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American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition
On View March 17 – April 21, 2025
Opening Reception | Saturday, March 15 | 2:00p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition
In the year 1939, the founding members of the American Color Print Society decided to create an organization for the exhibition of color prints. This was a time when only black and white prints were considered worthy of display in museums and galleries. The three founding members were Florence V. Cannon, Mary Mullineaux and Waunita Smith.
The American Color Print Exhibition of 1940, which included the work of the 85 original members, heralded the arrival of the color print as an American print medium. The use of color in printmaking encouraged artists to experiment with the traditional methods of printmaking such as lithography, block printing, etching, intaglio and monotype. This led to other printmaking techniques including the use of collage, found materials and digital printmaking.
There have been many distinguished members during the eighty-plus year history of the organization. Among them have been Benton Spruance, Jerome Kaplan, Stella Drabkin, Jacob Landau, Dorothy Hutton, June Wayne, Eugene Feldman, Ethel Ashton, Bernard Kohn, Jeanette Kohn, Mildred Dillon, Abraham Hankins, John Taylor Arms, Richard Hood, Francoise Gilot, Samuel Maitin, Elizabeth MacDOnald, Jack Gerber, Thelma Grobes, Idaherma Williams, and Merle Spandorfer.
Today, the American Color Print Society is a national non-profit corporation with the following purpose:
“To promote and foster original graphic art: to encourage and promote exhibitions of original color prints and to educate art students and the public about the varied techniques of original color printmaking.”
Venues of recent exhibitions have included Villanova University (Connelly Center), the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Abington Art Center, The Plastic Club, the Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philagrafika International Print Festival, and the Mark Arts Center (Wichita, KS).
For more than 80 plus years, the ACPS membership has not only been inventive with their technical skills, but has grown geographically as well. In addition to Pennsylvania, members represented in our exhibitions are from New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, California, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Michigan, and New Mexico.
Juror
Lisa Kelley is a teaching artist
at Kensington Storefront and Prevention Point, organizations that serve people struggling with addiction and homelessness in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. She earned her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and is a trauma-certified artist and advocate, committed to building community through art-making.
Award Winners
Best in Show
How Many Years Since My Birth
Bates Mandel, Screenprint (20 layers), Archival Digital Print, $400.
Second Prize
A Past Forgotten
Herbert Appelson, Hand-threaded Embossment, $2,000.
Third Prize
Planets of the Universe
Robert Reinhardt, Monoprint Collage, $300.
Honorable Mentions
Bonnie Goldstein, Gliding, Woodblock Print, $2000.
Valerie Dillon, Woven Ladder, Collagraph, Linocut, and Embroidery, $250.
Margo Tassi, Snow, Beaver River, Etching $600.
Exhibiting Artists
Bobbie Adams
Marlene Adler
Nancy Alter
Herbert Appelson
Rhonda Babb
Janet Badger
Jessica Barber
Alyse C. Bernstein
Doug Billings
Art Brener
Bill Brookover
Elaine Buono
Maryann Cannon
Kathleen Chapman
Ron Chereskin
Valerie Dillon
Donna Douglass
Susan Dubrunfaut
John Formicola
Bonnie Goldstein
Susan Hoffmann
Robert Hunter
Georgina Johnson
Theresa Kehrer
Julie Kring
Neila Kun
Michael Lasuchin
Steve Kennedy
Hee Sook Kim
Alan Klawans
Victor Lasuchin
Patricia Shaw Lima
Michael Long
Bates Mandel
Martha Martin
Carole Meyers
Miki Nagano
J.A. Panetta
Robert Reinhardt
Virginia Rosa
Darrell Smith
Patty Smith
Charles Spitzack
Elizabeth Stricker
Margo Tassi
Ani Vassileva
Select Works
2024 Summer Juried Show: Imagination and Play!
On View June 21 – July 29, 2024
Opening Reception | Friday, June 21 | 6:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
2024 Summer Juried Show – Imagination and Play!
Embrace your inner child in Imagination and Play!
