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Webinar Beneficial Art: Woodcut
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Is there a kinder way to practice art?

Voluntarily or involuntarily, we all had time to think about our priorities lately.
Are any of the following a priority for you?

• I want to find a way to make art in a harmless way.
• I want to practice my art in a way that is healthy for me and for the environment.
• I want to find something I can do in a simple or simpler way.
• I want to make art using materials that are already available at home or in nature.
• I want to occupy my time with creativity.

If these statements made you think about what art|printmaking will be, or what you will be doing creatively in the future, this may be the right webinar for you.

August 29, 2020 (Saturday) 2-3 pm EST time. Sign up here. 
Press  at United Arts Council (410 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 170, Raleigh, NC 27603). Organized by VAE Raleigh.
I was selected to be part of this exhibition with my monoprint on fabric pw.dress.R. 
Open until January 10, 2020.
More details here.
Holiday Gift Invitational 
Alamance Arts, 213 South Main Street, Graham, NC 27253
November 23-December 24, 2019
January 2-4 Winter Sale 25% off
thank you.good bye - solo exhibition at Alamance Arts (213 South Main Street, Graham) - SunTrust Gallery in Graham 
Sept 7-Oct 19,  2019
​Opening: Sept 13 (F), 6-8 pm
Talk + coffee: Sept 25 (W), 10 am: video with part of the talk here

Monoprints on fabric. For this project, I decided to group the pieces of clothing (matrices) that are related to the theme: thank you.good bye. Clothes that were owned by someone the donor was very grateful to, or clothes owned by someone that passed away, or that are no longer part of their lives.

I am grateful that this project received the 2018 Regional Artist Project Grant - Central Piedmont Regional Artist Hub Program with support of North Carolina Arts Council and the partnering arts councils of the Regional Artist Project Grant Program. 
The Carrack Final Community Show
Aug 30-Sept 21, 2019
Details here
layers - solo exhibition at Durham Art Council (120 Morris Street) - Allenton Gallery
May 10 - July 6, 2019
Opening: May 17, 6-8 pm
Printmaking workshops on June 8 (Sa), 15 (Sa) and 29 (Sa), 2-4 pm. Details here
solo exhibition and printmaking workshop at ArtsCenter (300-G East Main St.), Nicholson Gallery, in Carrboro
​April 1-28,  2019 Opening: 2nd Friday, 4/12 6-8 pm Guided Tour: 4/26 (F) 6:30-7:30 pm.
Printmaking workshop: 4/27 - 5/18 (Sa), 2-4 pm. More information ​here
Strictly NC printmakers group show at Art Space in Raleigh 
Feb 1-23, 2019 
​opening Feb 1, 6-10 pm
co+ gathering
Feb 2 (Sa), 3-5 pm
Featured artist talk: Bronwyn Watson
Detailed schedule here
Free, donations are welcome. RSPV: ely@printosynthesis.com or bring your own chair.
Group show at the Town Hall in Carrboro (301 W Main Street)
Oct 1-Dec 31, 2018

I am showing prints on paper: etching, drypoint, woodblock and mezzotint. They are part of the series 'subway', inspired on the subway system in São Paulo, Brazil. 
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Saxapahaw Holiday Market
Dec 8, 2018 (Sa)

I was a vendor with Janine Domingues-Vasquez. We were at the space that used to be Volt Salon, besides General Store. More details here
Group show at Blue Dogwood Public Market 
306 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. 

I was invited by chef Yah-I Tafari from Vegan Flava Café to join artists Miriam Sagasti, Tory Wahlstrom, Amber Elkins and Andrew Taylor in a group show. 
Monoprints on paper from the series 'Patterns'.
Part of the Artwork in Chapel Hill, 10/12 6-9 pm. Printmaking talk at 7:30 pm. 
Introduction to Printmaking - free informal talk
Green Turtle Studios, 133 N. Chatham Avenue, Siler City, NC 
Aug 25 (Sa) 3-4pm. Registrations: ely@printosynthesis.com
Soft Goods
VAE Raleigh, July 6-28, 2018. Opening on the 6th.
My work 'guited' was selected to the exhibition. 
Details here
SOTA2017​
Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S 17th St, Wilmington, NC
My monoprint shirt.pants.black.R is in the exhibition. 
Oct 8, 2017-July 8, 2018

