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19 on Paper Spring Newsletter 2023 Volume 3 Second Edition |
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Formed in 1986, 19 on Paper is a group of New England artists who create
works of art on or with paper, which we exhibit as a group. |
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Allie Sabalis
I have always enjoyed working on large-scale still life taken from ordinary life and circumstances. The material things that daily surround me are reminders of the beauty that can be found in the simplest of objects. They are a reminder of the passage of time and the persistence of memory that we all find in our own objects of sentiment.
More about Allie See more of Allie’s work…
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Alma Davenport
RISD in the mid-1960s was a precipitous post-secondary choice. I took full advantage of interdepartmental cross-fertilization, and while majoring in Photography also concentrated on ceramics and silkscreen. The mix between two and three dimensionality has been a continuing impetus to creative morphing.
More about Alma… See more of Alma”s work…
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19 on Paper in the Gallery… |
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Coming in November 2023… our 35th Anniversary exhibit at the Bristol Art Museum!
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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions |
On the wall… Meet Members or See Member’s Work. |
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Welcoming Spring in Plymouth!
Allie Sabalis’ watercolor Pink Tulips in Glass Vase was accepted into the New England Watercolor Society’s 2023 Spring Into Art Show at the Plymouth Center for the Arts thru May 4th.
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Taking You “Into The Wild” at the Providence Art Club!
Kendra Ferreira’s solo exhibition Into The Wild at the Providence Art Club consists of drawings and artwork inspired from her 2021 African safari trip.
With an artist talk and demonstration on Wednesday, April 12th, 2 PM, the show runs thru April 14th. A portion of sales will be donated to Kenya’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, an organization dedicated to preserving endangered animals. The exhibit and event are free and open to the public. |
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Roaming Art in Eastern Montana
Paul Murray’s Cuban image, La Historia Me Absolvera, was selected as one of 22 pieces for the Traveling Collection of WaterWorks Art Museum's 2023 44th Annual Juried Exhibition, Devil's in the Details. Derived from the original 57-work exhibit, the collection will travel to eight Eastern Montana galleries, art centers, museums and libraries for the rest of 2023.
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A Torrid of Abstractions in Worcester
Ann-Marie Gillett is exhibiting three of her artworks in the Juniper Rag-sponsored Torrid exhibition at the White Room in Worcester, MA, thru April 23rd. |
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Spring Brings “Variations” to Marblehead
Paul Murray and Felicia Touhey were selected to be part of the Marblehead Art Association’s Variations 2023 juried annual exhibition. Opening on April 23rd and running thru June 18th, the show includes Felicia’s Daffodils 3 and Paul’s La Historia Me Absolvera, A Crowded Start, and The Last Dance.
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New Art Comes To Pawtucket’s Annual Foundation Show
Cynthia DiDonato, Anne-Marie Gillett and Allie Sabalis will participate in the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative’s 2023 Pawtucket Foundation Juried Show. The art includes Cynthia’s acrylic on canvas, Odysseus Returns, Ann-Marie’s In My World Trees Fall in Love, and Allie’s watercolor, A Cup of Tea, clockwise from top left, and is on view thru April 30th.
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“Outside the Box” in Connecticut’s Quiet Corner"
Paul Murray joins three Connecticut-based artists in Outside The Box, an eclectic and colorful exhibition of their artistic visions represented across several medium, at the Silver Circle Gallery in Putnam, CT, located just across the Rhode Island border in northwest Connecticut. On view throughout April, the show will have public receptions on Saturday, April 15th, Noon – 3 PM, and Sunday, April 30th, Noon – 2 PM.
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Celebrating Spring in Newport with Honors and More…
Joe Yoffa’s pastel NB #12, shown below top left, won an Honorable Mention in Spring Bull Gallery’s Celebrate Spring exhibition. Running thru April 30th, the 50-work show includes Lorraine Bromley’s watercolor Stepping Stone Falls, lower left, and Allie Sabalis’ watercolor Watering Can. |
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Creative Weaving Transformations visit Georgia
Suzi Ballenger’s works I just couldn't swallow another Fly and New Growth were selected for the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild’s 2023 Biennial Juried Fiber Art Exhibit, Transformation. With an opening reception on May 6th, 2 – 4 PM, the show will be on view at the Hudgens Center for Art + Learning, in Duluth, GA. More information is available at https://chgweavers.org/.
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Wildlife and Solidarity Fosters Solidarity in Havana
Paul Murray along with his Australian wildlife photographer colleague, Joshua Holko, and 24 Cuban photographers participated in La Pandilla (“The Gang”), a curated 37-image wildlife and nature photographic exhibition.
Running thru May at Cuba’s National Museum of Natural History in Old Havana, the exhibit brings together a “colleague gang" who transcend borders through their art.
