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AFA’s Exhibit Poster

written by Dee Ramirez

Our exhibit at the ABIA looks as wonderful as this poster, featuring AFA member Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert’s piece (Diane Sandlin, President, doing the Vanna White honors).  Gorgeous!  The exhibit can be viewed by ticketed travelers through November 3, 2009.

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Getting to Know Your AFA Members. . . . Five Minutes With

written by Dee Ramirez

Each edition of the AFA newsletter, Gathering Threads, will feature a short interview with a member of AFA.  This month’s newsletter features “Five Minutes With…Diane Sandlin”, AFA President.  Just to whet your appetite, here’s Diane’s response to one of the five questions I posed her. AFA: If you could collect one living artist’s/artisan’s work, whose [...]

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Women Printmakers of Austin

written by Dee Ramirez

AFA hosted the Women Printmakers of Austin (WPA) at its August meeting.  Over ten WPA members shared their work and explained the printmaking processes they used.  The processes included woodblock printing, intaglio printing (which includes four different etching subprocesses), and lithography.  The owners of StoneMetal Press also discussed that they have etching, litho, and letter [...]

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