"PRINTEREST" - Call for Art

Open to all GMU Print Guild Members in good standing.

"PRINTEREST" is all about our enthusiasm for and exploration of printmaking and its related forms. As we approach ideas and transform them into printed images, there are many planned results as well as surprises. These images may be clever, witty, and absurd, with a twist of humor or irony. Investigation into printmaking forms from traditional to the contemporary may include related fields of paper, books, and mixed media. Through these processes we hope to find a voice and share our knowledge gained to reach and teach an ever increasing audience.

GMU Printmakers Guild exhibition dates May 4, 2012 – June 14, 2012
The exhibit will be displayed in the Caton-Merchant Family Gallery, at the Manassas Center-for-the-Arts at the Candy Factory in Old Town Manassas. This is a beautifully restored historic building once the home of the Hopkins Candy Factory and now home to an art gallery, art classes, theatre and dance classes and Rooftop Theatre Productions.

1) "Share" Print exchange to benefit the Arlington Food Assistance Center (www.AFAC.org).

Each artist will provide a print for each person participating and 5 additional prints for AFAC to use for fundraising (sales) and limited use on promotional materials (with credit to the artist).

Subject - Focus on good aspectssuch as giving, sharing, and food etc.
Format - 8 inch X 8 inch bleed print.
Technique - up to the artist (mixed media).

Each set of prints will be collected in a custom made, wooden box portfolio at no cost to the artists or AFAC.

**** Deadline for prints is 1 April 2012 ****

http://abeautifulparty.blogspot.com/2011/04/meaghan-buschs-fairy-tale-thesis.html

Its going to be an intense next two weeks, this week I am installing and finishing the final touches for my MFA show at GMU.

March 21 at 9:00am - March 31 at 9:00pm

Location:
George Mason University
4400 University Drive

More Info:
School of Art
Gallery on Floor 1

Show: March 21st-31st
Reception: Thursday, March 31st from 6 - 9 PM

You are invited to come and see my prints, sculpture and artist books. Please feel free to bring guests! Light food and beverages will be served. Come and have some fun!

Come and see some of my work and learn about printmaking from myself and local Printmaking artist's! We will have Demo's in silkscreen, intaglio, books, and maybe even monotypes. The Old Print Gallery is beautiful hidden treasure be sure to stop in!

Sunday : 3/6/11 from 1-3 pm
Presented By Master Printer and Artist Susan Goldman & GMU Print Guild Memebers.

For Directions or Info: http://www.oldprintgallery.com/

Carol Barton teaches classes in making pop-ups and artist's books for both children and adults. She will be joining us in the Print Studio to make Pop Up books just in time for Valentines Day!

Went to pre-opening for:

IN UNISON: 20 WASHINGTON, DC ARTISTS
Kreeger Museum Jan 15 – Feb 26, 2011

Artists:

bk.iamART.Adams Akili Ron Anderson Sondra N. Arkin Paula Crawford Sheila Crider Edgar Endress Helen Frederick Aziza Gibson-Hunter Sam Gilliam Susan Goldman Tom Green Martha Jackson-Jarvis Walter Kravitz Gina Lewis EJ Montgomery Michael Platt and Carol A. Beane Al Smith Renee Stout Joyce Wellman Yuriko Yamaguchi

Had an great time seeing the artist’s again and seeing my name on the labels of all the artist’s i helped print with. It made me so proud! There were so many beautiful one of a kind pieces, It was a great event! Visit my blog for more!

http://meagbusch.tumblr.com/

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.

A few galleries have already agreed to host the portfolio, notably the Center for Visual and Performing Arts of Metropolitan State College of Denver, (Denver, CO); The Croft Gallery (Waco, TX); Red Delicious Press, (Aurora, CO); Frogman's will host Summer of 2012, (Vermillion, SD) and it will be submitted to SGC and MAPC to host at their 2012 conferences.

