Printmaking

2001

Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, North Carolina; lecturer, Harold Washington College, Chicago, Illinois; instructor, Harrington Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois; instructor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

19 solo exhibitions; more than 50 group exhibitions

First Prize, Hand Pulled Prints XIV, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, Texas; Gil Society Studio Residency Fellowship, Akureyri, Iceland; SCAD Presidential Fellowship; Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, New York, New York

The American Print Alliance; Southern Graphics Council; College Art Association; Chicago Artists' Coalition; Los Angeles Printmakers; Telfair Museum of Art

Solo exhibitions

• "Domain: Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs," Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, 2011
• "The Ocean Through Our Large Windows," Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California, 2009
• "Control," Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy, California, 2009
• "Succession," Gallery S.P.A.C.E., Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, Savannah, Georgia, 2008
• "Any Given Moment," Gallery Stokes, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008

"Even after 20 years of teaching art, I am still inspired by the excitement that a student feels when he or she learns a difficult skill or process."

• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking
• PRMK 202 Introduction to Etching
• PRMK 203 Introduction to Lithography
• PRMK 301 Intermediate Etching

Bartone's drawings and etchings focus on the uneasy relationship between human beings and the natural world. In particular, Bartone's work addresses the concept of wilderness, which is typically presented as a lavish but fictional amalgamation of disparate elements, an artful distortion provoked by human intervention. The artist blends diverse influences including Italian Renaissance painting, 17th-century Dutch still life and 19th-century scientific illustration with a 21st- century aesthetic to create works that explore our attempts to tame, control and consume our surroundings. The disparate flora and fauna presented in Bartone's art are often drawn from his personal experience of the natural environments of countries including Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Zambia, and New Zealand.

curtisbartone.com

2006

Current President of SGC International

• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking
• PRMK 203 Introduction to Lithography
• PRMK 205 Monotype/Mixed Processes
• PRMK 238 Survey of Printmaking
• PRMK 306 Intermediate Lithography
• PRMK 311 Serigraphy I
• PRMK 401 Photographic and Digital Applications for Printmaking
• PRMK 602 Graduate Printmaking Processes

"As a conceptually driven artist, I am constantly exploring new marks and images to best serve my ideas and thoughts. The work is most often a materialization of my personal diasporic cultural experiences as a continually evolving conscious being. Utilizing a combination of extreme and subtle visual language in order to preserve a controlled disclosure, my work always reveals the unavoidable dichotomies of any and all situations. I am interested in simultaneously portraying the controlled and uncontrolled, perceived good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable, balanced and unbalanced and most importantly the philosophy that perfection must always be fluid."

2006

Work has been exhibited in France, Thailand, Egypt, Poland and Austria; collections: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Dallas, University of Nebraska, Hallmark Global Services, Grinnell College, Kohler Art Library

Triennial Prize, 5th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Cairo, Egypt; 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennial, Brancovian Palace Cultural Center, Mongsoala, Romania; China Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition and Symposium, hosted by the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Shanxi University College of Fine Art and the Beijing Center Academy of Fine Art

Southern Graphics Council; Mid America Print Council

"My students' spirit and talent inspire me. They are hungry to be the best artists that they can be, and I get enormous gratification from helping them create at a level that they had not initially known they could achieve. I am very excited by their generous and open hearts, and brilliant work."

• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking
• PRMK 204 Relief Printmaking
• PRMK 301 Intermediate Etching
• PRMK 320 Monotype Printmaking
• PRMK 340 Installation for Printmaking
• PRMK 602 Graduate Printmaking Processes

"I have long been interested in the representation of time and narrative. What is the structure of time, does it stack and build a density of knowledge (of ink)? Does it stretch into a sequence of events? Does our desire to achieve, build and love create energy to propel us forward or does it deny us our present? Does desire give sweetness to our ordinary lives, or does it keep us from experiencing the moments that we are in? Working with the printing techniques of intaglio and screen-print, my work emphasizes repeated line, building rich space out of ambiguity with shadowy structure and the implication of time and narrative through the organization of color and appropriated elements."

2002

Instructor of printmaking and design, Austin Community College, Texas, and University of Southwest Texas; master printer for the Southeastern Center for Printmaking, Atlanta, Georgia, and at Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas

Southeastern Center for Printmaking

Selected to participate in FotoFest 2010; Hilo International Invitational Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo; SCAD Presidential Fellowship

College Art Association; Southern Graphics Council International; Atlanta Printmakers Studio

• Southern Graphics Council, technical demonstration: Photogravure, 2009
• Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop: Photogravure, 2008
• Rice University, lecture on photo-etching processes with Karin Broker, 2000
• The Blanton Museum, gallery talk: "Whistler: Transparent Harmonies," 2000

"I am continually moved by a student's discovery of art. I will tell anyone who will listen that I have the best job in the world - I get to spend my day discussing and exploring aesthetics, printmaking and the pursuit of knowledge."

• DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
• DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking
• PRMK 202 Introduction to Etching
• PRMK 301 Intermediate Etching

"While crossing the Place de la Concorde I stopped to quickly shoot a picture of striped caution tape on the ground. The translucent plastic against the historic cobblestone was anachronistic and beautiful. Since that shot, I have become a bit of a connoisseur of the caution tape. I love the different contexts where one finds it, and the seeming universality of the practice. I invite my viewer to explore and theorize about the beautiful line of the tape and what warranted its installation. Delicately it binds and warns us that a stair is loose, or that something may fall. They are caring messages left for strangers, warnings of danger and indicators of intention."

robertbrownprints.com

2001

Professor at Walters State Community College, Tusculum College and Virginia Intermont College; visiting artist: University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; owner and principal partner for Otter Art and Design LLC

A happy family

City of Atlanta Individual Artist Grant; Fulton County Arts Grant; Hambidge Fellow; SCAD Presidential Fellowship; Award of Merit, 19th National Juried Exhibition, Mable House Cultural Center; Board representative of the Southern Graphics Council International to the Southeast College Art Conference

SECAC, College Art Association, Southern Graphics Council International, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Boston Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmakers, American Print Alliance

• SECAC Conference, Richmond, Virginia. Panelist: "The Revival of Alternative Photographic Processes"
• SGC International Conference, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Panelist: "Face Value: Interaction and Collaboration via Technology"
• Emerging Artist Grants, Atlanta Printmakers Studio. Juror. Funded in part by a grant of the Warhol Foundation

"To continue learning."

• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking PRMK 203 Introduction to Lithography
• PRMK 204 Relief Printmaking
• PRMK 205 Monotype/ Mixed Processes
• PRMK 238 Survey of Printmaking
• PRMK 306 Intermediate Lithography
• PRMK 308 Introduction to Letterpress and the Book Arts
• PRMK 404 Advanced Processes in Printmaking I
• PRMK 408 Advanced Processes in Printmaking II
• PRMK 704 Technical Approaches in Printmaking
• PRMK 713 Printmaking Studio I
• PRMK 716 Printmaking Studio II
• PRMK 740 Single Edition Portfolio
• PRMK 745 Alternative Processes in Printmaking
• PRMK 764 Graduate Seminar in Printmaking

richgere.com

2008

Has taught printmaking, book arts and foundations (drawing, 2-D design and art history survey classes); director of art galleries at University of Georgia, Gainesville State College and Georgia Perimeter College; studio coordinator for printmaking, photography and book arts at Penland School of Crafts; international teaching experience in France, Germany and Italy

Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Print Biennial juried by artist Jim Dine, Boston Printmakers Purchase Prize; collections of her books and prints featured in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States

Vermont Studio Center, Artist's Grant and Financial Aid award; Women's Studio Workshop, Artists' Book Residency Grant., funded in part by a New York State Council for the Arts Grant

Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Friends of Dard Hunter, SGC International

• "Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists," curated by Eileen Wallace. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books (2011)
• "No Translation Required: Artists' Books in Germany and Georgia," co-author. Atlanta, Georgia: Savannah College of Art and Design (2010)
• "Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking." Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (2009)

"I draw inspiration for teaching from former printmaking and book arts professors of mine, and wish to pass along their knowledge and passion for artmaking. It is my mission to cultivate the awareness and appreciation of artists' books, via the classroom and field trips to collections like the SCAD ACA Library Artists' Book Collection."

• PRMK 200 Introduction to Printmaking
• PRMK 311 Serigraphy I
• PRMK 411 Serigraphy II
• PRMK 602 Graduate Printmaking Processes
• PRMK 779T Graduate Teaching Internship

"I have worked collaboratively with Daniela Deeg under the name ETC Press for 10 years. ETC Press is an international collaboration between two women: a German and an American. Not only are the differences between our languages addressed in all of our books, but also the differences and sometimes surprisingly, the similarities, of our cultural touchstones. Our books have taken us to places like Venice, Rome, New York, Copenhagen, the Black Forest and Las Vegas. Making artists' books collaboratively is always surprising. In the end, the book has a life of its own, and its needs are what matter most."

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