M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y
presents
An Artist Dialogue Series Event
Michael Dal Cerro and Roberta Waddell
Saturday January 23, 2010
2:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The
New York
Public Library
40
th
Street
and
5
th
Avenue
New York
,
NY
10016
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
(
directions
)
Elevators access the 6th floor after 2p.m.
All events are
FREE
and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita of the Print Collection at New York Public Library, will join Michael Dal Cerro to discuss the evolution of his work and his
Art Wall on Third
exhibition of woodcut prints
Contingent and
Eternal
City
featured on Your Perfect Weekend section of
Time Out New York
, p. 32, January 14-21, 2010.
Michael Dal Cerro born in
Chicago,
IL; received his BFA (1971-1975) from
Northern
Illinois
University
in
Dekalb,
IL
. He also attended Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in
Norfolk
,
CT
(1974). Dal Cerro lives and works in
Lyndhurst
,
NJ
. Past awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a Puffin Foundation Grant, two Artist’s Residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA and two Artist’s Residencies at the
Frans
Masereel
Center
in
Kasterlee
,
Belgium
. In 2008 he received the New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship at The Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper at
Rutgers University
,
New Brunswick
, NJ; and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship for works on paper. He has exhibited his work at many venues throughout the
United States
including the International Print Center New York, and The Jersey City Museum in
Jersey City
,
NJ
. His work is included in numerous public and private collections including The Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts in San Francisco, CA, The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, The Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, The University of Dallas, Irving, TX, The University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA and The New York Public Library. Davidson Galleries in
Seattle
,
WA
represents his work.
Roberta Waddell
was Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library from 1985 until 2008, after serving
as Curator of Prints at the
Worcester
Art Museum
and Curator of Graphic Arts at The Toledo Museum of Art. In all these positions, Dr. Waddell has
shown a special interest in supporting contemporary art and artists. She was awarded an “Award of Excellence” by the Southern Graphics Council and the
Rutgers
Center
for Innovative Print and Paper for “her shared love of prints and her commitment to encouraging artists & art students to be inspired by prints.” She has also been honored by the International Print Center New York and the Center for Book Arts for her contributions as a print curator.
Initiated in 2004, the
Artist Dialogues
provide a forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of new ideas.