Learn more about the exhibit in an interview entitled The Gang Has Erased Barriers And Borders with Havana-based photographer Adrián Juan Espinosa in La Jiribilla, a well-regarded Cuban arts and culture publication, at
http://www.lajiribilla.cu/la-pandilla-ha-borrado-barreras-y-fronteras |
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Recent Activities and Publications |
Members in the community |
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David DeMelim’s print from the "Hot Type Portfolio”, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History, was featured in Museum’s “Oh Say Can You See?, Stories from the Museum” blog. The feature, "Artistic inspiration in the face of a pandemic" highlighted works produced by printers and printmakers living across the United States in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The Hot Type portfolio was added to Smithsonian’s collection as part of the museum’s initiative to document COVID-19, the Graphic Arts Collection acquired a group of artistic works that were produced in reaction to the pandemic and intertwined events. The full portfolio and the stories behind it are available online at www.Hot-Type.org
LINK to Oh Say Can You See?, Stories from the Museum https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/artistic-inspiration
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First Prize Win at the R.I. Watercolor Society!
Allie Sabalis won First Prize in R.I. Watercolor Society’s juried exhibit Winter Blues with her oil on canvas painting, Late Afternoon in Little Deer Isle, which is also represented in Carl Little’s book The Art of Maine in Winter published by Down East Books. Juried from 284 entries, the 100-work show is on view at and includes Allie’s watercolor painting, The Lookout. |
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A Kinder “Pulp Fiction” in Warwick
Three of member B. L. Green’s paper works, Emerging Flight, Flowing and Reimagined are on display in the Warwick Center for the Arts’ Pulp Fiction on view at their galley thru April 22nd. |
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Going Solo in New Bedford
Ann-Marie Gillett’s Observed/Interpreted, a solo show of enhanced cyanotypes and mixed media tape collages will be hosted at the CoCreative Arts Center in New Bedford, MA. With a reception on April 13th, 5-7pm, the exhibition will open on April 4th and run thru April 29th. Here are a few of Ann-Marie’s included works, Botanical Study #3, Amorphous Blue, and The Survivor (show below, left to right).
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Recommendations and Resources
Exhibition Opportunity!
David DeMelim has launched #Payphonemaps, a crowd source initiative in his roll as Managing Director of the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.
#Payphonemaps is a Scavenger Hunt and FREE Call for Entry for photographs of Payphones, working or not. A selection of submitted images will be displayed in the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts Street Side gallery in an exhibition that will continue to grow through October 2023. ALL images submitted will be added to a national online map and database of Payphones.
This Crowd Source initiative is open to everyone using any type of camera and is one part art project and one part community service project. #Payphonemaps is being produced in conjunction with the current gallery exhibitions on view through April 14th. Details and entry form is available online at https://www.riphotocenter.org/payphonemaps-scavenger-hunt-exhibition
Link to Current gallery exhibition: https://www.riphotocenter.org/eric-kunsman-felicific-calculus-technology-as-a-social-marker-of-race-class-economics
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| ART ANNEX
Fiber Artist and 19 on Paper member, Suzi Ballenger has partnered with Paper Connection founder and director Lauren Pearlman Sugita, to realize a long-time dream. The new "ART ANNEX", opening this spring, is greater Rhode Island's only educational center for paper and fiber arts open to anyone in the community. The ART ANNEX is located in one of the largest, remaining mill complexes in the state, called Hope Artiste Village the complex is National Register of Historic Places.
They are preparing for future workshops in hand paper making, printmaking workshops, natural dyeing workshops for paper and fabric, and hand weaving. Art Annex, 999 Main Street, Studio 109, Pawtucket, RI
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Do you like the art you see?
Great! As a group, we lease our art and sell our portfolios. We would be happy to talk with you about how we can provide high-quality art in your residential or corporate environment. Additionally, all our group activities complement and enhance the exhibiting, publishing, licensing and selling activities that we do as individual artists.
Are you interested in joining 19 on Paper?
Based on the group’s size and composition, we invite artists to be members. After an informal discussion about interests and expectations, those invited are asked to share a representative set of their paper-based work, a resume highlighting their artistic experience, and any other material that could assist with the group’s membership decision. Since we value exchange, collaboration, and continuity, consistent participation in our monthly meetings and group activities is an important membership commitment. To learn more about 19 on Paper, please visit: www.19onPaper.com |
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19 on Paper is an evolving collection of artists with a shared a passion for paper |
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Current Members
Grace Bentley-Scheck – Narragansett, RI
B.L. Green – Barrington, RI
Jill Brody – Providence. RI
Paul M. Murray – Jamestown, RI
Lorraine Bromley – Warwick, RI
Allie Sabalis – Jamestown, RI
Sally Caswell – Swansea, MA
Hiroko Shikashio – West Warwick,
Alma Davenport, Jamestown, RI
Felicia Touhey – Newport, RI |
| David DeMelim – Charlestown, RI
Marion Wilner – Fall River, MA
Cynthia DiDonato – North Providence,RI
Cindy Wilson – North Kingstown, RI
Sharon D. Eisman – Warwick, RI
Kendra Bidwell Ferreira – Bristol, RI
Ann-Marie Gillett – Seekonk, MA
Robin Beckwith – Warwick, RI
Brian Simas - Newport, RI
Joe Yoffa - Jamestown, RI
Suzi Ballenger -- North Kingstown, RI |
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