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Annual Report 2010
2010 Financials
ExhibitsThe first show of our 2010 fiscal year began with Ann Silverman’s ‘New Works,’ with an opening held during the Final Friday in September. Ann is an Ohio Arts Council and long time paper artist and we were thrilled to have her gorgeous exhibit in the gallery. Her pieces were organic, delicate, sophisticated and collaborative. A few of her pieces were created with the help of bees. She placed sheets of wet paper onto a hive and let the bees do the rest. Images from the show and of her handmade paper were used in our brochure as background and cover image, which we printed and distributed locally. Click here to see Paper Circle Brochure Changing ArtistNancy Couch’s Meditations on a Man-Made Disaster opened in January. Nancy was our Changing Artist and came to us from a background of bronze sculpture and painting. She spent a year mentoring with Sara and put much thought, heart and soul into the work she produced. Her Meditations on a Man-Made Disaster was designed to bring life to the 87 miners who lost their lives in the Millfiled Mining Disaster in the early 1900s. Nancy used the vacuum table to create the gloved hands. She created a plaster cast of the coveralls, which was then filled with pulp. The show was hung in the gallery against darkened walls and was beautifully juxtaposed by her beautiful clear sky paintings above. The result was both moving and impressive in construction. January brought Wendy Minor Viny and Chris Bester back to the gallery for a collaborative show of new works. Wendy was one of our first visiting artists and came to Paper Circle to work on our lamp-making project. Her found object mixed-media work is stunning. Chris’ paintings filled our walls with vivid color and richly imaginative scenes. We were glad to give him the opportunity to show his great artistic talents to the community, where he is known primarily as a musician. In March, our old friend Peg Rhein visited the gallery with her amazing works on and of paper. Peg had a show at paper Circle the first year it was open and her work then was every bit as vibrant and intricate as it is today. Our shop has carried Peg’s cards for years and visitors were delighted to see a large body of work exhibited before them. She has developed a signature technique of embedding flower petals and threads and fabric in her papers, with rich results. May brought Eileen Wallace back to the studio where she will have a pace in our hearts forever. Eileen’s work on display always makes us proud to be paper and book arts gallery. WorkshopsThis might have been our most exciting workshop year ever. We had a class in paper marbling with Ann Woods who came form Columbus. Students learned the art of paper marbling form one who has spent a good part of her life mastering the technique and even traveling to Turkey to study it. Students came form as far as Cincinnati to attend. Ann Silverman taught students how to make paper form Rose of Sharon, starting with peeling the bark to cooking the fiber and making sheets. Susie taught a class in making paper from plants, which was attended by parents and children. The day was a delightful exploration of the many other wonderful ways that your veggies are good for you! Eileen Wallace taught a bookbinding class, which was so popular we held it over two days. Skip French taught a class in collaborative (and individual) printmaking using his “tool of unknown use” hand-carved blocks. CirclePossibly the biggest accomplishment and task our director undertook this year was author and procure a 75K grant which allowed for an expansion of our summer art program for children in the NYCS district. All in all 75 children were served. The program was called “Summer Circle” and ran for six weeks, from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. and included reading enrichment classes as well as daily trips to the pool and movies and weekly out-of-town trips to places like Splashdown Water Park and COSI. One theater performance was presented at the school on July 31, and an art opening and film gala at Stuarts Opera House on August 27 during the Final Friday Art Walk. Click here to visit the program.
O-GamiThe most industrious expansion during this fiscal year was that of developing our new product, “O-Gami” paper. O-Gami was developed in response to the lack of available paper for the emerging “wet-folding” origami art form. Papers used in wet folding need to be exceedingly strong to withstand the rigors of water and super thin to be able to facilitate the folding of the complex patterns used to create the original bug designs that are so popular. Susie Thomson worked with Roberta Donnenwirth and our volunteer Rita Preston to develop the papers. We worked closely with the Capitol Area Paper Shapers (CAPS) in Columbus, who acted as a focus group as we worked out the kinks. In a preliminary launch we attended the Centerfold Conference in Columbus, which was put on by CAPS. There we received a lot of good feedback, which we brought back into the studio to refine the papers. WebsiteLast year we began the massive task of reorganizing our website, and expanding it to encompass the full range of our activities and programs. In the coming months, we look forward to adding an ever-expanding range of resources and assets making clear the impact and benefits we are delivering to Nelsonville and Athens County, and also to expanding our fundraising reach by offering our workshop programs and O-Gami paper online. (Our thanks to WeLaunch.IT for their website development services!) |
Our expenses in 2010 are broken into six categories: Contract Labor, Personnel Expenses, General Operating Expenses, Production Expenses, Rent, and Other Accounts.