Meaghan Busch Artist
Portfolios and shows I am in for 2010-11
1-"Some-thing wicked this way comes"
Showing starts 4/1/11
The cool part: The show will be traveling throughout the southwest next summer in an airstream trailer doing arts and crafts fairs, stoping along the way at various galleries, urban boutiques, restaurants, etc. that might like to host the trailer in their parking lot and treat it as a mobile gallery. This portfolio will be the first show in the mobile gallery started and owned by Johanna Mueller.

2-"Call and Response" - show and exhibit, a collaborative project with writers.

3-"Bon Voyage: a print exchange" friends working on a portfolio to say goodbye to artist Richard Wenrich who is moving away.

4-"Farmville" Portfolio Exchange + Possible Collaborative Exhibition
Farmville hosts over 72 million monthly virtual farmers. The idealization of the family farm has become another nostalgic myth romanticizing our history. The typical family is now several generations removed from any connection with a working farm. The majority of Americans currently have no direct experience with agriculture except as consumers and there are only 1.9 million farms left in the United States. It is debatable if all of these produce enough to be the sole source of income or which are corporate owned. However in on virtual farms the food is pure and crop prices are fixed, there are no environmental concerns or distractions, no fertilizer run off or insect devastation. Animals wait patiently to be tended and there is no manure to shovel or antibiotics to inject. This portfolio is both a tribute and critique to the phenomenon of the virtual farm.

Due Date: December 15, 2010
Paper size 12”x12” (original Farmville plot size)
Edition Size: 26

Invited Participants:
Bill Fick
Brandon Horton
Elmo Thamm
James Greene
Jason Terry
Jennifer Leach
Libby Gourley
Mari LaCure
Maria Cristalli
Marty Komorny
Meaghan Busch
Melanie Yazzie
Michelle Dussault
Monica Crawford
Robert Stephens
Sandra Anible
Sarah Marshall
Susan Goldman
Sylvia Taylor
Tom Druecker
Vicki Terry
Vicki Ryan



Millennium Art Salon- An artist Portfolio
I am the MFA student helping Master printers Susan Goldman and Helen Frederick print with these artists. Various Fridays during the Spring 2010 semester (February - March 2010) the GMU Printmaking Department and Printmakers Guild will be hosting twenty prominent local artists in support of the Millennium Art Salon.

Artists that may be included are - Sam Gulliam - Helen Frederick - Martha Jackson-Jarvis - Michael Platt & Carol A. Beane - EJ Montgomery - Renee Stout - Yuriko Yamaguchi - Paula Crawford - Aziza Gibson-Hunter - Al Smith - Akili Ron Anderson - Gina Lewis - James Phillips - Sondra Arkin - Edgar Endress - BK Adams - Sheila Crider - Susan Goldman - Walter Kravitz - Tom Green

Specific dates - 19 March, 16 April, and 23 April.
Frogman's 2010
This summer at while i attend Frogman's I will be taking leather book making with Bonnie Stahlecker and Reduction Relief printing with Brett Anderson, I hope to include if not the work then the methods in my Thesis show.
"The Secret Garden, Revealing the Inner Sanctum"
The Secret Garden: Reveling the inner Sanctum,
showing the Printmakers of Lilly Press

The printmaking studio of Lily Press makes its debut featuring the works by master printmaker and founder Susan Goldman and an intimate group of fellow artists from a three year collaboration the artists : Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Gross, Jake Muirhead, Marti Patchell and Renee Stout. The medias include: etchings, monotypes, screen prints, and woodcuts as conveyers of nature and personal mythology. I was the lone assistant printer for Renee Stout's first ever etchings!

Galerie Myrtis Fine Art
2224 North Charles Street
Balitmore, MD 21218

Exhibition dates: May 2 - June 19, 2010
Opening reception: Sunday May 2, 2010 2:00 till 6 pm
Artist's talk and demo will be Sunday May 23, 2010 2:00 till 6 pm
BIG WOOD CUTS!
We're making BIG WOOD cuts in preparation of the visit by Professional Artist Jo Ganter from Edinburgh, Scotland and IMPACT 2010 - George Mason's 24 Hour Arts Marathon.

