Obama and Romney immortalized on Revere

 

© Bruce Waldman

Printmaker, Bruce Waldman, is one of the most celebrated illustrators and printmakers of our time. He was recently commissioned to create posters of the Obama and Romney Presidential campaigns and chose Revere for the limited edition prints.

"The assignment to do the portraits of Romney and Obama was given to me by Stephen Fredericks, the President and Founder of the New York Society of Etchers, in conjunction with the Sacred Gallery on Broadway in soho for "The Art of Democracy" exhibition that is put on every four years in conjunction with the presidential election."

Waldman intends for the show to travel to other cities in the US. Four years ago the prints travelled to Chicago, California, along with other locations.

The show is on display right now at The Sacred Gallery on broadway in soho. The designer for the posters was Lou Netter. 

Waldman's prints are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The New York Historical Society, The Bronx Zoological Museum, The Royal Collection, London,The Library of Congress, Washington DC, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, and The New York Transit Museum.

 

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YAWP at Stony Brook Southampton

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Excerpted from the Sag Harbor Express:

Over the course of the past three years, the Young American Writers Project (YAWP) at Stony Brook Southampton has mentored middle and high school students in the art of writing.

From plays and poetry to personal essay and fiction, YAWP headed by executive director Emma Walton Hamilton and program director Will Chandler, has paired professional writers from the campus’ MFA in Writing and Literature Program with students to guide them in the creation of original works that speak to their unique perspectives.

Now YAWP is adding another component to its mission.

Last Thursday in the historic windmill at Stony Brook Southampton, Hamilton, Chandler and Robert Reeves, director of the MFA program, announced the expansion of YAWP to include visual arts as well.

This past summer, Sag Harbor’s Scott Sandell, who heads up the MFA’s new visual arts department, inaugurated the “almost beachfront digital print studio” with a series of programs for professional artists.

Now, Sandell and fellow Sag Harbor artist and Pierson Middle/High School teacher Peter Solow have teamed up to offer a printmaking program for Pierson students at the campus from November 27 to 29. The program, which is being funded by the Reutershan Trust, is the first of many such visual arts collaborations planned for YAWP, which will now be known at the Young Artists and Writers Project, notes Hamilton.

“YAWP’s expansion is a reflection of the expansion of the graduate arts programs at Stony Brook Southampton to include theater and film MFA’s as well as visual arts programs,” notes Hamilton. “There’s never been a more important time for arts in society – writing, visual and performing.”

To that end, a scholarship fund has been created for YAWP and Hamilton notes leadership gifts have been made by Frank and Theresa Maglio as well as The Rose Family Foundation. In addition, State Assemblyman Fred Thiele is sponsoring a $75,000 line-item appropriation for the 2013 State Budget to support the YAWP Scholarship Fund.

Beginning November 5, YAWP will host a week-long playwriting retreat at Stony Brook Southampton with students from local high schools and the FLAGS school. With budget cuts to the arts, Hamilton points out that without the scholarship fund, many schools would not be able to take part in YAWP.

Post Hurricane Update

After a trying week for the Legion family in NY and NJ, we're back to being fully operational.  Our NY office came back online on Saturday and our NJ office/warehouse came back online on Tuesday.  

  • We're still getting caught up on getting orders out the door and expect that by the end of the week we'll return to getting all orders out within one business day.
  • Incoming overseas shipments are still delayed at the port.  We're told it will be another week or so before they are all caught up over there.

We wanted to take a moment to thank our customers, suppliers and friends for their outpouring of concern, support and offers to help.  It was a very difficult week for many of us personally as we lost power and water as the temperatures dropped.  We're all very lucky in that our homes weren't lost and everybody is safe.

We've been working locally to collect food and clothing for area residents who weren't as fortunate.  If you'd like to help, please contact us for more information.