Imagination and Play! is an exhibition that aims to create a fun space for people to let their imagination run loose. Art is often the source of people’s joy and entertainment, evoking a positive response and a sense of wonder in those that create and consume it. With bold colors, energetic paint strokes, and quirky interactive elements, the selected works in this exhibition showcase artists’ unique ability to look at life through a playful lens and share that sensation of joy with others.
Our 2024 Summer Juried Show Juror:
Summer Yates
Summer Yates is a mixed media artist living and working in Bucks County, PA.
Her current body of work consists of soft sculpture and wall hangings made from donated and repurposed textiles, plastics, and foam. Yates received her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and her MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Play and wonder are vital to her creative process, and is something she highly values within her own work and the work of others.
Exhibiting Artists
Lindsey Benitz
Law Blank
Nicole Brewer
Katie Brown
Cara Croke
Nick D’Angelo
Kathy Davis
Erin Elman
Samuel Fisch
Pragya Gupta
Lisa Haskell
Troy Heffelfinger
Aaron Kalinay
Marie Luciani
K Bates Mandel
Baylin Manusov
Avani Patel
Elspeth Putnam
Janelle Rae
Glynis Raish
Lauren Silver
Holly Smith
The Color Org
Layla Wah
Summer Juried Show Select Works
Feeling Blue: Navigating Challenges Through Art & Affirmation of Life: Art From Today’s Ukraine
On View March 8 – April 15, 2024
Dual-Opening Reception | Friday, March 8 | 6:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
2024 Annual Juried Show – Feeling Blue: Navigating Challenges Through Art
Feeling Blue: Navigating Challenges Through Art asked artists to consider art as a tool for healing.
Artists often explore art as a tool for articulating emotions and navigating difficult circumstances. Art plays a vital role in society; it acts as a means for people to process the world around them and channel their response into tangible work for others to look at, interpret, and resonate with. We have all found ourselves in difficult situations, whether it be overcoming obstacles or dealing with something unprecedented, and artists are no strangers to this. Like Picasso with his Blue Period, artists use artwork as a way to navigate the complex emotions that arise from challenges, whether deeply personal or universally shared.
The selected works highlight art’s healing power in the face of adversity. Our Annual Juried Show is on display in our Kellner, Book Room, and Tile galleries from March 8 – April 15, 2024.
Our 2024 Annual Juried Show Jurors:
Lauren E. Peters
Visual Artist
Peters is a Philadelphia-based visual artist working with the concepts of identity and gender through self-portraiture. Her self portrait series serves as a tool in navigating the complex relationship between her gender identity and gender expression.
Heather Ziegenmeyer, MA LPC ATR-BC
Board Certified Art Therapist & Licensed Professional Counselor
Heather Ziegenmeyer is a certified art therapist and licensed professional counselor who founded Kindred Art Therapy, a local art therapy center that works with children ages 5+, teenagers, and adults through individual and family therapy sessions. Ziegenmeyer uses art as a form of therapy, allowing creativity and expression to act as another natural language: “[my] goal is to create a warm and safe outlet to create, express, and process the challenges we face in life.”
Lisa Kelley
Teaching Artist at Kensington Storefront and Prevention Point
Kelley is a teaching artist at Kensington Storefront and Prevention Point, organizations that serve people struggling with addiction and homelessness in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Kelley’s work is often narrative-driven, inspired by the experiences that impact her emotionally: “sometimes the stories are apparent in the work, and other times the stories are what fuel the art.”