Join Jo Ganter and artist-printmakers who will create massive fine art prints – up to 8ft x 3ft - using a three ton steamroller as a press. Visitors are invited not only to come and watch but also to take part, if they wish, by making their own “Footsquare” printing plates that we will print using the steamroller.

The event is open to university, school kids and the public, and because large-format relief printing is, of necessity, a group effort it ends up being a day of great art, fun, and education. Combining heavy construction equipment with relief printing and inked metal plates the steamroller driven part of the fair is bound to give great results - printmakers are “best under pressure / “impact!”
IMPACT 2010: A 24 hour Arts Festival
I will be helping out with the Printmaking and Sculpture Departments, as well as printing some of my own work!

Festival
Start Time:
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:00am
End Time:
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:00am
Location:
George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia
Description
Impact 2010: 24-Hour Art Festival Tentative Schedule (Full schedules will be available prior to the event, please call (703) 993-8898 for more information).

"20/20" Vision Contemporary Print Show
The show will be hosted by the "Fire House Gallery" in Louisville, GA and will be in a published catalog. I will have 4 pieces of art in this show.
Gallery Website: http://www.galleryafire.com/index.htm, you can now see the artists work and statements online! There are some beautiful pieces!
Portfolio Exchanges/Exhibitions I am currently in:
1) "Frog Print"- a portfolio exchange in tribute to Lloyd Menard, The Founder of Frogman's

2) Green Springs- George Mason University Printmaker's Guild Presents:"Gifts from the Garden"

Green Springs Garden Park
4603 Green Springs Road
Alexandria, VA 22312
703-642-5173

Come see the beautiful exchange portfolio on view in the main building.
Opening Reception: Sunday, Dec 6, 2009 from 1-3pm
The exhibit will be on display from December 1 through January 30, 2009

3) "Hello Neighbor"-Edition size 27, image sizes 5”x 8”, 6”x 8”, and 7”x 7”.

The Artist's include: Johanna Mueller, Tim Stoelting, Sandra Anible, Kira Peters, Joshua Bindewald,Catherine Spencer, Jerry Phillips, Hannah Campbell, Jonathan Metzger, Ashton Ludden, Ann Flowers, Andrew England,Amanda Maciuba, Emily Cummings, Robyn Rognstad, Christopher Wallace, Danielle Wyckoff, Jon Vogt, Marco Hernandez, Mindy McConnell, Molly Sprain, Justin Kotlarz, Heath McClain, Meaghan Busch, Derek Freese, and two in the edition go to Viterbo University's archive and exhibit.



"Printmaking, What's it all Mean?"
January 23, 2010 At Smithsonian American Art Museum's inner courtyard, Professor and Master Printer Susan Goldman and the GMU Printmakers Guild gave a demonstration and worked with the public educating and making prints. The processes taught were relief, screen printing, and then demos of engraving were also shown among a vast array of student and visiting artist's work. My work was on display and promoted among the etching and engraving area.
"A Friend in Need" 2nd annual MFA invitational
Please join us on Saturday January 30, 2010 from 6-9pm for the opening reception for A Friend In Need: 2nd Annual MFA Invitational at American University in the Katzen Art Center. Featured artists are Meaghan Busch, Bradley Chris, Mary Helena Clark, Laura Cox, Peter Cullen, Alyssa Denis, Eleonore Gailet, Ellen Hunt, Matt Kalasky, Christine Kesler, Lingling Lu, Oliver Pesret, Cecelia Phillips, Ben Piwowar, Erin Raedeke, Lisa Rosenstreich, Stacey Torma, and Virginia Wagner.

American University MFA students will be holding open studios during the reception. Light refreshments will be served.

