| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: artSTRAND announces Project Edge Reception Friday, Oct 12, 6 – 9 pm Provincetown, MA - artSTRAND is pleased to present PROJECT EDGE, an exhibition created by the Project Edge Artists Group. It begins with an opening celebration on Friday, October 12, from 6-9pm and will run through October 31, 2007. artSTRAND continues its initiative to feature guest artists in its Provincetown gallery this exhibition of individual and collaborative artwork created by Edge members, Tracey Anderson, Midge Battelle, Polly Burnell, Jenny Humphreys, Marian Roth, Lynn Stanley, Vicky Tomayko and Jane Winter. Project Edge was the brainchild of artists Tracey Anderson and Midge Battelle, and was formed during the winter and early spring of 2006. Of the idea of forming an artists' group Tracey Anderson has said, "I wanted to be able to talk with other artists. I thought that something good might come of being able to talk about our processes and our challenges, while at the same time, being supportive of each other's work. I also wanted to create a place to have serious critical discourse about art with fellow Provincetown artists." During the first meeting the group resolved to convene once a month for six months and reevaluate after this time span. A year and a half later the group is still going strong. Group activities have included collaborative printmaking projects and the presentation of slide lectures by each of the members to the group. The Edge exhibition will feature prints and other collaborative work. A percentage of the profits from the sale of these collaborative pieces will be donated to local non-profit organizations Helping Our Women, the Provincetown Soup Kitchen and Independence House. Of the group's title, Anderson says, "I like the idea of edges, the periphery where change and interesting things can happen." Artist and photographer Marian Roth agrees and says, "It's an appropriate image for those of us living here at the edge of the world." Collectively, the group represents over two decades of outer cape art-making, in media spanning photography, painting, printmaking, installation, mixed media, drawing, ceramics and artists books. We're an interesting group, with our various strengths and quirks," says member Lynn Stanley. "One has to be a bit odd and a bit stubborn to choose this kind of life, out here on the edge of things." Biographies of the Artists Follow: Tracey Anderson graduated in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and completed her Post Graduate Studies at The Royal College of Art in London. She has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in the UK as well as in New York and Provincetown. She is co-founder of Project Edge, a group of artists working on the Outer Cape. Represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown. For more information on her work visit www.traceysandfordanderson.com Midge Battelle received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA, with a concentration in photography and alternative early photographic methods. She has also, in recent years, studied printmaking at the Fine Arts Work Center summer programs in Provincetown. She has been a member of Provincetown's arts community since 1992-as an artist, teacher, curator, gallery manager, and as a mentor at the Academy of Art, Science and Technology at Provincetown High School. She was co-founder of The Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design and served there as Director of the Driskell Gallery of Photography during its inaugural year. In addition, she was co-owner and director of the Battelle-Harding Gallery in western Massachusetts. A photographer, printmaker and mixed-media artist, her work has been exhibited widely and is in numerous public and private collections. Along with the artist Tracey Anderson, she is co-founder of Project Edge, a group of artists working on the Outer Cape. For more information on her work visit www.mmbattellecyanotypes.com. Polly Burnell is a painter and ceramic artist who has lived in Provincetown since 1986. She studied drawing and printmaking at Kent State University and the University of Cincinnati. She was a visual fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center from 1993-94 and in 2007 her work was celebrated in a mid-career exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her work is in numerous public an private collections and she is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. Jenny Humphreys is an artist who works in various media and currently lives and works in Provincetown, MA. Originally trained as a painter at Yale and Indiana Universities, Jenny began to explore sculpture, installation, needlework, and photography, as well as other media in 1993 when she came to Provincetown for the first of two fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center. She has received a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant and had residencies at Yaddo, Millay and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She exhibits her work frequently in Provincetown, most recently at the DNA Gallery and the Schoolhouse Gallery. Her fabric work was included at the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester New Hampshire in a show entitled "Uncommon Threads," with a catalogue of the same title. Jenny was a visiting artist at the Memphis College of Art, and at the Berkshire College where she had a solo show. Her work has been written about in such varied publications as "American Spirit," the Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, and "Knitty," an online knitting and needlework journal. Marian Roth has been working with pinhole imagery for over twenty years. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for this work in 2001. She is represented by the Kobalt Gallery where she exhibited her paintings this summer in a one person show. She lives and teaches in Provincetown. Lynn Stanley is an artist and a writer. She attended the School of Visual Arts and Queens College - where her focus was in painting-and received her BA in studio Art at Smith College, where she produced letterpress books, broadsides, and non-conventional book forms. As a Colby Fellow at the University of Michigan, Stanley received an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry in 2000. She is a grant recipient for poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Provincetown Cultural Council. Over the past three years she has created three dimensional paper constructions. Her visual work is represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown; examples of her poetry and artwork can also be seen at her web site, www.lynn-stanley.com. Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who works with monotype in a multi-layered process. Her recent prints explore an intensely colored fantasy world inhabited by monsters and animated junk. She was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College and was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1985. She was an artist-in-residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School for 10 years. She also teaches printmaking in the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University, and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation Grants. Her work is exhibited locally at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Venice, Istanbul and Melbourne. Jane Winter is a year-round Provincetown artist. Her work is currently represented by Kobalt Gallery. She has exhibited at Robyn Watson Gallery, Berta Walker Gallery, East End Gallery, and The Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and attended The Rinehart School of Sculpture, the Graduate Fellowship Program of The Maryland Institute of Art. She was a MacDowell Art Colony Fellow in 1974 and 1980. She has produced murals for sites throughout the U.S., including the Maryland Science Center, The Science Museum of Minnesota and The Brooklyn Children's Museum. She has produced exhibit and graphic design for museums and has created set design for stage and television. After working for many years as a photo-realist painter she has spent the last two years discovering and building a personal abstract language in her painting.
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