Exhibiting Artists
Lisa Auerbach
Grace Bauder
Caroline Beattie
Jessica Bednarcik
Reena Brooks
Caleb Booth
Hollie Brown
Charles Compo
John Costanza
Kirsten Cunningham
Eleanor Day
Emily Ennulat-Lustine
Andrea Finch
Katherine Fraser
Rah Gerg
Megan Giampietro
Raegan Glaser
Barry Good
Cecelia Grant
Jenna Hannum
Theresa Heidig Rooney
Sarah Kowalski
Kendall Laurent
Cony Madariaga
Paula Mandel
Kyle Margiotta
James Anthony Mariano
Denise McDaid
Shane Monaghan
Florence Moonan
Ginny Perry
Charlese Phillips
Jeni Prescott
Logan Radcliff
Birgit Raders-Eichinger
Sondra Rosenberg
Jessica Shannon
Harin Song
Susan Uccelletti
Sharon Wensel
Kathleen Wert
Lisa Wilde
Francesca Woolson
Nina Yocom
Annual Juried Show Select Works
Affirmation of Life: Art in Today’s Ukraine
Affirmation of Life: Art from Today’s Ukraine is organized by the Ukrainian Cultural Initiative in partnership with Abington Art Center, UGS, UCFP, AJC, and UKRFCU.
This remarkable exhibition showcases a fusion of both traditional and modern artwork, providing a window into the diverse and compelling world of Ukrainian artists. Conceived and spearheaded by Nataliya Proskura and Vladislav Shapiro, both Bedford, MA – based mathematician with Ukrainian ancestry, the exhibition will feature an array of mediums and themes, highlighting the incredible talent present in today’s Ukraine. All the artists presented at the exhibition, currently live and work in Ukraine.
Affirmation of Life: Art From Today’s Ukraine is on display in our Community Art Gallery from March 8 – April 15, 2024. Please also join us for a conversation with journalist Vladislav Davidzon and book presentation of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation Sunday, March 17 at 3pm.
All the proceeds collected during the exhibition will go directly to Ukraine for supporting
the artists and their collaborative efforts with students and veterans.
Exhibiting Artists
T.Kolechko
S. Kolechko
B.Eghiazaryan
N. Martynenko
L. Minenko
O. Bednoshey
O. Omelchyshyna
N. Huliayeva-Smahlo
O. Dovban
O. Pilyuhina
Affirmation of Life: Art From Today’s Ukraine Featured Works
2023 Summer Juried Show: Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist
Where I Come From by Mindy Flexer
On View June 9 – July 24, 2023
Opening Reception | Friday, June 9 | 5:00p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
2023 Summer Juried Show – Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist
Ethnicity Through the Eyes of the Artist challenged our artists to explore and contemplate the meaning of ethnicity, and the ideas, associations, and questions that surround this concept.
Ethnicity can express a shared culture such as language, worldview, and value systems of a particular social group. A person’s identity and personal enculturation/acculturation experience often shape their orientation to the world and how it is seen from their eyes. Artists have an uncanny ability to bring to life a perspective that can frame or deconstruct these arrangements in a visual way. This challenges the viewer to reflect on, and see beyond attitudes and boundaries that have been formed previously within the greater culture. Artists have the ability to creatively illustrate how ethnicity, just as language, is an evolution that is constantly shifting.
Our artists explored what ethnicity means to them personally versus how ethnicity represents them in the greater culture. The selected works represent ethnicity in an array of forms, from mosaic and collage works, to drawings, paintings, and wearable art. Some artists saw this as an opportunity to educate, while others used this as a means of self expression. From celebrating cultures and traditions, to rejecting the stereotypes and associations encircling ethnic identities, our artists offer deeply personal investigations that highlight the complexities within ethnicity and how it intersects with identity.
As you explore the work on view, we would like you to consider your own relationship ethnicity.
How has your personal experience regarding ethnic identity shaped you?
What is the boundary between identity and ethnicity and how do they coexist?
What values tie you to your cultural heritage?
Our 2023 Summer Juried Show Jurors:
Erika Land, M.A.
Ethnographer, Artist, and Educator
Juror and curator, Erika Land, received her BFA and teaching certification at Moore College of Art & Design. Influenced by her undergraduate studio work, which focused on cultural arts, Land went on to pursue further education, receiving her M.A. in cultural anthropology from Eastern University. She is a current anthropology teacher at Eastern University, and maintains a studio practice in her studio based in Phoenixville, PA.
