Things are off to a good start for 2011! Here's the latest news from my woodblock studio.

First Prints of the Year

The two prints shown here are my first two prints of 2011.

This week I completed the print above, Borders #3: Israel / Palestine Separation Barrier. This is the third print in an ongoing series about fences and walls erected at international borders. You can read more about it and see larger images by clicking here. The print was created using 5 shina plywood blocks and 20 hand rubbed layers of color on Japanese washi in an edition of 12. The map under the black figures is based on a satellite view of the West Bank at Qalqiliya, where the separation barrier has made the city into a peninsula, cut off from the rest of the Palestinian territories.

Blessings Kite

This print is my entry in the Drachen Foundation's Moku Hanga Kite Contest. The kites can be seen at the 6th Annual KIWA Exhibition in Kyoto in March, the 1st International Mokuhanga Conference in Kyoto in June, and later at exhibits at Cullom Gallery and Mighty Tieton Arts in Washington state.

2011 Shows

Florence, MA: Two of my prints from the "Borders" series, U.S./Mexico and Great Wall, are curruntly on exhibit at at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA, in their Members Relief Printing Show. The show runs through February 11. (221 Pine Street, Studio 320, Florence, MA)

Philadelphia, PA: My Chlorine print, which was created as part of The Periodic Table Printmaking Project, will be on display at Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia as part of an exhibition called Elemental Matters: Artists Imagine Chemistry. The exhibit will be up most of this year, from February 4-December 16. (325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA)

Amherst, MA: I've been selected as one of several artists whose work will be shown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The group show, titled Six of one, Half dozen of the other, will be up April 5-26. (New Africa House, University of Massachusetts)

Kyoto, Japan: I will have work shown in two exhibitions in Japan this spring. The triptych called Three Prophets will be shown at the 6th KIWA Exhibition in Kyoto, March 29-April 3 (Kyoto Municipal Museum). June 8-12, Dorothy Bradford Comes to America will be part of an exhibition of 60 woodblock prints called Mokuhanga: Dialogue and Dialect. This show is part of the First International Mokuhanga Conference in Kyoto. (Kyoto International Community House, 2F)

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best wishes,
Annie