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David Clark
David Clark grew up
in Johnstown, PA and attended Penn State University and the University of
Pittsburgh. He has worked in Pittsburgh for many years, and taught students on
a variety of levels from kindergarten to graduate school.
David lives in
Regent Square with his wife, Lucinda. They have two daughters, Emily and Anne,
both in college.
GalleriE
Chiz
has represented David since 1998.
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Gary Huck
Gary Huck is the
cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE),
an independent, progressive, national union based in Pittsburgh, PA.
He is the only political cartoonist employed full-time by a union in the
U.S. He is also a contributing cartoonist for The Center For American Progress
in Washington, D.C. and the Cartoon Curator for Artists Upstairs in Pittsburgh,
PA.
His work has appeared in
Business Week, the Washington Post and a wide range of other
publications, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally,
including the 1199 Gallery, New York City, The Salon of Cartoon Art, San
Antonio, Cuba, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA and The Museum of Cartoon Art,
San Francisco, CA.
Together with his partner
in syndication Mike Konopacki, Huck’s work has been anthologized in five cartoon
collections: Bye! American, Them, Mad In
USA, Working Class Hero,
and Two-Headed Space Alien Shrinks Labor Movement.
Huck and Konopacki have
been featured in their own weekly “Workplace Funnies” segment on Jim Hightower’s
nationally broadcast “Chat and Chew” talk show.
He was curator of the international exhibit What’s Left in Political
Cartooning in 1991. In 2002 he helped
organize an international exhibit of cartoons on free speech called Patriot
Art. In 2005 he was curator of Blue State
Blues, 90 political cartoons by 9 political cartoonists for Artist Upstairs
in Pittsburgh, PA.
Huck and Konopacki have
recently agreed to house their archives at New York University’s Tamiment
Institute Library.
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Joan Iverson Goswell
BIO
2005 GESTURES. The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2004-2005 PERCHANCE TO DREAM. Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
and Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus
2004
CONFLUENCE. Morris
university Center Gallery, Edwardsville, MO (award)
2003 ASSOCIATED ARTISISTS OF PITTSBURGH. Frick
Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (award)
2003 BEYOND READING. Ellipse Art Center,
Arlington, VA
2002
FIRST BRIGHT HILL PRESS
NATIONAL BOOK ARTS EXHIBITION, Treadwell, NY
2002 ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH. The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (award)
2002
BOOK EXPLORATIONS. Yankee
Barn Gallery, Kingston, MA (award)
2002 TOLERANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS. Collins
Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 CALLIGRAPHIC ENIGMA. The Guilford
Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT
2001 SOUTHERN ALLEGHENNIES MOA TRIENNIAL VII,
Various sites, PA
2000 BOOKS AND BEYOND. Frick Fine Arts Center,
Pittsburgh, PA
2000 Y2K-PIT. Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (best of show)
1999
ART OF THE BOOK. The Society for Contemporary
Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 WRITING BEYOND WORDS. Guilford Handcraft
Center, Guilford, CT
1998
CELEBRATING AMERICAN POETRY. Frye Art Museum,
Seattle, WA
1995
COPTIC AND COLLAGE. Center for Book Arts, New
York City
1991
THE WELL CRAFTED BOOK-OREGON BOOK BIENNIAL III.
The Oregon . . Book Arts Guild, Banks, OR
1990 CALLIGRAPHIC BOOKS AT MCBA. Minnesota
Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1987
80 YEARS LATER. Guild of Bookworkers, New York
City and other sites
1984 GOLD ILLUMINATORS-CURRENTMODES. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City
Selected internationals
1999
BOOK OBJECTS, ARTISTS BOOKS. The Berchtold
Villa, Salzburg, Austria
1999
ALPHAMARK. Galt Museum,
Alberta, Canada, various other sites
1996
CODES AND MESSAGES. British Crafts Centre, London, England
1996 5e FORUM
INTERNATIONAL DE LA RELIURE D’ART. Montreal, Canada
1996
CYNGHANEDD. Collaboration with Sylvia Marie
Majewska, Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth,
Wales.
1991 CALLIGRAPHIA.
Presented by the International Typeface Corporation; Moscow, Russia.
1994 The United
Nations World Headquarters, New York
1992
FIBERART INTERNATIONAL. Pittsburgh Center for
the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1990
2e FORUM INTERNATIONAL DE LA RELIURE D’ART.
