JAE SULLIVAN BECOMES THE
THIRD KAHN FAMILY FELLOW AT THE INK SHOP PRINTMAKING CENTER / OLIVE BRANCH
PRESS
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Jae Sullivan, a 2001
graduate of the University of Massachusetts M.S. program in interior design
and architectural studies, has been named the third Kahn Family Fellow at
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center/ Olive Branch Press, a non-profit facility
at 102 W. State Street in Ithaca for producing fine art prints and handmade
books. Jae has had extensive training and experience in interior and
graphic design, curating and gallery registration, fundraising, publicity,
management, marketing and sales in the Ithaca community, and with the H. F.
Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University.
At the Ink
Shop, she will assist with a number of design and programming projects and
with marketing the limited editions of Olive Branch Press.
Ms. Sullivan
has been a volunteer and an Artist Associate of The Ink Shop for the past
two years.
Talking
about her own work as a painter, Jae says: “My work has consistently dealt
with the nature of physical and psychological boundaries and the subtle
interrelationships of self and other, interior and exterior, and nature and
architecture. These approaches share similar formal properties: a
multi-layered framework and a layered, collaged and additive / subtractive
construction process. In receiving the Third Kahn Family Fellowship at The
Ink Shop, I now have the opportunity for increased studio time to extend
these themes into monotype, photolithography, etching and combinations of
printmaking and painting processes.”
H. Peter
Kahn (1921-1997) is fondly remembered by generations of Cornell students and
Ithacans
as a man whose life was dedicated to art, especially the arts of fine
printing and the handmade book. A prolific typographer, illustrator
and book designer as well as a
painter, the
German-born artist was a member of the Cornell community for forty years.
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center/Olive Branch Press, as well as making the
Kahn Family Fellowship a key element of its programming, hopes further to
follow in the artist's footsteps by drawing together artists and writers in
collaborative projects of the kind that were so important to him. About the
Kahn Fellowship, his widow, Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn says, "It is an
affirmation of Peter's enthusiasm for graphic arts and his own life as a
teacher." Ruth has written the book "My Father's Dragon," a children's
classic.
The Kahn
Family Fellowship, an annual award to a promising young book and print
artist, includes a year's part-time residency at The Ink Shop Printmaking
Center/Olive Branch Press. Founded in 1999 by local artist/printmakers, the
center provides facilities for professional fine art printmaking, including
etching and lithography presses, computer equipment, letterpress equipment
and other processes for generating fine prints and handmade books. The
center also serves as a gallery for exhibiting prints. The Ink Shop offers
classes in print-making and book arts both for professionals and the general
public.
For further
information about donating to the Kahn Family Fellowship (checks to “The Ink
Shop -- HPK Fellowship”), for subscription information for the H. Peter
Kahn Memorial Books or for The Ink Shop's schedule of workshops and
exhibitions, please call 277-3884 or
send an e-mail to
artists@ink-shop.org .
