CURATED BY RACHEL HEBERLING, KATH YARKOVSKY, AND LINDSEY KNIPE
FRONTLINE ARTS GALLERY
OCTOBER 25-DECEMBER 13, 2024
cover credit : Caitlin Nolan, Graduation Year 2008
In the Making, etching, 14" x 9"
Catalog and Image
Copyright: 2024
Kutztown University & The Marlin & Regina Miller Gallery
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY PRINTS 1987-2019
SELECTIONS FROM THE KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY PERMANENT ART COLLECTION
FRONTLINE ARTS GALLERY
BRANCHBURG, NEW JERSEY
OCTOBER 25-DECEMBER 13, 2024
CURATED BY RACHEL HEBERLING
Michael Allen
Anna B. Arthur
Victoria Beck
Mark Becker
Jeffrey Brady
Hunter Brown
Ryan Brunetti
Jace Clark
Elaine Cunfer
Linda Eldon
Eric Gensel
Joe Giunta
Rachel Gladfelter
Amy Grzyowski
Rachel Heberling
Ryan Hoffman
Andrew James
Robert A. Jenkins
Matthew Jones
Erica Kabekko
Yu Kanazawa
Andrew Kish III
Charles P. Kuhns
Brad Kunkle
Zachary Lindenberger
James Maria
Mike McFarland
David A. Mohallatee
Frank Motolese
Kurt Moyer
Caitlin Nolan
Kathleen O’Brien
Carrie P. Pargo
James Reed
Katherine Rogers
James Rose
Angie Synder
Devon Stackonis
John Straw
Christina Taylor
Gabriella Werthiem
Tina Yesenofski
Evan Summer is an artist specializing in printmaking. His work has been shown in over 300 exhibitions worldwide and is in many museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He received his MFA from Yale and taught printmaking at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania for over 30 years.
ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
I’m happy to see these student prints become part of the permanent art collection of Kutztown University. I wanted to share with you how this print collection came into existence. As the Professor of Printmaking, I saved high-quality student prints at the end of each semester. These prints were selected from two courses -- Introduction to Printmaking and Printmaking Studio, the advanced course that could be repeated. My intention was to borrow these for one semester for exhibitions around campus, but many were never picked up. In addition, there were class portfolios and a few prints by faculty members and visiting artists who worked in the Kutztown University printmaking studio.
I retired in 2019 and left these prints in flat files at the university. After I left, Leslie Friedman was hired to teach printmaking courses and found all these prints, many of which were truly outstanding. Covid came shortly after and delayed any action on the prints. Tracking down past students and returning the prints would have been almost impossible. It was suggested that the prints could be given to interested students or sold cheaply to fund current students going to printmaking conferences. I felt the prints were very good and
BY EVAN SUMMER KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF PRINTMAKING
1984-85 / 1987-2019
should be kept together as a collection. Others agreed, and the project was supported by a Strategic Initiative Grant from Kutztown University and the Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery of Kutztown University.
I felt that it was important to keep the works at the University. Leslie and I went through them and selected about 200, although most exhibition spaces can only accommodate a small fraction of that number. We received a grant from the University to preserve and exhibit them. About 60 were selected by the staff at Frontline Arts for the first exhibition of this collection.
While these prints were from my classes, students benefitted from excellent teaching in drawing, painting, and design courses.
There are many other people who deserve thanks for this project, from student workers to the president of the University. I’m listing them in alphabetical order:
Provost Lorin Basden Arnold, Leslie Friedman, Joy Gonzalez, Ann Marie Hayes-Hawkinson, President Kenneth Hawkinson, Rachel Heberling, Madison Jackson, Lindsey Knipe, Angelina Nguyen, Dean Bradley Shope, Karen Stanford, Julia Sweeney, and Kath Yarkosky.