A Friend In Need: 2nd Annual MFA Invitational
January 18- February 14, 2010
A.U. Katzen Center, Rotunda Gallery
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, DC 20016
Smith Farm Center for the Healing and the Arts
Small Works Show
Affordable and Beautiful Prints From Area Artists
Exhibition Dates: December 2 - 24

Opening Reception:
Friday | December 4 | 6:00PM-8:00PM

This exhibition will feature works from some of the area's most accomplished print artists. Works are selected by Helen Frederick who is an internationally recognized print media, book art, and mixed-media installation artist as well as the founder of Pyramid Atlantic.

http://www.smithfarm.com/galle
"Peter and the Wolf, Save the Environment"
Come and see my illustrations!

Friday, October 2, 2009
Peter and the Wolf Save the Environment
Truro Church
10520 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22030

http://virginiavirtuosi.com/
Artomason and Friends of George
I will also be in two GMU related shows one off campus for artists whose work is painterly, and the other is a school run silent auction in which i have two pieces in.

Artomason II
Art of Display Monday-Friday 9-5pm

Reception : Friday October 9th 6-9pm

Location:
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
4000 Legato Road suite 100 (centerpointe II)
Fairfax, Va 22033
phone: 703-691-1400

Horsd'oeuvres provided by Coldwell Banker Mid-Altantic Tilte
Cash Bar- Pearmund Cellars winery
Material Word
This will be part of this year's Fall for the Book festival, Sept 21-26.
The exhibit will be housed in the 123 Gallery in the Johnson Center of George Mason University's Fairfax campus and will be open a few hours each day of the festival. A reception with readings and a gallery talk is also planned.

The exhibit will feature students and alumni of AVT Book Arts courses, and of the English Department's Book Beasts and Concrete / Visual / Collage
courses, as well as other poets and book artists.Curated by Helen Frederick, Susan Tichy, & Danika Myers

Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop and Penland School of Crafts
Four weeks of this summer I will be going to learn more printmaking methods and producing more artwork. I will be going to Frogman's Print and Paper workshop in South Dakota for two weeks and then at the end of the summer Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina's blue ridge mountains. I will be studying engraving, plate lithography and screen printing with thickened dye and textiles. It's going to be a blast!

http://www.penland.org/

http://www.frogmans.net/
"Graydations"
This show will be in "The Point in Space Gallery" downtown Fairfax. The "." gallery is a student run and organized gallery. This show is some of the GMU MFA students work. The show starts May 15 2009. Opening will be May 29th 6:30 - 9 PM during the first Fairfax city "Art Walk". There will be food, live music and more!!

Opening: May 29th, 6-9pm
Point in Space Gallery
3940 University Drive
Fairfax, VA
Free Parking
Art-O-Matic 2009
I will be participating in DC's Art-O-Matic this year! I plan on showing a series of prints both etchings and screen prints. I will be on the 8th floor towards the windows since it had such beautiful natural light. Please join me on the opening night of May 29th to enjoy the festivities!

Location:

55 M Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Opens May 29, 2009

Fri-Sat: Noon-1 am
Sun, Wed, Thu: Noon-10 pm

Take Metro! Located directly above the Green Line Navy Yard Metro Stop, West Entrance

Portfolio Exchange
I am participating in a 2009 portfolio exchange between American University and George Mason University. The edition size is sixteen and subject matter is open, i am excited to see the other artists work!
Making Connections Arts Marathon
Feb. 21st, Sat 12am-1am 2009, a 24 hour art marathon will be going on at Mason, in which visitors make several small art projects in every department and learn about each medium before ending with a parade! I helped design and make the handout "books" that function as a passport through the art departments.

“The Conscience of a Nation: Sid Chafetz Leads the Way.” 2008
October 27 to November 7
Reception: October 28, 4:30 – 6pm
Gallery 123 George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

"The show features the work of a group of regional and invited artists who have been asked to exhibit their visual commentaries about our community, particularly to investigate the psyche of survival instincts and emergency situations that grow from the consequences of the political actions of our leaders." Curated by Helen Frederick

My piece was a cartoon showing the presidential candidate's skipping up the yellow brick road. The hand colored screen print was called "The American Dream".