Artists' Reception for Marion Adams and Mona Wu at Artworks Gallery in Winston Salem Arts District. 

Meet the artists and learn more about their work. Mona Wu will speak at 2:30 about her printmaking experiences and all of the various methods she has used during her career. Light refreshments will be served.

Marion Adams’ exhibit combines her favorite themes of sky and birds to produce the sensation of soaring birds within expansive and luminous skies, using a totally different method from the process she has used in the past. Working on a larger canvas, rather than using a palette she mixed the acrylics directly on the canvas. With fingers she blended and spread the paint across the fabric. It was a welcome change from the disciplined, strictly detailed colored pencil drawings she is known for. The compositions were not preplanned but came instinctively. The birds, painted freehand with small brushes, were rendered without preliminary drawings.

Mona Wu’s exhibit, All Things Printmaking, represents the stages of her printmaking career which began in 1995, when she was a student auditor at Wake Forest University Printmaking Department, to the present. This current collection includes Woodcut, Linocut, Chine collé, Drypoint, and some Collage on printed paper. The subject matter, mainly nature and geometry, are two of her favorite areas of interest. Her hope is to introduce a variety of printmaking methods to the public and spread the gospel of Printmaking.