Holding Artemis Opens at the Roxbury Arts Center Oct 18, Exhibit Oct 18 - Dec 20

ROXBURY - Roxbury Arts Center presents "Holding Artemis," a new exhibition by artist Jody Isaacson opening Saturday, October 18, with  artist reception from 4-6 PM. The exhibition remains on view through December 20, at the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury.  For more information, visit roxburyartsgroup.org.

"Holding Artemis" delves deep into the forest and examines the interactions between humans and the wild. Isaacson's large printed works, ceramic pieces, and installation work are inspired by and embrace the ethos of Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt and wilderness. Through moments of stillness in the forest, she brings a new perspective to the relationship between hunters and the hunted.

Seattle-born artist Jody Isaacson earned her B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1981) and her M.F.A. from the California College of Art (1983). She has received numerous grants and awards including a Visual Arts Fellowship from NEA/Westaf, an Art Matters Inc. Support Grant, the Berthe von Moschzisker Award and Print Club Selection Award from The Print Club in Philadelphia, a Maryland Federation of Arts Small Projects Grant, and an Individual Artist Grant from the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Isaacson has completed multiple prestigious residencies including the Ceramic Residency at Township 10 in Marshall, North Carolina; Print Residency with the Art Union of Hungarian Etchers and Lithographers in Budapest, Hungary; Print Residency at Centrum in Port Townshend, Washington; and a Painting Residency at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming. She is currently a Community Creative resident at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Isaacson serves as executive director of the David Byrd Estate and lives in Sidney Center, New York.

Our exhibition programs are generously supported by Roxbury Wine & Spirits. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Tianaderrah Foundation, The Delaware National Bank of Delhi, and individual supporters.

Heron, 32 x 35, woodcut reduction print, 2025