News from Lisa Black          

News from Lisa Artwork, Photography, Watercolors, Monotypes, Drawings, art exhibition


Lisa received three prizes at the Art Society of Old Greenwich Sidewalk Show, September 2005. One First Place for a Monotype, "Pink Lily 1", and Honorable Mentions for a Monotype "Wall with Red" and one crayon drawing "Colorful Pastures."

One of her photographs "Wild Turkeys" will be included in the Darien Planning Calendar 2006 on the November page.

From November 2-22, 2005 Lisa will be in a two-person Photography show at the invitation of the President of the Greenwich Art Society. She will be exhibiting Color Photos of flowers, mostly close-ups, in the Greenwich Art Society Gallery.

Lisa joined an Online Poets' Workshop in late December '04 and has written two to three short poems every day since. She's won five awards and has poems published in over thirty anthologies by Wakemore Press as well as Online using the name Elizabeth H. Black at www.poetry.com. Three of her poems are also read on poetry CD's.

Her art work has not been neglected. She has been working with a printmaker at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking producing collagraphs with him. They hope to have a collaborative show together some time in the future. "Cityscape", one of Lisa's collagraphs, was accepted in the Greenwich Art Society's Annual Members' Juried Exhibition.

Still working at the computer, her digital image "The Wedding Cake" was accepted in another Greenwich juried show "Incredible Edibles." It won an Honorable Mention. One digital image was contributed to an auction for the Northwest Yoga Foundation and Meditation Festival. It was sold. Also a digital image exhibited in the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the The Second Congregational Church of Greenwich was sold. Lisa received an Honorable Mention for a Photoshop image incorporating a line of her poetry "Birds Singing" at the Darien Art Show, May, 2005.

In April 2005 Lisa was Chairman of the Student/Scholarship show of the Art Society of Old Greenwich. In that capacity she was one of three judges to choose winners from the Greenwich High School Art Department for cash awards.

Two of Lisa's color photographs, Poinsettia 1 and Poinsettia 2 were accepted in the Stamford Downtown Juried Photography Exhibition. Photos in the show will be displayed in the city's store windows for the whole summer of 2005. The photographs are donated and will be sold at summer's end for charity.

Seven of her floral Monotypes were included in a benefit exhibition for the Center for Contemporary Printmaking at the White Gallery, 342 Main Street in Lakeville, CT from May 28-June 27, 2005. Several prints were held over for the summer months.

The year 2004 was a very busy one for Lisa. She and her husband moved from one Fairfield County town to another. It was a major undertaking because of the many supplies that Lisa owns as well as her artwork and photographs. Much organizing took place with the help of her family and a very kind neighbor.

She continued working at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking producing Silk-Screen Monotypes and Collagraphs (a combination of collage plates and inking completed on the press.) Her first collagraph and a new Silk-Screen Monotype were accepted in a juried show at the Rowayton Arts Center.

She also continues to make original computer images many of which she uses as a base for her Monotypes. Two of her computer Images were accepted in the Stamford Art Association's Juried show "Faraway Places," and one was accepted in the New Rochelle Open Juried Exhibition.

Lisa was welcomed into the National League of American Pen Women, a group consisting of professional women working in all phases of artistic work. They interviewed her for a half-hour television show which ran twice a week for the month of October.