SEPTEMBER 2020 Newsletter
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6 years and we’re still here!
“September 27th is the 6 year anniversary of the opening of IS Projects. When I signed the lease on an 860 square foot back room in FATVillage I couldn’t imagine how to make the dream happen but also couldn’t picture not trying. Throughout the years it grew from a few presses and myself to an incredible fully equipped space with a fantastic team of 6 tenacious print lovers. Each year we took on new projects and cultivated an incredible community that showed us that we’re not the only ones who can geek out hard on print, paper and ink. Then we hit this year we’re in this odd place that feels so far away from what the dream had begun to develop into. At the beginning of 2020, we were in a position to truly blast off and make the dream into the reality. Now, we’re holding on the best we can with the support of our amazing community. It’s not been easy but we’re trying to keep ourselves busy and bring new and inspiring projects of our own to fruition while our commissioned projects have taken a downturn. We’ve created new virtual means of connection with our community and I couldn’t be more proud of the grit and determination that the team has shown through it all. Their support and your support has made it possible to hold on in the face of uncertainty. I hope that you all are well and I promise to have the biggest blow out print party South Florida has ever seen for our 7th year! Until then, stay safe and, if you can, consider supporting us through this tough time. We have a bunch of great merch in the shop that would love to join your home!
Thank you for your help in making the dream come to life!
Sincerely, Ingrid”
I N T H E G A L L E R Y
R E P E A T E R
A M B E R T U T W I L E R
Virtual Opening Reception, Saturday, September 26th
with Gallery Tour & Gallery Shop
Instagram Live Artist Talk @ 6pm
during the virtual reception!
*The lights will be left on in the gallery for 24 hours so that locals can visit the exhibition in person*
Repeater is a solo exhibition by Amber Tutwiler that uses oil paint and mixed media on panel to describe the shifting tensions between knowing and forgetting. In this series, shapes of fabric and gestures of the hand emerge as amnesiac snippets of memory that vacillate between surface planes. Like an echo of a body and a place pulled outward from their origin, fragments of images repeat, scatter, and intersect. The handling of paint and the treatment of surface simulates printed photographs that have been redacted, collaged, and transposed. This trompe l’oeil preserves some element of intimate familiarity - even if the security of the recognizable is fleeting. Just as the folds of fabric rhythmically dance through each frame, the titles of each work, when read from left to right, act as poetic substrates to the body of work as a whole.
Amber Tutwiler is an artist from South Florida whose hybrid practice expands on figurative oil painting to describe our relationship to digital spaces. She attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design for Painting, received her BA in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, and received her MFA in Visual Art from Florida Atlantic University (2017). In 2018, she had her first solo exhibition, Interface, and collaborated with Ballet Florida in an immersive performance, Welcome, at Fritz Gallery in West Palm Beach, FL. In 2019, Ballet Florida and Tutwiler collaborated again with PULSE, which debuted in March 2019 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. She has won various awards, including the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2019, which resulted in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Most recently, she was a resident at IS Projects where she experimented with CMYK lithograph prints. She just relocated to Vineyard, Utah, where she is currently a Lecturer at Utah Valley University.
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M A R K Y O U R C A L E N D A R S
We’re excited to announce that our next two Existent Books,
Convergence by Michelle A.M. Miller and Antillean Lacunae: points of departure by Onajide Shabaka,
are launching on October 14th
N E W B L O G P O S T
Curious about our Virtual Dip Dyeing workshops on Orizomegami and Shibori?
Check out our recent blog post for more information on the technique!
U P C O M I N G W O R K S H O P S
Wed. Oct. 7th 6-8pm
Virtual Print Club: Pochior on Fabric
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Sun. Oct. 11th, 1-3pm
Monoprinting with Gelli Plates * Kid-Friendly *
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Tues. Oct. 13th, 6-9pm
Raised Cord Binding
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Wed. Oct 21st, 6-8pm
Virtual Print Club: Open Studio
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Sat. Oct 24th, 6-8pm
Virtual Make Your Own Leather Travel Journal
NOW OFFERING SUPPLY KITS!
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Wed. Oct 28th, 6-8pm
Virtual Block Printing on Fabric
NOW OFFERING SUPPLY KITS
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