The Board of Directors of The Sam and Adele Golden FoundationSM for the Arts, Inc. recently celebrated its 10th year by awarding grants to ten cultural organizations. Family members formed the Golden Foundation in 1997 as a way to give back to the artist community that had been such a great support for so many … Read more
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Just Paint #17
Dear Artists, Friends and Colleagues, We are delighted to share that during the past ten years, awards totaling more than $120,000 have been granted to artists in recognition of their work and to cultural organizations for their commitment and capacity to provide services for career artists. In keeping with our mission, to be a meaningful … Read more
This article is an attempt to establish a common language and an understanding of acrylic dispersion grounds, the attributes of the grounds and how those attributes function within the painting. This article will conclude with a very needed but mostly ignored effort to understand the development and necessity for a quality standard for grounds. Common … Read more
On Saturday, October 6, 2007, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, the Sam & Adele Golden FoundationSM for the Arts, Inc. will be holding a Silent Art Auction Benefit in celebration of its 10th Year. The evening will be dedicated to honoring our Foundation Director, Lucy Tower Funke on the occasion of her retirement. Silent Auction … Read more
Over the last year we have seen a sharp increase in the number of adhesion failures associated with the use of pre-primed canvases made by a variety of manufacturers. Obviously this has alarmed artists and raises potentially serious issues around the long-term stability of artwork done on these supports. In addition, because the failures have … Read more
An artist’s stretcher can be expanded to tighten a loose canvas. An artist’s strainer cannot be expanded to tighten a slack painting. That is the only functional difference between the two major types of painting supports. But this is the point where all the trouble begins: whether a painting support expands or does not expand … Read more
With the dramatic decline in materials and technique education amongst numerous significant institutions, most artists learn even the most basic concepts of canvas preparation from the same people they learn about the birds and the bees … their buds … The situation is not much better on the information superhighway. We’ve attempted in this issue … Read more
I am going to present a stretching procedure that may sound heretical and very much at odds with what artists are taught about canvas preparation from their earliest studio days. I ask that readers please suspend disbelief and give a try to some of the special techniques that follow. If these procedures are embraced, artists … Read more
