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Every year the WSA offers an original contemporary print to those who contribute $100 or more to the Friends of the Woodstock School of Art for the advancement of the school's fine arts program. The annual prints are all recent works by outstanding Woodstock artists, printed in limited editions and available only through the school. Many issued in this way have become valued additions to private collections. The renowned artist Lora Shelley has created the 2008 Annual Print. Among others in the long list of artists commissioned to make etchings, lithographs, serigraphs or linocuts for the annual series in the past are Andree Ruellan, Eduardo Chavez, Staats Fasoldt, Karl Fortess, and Nancy Summers.
Moon Watcher, a new dry point etching by Lora Shelley, has been chosen by the
Woodstock School of Art for its 2008 Annual Print. The print, limited to an
edition of 75, will be given to contributors of $100 or more to the nonprofit school.
Regarding the subject of the print Shelley notes, I tried to combine the idyllic natural
environment of the Hudson Valley with my own interest in exploring the fine line
between the light-hearted sweetness that is often found in dark, disturbed individuals.
A strong sense of humor accompanies an empathy which lighten the mood ever so
slightly but nothing can relieve the eternal longing.
Lora Shelley graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in Illustration in 1994. She studied a year abroad in Italy as part of the European Honors Program. Her works have graced local magazine covers from The Valley
Table to Chronogram and have been featured in many publications such as Art Business
News, Decor and The Country and Abroad. Shelley was the featured artist of the July 2005
issue of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide. She regularly exhibits her work throughout
the country from Carmel, California to the Copley Society in Boston. In 1998 she was
awarded an Artists Workspace fellowship-residency at the Woodstock School of Art
and in 2001 received the Annual Print Award from the Woodstock Artists Association.
Since 2001 she has exhibited as part of the United Nations Art in Embassies program in
Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa. Her work has been privately acquired the American Ambassador. She continues to paint figurative works and create handmade prints working in a
tiny, secret room in an old farmhouse in Greene County.
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