BIG NEWS! Studio Arrabbiata has moved operations to the Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove, NJ. The historic building (on the right) is the former Neptune High School, built in the 1890's and recently restored as a center for arts related businesses and groups of all kinds- visual artists, theater, dance. Studio Arrabbiata is is sharing space with Social Animal Press . Photos of the studio space are on the Home page.	Jersey Shore Arts Center Ocean Grove, NJ
The entrance to Studio Arrabbiata	I've started a blog devoted to life around the studio.  It provides an inside look at what I'm up to- new work in progress, information about exhibitions, workshops and studio events, and whatever else I feel like.  Besides the many links to it on this site, you can go to it directly at http://studioarrabbiata.blogspot.com. Social Animal Press hosts a discussion/critique group in the studio on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 9 pm, or whenever it breaks up.  Artists in all media are invited to bring a piece or two (completed or in progress) and join the professional level discussion.
My print on the right was juried into the recent Art on the Edge exhibition at the Belmar Arts Council .  The show was on display during August and September whenever there wasn't a hurricane around.	21st Century Employee woodcut
The Floating World: After Sunset hand colored woodcut	The print to the left was recently on display at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey, as part of the 36th Annual Member Exhibition.  The exhibition also traveled this past fall to the New Jersey City University Gallery, hanging in the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery.  This print and two other prints from the Floating World series were part of a group exhibition called Jersey Shore: Images from Sandy Hook to Atlantic City, on display at Heaven Art and Antiques, 721 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.  The show was on display for the month of October.
The print to the right is one of two collaborative postcard prints I made with printmaker Nanci Hersh, created to be part of For Love Not Money, an international invitational exhibition.  The show, which includes 170 prints from 18 institutions and printmaking groups from all around the world, was on display at the Kumu Art Museum as part of the15th Tallinn Print Triennial in Tallinn, Estonia this past spring.   This past November, the set of postcards was briefly exhibited at Rutgers University in Newark, as part of the NJ Book Arts Symposium.  I'll post details about possible additional international locations once I get official word.	For Love Not Money Mixed Media Print
Demonstrating woodcut at Georgian Court University in 1999	I recently presented my work and process at the September meeting of the Westfield Art Association.  The presentatio included a slide show of the history of printmaking (including my own), and a demonstration of block cutting and printing.   Look for information soon about another similar presentation for another local arts organization coming in 2012. This past fall I taught a 4 night basic woodcut workshop at the Belmar Arts Council.  A few photos can be seen here.  I will be teaching a one day workshop in linocut out of my studio in March, as part of the Creativity By the Sea arts festival in Ocean Grove.  See the website for details about my class and many others.