Drive By Press is printing tshirts TODAY in between buildings FA2 and FA3, until 4 pm. Here are some pictures of their set up. Get there before it rains!

Further Graduate Student Updatings

Camilla Taylor was awarded the Southern Graphics Council Graduate Student Fellowhip. The award includes a solo show at the 2011 SGC in St. Louis, MO, $1,000 towards creating a body of work for the show, and giving a presentation at this year's SGC in Philadelphia banquet dinner. Yay!

Graduate Student Updates - Tyler & Ya'el

I am quite pleased to announce that Tyler Ferreira is the 2010 winner of the Frogman's Graduate Student Scholarship at the University of South Dakota in beautiful Vermillion. In addition to receiving free tuition at a workshop, Tyler will also have a solo exhibition of his prints on display at the Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts on the campus of the University of South Dakota. A bit of alright!

Ya'el Pedroza (seen pre-Hazel in this photo with Tyler) is part of a group exhibition called: "The OsCene 2010 - Contemporary Art & Culture in OC" at the Laguna Museum of Art. The 2/20 opening features DJ Velvet Touch (I'm so un-hip...I've never heard of him or her) & tickets are $20.00 pre-sale/$25.00 @ the door.

2/21 features a curatorial walk-through, which I think may be free?

Call 949/494-8971 to find out for certain. The address is: 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, & the web-site of the Museum is: www.LagunaArtMuseum.org

Thanks and have a terrific week!

The 4th Annual California Centered: Printmaking

The Merced County Arts Council is now accepting slides for its 4th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibit. The intention is to bring together a selection of the best in recent California printmaking. Merced, home of the newest University of California campus, is located in the geographic center of the state. This is the fourth in a series of annual exhibitions sponsored by the Merced County Arts Council. The exhibition will be held in the Merced Art Center, an award winning center with several dedicated exhibition galleries.

The exhibition will run from April 1st 2010 to June 1st 2010 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center in Merced CA.

For the California Centered: Printmaking Prospectus go to the website: artsmerced.org/exhibits/index.html
* Note: If you are having trouble downloading this file email Joey Essig, stage@artsmerced.org, to have a copy sent to you.

Slides or jpeg c.d.’s are due Feb. 24th 2010, the cost is $10/slide for the first 2 slides or 3 slides for $25.

Top 2 or 3 best in show artists will receive solo shows at the gallery during the same exhibition in 2011.

For more information please contact Joey Essig by phone at The Merced County Arts Council,
209-388-1090.

Polishing Metal Plates (& scratched i-Pod Windows)

Here are some tips on polishing your plates, be they copper or zinc.

#1. If the plate is uncoated on both sides, examine it in the harsh light of day & determine which side is less scratched. That will be the side you polish.

#2. Using a file, scraper, or plumbing pipe tool, bevel that edge to a 45 degree angle. You should also round off the corners.

#3. If there are any very deep scratches, use the 3-in-1 oil & your trusty, sharp scraper to eliminate them. You'll have to follow that up with some judicious burnishing, also using 3-in-1 oil. If the scratches are just deep enough for your fingernails to catch in, you'll want to only use the burnisher, & leave the scraper in your toolbox.

#4. Using elbow grease, #00000 steel wool & the 3-in-1 oil, massage your plate in a circular motion, to at least 1 song on your I-pod (might I suggest Gogol Bordello). If you are obsessive, you can rinse the plate after each step with a mix of vinegar & salt, followed by a water rinse. Done in between each step, it will really brighten up your plate. Make sure you dry the plate with a clean, soft rag before going on to the next step. The latter items can be found in a cabinet located above the sinks in the acid room.

#5. Rub the "Nevr-Dull Magic Wadding Polish" onto your plate. The Eurythmics?

#6. Next comes the "Putz Pomade." (While the German word "putsn" means "to clean" the Yiddish word "putz" means either an idiot or that which makes men differ from women. A really strange choice of names for a product in any event.

#7. Finally, you can now wipe a light layer of "Brasso" on the plate. Go get a caffeine fix. By the time you come back, it should have dried to a fine white powder. Polish this off & you should be able to see yourself in the surface. Good job. (FYI - If the wee viewing screen on your I-pod is scratched, you can actually clear it again to look almost new with repeated Brasso wiping. Just take care not to get it on the body of the device & make certain the rag is extremely soft, & take care not to rub hard.)

#8. Don't touch the surface. Wrap in a soft clean paper towel & put carefully away in your locked drawer.

Upcoming Roxanne Exhibition in March "Germination"

The Pallid Seas of Gahnia Aspera - wood-engraving, silkscreen, graphite drawing, envelope & seed

Inspired by seed germination, the title of this print comes from Umberto Eco, and the composition borrows from Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. This print, by ahem, R. Sexauer, is part of a portfolio organized by Rachel Melis and Kathleen King presented at the 34^th Annual Southern Graphics Conference, & will be in an exhibition this March at the "Red Delicious Press" in the Denver/Aurora area of Colorado. The drawing and inclusion of fragmentary text on the small envelope that holds the actual seed depicted helps to solidify my hand in the work. Metaphorically, the seeds and pods are transport systems for both growth and regeneration. In this particular Australian plant, they can lie dormant for up to twenty-five years. Impressive for late bloomers everywhere.

Hurry, hurry - Deadline is 1/29 for Submissions

Go to: www.cqjournal.com/callforentries.html

to find directions to enter. It's only a $10.00 fee - that's equal to 2 venti soy lattes at Starbucks, no?