Several events are scheduled for January at the Landmark Building located at 201 Market Street in Hot Springs.
Limited Editions, a printmaking exhibit, is on display through February 22 and can be viewed Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and by appointment on Saturday and Sunday.
Printmaker, Daniel Adams, will demonstrate woodblock printing at 6 p.m., Friday, January 4 (Gallery Walk). Adams is the chair of the Department of Art and Design at Harding University. As an artist, Adams has used printmaking, and woodcut in particular as a natural ways of expressing. He is particularly fascinated with the way architecture speaks of human presence even with the absence of human figures in the works.
Collecting Limited Editions is a presentation with DebiLynn Fendley at 5 pm, Saturday, January 5. Information about what a collector needs to know before purchasing a print and the different types of printmaking will be given.
Fendley works within cultural subgroups to produce both documentary and conceptual realism pieces in photography, printmaking, drawing and painting. She holds advanced degrees in art and English and a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard.
On Monday, January 14 at 5 pm, Erin Holliday will give a presentation about her experiences in the Hot Springs/Hanamaki Sister City artist exchange program where she travelled to Japan and explored their art and culture. From this experience she created a fiber art installation, Hikinuki (the pulling of threads), which was installed in Hanamaki last November.
Holliday is a native of Hot Springs and received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has worked in professional art installation, gallery management, art consulting, and historic restoration. She is the executive director for Emergent Arts, a non-profit art organization that fosters creativity among emerging artists of all ages and abilities.
Hot Springs artist and printmaker, Jeri Hillis will give a printmaking demonstration and presentation at 10:30 am, Mo
nday, January 21. She studied printmaking at Mount Holyoke College, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, in Norwalk, CT, and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in France, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Netherlands Antilles, and USA. She works as an Artist in Education with the Arkansas Arts Council and teaches after school programs and adult classes at Emergent Arts.
For more information or to make an appointment to view the exhibit, contact Donna Dunnahoe at 501-545-0534 or donna@dunnahoe.com.
