Ohio Collage Society News

Welcome to the Ohio Collage Society Blog

If you are new to this site, please browse and enjoy the commentary and pictures. Our organization seeks to promote and appreciate the technique of collage in Ohio by mounting exhibits of member's work and getting together occasionally to create collage. We are an affiliate of the National Collage Society and our founder, Gretchen Bierbaum, is also the founder of NCS. Click on the link below for a membership form. We hope you decide to join us!

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Sorta, Kinda Collage 2

It's a stretch for collage (perhaps) but it inspired me. Click here.

Martha Germano at Willoughby Hills

Martha Germano has a show currently running at the Willoughby Hills Gallery until February 27. This looks like it would be a wonderful roadtrip. Congratulations to our active member Martha!

If anyone else is in exhibits, please send that information along to Shirley for the blog.

Dollar Broom by Christopher Jobson

Sent by Gretchen, giving dirty money new meaning......

From Kathleen.....African/European Collage

Just click the link, wonderful article sent by Kathleen (if anybody out there wants to share a favorite, drop me an email):

http://magazine.saatchionline.com/articles/artnews/famed-collage-artist-wangechi-mutu-to-judge-showdown

 

It's also a competition! 

Pictures from the OCS Member's Exhibition in Dayton

Some views from the opening reception of the member's show at The Cannery Gallery in Dayton OH on November the 4th 2011. President Shirley, Vice President Chris and Treasurer Christine took a road trip down and Chris is responsible for the photo documentation. The above view is about mid-way in the show.

Vice President and President in front of the art.

Chris and Nita Leland, author and awards judge.

Myself and the awards judge. Nita also had her new book on collage for sale the night of the reception. 

Award winners were:

Marcia Mazak: Rust Belt No.5

Barbara Johns: The Truth was in Her Eyes

Shirley Ende-Saxe: The Blue of UnBe

Pat Schroeder: Fables

Chris Paringer: Wall St Terror

Congratulations to the award winners and all who exhibited. The show was stong and an excellent example of the many talented artists in our organization. Next year we plan on being in NE OH again, so keep working and plan to enter next fall.

Oh, and please excuse the tardiness of this entry, the blogger Shirley has her own solo show tonight and has been preoccupied ever since arriving home from Dayton.

Alex Aitken Exhibits in Hudson

 

 

The Hudson Library and Historical Society Watson-Ewell-Currin Gallery will feature the works of Alexander Aitken from October 4, 2011 through the end of November. You can meet the artist at a reception in the Gallery from1:00 to4:00 PM on Sunday, October 16^th.

Al Aitken’s Trees/Forest series consists of composite photo (inkjet prints) glued together to give an impression of a forest. He has won awards with collages from this series in the annual Ohio Collage Society Exhibits and also many National Collage Society international juried exhibits. He was an award winner in the FAVA six-state photography show in Oberlin and participated in many May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Aitken has an MFA in print making from Ohio University and he is an instructor of fine art photography at Case Western Reserve University. Formerly, he was an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

He has work is in the Permanent Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Visit the Hudson Library Gallery on Sunday, Oct.16^th for an enlightening afternoon with this enigmatic, full-blown artist.

 

 

Art to Dayton, NE OH Delivery & Etc.

After a board meeting yesterday about the Dayton Annual Member Show, keep these things in mind:

1. Art must be delivered to Shirley E. or Chris P. to get a ride down to Dayton by the 15th of October.

2. Please make sure art to go is securely wrapped and padded, your friendly transporters get very worried when they receive a naked collage and can't be certain it will come back to you safely. So wrap them up!

3. If you enclose your check on the back of your work (outside the wrapping) that will help us with our records. 

4. Prospectus and entry form links follow this post, if you haven't entered/renewed, do it today!

And now the miscellaneous part from Gretchen B., this sounds fun:

 

Dear Landfillart Artist,

  

This is very exciting time for The Landfillart Project!  We are nearing completion of the first phase of our mission.  We only need 150 additional, professional artists to join us on our Landfillart "voyage", allowing us to realize our original goal of establishing a collection of 1,041 total art projects.  We can then move forward and start phase 2- publishing The Landfillart Book, which will include every piece completed for the project.

  

Please pass on our website www.landfillart.org, and have your fellow artists contact me.  If the artist mentions your name, it will help speed up the selection process.

  

Thank you for your help and participation in The Landfillart Project.

 

 

                                                                                            Sincerely,

 

                                                                                            Ken Marquis

 

Prospectus and Membership forms for Dayton 2011

Download FINAL VERSION, OCS ENTRY 2011 Dayton

Please click the link above to access a prospectus for our annual membership show that will be in Dayton Ohio at the end of October. For those who want to have their pieces taken down for the show we need them at Chris Paringer's house, Christine Jackovitz's house or Shirley Ende-Saxe's house before October 15.

We hope to see lots of wonderful art and are looking forward to showing our talents in Dayton!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

June 18 2011, Saturday will be our next collage work session (or collage party, if you prefer) at Gallery 2091 on the Front St. Mall in downtown Cuyahoga Falls at 1PM. We've always had a lot of fun at Amy's gallery so come and join us!

Revised Pick-up Time

Those of you who entered the 3.5x2.5 show at The Box Gallery......pick-times have been revised to 4pm-6pm on the 18th, Monday at Summit Art Space on the 3rd floor. These are the same hours as the "Fresh" show and allows me to be there by myself and not have to post an additional person at the door downstairs. See you there!