April 2022 Newsletter
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The little printshop that could…
After nearly 8 years in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the changes ahead are a tiny bit bitter but really, mostly sweet. If you had asked me in 2020, I would have told you that the little IS Projects caterpillar had already busted out of its cocoon and was flying high. After the last couple of years filled with the most difficult and trying times as a business owner, I have learned that the feeling of comfort that was present in 2020 was just the caterpillar going into the cocoon. The impending move has us feeling like our wings are fully formed, but waiting to spread. The next few weeks of packing and moving nearly 50,000 pounds of equipment will be our struggle to break out so we can finally feel the air and sun again.
Thanks for sticking with me through the butterfly metaphor. All that to say, the next few weeks are going to be some of the most difficult and rewarding in IS Projects’ history and we need your support now more than ever. With many details still to be worked out, this newsletter is vaguer than we had hoped so please keep an eye out for a special newsletter with more announcements about the new address and offerings coming in the next week or so!
In the meantime, we have a bash planned for our last Artwalk this Saturday. It’ll be a disco funeral complete with an artist talk, deep sales on sketchbooks and cards, natural wine, nice tunes, projection mapping, and a studio supply sale complete with paper, presses, and furniture in need of new homes. It would mean the world to see you for our last hurrah in Fort Lauderdale. We’ll be here 2pm to 10pm so there’s plenty of time to come say hi and show us some love. Lots more details on the specifics below so I’ll stop here. If you made it this far, thank you, and hope to see you soon! - Ingrid and the ISP Team
JOIN US APRIL 30TH!
STUDIO SALE, 2-10PM
Snag some second-hand treasures! We’ll be selling art supplies, equipment, furniture, and more at excellent prices this Saturday in order to support our upcoming move to Miami.
ARTWALK, 6-10PM
Last call! Join us for the final FATVillage Artwalk and IS Projects Goodbye Party! This Artwalk features an in-person artist talk at 7PM in the gallery and tons of discounted merch in our retail space.
DON’T MISS THE SHOW
Land of Sunshine by Angelica Clyman
Saturday, April 30th
Closing Reception, 6-10PM
with an Artist Talk at 7PM
Land of Sunshine offers a view of South Florida that is at once sentimental and apocalyptic, real and imagined, comforting and ominous. The exhibition features the work of Angelica Clyman, a painter and sculptor who is heavily influenced by growing up in Broward County, and the accelerated changes it has and continues to experience. Her work deals with a search for home in a place that no longer exists in the same form, and a fascination with structures, aesthetics, and commercial enterprises that have been dethroned with time. Land of Sunshine consists of oil paintings accented with sculptural elements and found objects that reinforce the fractured world existing in Clyman’s painted landscapes.
Angelica Clyman is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in her native South Florida. She is a graduate of New World School of the Arts (BFA) and Florida International University (MFA). Her passion for discovering and preserving the history of seemingly mundane local spaces makes every day a possible revelation and adventure. She currently teaches studio art at Broward College and is the director of the Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery.
DON’T MISS THE TALK
In Conversation: John Cutrone, Gabriela Gamboa and Ingrid Schindall on Artist Books
Tuesday, May 10th at 6:30PM over Zoom
Join Bakehouse artist Gabriela Gamboa, as she speaks with John Cutrone, Director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, and Ingrid Schindall, Director of IS Projects, about her most recent artist book, A Study of Dust. Exploring the alienation and disorientation that she experienced as a result of living in exile and exacerbated by the pandemic, Gamboa documented the spaces and objects she left behind. A Study of Dust is a compilation of these images, an easily transportable object that becomes a receptacle of memory and loss, as the artist navigates (un)belonging in a foreign country.
In a conversation moderated by Bakehouse’s Curatorial + Public Programs Manager, Laura Novoa, Gamboa, Cutrone and Schindall speak about the particularities of producing and the importance of collecting artist books and their potential as an accessible and democratic medium.
This program is presented in partnership with IS Projects and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University.
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