State of the Art Gallery Annual Photo Show

Come see my new work "Me(2)" at the State of the Art Gallery's 23rd Annual Juried Photo Show. Opening reception on Gallery Night Ithaca, Friday, March 2, 2012. The show runs from 2/29 to 4/1, (State of the Art Gallery, 120 State Street, Ithaca, NY) http://soag.org

Shows in December

Come see my artwork all December at the annual Juried Show at the State of the Art Gallery, the Holiday Show at Community School of Music & Arts (both in Ithaca), the annual Members Show at Cooperative Gallery 213 in Binghamton, and the 12x12<150 show at The ARTS in Corning.

Photos from my booth at the 2011 Ithaca Artists Market

Ithaca Artists Market

I'm going to be showing my paintings this year at booth 20 at the Ithaca Artists Market. The show is on Friday, July 29, 2011 from 2 pm to 8 pm at the Ithaca Farmers Market location on Steamboat Landing in Ithaca, NY. Lots of great artwork, great food, and other arts-related booths! Besides my paintings, I'm working on bringing a bunch of never-before-offered-for-sale drawings and watercolors, as well as a new selection of greeting cards. So come by the booth and say hello!

The full Sketchbook is now online

The Art House Co-op was besieged (in a good way!) with entries for their 2011 Sketchbook Project, and besides taking all of the almost 10,000 sketchbooks on a cross-country tour (my sketchbook has been viewed in Austin, Portland, Atlanta, and at their home-base in Brooklyn), they also committed to scanning all of the sketchbooks in so they can be viewed online. Mine is finally up, and you can see the whole book at www.arthousecoop.com/users/jimharper3/artwork. The theme of my book (there were a number of themes suggested by the Art House Co-op) is "First thing in the morning, last thing at night". The sketch pictured is of the State Street Theater in Ithaca, NY.

East Shore Festival of the Arts

This Friday (May 13, 2011) is the opening of the East Shore Festival of the Arts, at the Lansing Town Hall (29 Auburn Rd (Route 34/34B), Lansing, NY). The opening reception will be from 6-9pm on Friday. Lots to do, see, and hear--art, film, food (including wine and chocolate tastings!), music, and more. The exhibit (which includes one of my Flora Series paintings) runs from May 13-July 18, 2011.

Sylvester K. Nordlefink

The latest news from the workshop is the start of my "new" comic strip "Sylvester K. Nordlefink". Sylvester is not new, however. I've been drawing him for many years now--if you have a greeting card from me with one of my Sylvester drawings on it, it might be worth something someday, maybe you should hold on to it! Sylvester first started appearing back in the late 1970s. This is my first attempt at putting him into comic strip form, and I'm not quite sure of the frequency yet.