of African Art and use of black iconography. Villalongo’s art likewise references Picasso’s sexually charged Bather canvases and his once notorious painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from 1907…” (Ginger Jenne, UConn Today, 9/5/17)
Read more by visiting this article: http://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/outside-name-eyes-exhibit-reinterprets-harlem-renaissance-american-modernism/
Workshop with Windsor High School
On April 21st, we will welcome students from Windsor High School to the shop for a day of printmaking!
For more information on our student workshops and booking for the 2017-2018 academic year, please visit our workshops page.
Michael Levine Gives Artist Lecture
Counterproof Press welcomes University of Connecticut Alum back to the shop for an artist lecture on the evolution of his work. Michael will be working in the print studio over the rest of the semester to create additional prints for the Counterproof Press collection.
Save the Date!
April 6, 2017
Artist Lecture, 6:30-8pm
Art Building, Room 106
A.E. Stallings / WALLACE STEVENS POETRY PROGRAM
A.E. Stallings / WALLACE STEVENS POETRY PROGRAM
Counterproof Press is proud to once again be a part of the 54th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program.
Join us for the following readings that are free and open to the public:
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7 p.m., Konover Auditorium, UConn Storrs
Thursday, March 9, 2017, 10 a.m., Greater Hartford Classical Magnet School, 85 Woodland St, Hartford
Acclaimed American poet A.E. Stallings studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry — Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives — and has been praised in The Hudson Review as the “most gifted formalist of her generation.” She is also a highly regarded translator; the TLS named her verse translation of Lucretius’s The Nature of Things “One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times.” Stallings’ awards include a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
