Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Congrats to Wende


Night In by David Dreisbach

David Dreisbach recently celebrated his 90th birthday. For those of you unfamiliar with Dreisbach's work, he has been an exhibiting artist since 1949 and an educator from 1952 to 1991. He studied with Mauricio Lasansky and Stanley William Hayter. He has exhibited in over 250 one man shows and a very large number of national and international juried and invitational exhibitions and workshops.
David has a lifetime of artistic endeavors and is well respected as an educator who instilled strong artistic commitments in a large impressive group of students. He is an internationaly known expert and innovator in the printmaking field who helped to create technical advances in color viscosity printing.
Joy Peterson of Louisville is the sister of David. She wanted to honor David's 90th birthday by awarding a 'scholarship' gift to a deserving student in printmaking. Joy contacted me for recommendations. I told her that I had several deserving students, but I suspected that since it was to honor her brother that one who had a strong background in etching would be a good match for Joy's intentions. I recommended Wende for this honor and Joy was very excited about that selection. I sent some of Wende's images to her, but I am also going to include some her and invite Joy to visit our blog. Please extend a congratulations to Wende, and enjoy some of her intaglio prints.

Making Love


Transforming


Jelly Fish


Micros


Wende Cudmore holding the card from Joy Peterson

Wende is a senior in the Fine Arts Program and will be graduating in the spring with a BFA in Printmaking. Her work explores nature and it's patterns and those influences on our world, both subtle and overt.  She is currently involved with the tradition of creating "quilts", but rather than employing fabric, Wende is composing her quilts out of printed images from etchings and collagraphs.  They will function as objects rather that the traditional utilitarian bed cover. Wende is also very involved with vegetable papyrus, creating wall hangings, bowls, and most prominently, hats.


Kiwi Hat

  

2 comments:

astotts said...

This is so awesome Wende! Congratulations! You definitely deserve it.

wcudmore said...

Wow! I am so very honored and thrilled to receive this gift in honor of David Dreisbach, an amazing master printmaker. I am in awe of his work.
What a wonderful idea for Mr. Dreisbach's sister, Joy Peterson to give a gift to a student in printmaking, honoring her brother's life long works!Thank you Joy Peterson!
Thank you Brian for recommending me and encouraging me to push outside the box and to learn everything I can about printmaking. I work with some amazing young printmakers that also push me to do better.
This gift is a precious one, the timing was perfect! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.