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UPCOMING EXHIBITION

WHAT DEATH DOES: TIME, SCALE AND ANONYMITY

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY STEPHEN KALTENBACH

June 10 - September 17

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REGISTRATION CLOSES IN THREE DAYS FOR THIS CLASS!⁠
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☕️Take Screen Printing II with Ashley Ortiz-Diaz @mineralispiritz⁠
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Screen Printing II⁠
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Instructor: Ashley Ortiz-Diaz⁠
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Category: Printmaking, Myrtle Press⁠
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For: Adults⁠, Teens⁠
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PRICE: General $180, Member $170, BIPOC Community $165⁠
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Do you have experience in screen printing and would like to fine tune the process? Have you taken Verge/Myrtle Press’s Screen Printing with Emulsion course with Ashley and want some more? If you answered yes to either question, this class is for you! In this two weekend class you will work on image making, digital and manual manipulation to create positives, and how to improve your registration game. You must you must have screen printing experience and be available for both weekends to attend. If you can bring a laptop with you that has photoshop or illustrator, please do! All materials included in registration fee.⁠
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WHEN: Saturdays, June 10th & June 17th⁠
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TIME: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM⁠
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WHERE: Myrtle Press inside Verge Center for the Arts⁠
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About the Instructor @mineralspiritz⁠
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Ashley Ortiz-Diaz (she/her) is an artist and teacher living in Sacramento, CA. ⁠
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Born and raised in Florida, Ashley received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Florida and has exhibited primarily in the South-Eastern US. Recent solo exhibitions have been viewed at Good News Arts in High Springs, FL and Fresh As Fruit Gallery in Deland, FL. Ashley's most recent solo exhibition was at the Burb Gallery in Sacramento. Ashley has attended residencies in Oysterville, WA, Ottawa, CA, and Gainesville, FL, and is currently working on creating a new local printmaking space in collaboration with local Sacramento artists.⁠
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Ashley's collaboration with Florida Prisoner Solidarity (FPS, formerly IWOC Gainesville) contributed to her receipt of the Gainesville 2019 Individual Arts Award. ⁠
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https://vergecontemporary.org/classes/screen-printing-ii/⁠
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Register at the link in bio!

We have made it to the final edition of our Artist

We have made it to the final edition of our Artist Spotlights for the Verge Art Summer Kids Studio Camps for 2023!⁠
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Tonight we introduce this summer's "PAINTING PARTY" summer camp co-leaders: artist, teacher, and Verge Education Coordinator ALEXANDRA LLOYD and artist, educator, and Verge Education Manager KERRY COTTLE. This camp will run from July 10th - 14th and kids age 10-13 will get to explore self-expression through different painting mediums and lots of COLOR!⁠
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To sign up for this camp or to explore our other options, click the link in bio!⁠
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Alexandra Lloyd is a teacher and artist with over 10 years of experience painting and drawing, and they run independent press and art studio Hildegard Press. Alexandra is particularly interested in using color, shapes, and abstraction to capture the history of water and land resources of the California Central Valley. In addition to being an Education Coordinator at Verge, Alexandra is an activist and community organizer and works frequently with The People’s Collective to distribute food to local communities. They recently received their teaching credential at California State University, Sacramento, and are teaching history to middle school and high school aged students.⁠
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Kerry Cottle is a visual artist and educator. Her work is an ongoing meditation on material, abstraction, and color aimed at symbolically reconsidering, restoring, and/or subverting flawed value systems. Interested in the somatic process of painting and the gradual weaving together of images, Kerry explores the depth of possibility within oil paint and its histories, as well as formulating new responses to questions of sustainability in material. Through this questioning, she has begun to reformulate paper waste, and locally sourced plant and mineral pigment into medium. She is of Italian, Irish, and mixed European descent. ⁠
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Come paint with Verge!⁠
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💀Come experience "What Death Does: Time Scale a

💀Come experience "What Death Does: Time Scale and Anonymity" at Verge! ⁠
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🚪Verge Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition by Stephen Kaltenbach. This show brings together several different bodies of work and modes of making from Kaltenbach’s more than 55-year career. The exhibition will focus on his career-long interest in time and scale. The centerpiece of the show is What Death Does, a stage set of a furnished living room. Throughout the run of the exhibition, simulated rain falls into the room. Decay sets in at an accelerated pace with the aid of manufactured precipitation.⁠
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📌The show also brings together a group of works exploring time and scale in a much different manner. Throughout the late 1960s, Kaltenbach used strategies of anonymity, aliases, and tactical lies to create works that slowly spread as historians, curators, viewers, and students unearthed them and tied the work back to his practice. The exhibition will include work by Kaltenbach’s aliases Es Que and Clyde Dillon. It will also feature work from his anonymous Artforum micro manifestos and lies that circulated through the readership of the Village Voice and Arts magazine.⁠
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🏡Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10th, 5 PM-8 PM⁠
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The exhibition runs from June 10 - September 24⁠
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For more info visit here: https://vergecontemporary.org/exhibitions/what-death-does/⁠
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📢SIGN UP! Verge has an array of classes to offe

