Arron Foster

…. Hey, Hi, Hello, how are you? People of Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania please accept my invitation to attend the opening of: Genius Loci the Pathos of Places @stopwatchgalleryandstudio in Greensburg, PA. tonight (May 9th) from 6-9 pm. More about the show: Originally exhibited at the 2024 Mid-American Print council Conference; Genius Loci, the Pathos of Places is a traveling exhibition curated by @erikwaterkotte and @arron_foster_studio displaying the work of 16 contemporary artists creating works that explore the unique,interstitial impact of particular places using print, hand paper making, photography, installation, mixed media, etc. Through their projects the Artist’s document, express, expose, and reimagine the unique characteristics of geographic places. The art in this exhibition takes a variety of forms, expressive, poetic, and analytical, with a focus on print, paper and mixed-media productions. Genius Loci includes recent artworks based on in-depth explorations of a range of national and international locations. Participating artists include: @susannacrum @eclairerose @nicksatinover @nicholashruth @stef.ani_e @joey.behrens @dawnroe @malikjnorman @seanpmorrissey @crunchshark @kirsten_furlong @bufffoto @evieknevie @misprint.studio After its display @stopwatchgalleryandstudio The exhibition will be traveling to the @morganpaper in July and to the William J. And Pearl F. Lemmon visiting artist galleries at Kent State University at Stark in September. Please consider stopping by- surest of sure good times! #stopwatchgalleryandstudio #contemporaryart #contemporaryprintmaking

Opening tonight! “Genius Loci: The Pathos of Places”. Meet-the-artists reception, drop in anytime between 6 - 9 pm. It’s a fantastic show, don’t miss this one! #printmaking #mixedmedia #installation

Exciting things happening in the gallery! Artists/curators @erikwaterkotte Erik Waterkotte and @arron_foster_studio Arron Foster are busy installing “Genius Loci: the Pathos of Places”, an exhibition of 18 contemporary artists who explore the unique impact of particular places using print, photography, installation, and mixed-media. Four of the artists will be present at the reception on Saturday evening, May 9, from 6 - 9 pm. It’s going to be a brilliant show, I’d love to see you there! #printmaking #mixedmedia #installation

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Join us in the gallery for a meet-the-artists reception for “Genius Loci: the Pathos of Places” on May 9 from 6 - 9 pm. This group exhibition of 18 contemporary artists was curated by @arron_foster_studio Arron Foster and @erikwaterkotte Erik Waterkotte. This post includes details of artwork by: Image 1: installation shot from the exhibition at the @midamericaprint Mid America Print Council conference Image 2: @_colinlyons Colin Lyons Image 3: @arron_foster_studio Arron Foster Image 4: Ioannis Anastasiou and @misprint.studio Majka Dokudowicz Image 5: @nicksatinover Nick Satinover Image 6: @joey.behrens Joey Behrens I hope to see you in the gallery! #printmaking #installationart #mixedmedia

Today we're sharing work from Arron Levi Foster @Arron_Foster_Studio in our "midwest salon trois" exhibition;" "Du Und Ich," Cyanotype on Post Consumer Waste, 2025 • • #art #artwork #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #artcollector #artist #onlineartgallery #onlineartexhibition #artexhibition #artgalleries #artgallery #contemporaryart #visualart #juriedshow #artistfeature #international #mixedmedia #arronlevifoster #midwestsalontrois #midwest #midwestniceart

Sending this back into the universe and hoping good things (continue to) return; I will be moderating a panel at the forthcoming Mid America Print Council (MAPC) Conference in Baton Rouge, (Fall 2026) This panel will bring together artists, designers, educators, and researchers working in book arts and expanded print media to explore print as an active, responsive system, one that unfolds through time, physical presence, and embodied engagement rather than rapid or passive consumption. In dialogue with the PRINTELLIGENCE conference theme, panelists will examine how material processes, sequencing, and bodily interaction slow perception and demand attention, allowing print to register change, hold memory, and shape understanding. Through artists’ books, handmade and matrix-based print practices, installations, and print-based performances, the panel considers how these forms resist speed by requiring handling, navigation, repetition, and duration. Meaning emerges not instantaneously, but through sustained interaction across time and space. Emphasizing slow, durational encounters, reading, handling, moving through, and activating print, the panel frames book arts and printmaking as counter-temporal practices. Labor-intensive processes, material resistance, and embodied participation interrupt habits of scrolling and rapid visual intake, cultivating kinesthetic awareness, attentiveness, and forms of knowledge that arise only through prolonged engagement. In this way, print functions not as a consumable image, but as a temporal experience that resists acceleration. I encourage any that are interested to apply and to share this opportunity with their network. Proposals are due by midnight on March 1st. and the link is embedded in my bio. Feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any questions! Surest of sure good times!

