Student Print Makers Exhibit in Philadelphia

Painting and Drawing teacher Dave Love is one of the founding members of Prints Link Philadelphia an arts organization dedicated to the craft of printmaking that affords unique exhibition opportunities for student artists in high schools in the Philadelphia area. This year GA honors art students are participating in an exhibition at Legend Galleries at 230 North 21st Street.  The exhibition is open to the public until February 24th.

Art Students Exhibit at Woodmere Art Museum

The Woodmere Art Museum is hosting a printmaking exhibit featuring the artworks of a number of GA art students.   The exhibit  “Transferring Ideas”, explores the magic that happens when simple images are transferred and transformed through the printmaking process. The work on display includes everything from traditional print process through others, which stretch the definition of what a print is and what it can be in the 21^st century.  Participating artists and schools are all part of Prints Link Philadelphia (PLP),  an alliance of alliance of art educators from around the region, representing public, independent, and charter schools. Current participating schools include-Abington Friends School, Abington Senior High School, Ellwood School, Esperanza Academy, Germantown Academy and Russell Byers Charter School.

GA Students Exhibit at Tyler School of Arts

GA Upper School students participate in group printmaking show at Tyler.

From March 31st through April 19th, 2015, close to 40 Upper School students from GA will be participating in group printmaking exhibit at Tyler School of Art. The show entitled, "Prints for All Ages" showcases a diverse range of printmaking processes from members of Prints Link Philadelphia, of which GA is a part of. PLP ( founded in 2009) is a coalition of community arts organizations, art centers, museums, schools and teaching artists who develop curriculum and projects to educate and promote printmaking to children and teens in the Philadelphia region." http://www.printslinkphila.com/  

Mr. Love says, "the GA work  comes from all of my  drawing and painting classes at GA-from 2D Foundations all the way through Advanced Drawing/Painting III. Ms. Katrina Rakowski, student teacher from Tyler, also directed a number of the print projects. The work is very strong and has gotten a great response."

Other schools participating include- Abington Friends School, Esperanza Academy Charter School, Ellwood Elementary and Girard College ( elementary ).

Tyler will be hosting public reception, complete with studio tours, on Sunday, April 19th from 2-4 pm. 

Printmaking in Advanced Painting and Drawing

Experimental Variations in Silk Screen Printing

Advanced painting and drawing students have been hard at work exploring printmaking techniques. The most recent of which gave students the opportunity to embrace chance occurrences in the process to take works in new dynamic directions.

GA Artists to exhibit at The Woodmere Art Museum

David Love's Advanced Painting and Drawing students will have a selection of their prints on display at The Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, PA.

The exhibit showcases the work of "Prints Link Philadelphia". PLP brings
together a group of educators from diverse communities and age groups
( inner city, suburban, private, public and charter) to develop and
highlight the art of printmaking.

The show at Woodmere will feature the prints of 8-10 different schools. The
work exhibited will be based on/or inspired by curricula developed in
response to the "Full Spectrum" exhibit at The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
which highlighted Brandywine Workshop and their 40th year anniversary as a
nationally renown print center.