{"id":2773,"date":"2016-09-19T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:59:08","slug":"when-light-touches-paper-by-barbara-beisinghoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2016\/09\/19\/when-light-touches-paper-by-barbara-beisinghoff\/","title":{"rendered":"When Light Touches Paper by Barbara Beisinghoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_2773'] = [\n{id: 2775, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2016\/09\/19\/when-light-touches-paper-by-barbara-beisinghoff\/beisinghoff-poster-2\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>beisinghoff-poster<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2016\/09\/19\/when-light-touches-paper-by-barbara-beisinghoff\/beisinghoff-poster-2\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><b>Barbara Beisinghoff in Residency<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_2773\" data-imgid=\"2775\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2775 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"beisinghoff-poster\" width=\"419\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2016\/09\/Beisinghoff-poster.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a>September 15-October 14<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a career that has spanned more than five decades, artist Barbara Beisinghoff has produced etchings, artists\u2019 books, handmade paper, and installations, and has exhibited her work internationally in China, Peru, Israel, Egypt, Korea, Italy, and the US. Beisinghoff will serve as an artist-in-residence this fall at Vassar College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A selection of Beisinghoff\u2019s works will be on view in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center\u2019s Project Gallery and in the Art Library. The exhibition, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>When Light Touches Paper<\/em><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will be on view September 29-October 16. \u00a0An opening reception will be held in the Art Center\u2019s Sculpture Garden at 5:00pm on September 29. On Monday, October 3, a documentary about Beisinghoff\u2019s work, produced by artist Eva Wal, will have its premiere screening. All events are free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A prize-winning graphic artist, Beisinghoff creates etchings and artists\u2019 books from handmade paper with watermarks and waterjet drawings. During her residency at Vassar, Beisinghoff with work students and faculty from German Studies to create illustrations for their children\u2019s book, from Biology to teach about plants for paper making, and Media Studies to talk about artist books. \u00a0In her hometown, Dreieich, near Frankfurt, Germany, she worked on one project with 250 children, whose drawings\u2014etched into copper reliefs\u2014are embedded in the pavement around the town hall. \u00a0At Vassar, she will engage in a tree poetry project with students, which entails putting words and quotes from pulp on the beautiful trees of Vassar\u2019s arboretum<\/span><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The tree project will also be available for viewing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beisinghoff will also be working with students at the Poughkeepsie Day School, silkscreening words from certain fairy tales onto the trunks and branches of trees. The words will be in German, and students at Vassar have laminated cards, with translations. The cards will hang from the trees like leaves. Recordings of the stories, in English, are being made for us as well, so that we can listen to the stories while standing under the trees. The project fits with some of the themes that grade 6 studies this year: the tales are middle ages in origin, and in science the students do a unit on trees and often work to make their value understood to a wider public.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Arts Across Disciplines initiative is generously funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This residency was dreamed up by Professor Silke von der Emde in the German Department<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Grow Vaulted, World&quot; - &quot;W\u00f6lbe Dich, Welt&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UIrc7ejX4go?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Exhibition, Events and Locations <\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"hotspot-container\" data-slideshow=\"false\" data-slideshowdelay=\"5000\" data-autohide=\"false\" data-autohidedelay=\"\" data-loop=\"true\" data-triggerby=\"mouseover\" data-sticky=\"\" data-clickimageclose=\"true\" data-dropinease=\"true\" data-displayvideo=\"false\" data-customicon=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/10\/Collaboratory-pin_bright.png\"><div class=\"popover left\" data-easein=\"cardInTop\" data-easeout=\"cardOutTop\" data-width=\"\" data-top=\"928\" data-left=\"1333\" data-direction=\"left\" style=\"display:none\" data-style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"cq-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"popover-inner\"><div class=\"popover-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t        <p>The Collaboratory is getting prepped for its tour of local schools in Poughkeepsie with the \"Hello, Dear Enemy!\" project.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t      <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <\/div><a href=\"#\" class=\"info-icon cq-hotspot-custom-icon\" data-top=\"928\" data-left=\"1333\" data-link=\"\" data-target=\"_self\" style=\"display:none;top:-1000px;\"><span class=\"cq-hotspot-label\" style=\"\"><\/span><\/a><div class=\"info-icon-pulse info-icon-pulse2\"><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2017\/10\/Vassar-Central-Campus-Map-2.png\" class=\"popover-image\"  \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Exhibition: <\/b><b><i><em>When Light Touches Paper: Watermarks by Barbara Beisinghoff<\/em><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">September 29-October 16<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Vassar College Art Library<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Exhibition Opening Reception<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday, September 29, 5:00pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frances Lehman Loeb art Center, Sculpture Garden<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Premiere Screening<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday, October 3, time and place to be announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new documentary about the work of Barbara Beisinghoff, directed by Eva Wal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gallery Talk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday, October 6, 5:00pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barbara Beisinghoff and Silke von der Emde will lead an informal talk about the exhibition <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Light Touches Paper<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Collaboratory<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>ABC Stories and PoeTree<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Located underneath the Planetree on the Library Lawn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>September 19-22, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Monday-Thursday ,\u00a09:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Special Collections at the Vassar College Library<\/strong> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>The Angel Is My Watermark<\/em><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &amp; Various Artist Books on view September 29-October 16<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Art Library<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artist Books, WaterMark\u00a0 &amp;<em> Room for a Clairvoyant <\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on view September 29-October 16<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>German Department, Chicago Hall<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Bettine von Arnim<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on view September 29-October 16<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Poughkeepsie Day School<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Fairtytale Tree<\/em><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0on view September 19- 30th<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Beisinghoff in Residency September 15-October 14 In a career that has spanned more than five decades, artist Barbara Beisinghoff has produced etchings, artists\u2019 books, handmade paper, and installations, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2016\/09\/19\/when-light-touches-paper-by-barbara-beisinghoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about When Light Touches Paper by Barbara Beisinghoff<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}