Graduation year: 1996
Caressing the Rooftops, Etching, 18" x 24"
MICHAEL ALLEN
B. ARTHUR
1998 Untitled, Etching, 23 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Graduation year: 2016
Caffeine, Lithograph, 24 1/2" x 18"
VICTORIA BECK
Printed by Tim Sheesley at Corridor Press, NY
Untitled, Engraving, 9" x 8"
JEFFREY BRADY
Graduation year: 1997
The Acrobat, Etching, 17" x 11 1/2"
Graduation year: 1997
Gomorrah, Etching, 23 1/2" x 18"
RYAN BRUNETTI
Self Portrait with Face, Etching, 23 1/2" x 18"
Graduation year: unknown
An Unfair Question, Etching, 17 1/2" x 12"
JASE CLARK
Graduation year: 1983
Bad Bunny, Etching, 24" x 18"
FELICIA DIGIOVANNI
Graduation year: 2012
Untitled, Lithograph, 21" x 13"
FELICIA DIGIOVANNI
Graduation year: 2012
Untitled, Woodcut, 36 1/2" x 22"
LINDA ELDON
Graduation year: 2005
Untitled, Etching, 20 1/2" x 16"
KYLE GAINES
Graduation year: unknown
Memories of a Fall Breeze, Etching, 17 1/2" x 24"
Untitled, Etching, 17 1/2" x 6"
Graduation year: 2010
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 18"
JOE GIUNTA
Graduation year: 2001
Untitled, Etching, 17 1/2" x 12"
JOE GIUNTA
RACHEL GLADFELTER
Graduation year: 2003
Neuron, Etching, 18" x 20"
Graduation year: unknown
Untitled, Etching, 12" x 9"
Graduation year: 2016 Dead, Etching, 24" x 18 1/2"
RACHEL HEBERLING
Graduation year: 2009
Nocturne III, Etching, 13 1/2" x 11"
RYAN HOFFMAN
Graduation year: 1997 Orders, Etching, 35" x 24"
Graduation year: 2009
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 18"
ROBERT A. JENKINS
MATTHEW JONES
Graduation year: unknown
Deconstruction-48, Etching, 9" x 24"
ERICA KABEKKO
Graduation year: 2008
Beer Bottles, Etching, 23 1/2" x 17 1/2"
Graduation year: 1998
Komuno Gakuhyo, Etching, 5 1/2" x 7"
YU KANAZAWA
Graduation year: 2007
Feb 23rd, Etching, 24" x 18"
Graduation year: 2012
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 18"
CHARLES P. KUHNS
BRAD R. KUNKLE
Graduation year: 2009
Untitled, Etching, 18" x 24"
ZACHARY LINDENBERGER
Graduation year: 1999
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 16"
Graduation year: 2012
FACTORY A, Etching, 9" x 12"
JAMES MARIA
Graduation year: 1995
Longing, Etching, 23 1/2" x 18"
MIKE MCFARLAND
Graduation year: 1988
Untitled, Etching, 19" x 16"
DAVID A. MOHALLATEE
Fractal Square : Adam, Collagraph, 20" x 21"
FRANK MOTOLESE
Points of Convergence, Collagraph, 13" x 13"
Untitled, Collagraph, 20 1/2" x 21"
FRANK MOTOLESE
Untitled, Etching, 23 1/2" x 30"
Untitled, Etching with Chine Collé, 8" x 5"
I Know, Etching, 15 1/2" x 12"
Graduation year: 2008
Untitled, Etching, 23 1/2" x 35 1/2"
year: 2008 In the Making, Etching, 14" x 9"
Appealing, Etching, 14" x 9"
KATHLEEN O’BRIEN
Graduation year: 2003
Untitled, Etching, 14" x 9"
Graduation year: unknown
Rooster Street, Etching, 17" x 18"
CARRIE P. PARGO
JAMES REED
Graduation year: unknown Untitled, Etching, 12" x 8"
JAMES REED
Graduation year: unknown
Tractor Chair, Etching, 23 1/2" x 13"
Print pulled by Evan Summer
Graduation year: 2008
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 36"
Flowers, Lithograph, 14" x 21 1/2"
JAMES A. ROSE Faculty Emeriti
Graduation year: 1998
Untitled, Etching, 17 1/2" x 24"
ANGIE SNYDER
STACKONIS
Betrayal of Bedsheets, mezzotint, 9" x 6"
JOHN STRAW
Graduation year: 2011
Untitled, Etching, 24" x 36"
CHRISTINA TAYLOR
Graduation year: 2016
Vulnerable, Lithograph, 18 1/2" x 14"
GABRIELLA WERTHEIM
ABOUT KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Located an hour north of Philadelphia and two hours west of New York City, Kutztown University has an enrollment of 6,000+ students with one of the largest and most accomplished art programs in the state. KU offers five majors in the arts - Animated Arts, Art Education, Studio Art, Communication Design, and Art History. Our visual arts programs are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Over 200 art majors graduate every spring and KU’s art alumni have gone on to be accomplished leaders in the design, education, museum, and art worlds.
P.O. Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530-0730
www.kutztown.edu/millerartgallery
@millerartgallery_kutztown
ABOUT FRONTLINE ARTS
Frontline Arts, formerly known as the Printmaking Center of New Jersey (PCNJ), was incorporated on December 10, 1974. Originally founded as the Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Founders Lois Berghoff, Zelda Burdick, Florence Wender, Carol Yudin and Peter Chapin, envisioned an organization that would help local artists as well as promote the fine art of printmaking statewide.
Frontline Arts’ mission is to connect communities through socially engaging arts practices rooted in papermaking and printmaking. Their vision is to create an inclusive future where everyone can engage in a brave space of commonality, connection and empathy through the arts.
Frontline Arts is housed in The Ralph T. Reeve Cultural Center through an ongoing, in-kind lease with the Somerset County Parks Commission.
Frontline Arts, 440 River Road, Branchburg, NJ, 08876