Basel, Switzerland
1989 DRESSING OLD WORDS NEW. Society of Scribes and Illuminators, various
sites, England
Solo
and Two Person Shows
2003
POLITICS, PRISONS AND THE
PRINTED PAGE. Gallerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 POLITICS AND OTHER DIVERSIONS. Book Arts Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1989 PAGE BY PAGE. Southern Alleghenies MOA, Johnstown, PA
1988 A SHOW OF HANDS. Northwood Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1988
BOOKWORKS. AAP Gallery,
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Awards
THE LEON ARKUS
AWARD. Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Frick Fine Arts, 2003
ABRAHAM C. FRANK MEMORIAL AWARD. AAP Annual, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh,
2002
HONOURABLE MENTION. Book Explorations 2002, Kingston, MA, 2002
SECOND PLACE AWARD, Double Vision - Collaborations, Craftsmens Guild of
Pittsburgh, 2002
BEST OF SHOW, Y2K-PIT, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2000
BUNCHER FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, AAP Annual 1998, Carnegie MOA, Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS AWARD, Craftsmens Guild of Pittsburgh, 1998
AWARD OF DESIGN EXCELLENCE, Print Magazine, 1996
BEST OF SHOW, Craftsmens Guild of Pittsburgh, ‘Golden Hands’, 1991
THE FRANK ROSS AWARD, Craftsmens Guild of Pittsburgh, 1984
Permanent collections
The Sackner Archive for Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
The Yves Klein Archive, Paris, France
The Arthur Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University Library, Boca Raton, FL
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Commissions
Teresa Heinz- Kerry
Reed Smith
Mellon Financial
PPG Industries
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Rodef Shalom Congregation
Bibliography
Baldwin, Joyce, “No Pretenses Allowed” RubberStampMadness, Jan/Feb, 2004
Shaw, Paul. , “Strokes of Genius.”
Print Magazine, Jan/Feb, 200
Rosen Myrna, “Interview With Joan Iversen Goswell.” Letter Arts Review, #4,
1994
“Regional Design Annual” Print Magazine, New York City, 1996
Kropper, Jean G. “Handmade Books
And Cards” Davis Publications, 1997
Emery, Richard. “The Creative Stroke”, Rockport Publishers, 1992
“Acquisitions” American Craft, American Craft Council, April/ May, 1997
“Gallery” American Craft, American Craft Council, February/March, 1994
Strub, Christie, “Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual” New Art Examiner,
January, 1993
Halliday, Jamie. “Dressing Old Words New” The Scribe, Society of Scribes and
Illuminators, England, Summer, 1989
Shaw, Kurt. “A Poetic Space” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 22 July 2001
Shearing, Graham. “Ex Libris” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 10 December 2000
Thomas, Mary. “Exhibit Gives Public an Engaging View… of Artists’ Books”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 18 March 2000
Hess, Elizabeth. “Notes on the Blue Hippo”, AAP Annual Catalogue, 1982
Frank, Jerome. “Rennaissance of Gold Illumination” New York Times, 11 November
1984
Letter Arts Review Annuals. 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001,
2002
Professional affiliations
Center for Book Arts, New York City (artist member)
The Guild of Bookworkers, New York City
Society of Scribes, New York City
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Craftsmens Guild of Pittsburgh
Friends of Calligraphy, San Francisco
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh
Calligraphy Guild of Pittsburgh
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Mike
Konopacki
Mike
Konopacki is a 1974 graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Political Science. He began labor
cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking
newspaper workers in 1977. After the paper
folded in 1980, Mike began syndicating his labor cartoons through the labor news
service, Press Associates, Inc. In 1983 he and
Gary Huck created their own syndication service, Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons.
Since
that time, they have published five collections of labor cartoons, Bye!
American, THEM, MAD
in USA, Working Class Hero
and the latest, Two Headed Space Alien Shrinks Labor Movement.
With Alec Dubro, Mike has written and drawn comic books and comics on the
World Bank, welfare reform and union organizing.
Mike is now illustrating a graphic history of Chapter 12 of Howard Zinn's
People's History of the United States, to be called The Empire and the
People. The book is due out in early 2007.
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Tim Menees
Tim
Menees grew up in Seattle, and graduated from the University of Washington with
a BA in Political Science. After serving in the Air Force as a
counter-intelligence officer, including two years in Turkey, he worked as a
reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
He came to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1976 where he drew
cartoons for nearly 30 years.
His
work has appeared in the national newspapers and newsmagazines and on network
TV. He has drawn syndicated comic strips, and written and illustrated a weekly
column for the Post-Gazette. He also wrote and illustrated feature
stories as he chose, including accounts of his 24-hour visit inside Western
Penitentiary and a week aboard a Great Lakes freighter, a two-part series on the
arts in prison (including California’s Folsom Prison and San Quentin) and, most
recently, a piece on Western Penitentiary’s final days.
He has
won several local and regional awards and placed second in the national
Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Contest and in the Scripps-Howard National
Journalism Awards. Before coming to Pittsburgh, he won the National Newspaper
Association’s top award for weekly cartoons.
Pittsburgh’s New Works Festival, an international competition, chose his one-act
play Father Figure for a seated reading, and a year later picked his
children’s one-act play Rex The Mighty Hunter for a full stage
production. Two years ago, another one-act of his, Boots on the Ground,
was part of an evening of short plays by the First Stage Theatre in Los Angeles.
He is
married and has a son and a daughter. Since the spring of 2003, he has taught,
as a volunteer, creative writing at a nearby state penitentiary. He still
cartoons and writes, paints, and plays piano and accordion in a blues-zydeco
band that has opened for, among others, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Roseanne
Cash and Marcia Ball.
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