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Over the past year, Barbara Shelly has helped build an online artist community called Art Speak Collective. With the help of her talented partners Laurie Lamont Murray and Denise Jones Adler, the three of them created a space for artists to share their work and continue to create art in the pandemic. This passion project quickly grew, has become a PHYSICAL space called Pictor Gallery in the heart of NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. Learn more about Pictor Gallery here!

The Pandemic Diaries is a series of pointed, emotional and sarcastic word collages that bring together renowned artist Dolores Poacelli‘s many years as a fine artist and graphic designer, her abundance of opinions and her love of satire.These document her highly personal feelings about the global pandemic. A hand-picked selection of her 102 black and white collages, each piece has a visual attitude and a tactile quality like so much of her abstract art.

Purchase the Pandemic Diaries paperback here.

Ever wanted to make your own prints? Come learn easy ways to make prints in class and that you can make at home with Bill Brookover. You’ll be exploring monoprinting, the painterly print. You’ll start with rolling ink onto Gelli plates, using leaves and simple stencils to make our marks. Then the class will move on to work on the etching press with oil-based inks, using non-toxic cleanup techniques. The class will explore additive, subtractive, and trace monotype techniques.

The class runs September 14 – November 16, 2021. Register here!

Beadwork sculptor Leslie B. Grigsby wrapped up Manifold Global’s Portraiture Lecture Series with her Artist Talk on March 30th at 7pm EST. She shared more about her work, her background, and her off-loom bead-weaving process.

You can view the recording of the talk on Zoom here.