Community Free Day: Oct 8, 2017
photo and video here
The People's Channel
300 South Elliott Road, Suite AC, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
April 17- June 11, 2018

Prints on paper and fabric, from the 1990's until today. 
Visits only by appointment: ely@printosynthesis.com
Durham Art Guild Members' Showcase
120 Morris Street, Durham, 27701
April 6 - June 9, 2018
Public receptions: 4/20 and 5/18, 6-8 pm 
​details here
Crafted - May 31, 2018 (Th) 4-6:30 pm
The Frontierwww.rtp.org/about-us/the-frontier/ - 800 Park Offices Drive, Durham
pop up exhibition  - Durham Third Friday Art Walk
Golden Belt Arts , studio 116, 807 East Main Street, Durham, 27701
April 20, 2018 - 6-9 pm​
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distance
solo exhibition - ​Feb 10-March 10, 2018 
Prints on paper (etching, mezzotint, drypoint) and prints on fabric + sewing + drawing
Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC, 1401 & 1407 S. Bloodworth St. Raleigh, NC 27610
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Opening reception: Feb 10, 2018 6-9 pm
Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays (2/17,18, 2/24,25, 3/3,4) 1-5pm, Thursday 3/8, 4-7pm
I will be at the gallery on: Saturdays and Sundays (2/17, 2/24, 3/3) 1-5pm, Thursday 3/8, 4-7pm
Closing reception: Mar 10, 2018 6-9 pm
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Chef and author Yah-I Tafari from Vegan Flava Café  offered his awesome food and signed his book Pseudo or Sincere at the closing reception. ​
The Carrack Community Show
Jan 18 - Feb 10, 2018
947 E Main Street, Durham, NC
Opening reception: Jan 19, 6-9 pm
2017 Members' Holiday Market
Durham Art Guild, 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC. 
Dec 15, 2017-Jan 6, 2018
imprinted
solo | participatory exhibition
​monoprints on fabric + video interviews + clothes collecting and video recordings
Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center of Duke University, Science Dr , Durham, NC, 27706
Dec 11, 2017 - Jan 5, 2018 Opening Dec 8, 4-6 pm (due to Duke University schedule conflict the opening was changed to 12/8)

Clothes collecting and video recordings
Bring your pieces of clothing you want to donate and record the story behing them.
The artist was at the gallery on the following days: 
 
12/13 (W) 3-5 pm
12/15 (F) 3-5 pm
12/19 (Tu) 12-2 pm
12/21 (Th) 12-2 pm
1/5 (F) 3-5 pm

photos and videos on @printosynthesis.ely.urbanski
Unbound: Documentary as Art
The Carrack Modern Art , 947 E. Main St, Durham, NC 27701
I am participating with the monoprint jrb.hat.black.R and video interview

Oct 3-14, 2017
Opening 10/3 7-9 pm ​​
patterns
solo exhibition - monoprints on paper and fabric
Pittsboro Center for the Arts, 18 East Salisbury St., Suite A, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Sept 1-29, 2017
Opening: Sept 9, 2017 - 6-9 pm
Artist talk: Sept 9, 7 pm
Closing reception: Sept 28 (Th) - 6-9, Tour at 7 pm. 
I started working with old sewing patterns in 2015. I have been thinking about the patterns we create in our lives and how they are only products of our beliefs. Quantum physics, epigenetics, brain studies and other developments in science show us how mistaken can be a life based on old/negative patterns. How to break these patterns and keep the positive ones?
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GAC - Group Art Counseling  Where to show– September 19, 2017 – 6-8 pm – Snow Camp
 
I am going to talk about and answer questions about places to show your art. I'll share my experience/information on galleries, art centers, alternative venues mainly in the Triangle area. Beyond what you can find on websites. 
 
Where to start showing? Is it worthy to wait 2 years to have a show? Do I need to produce my marketing material? Zero commission galleries are really 0% commission? What about writing proposals?
 
Fee: donation based. Suggested donation $10
 
Registrations: ely@printosynthesis.com
Group Art Counseling  – August 3, 2017 – 3-5 pm – Snow Camp
 
I offered this group time where I was available to help attendants and their projects. Art critique, project development, printmaking, marketing, graphic design, photography, small business management, time management, exhibition set up tips, art calls, website creation, etc.
 