25 Participants:
Laura Baisden
Douglas Bosley
Meaghan Busch
Heather Bryant
James Ehlers
Andrew England
Ann Flowers
John Hancock
Mattew Hopson-Walker
Andrew Kosten
Adam Larsen
Ashton Ludden
Meghan O’Connor
Taylor McClure
Jonathan Metzger
Adrianne Miller
Heather Moulder
Johanna Mueller
Joanne Price
Stan Scott
Pat Seals
Richard Wenrich
Robyn Rognstad
Brad Vetter
Brad Widness

2-"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: Jan 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

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

4- "Black Sheep Portfolio" Organized by: Melissa Harshman
Associate Professor & Chair of Printmaking, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA 2011 Hosted at Galleries TBA 2011

"The conference theme is "Equilibrium", which refers to the balance of opposing
forces which produces its own sense of stability. The Black Sheep Portfolio
represents one of those forces: the maverick within the flock that goes in its
own direction. The black sheep does not follow the rest of the flock, but in its
role makes us question the behavior of both polarities. Should we be leaders or
followers? Does the flock always follow the right leader? Like black ink on white
paper, the black sheep can also serve as a focal point, providing a unique
insight into possibilities and improbabilities."

5- "Fiction & Diction" Portfolio for Erwin Thamm and Myself with some of our good printmaking buddies.

6- "Bon Voyage: a print exchange" friends working on a portfolio to say goodbye to artist/friend who is moving away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Chagoya

Printing an edition for GMU's recent visiting artist Enrique Chagoya who came and made two large copper plates with our Navigation Press. Can't wait to be done and get one of these beauties!

Now you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Etsy! Search for me on twitter and facebook by Meag Busch and Find me on Etsy by copying this link!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MeagBusch?ref=ss_profile

Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington D.C. is currently hosting a two-day print symposium called “Catch & Release.” It will be a collaborative print event featuring students & faculty from area colleges. You can see some photos at the Printeresting Notebook. At : http://www.printeresting.org/

Current students and alums of the MFA Poetry Program and the School of Art, faculty, and a few invited friends came together this summer to participate in the “Call and Response” challenge, giving artists and writers an original work by another contributor to inspire a piece of their own--or to instigate a collaboration. Resulting works are on display throughout the Fall for the Book festival.
*** ***
Tom Ashcraft * Meaghan Busch * Kate Clark * Jen Daniels * Suzanne deSaix * Elsabe Dixon * Ben Doller * Helen Frederick * Susan Goldman * Rachael Graham * Bryan Koen * Anne Le * Marissa Mack * Brooke Marcy * Siwar Masannat * Johanna Mueller * Ranjani Murali * Danika Myers * Liz Sampson * Patrick Sargent * Kelli Schollard Sincock * Alison Strub * Erwin Thamm * Susan Tichy * Eleanor Smith Tipton * Rahima Ullah * Emily Viggiano Saland * Sue Wrbican
*** ***
Curated by Helen Frederick (School of Art) and Susan Tichy (Department of English), who thank the staff of Fall for the Book for their generosity and hard work.

opening September 20 at 4:00pm - September 24 at 5:00pm
Artists will be there September 21 for snacks and talks
Gallery 123, Johnson Center at George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA

My Partner and I are written up in an article here: http://fallforthebook.org/?m=201008

This collagraph show will begin on 12/13, in printmaking studio at GMU fairfax campus, Monday during the senior art show festival. The reception on 12/17 and will also coincide with the senior art show closing reception with food from 8-10 in the print studio. Be here on Friday Dec.17 from 8-10 PM, come hungry and to celebrate the arts!

Artist's in the show:
Meaghan Busch (ME)
Shanna Pochs Carvell
Anne Cox
Suzanne DeSaix
Liz Edwards
Helen Frederick
Susan Goldman
Margaret Meyer
Betsy Patten
Pat Sargent
Kelli Sincock
Erwin Thamm

Come and visit me in my studio and shop through my art and handmade goods! Yes i will have stuff for sale! Then check out the undergraduate art festival going on and have some snacks!

Friday, December 17 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:George Mason University School of Art
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA

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.

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: 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

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!”

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).

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

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!

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.

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".