Camille Riner
Some people aren’t sure what they want to do when they grew up but I knew it would be something to do with art. I was the kid that drew bunnies for everyone in elementary school, made costumes in middle school, and took an art class every semester in high school. When I went to […]
Meet Matt Simon
Matt Simon, artist in residence at Main Street Arts, during the month of September 2018, is working in one of our two studio spaces on our second floor. We asked Matt some questions about their work and studio practice: Q: Tell us about your background. I’m from Denver, Colorado, and lived in various neighborhoods around the city growing up. I didn’t really make […]
KS Lack
I started working with letterpress almost eight years ago, when I was looking for a way to print a mixed-media piece for a gallery in Brooklyn. I fell in love with the medium: the richness of the inks, the juxtaposition of typography and imagery, how different paper types interact with ink and pressure—the list goes […]
Megan Armstrong
Megan’s artwork is on view in our juried exhibition “Small Works 2016”. Artist Statement: A line is a critical tool for communication – whether compositionally visual or textual, a line connected to another line creates a navigational thread to follow – this thread can be woven in and out as a form of coded language – the […]
KaKeART Collaborations
Born in Rochester NY and Prague Czechoslovakia the KaKeART partnership began in graduate school at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where Tatana Kellner and Ann Kalmbach met in the printmaking studio as exiles from the painting department. After graduate school, they arrived in Rosendale to help form the Women’s Studio Workshop, a not for profit […]
Nick Marshall
Hi everyone, my name is Nick Marshall. My recent work, _e_scapes, is included in Main Street Art’s exhibition “Ink and Paper” and this post will hopefully give you a little more insight to my practice. _e_scapes started with a series of photographs I made in 2012-13. The images depict found snapshots of seaside vacations that are floating […]
Amanda Chestnut: Exploring Racial Identity Through Artist’s Books
Growing up out side of Binghamton, New York afforded me a bucolic, nonpareil childhood that combined a rigorous academic environment with a loving and supportive community. Largely sheltered from cultural strife, these seemingly unobtainable ideals are part of my motivation in asking difficult questions through my artwork. Why can’t life be perfect? Where does this historic […]
Candace Hicks
My studio is starting to look like a depot for packing materials. I have had a lot of work out lately, and it’s all come back at the same time. These boxes held wooden boxes with illusionistic rooms inside. The rooms are constructed so that the cloud that floats back and forth appears to shrink […]
Jenna Rodriguez: An Educator, Papermaker, Printmaker, and Book Artist
I have been an artist and art educator for the past 8 years. The past year and half I was the Victor Hammer Fellow at Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, NY. The fellowship allowed me to teach fifty percent of the time and create my own body of work fifty percent of the […]
Alicia Taylor
One of the best ways I’ve found to focus my scattered mind is to allow myself to be completely captivated by the elements of the earth. I grew up in a house overlooking a large body of water and my fascination with water and the power that it can contain will never cease. I observe […]