Very happy to have had two of my prints included in: Transformative Impressions: Richard Black Juried International Print Exhibition at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The show has a stellar roster of printmakers and it’s an honor to be involved. A big thanks to Jurors @raluca_iancu and Sang Eun Lee. If you are in the region and inclined, please check it out! Surest of sure good times! From the Organizers: With a theme of transformation through print, selected works explore the boundaries of the printmaking medium. The exhibition was juried by Raluca Iancu and Sang Lee. Artists include Erika Adams, Ben Anderson, Jared Barbick, Keith Buswell, Sage Dawson, Natalie Deam, Cal Froikin, Arron Foster, Alejandro Guerrero, Travis Janssen, Mary Jones, Anita Maksimiuk, Aya Naoe, Malgorzata Oakes, Nathan Pietrykowski, Miguel Rivera, Linda Lucía Santana, Jennifer Scheuer, Dan Starling, Jami Taback, Craig Volesky, M Robyn Wall, and April Zhu. An opening reception and award ceremony will be held on February 5 from 5-7 pm in the Anderson Gallery, with the awards at 6pm. About the Jurors: Raluca Iancu is an Associate Professor of Art & Visual Culture (Printmaking) at Iowa State University. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her multidisciplinary practice explores themes of disaster, memory, and vulnerability through printmaking, performance, edible art, and installation. Sang Eun Lee (Sang) is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Drake University, where she teaches all levels of graphic design courses. Her research focuses on advancing inclusive design practices in education through intersectional and user-centered approaches. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Iowa State University, an MFA in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design 📷 (slide 1) Anderson Gallery #contempraryart #contemporaryprintmaking #artistoninstagram #ohioartist

PRINTELLIGENCE and Slow Media:How Print Thinks, Feels, & Resonds is a proposed panel for the 2026 Mid America Print Council Conference, PRINTELLIGENCE, hosted by Louisiana State University, October 7–10, 2026. Follow the link in the bio to submit proposals for consideration. Three to four applicants will be selected to participate. Submission deadline: Sunday, March 1st, 2026 This panel responds to the PRINTELLIGENCE call by bringing together artists, designers, researchers, and makers working in book arts and expanded print media to examine print as an intelligent, responsive system. Rather than treating print as a static or purely represent-ational medium, the panel foreground how material processes sequential structures, and embodied engagement allow print to think, feel, and respond to the world around us. Panelists will explore how artists’ books, handmade print processes, and matrix-based systems function as sites of sensing, cognition, and affect. Emphasis will be placed on slow, durations encounters, reading, handling, navigating, that resist accelerated modes of digital consumption. Please consider the following as you craft your proposals: How might artists’ books and book structures function as cognitive, sensory, or epistemic systems rather than containers for content? In what ways can print operate as an environmental sensor, responsive surface, or living archive, registering ecological, temporal, or site-based conditions? How can sequential, kinetic, or durational approaches to print challenge static notions of image, edition, and readership? What forms of affective or emotional intelligence emerge through handmade, labor-intensive, or materially resistant processes? How might printmaking act as a counter-temporal practice, resisting speed, automation, and passive spectatorship through slowness, friction, and touch? How does material thinking—including matrix-based intelligence and embodied reading—reshape our understanding of knowledge production in print? #mapc #panels #artistopportunity #printmaking #contemporaryprintmaking

….. Very happy to have had my piece “The secret Things Belong” chosen for inclusion in “Material Impact “ at RMU. If you are Pittsburgh local and inclined the opening reception is tonight, please consider checking it out. Loads of work by talented artists in a beautiful space. Surest of sure good times! From the Organizers: Exhibition Dates January 28 – March 20, 2026 Opening Reception 5:00 – 7:00 PM, Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Media Arts Gallery at Robert Morris University Wheatley Center 410 Pennsylvania Ave. Moon Township, PA 15108 Material Impact brings together the work of members of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh in a juried exhibition curated by Andrew Y. Ames and Christine Holtz. Presented in the Media Arts Gallery at Robert Morris University, the exhibition explores how material choices—process, surface, and form—shape meaning and impact in contemporary art. Material Impact highlights the innovative and conceptually driven practices of AAP artists working across diverse media. Artists: Karen Antonelli, Tony Balko, Pati Beachley, Eric Anthony Berdis, Tiffany Budzisz, Cheryl Capezzuti, Dan Droz, Norman Ed, Kirsten Ervin, Arron Levi Foster, Felipe Huidobro, Brynda J. Glazier, Lori Hepner, Mandy Kendall, Lynda Kirby, Emily Krill, Ling-lin Ku, Naomi Lees-Maiberg, Brian Pardini, Robert Raczka, Eric Rippert, Barbara Shema, Kathryn Shriver, Carrie Smith Libman, Sarah Simmons, Kate Sutter, and John Tronsor 📷 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh #contemporaryart #associatedartistsofpittsburgh #robertmorrisuniversity

……. Still catching up on documentation from summer/fall. Some of the works are part of a series, some are one off’s or unique. All forward the plot and reckon with my/our relationship to place and environment. Next up: Cut from the Cloth Mixed media Installation (dimensions variable) 2025 #installationart #ohioartist #artistoninstagram

……. Hello and Happy New Year! I am happy to start 2026 by sharing that my piece “Another Time” has been included in the 5th Annual Biafarin Awards. This is an online only exhibition. However viewers are encouraged to rate and comment on the work. So if during this post holiday fugue, you feel inclined- please stop in and leave a note. A presser about the exhibition can be found here: /events/canada/art-exhibition/vancouver-bc/biafarin-awards-2025-exhibition-global-dialogue-through# #artistoninstagram #contemparyart #biafarin Surest of sure good times!