Cheryl Harper
Artist and Independent Curator
Juror Cheryl Harper received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Delaware and her M.A. in art history from Temple University. In addition, Harper completed a two-year Museology program through the University of Illinois, which looks at all areas of museum study, including exhibit planning.
Harper works as an independent curator, while maintaining an art practice in printmaking. She has had work exhibited throughout the country, including the Maier Museum in Lynchburg, VA, Drew University in Madison, NJ, and the InLiquid Art + Design gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
Nina Guzmán
Executive Director of Alianzas De Phoenixville
Juror Nina M. Guzmán received her Bachelor’s degree in Urban Missions and Social Work from The University of Valley Forge.
Guzmán is the founder and executive director of Alianzas de Phoenixville, a non-profit organization that works to create a welcoming place for diverse immigrant communities. Alianzas de Phoenixville connects individuals with the resources needed to better acclimate to their immediate world and neighbors.
Exhibiting Artists
Sarah Watkins-Nathan
Dawn Merritt
Z Kaplan
Birgit Raders-Eichinger
Kim Robbins
Lauren Silver
Marissa Georgiou
Frank Burd
Lauren Vargas
Lisa Smith
Janell Sampson
Oxana Kovalchuk
Gary Grissom
Maremi Andreozzi
Kirsten Cunningham
David Levy
Oscar Vance
Kimberly Stemler
Violet Alexandre
Erika Matyok
David Fuentes
Marlene Adler
Jacqueline Valenzuela
Thomas Murray
Jeremy Sims
Giulia Giordano
Debra Powell-Wright
Robin Brownfield
Jerod Mason
Henry Morales
DeJeonge Reese
Ronald Washington
Mindy Flexer
Laura Madeleine
Robert Reinhardt
Martha Knox
Brenda Rydstrom
Rickie Sanders
Ted Lutkus
Gail Morrison-Hall
Maxine Schwartz
Laila Wah
L. A. Feldstein
Alana Walters
Our 2023 Summer Juried Show Award Winners
Kirsten Cunningham, Expectations (Awarded Best in Show by Erika Land)
“Being biracial in a country with such a complicated history can often cause confusion for someone longing for a sense of identity. [This] piece symbolizes the different cultural influences that aim to shape us into what they want us to be. Being half-black in this country can cause a feeling of being pulled in both directions and never truly fitting into one or the other. The hands in this image are different shades that range from dark to light, which symbolize the ‘acceptable’ identities and norms that exist. Black, white, and grey are thoughtful color choices; they represent that we are colorless at our core and that American society has long dulled our cultural origins and heritage. The color of our skin is minor and insignificant. I am not just ‘black or white’; instead, I am a collection of colors, cultures, stories, heritage, and history.”
Alana Walters, There’s Levels to This… (Awarded Most Unique Application of Material by Cheryl Harper)
“This piece is directly tied into the cultural phenomena of African hair braiding. When a black child goes to get their hair done in the salon, there are posters hanging on the wall depicting different styles of braids that they can choose from. The panels in this piece represent parts of different posters. The print work within them represents the different hair styles. The process of getting your hair done by another person is not only a cultural experience, it’s also in many ways a meditative experience. A way to decompress and heal our minds in that moment. I want this piece to open up discussions among black communities about the importance of mental health. Not only is it a topic that needs to be discussed more often but this is a topic that can be discussed in a place we feel most at ease; a hair salon.”
Henry Morales, Mi Papa Jose (Awarded Most Compelling Interpretation of Theme by Nina Guzmán)
“My experience as a first-generation Guatemalan American inspires me to explore themes of labor, identity, hybridity, and place through works that mix non-traditional and familiar materials.
I am driven to explore what it means to be a child of immigrants and investigate the impact of migrating and assimilating to a new land.”