📢SIGN UP! Verge has an array of classes to offer lined up for the Summer of 2023. ⁠
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☕️Today's feature is Susan's Linocut Class @susanjsilvester⁠
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The Art of Linocut⁠
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Instructor: Susan Silvester⁠
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Category: Printmaking, Myrtle Press⁠
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For: Adults⁠
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PRICE: $135 Members / $150 General / $130 BIPOC Community ⁠
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In this two-day, weekend workshop, Susan will guide students through essential linocut printmaking techniques, including inking, pin registration, paper preparation, and more. With hands-on demonstrations and personalized instruction, students will have the opportunity to explore their creativity and produce unique prints. All materials and supplies will be provided, including a selection of high-quality inks, carving tools, and paper. At the end of the workshop, participants will leave with several Lino Block prints and the knowledge and skills to continue exploring this exciting art form on their own⁠
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WHEN: Sundays, June 11th & June 18th⁠
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TIME: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM⁠
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WHERE: Myrtle Press inside Verge Center for the Arts⁠
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PRICE: $135 Members / $150 General / $130 BIPOC Community⁠
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WHO: Adults⁠
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About the Instructor @susanjsilvester⁠
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Susan Silvester is a Sacramento-based artist, printmaker, and teacher with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. As a board member of Myrtle Press, a printmaking facility in Sacramento, she is dedicated to supporting the printmaking community and fostering opportunities for artists to explore the medium. She has taught classes in lino block printing through a collaboration of Pence Gallery and Myrtle Press and has also taught college art classes in design, drawing, and color theory. Susan’s work has been exhibited widely, demonstrating mastery of traditional printmaking techniques, as well as a willingness to experiment with new approaches. She is deeply committed to exploring the possibilities of printmaking as a medium and is a member of the California Society of Printmakers.⁠
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https://vergecontemporary.org/classes/the-art-of-linocut/⁠
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Happy long weekend, Sacramento! We hope you are en

Happy long weekend, Sacramento! We hope you are enjoying the sunshine and the temperate weather⁠🌞
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Today is the final installment of the "All Things Print(Making)" Kids Summer Art Studio Camp Teaching Artist Spotlight. This week of camp will take place June 26-30, and we introduce to you Verge's own Education Associate and multidisciplinary artist, Anna Lark! Lark is ONE of FOUR print and book focused artists who will be co-leading this exciting summer camp for kids age 10-13. Young participating artists get to try their hands at several printmaking methods, and will finish out camp with a celebratory zinefest.⁠
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Lark (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and an Education Associate at Verge. While Lark has found their home in Printmaking, their breadth of artistic knowledge is far-reaching. You may find Lark offering their expertise at our twice-weekly Clay Lab, or teaching a class here at Verge. Recently, Lark taught a hand-building ceramics class for kids. With particular specialization in intaglio and linoleum cut relief prints, their work has a special focus on unconventional portraiture, depictions of mental health and personal experiences. Lark loves to explore new mediums and they are constantly learning and sharing new skills with others. They are currently a student at CSU Sacramento. ⁠
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Image 1) A portrait of the artist⁠
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Image 2)⁠ "Unmasking" Drypoint Collage⁠
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Image 3)⁠ "In Memory of a Bird" Screenprint⁠
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Image 4)⁠ "Not Much to See in Summer" Intaglio, Relief, Embossing, and Chine Colle⁠
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Image 5)⁠ "Recto Verso" Intaglio ⁠
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To sign up for kids print camp, follow the link in bio!⁠
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⏰ATTN ARTISTS! TWO days left to register for Sac

⏰ATTN ARTISTS! TWO days left to register for Sac Open Studios! Registration closes this Friday, May, 26th 2023 at midnight. ⁠
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Sign up here: https://sacopenstudios.com/⁠
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🏙️Verge’s largest public program, Sac Open Studios spotlights the diverse range of artists who fill our region with art and culture. The central piece of Sac Open Studios is a self-guided artist studio tour that spans all of Sacramento County, West Sacramento, and Woodland and takes place annually during the middle two weekends of September. The tour attracts about 270 participating artists and around 30,000 attendees annually.⁠
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📌We’re looking forward to another banner year!⁠
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Featured artist: @marispacifica_foundnmade⁠
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[Alt text] In the slide carousel, we have a geometric design layout featuring an artist on the first slide in their studio wearing a jean jacket. The studio has fabrics and other such sundries in the background behind them. The second slide describes how the artist is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker currently based out of Sac. The third slide has a quote and more photos of Marin's studio. All slides have green/blue hues. ⁠
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