My couseling is based on my experience of over 30 years of involvement with arts (art making/exhibition, teaching, museum work, event management), 18 years of language teaching, 6 years of art school learning, my international experience as a resident in Brazil and Japan; and my lifetime intuition.
 
Fee: donation based. 
 
Registrations: ely@printosynthesis.com
Art making and Money, Wed Aug 2, 6:30-8:30 pm, @Culture Mill Lab, 1616 Jordan Drive, Saxapahaw, 27340.

Local artists and non-artists gathered for a conversation about monetary value in relationship to making art. In previous Articulating Value conversations we approached issues surrounding salary, labor-value, concrete economic conditions, shared goals and personal responsibility in the art-making economy.
Time for sharing ideas and thinking about practical ways to improve the current situation. ​

​More on the project at www.articulatingvalue.com
Contact: ely@printosynthesis.com
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Bon Marché, Affordable Print Exhibition
Safe Harbors Ann Gallery, 104 Ann Street
Newburgh, New York 12550
June 3-July 29, 2017
This print is available for sale after the exhibition period at Ann Gallery.
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ties, solo | participatory exhibition at PAF Gallery, NC Arts Incubator, 223 N. Chatham Ave, Siler City, NC
June 14-July 7, 2017, (M-Sa) 10 am-4pm
Opening reception: June 17 (Sa), 2017 4-9pm
Monoprints on fabric, video, video recording
I was at PAF Gallery to collect clothes and record videos on: 

6/14 (W), 2-4 pm
6/20 (Tu), 2-4 pm
6/22 (Th), 2-4 pm
6/24 (Sa), 2-4 pm
6/26 (M), 2-4 pm
6/28 (W), 2-4 pm
6/30 (F), 2-4 pm
7/6 (Th), 2-4 pm
The Carrack Community Show and Red Dot Fundraiser
6/8- 6/23 
Carrack Artist & Donor Celebration: June 10 (Sa), 6-9 pm
Third Friday Durham Reception: June 16, 6-9 pm

 947 East Main St • Durham, NC 27701
DAG (Durham Art Guild) Members' Showcase
120 Morris St, Durham, NC 27701
April 8 – June 10, 2017
I participated with jk.pocket.I, a monotype.
darning memory
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Monoprints on fabric.
artists: Leatha Koefler, Mary Starke and Ely Urbanski
The Block Gallery, 222 West Hargett Street, Raleigh NC
Feb 1-Mar 31 2017 (extended)
details: www.facebook.com/events/972731809496521/
video produced by the City of Raleigh: ​www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeCemMT-BzA
blouse.blue.R, now part of the City of Raleigh collection

​interface

a participatory exhibition (solo project) - part of THE LAB
VAE, 309 West Martin Street, Raleigh, NC
Feb 3-23, 2017

​Monoprints on fabric and reclaimed clothes/sheets having clothes as matrices. Videos and video shooting/interviews (please see schedule below):

 
I have been collecting clothes from friends, family and my previous exhibitions visitors. These clothes are the matrices for my monoprints on fabric. I also record interviews with the donors where they talk about the clothes they donated. Most of the clothes have a story, they were worn for a long time, the person who owned the clothes had an emotional attachment to it, they only used them in special occasions, etc. What I noticed is that those clothes have one thing in common: they are stories of relationships. A material reminder of an interaction with a living person, with someone they missed or a particular situation in their lives. The interface.
 
I'll be collecting clothes and recording interviews at the VAE on:
2/4 - 12:00-4:00pm
2/8 (Wed) 3-6 pm
2/10 (Fri) 3-6 pm
2/11 (Sat) 12-3 pm
2/16 (Thu) 11am-3pm
2/18 (Sat) 12-4pm
2/22 (Wed) 11-2pm
2/23 (Thu) 3-6 pm

​support: Red Hat
The Carrack Community Show
1/20- 1/28
 947 East Main St • Durham, NC 27701
Printocracy Part 2
Prints by the Printmakers of North Carolina
Rebus Works - 301 Kinsey Street, Raleigh, NC
Oct 6-Jan 14, 2017
Printocracy
Prints by the Printmakers of North Carolina
Cary Town Hall Gallery - 316 North Academy St
July 29-Sept 25, 2016

