Workshop with Susan Denniston

The Workshop

Through demonstrations and hands-on inking and printing, we will mix beautiful colors using only five traditional inks. After a simple and systematic color mixing demonstration, participants will create their own monoprints by layering colors and using stencils. Feel free to bring your sketchbook and/or found or organic stencils you might want to use.

www.susandenniston.com

Susan Denniston

Susan is a printmaker and mixed media artist living in Scituate, Massachusetts, USA. Aspects of loss and reinvention, erosion and renewal mark her work. Whether working with inherited and fragile cloth or powerful images of a seawall at the mercy of a rising tide, her work holds fragments of persistence and hope woven with glimpses of her personal story. Her work is seen regionally in the US and more recently internationally in Krakow, Israel, Havana, Portugal, and Vietnam.

Main Exhibitions and Awards

2024

• National Open Juried Exhibition 2024, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
• Making an Impression: Monotype & Monoprint Exhibit, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine, First Prize
• National Association of Women Artists, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
• Driven to Abstraction, invitational, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Boston Muse, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
• Celebrated: Selections from Boston Printmakers Biennial, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
• Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

2023

• North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Boston, MA
• Legacy of Leadership, Boston University, Boston, MA
• Lasting Impressions, MGNE exhibit, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA First Prize
• Fall Juried Show, James Library Center for the Arts, Norwell, MA Best in Show
• 11th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Protugal
• Peace, Love, and Understanding, Danang Museum of Fine Arts, Danang, Vietnam
• Place Making: Explore the South Shore, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
• Voices Carry, solo exhibit, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA

2022

• The Blue Notebooks, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
• Hopscotch, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA
• 5th Global Print 2022, Museo do Douro/AUDIR, Peso Da Regua, Portugal
• One Thing to Remember, Galleri Schaeffers Gate 5, Oslo, Norway
• Paper Boats Flotilla 2022, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
• Conexiones/Connections, Taller Experimental de Grafica de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
• One-of-a-Kind, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• One Thing to Remember, Hovinkartano Arts and Cultural Centre, Hauho, Finland
• Nourishing the Senses, Lasell University, Newton, MA
• Davidson Galleries Unique Impressions International Invitational 2022, Seattle, WA

2021

• Manipulation is Art and Play, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
• Black Lives & White Fragility, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Art Forward, Galatea Fine Arts Gallery, SoWa Arts District, Boston, MA, First Prize
• Connect: Small Prints by The Boston Printmakers, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
• Pivot, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA

2020

• HallSpace Drawing Project: Droplets, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
• One Thing to Remember, Hovinkartano Arts and Cultural Centre, Hämeenlinna, Finland (postponed)
• The Blue Notebooks, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (postponed)
• Conexiones/Connections, Taller Experimental de Grafica de La Habana, Havana, Cuba (postponed)
• S|HE, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA

2019

• I Remember One Thing, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Extremes and In-betweens, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA

2018

• Krakow International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland
• Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
• Boston Printmakers 2017 North American Print Biennial, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

2017

• HallSpace Drawing Project: Unveiled, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
• Marking Time, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
• Women, Charles Fine Arts, Glocester, MA
• Legacy, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Festival of the Arts, Cohasset, MA, Award of Excellence
• Upward Trend, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA, Third Prize
• Entryways, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Second Prize
• 2016
• Virtuosity, Jan Matejko Fine Art Academy, Krakow, Poland
• The Fabric of Life: Themes from the Personal Well, ArtSpace, Maynard, MA
• Current Visions: Tradition Meets Innovation, National Association of Women Artists, MA Chapter, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Full Tilt Print Studio Portfolio, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
• Selfish | Investigating Identity, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• Con|TEXT, National Juried Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Third Prize
• Fourth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
• Truth to Power, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• Unconventional Means, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
• Vantage Point, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• 2015
• Strokes of Genius, Women Artists of New England – Past and Present, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA, First Prize
• Earth, Wind & Fire, National Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Boston Printmakers 2015 North American Print Biennial, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
• Annual Juried Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, First Prize, mixed media

2014

• Interior Spaces, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• Works on Paper, National Juried Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
• National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2013

• Making Marks, Leaving a Trace, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, solo exhibit
• Boston Printmakers 2013 Biennial Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University
• MGNE National Juried Show, Barrington Center, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
• Annual Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, First Prize, printmaking

2012

• 8 Visions, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
• National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2011

• Annual Members’ Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, Juror’s Choice Award
• Affairs of the Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Chain Letter, Samsøn, Boston, MA
• Annual Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, First Prize, mixed media
• Media Invention, Dillon Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA

2010

• Beside Ourselves, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Off the Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
• Proof of Purchase, Samsøn, Boston, MA
• Seeing Double, National Juried Show, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
• Annual Juried Show, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Second Prize, printmaking, Second Prize, painting

2009

• Abstract + Concrete, James Library and Center for the Arts, Norwell, MA, solo exhibit
• Water, Wellfleet Public Library and Mass Audubon/Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellfleet, MA
• Cambridge Art Annual Prize Show, Cambridge, MA, Artist of the Year 2009, Works on Paper Award
• Inside/Out, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Black, White, & Shades of Gray, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Award of Merit
• Northeast Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2008

• Annual Juried Show, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, First Prize, printmaking

Education

• BA, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Studio Arts studies

• School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Visiting Artist/Panelist

• Harvard Art Museums, Playing with States, invited panelist, December, 2021
• Wheaton College, Norton, MA, Making Marks, Leaving a Trace, 2013

Residencies/Cultural Exchange

• Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Returning Residency, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland cultural exchange with printmakers 2016
• Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Italy – several 2-3 week printmaking residencies, 2005-2013
• Full Tilt Print Studio, Hyde Park, MA – three-month summer residency, 2013

Affiliations and Memberships

• Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Juried member since 2022
• National Association of Women Artists, Juried member since 2015
• Boston Printmakers, Juried member since 2010, Board member and Treasurer since 2012
• Monotype Guild of New England, Board member, 2006 – 2013, President, 2008-2010
• Full Tilt Print Studio, Artist member since 2014
• Cambridge Art Association, Gallery Artist member since 2008
• South Shore Art Center, Gallery Artist member since 2006