​The Common Wall 

Cary Art Center - The Principal's Hall - 101 Dry Ave
The back wall of the Principal’s Hall will be covered by collaborative collage by the printmakers of NC. 
July 29-Sept 25, 2016
brazilian creations at ​The Red Door 1616 Jordan Drive, Saxapahaw, NC
Prints on paper (etchings, mezzotints, drypoints, lithograph and silkscreen) made in the 90's. Some of them have São Paulo's subway system as a theme. Reflections on the state of mind we get in while commuting to work or school.
August 19 -September 18, 2016 
CAMstellations Community Show
CAM Raleigh - 409 W Martin Street, Raleigh, 27603
July 1-September 4, 2016

hu.man.kind
participative exhibition at The Carrack Modern Art, 947 East Main Street, Durham NC 27701
Aug 2-13, 2016 (12:00-6:00 pm)         Opening: Aug 5 (Fri), 6:00-9:00pm     Artist talk: Aug 13 (Sat), 2:30 pm
Monoprints on fabric, videos, artist talk, donated clothes collecting, video shooting
I have been collecting clothes from friends, family and my previous exhibitions visitors. Most of the clothes have a story, they were worn for a long time, the person who owned the clothes had an emotional attachment to it, they only used them in special occasions, etc.
 
I believe tthat what I transfer to the substrate (a piece of fabric, a reclaimed sheet) is not only the material image but also part of the memory/energy of the clothes and their owners/users.
 
Lately I have also been recording videos with the clothes donors. They talk about the history/stories of the clothes and their own.
 
During the exhibition I collected clothes and recorded videos on Aug 2, 4, 9, 10, 12.

article/interview:
Arts Now NC 
Indy Week


​group exhibition
 at CHI-CLE in Chapel Hill, NC
Artists: Pilar Peters, Monica Linares and Ely Urbanski
Paintings, monoprints, etchings, mezzotints and drypoints.
Community Show at the Carrack Modern Art
June 17-25 
Solo exhibition at Reverie: a Coffee Den
Address: 2522 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, 27607
Mon-Fri 6:30am-6:00pm
I showed a set of works made in the 1990's, some were created when I was still attending Art School. They are etchings, drypoints, mezzotints, a silkscreen and lithographies. 

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​Zine Machine Fest
 http://zinemachinefest.com
Durham Armory - 220 Foster Street, Durham, NC 27701
Saturday, April 16, 2016   11AM - 7PM

I was part of the PoNC's (Printmakers of North Carolina) table. Thanks to all the visitors and video recording participants!

Chothes collecting and Video Recording - Third Friday Art Walk
 in Siler City, NC
Green Turtle Studios 
133 North Chatham Avenue, Siler City
Friday 4/15 and 6/3 (5/20 was cancelled)  6:00-9:00 pm

I have been collecting clothes from friends, family and my previous exhibitions visitors. Most of the clothes have a story, they were worn for a long time, the person who owned the clothes had an emotional attachment to it, they only used them in special occasions, etc.
 
I believe tthat what I transfer to the substrate (a piece of fabric, a reclaimed sheet) is not only the material image but also part of the memory/energy of the clothes and their owners/users.
 
Lately I have also been recording videos with the clothes donors. They talk about the history/stories of the clothes and their own.
 
During the Art Walk this Friday I collected clothes and planned to record videos. 

Clip of one of the videos: https://vimeo.com/166138774​
Green Turtle Studios opening - Third Friday Artwalk
133 N Chatham Avenue - Siler City, NC
March 18, 2016  6:00-9:00 pm

Artists: Bronwyn Watson, Donna Johnson, JR Butler, Michelle Hudson and Ely Urbanski

moe photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.699808670160731.1073741854.419360801538854&type=3

​Roundtable Group Exhibition
 at Angelina's Kitchen, Pittsboro, NC

Feb - March 2016
​https://www.facebook.com/ely.urbanski.art/photos/pcb.678826538925611/678826092258989/?type=3&theater
The Carrack Winter Community Show  1/15-1/23 2016

place: The Carrack Modern Art http://thecarrack.org
111 West Parrish Street, Suite B
Durham, NC 27701
The ArtsCenter Annual Community Exhibit in Carrboro. August 1-31
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