Artist Talk by Stephen and Cricket Fisher April 16 at Imago

Stephen Fisher was born in 1954 in Sunbury, PA. and spent much of his childhood moving as a classic “army brat.” The semi-official beginning of his artistic career can be traced to a deal with his parents in the seventh grade, agreeing to give up the trumpet in favor of correspondence school art lessons. He is, in fact, an actual graduate of the Famous Artists School. After false starts in interior design and architecture, Fisher earned a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1976) and an M.F.A. in printmaking from Yale University (1981). He resumed his traveling ways as an academic gypsy, teaching at five colleges in eight years before settling in at Rhode Island College in Providence as a Professor of Art where he specializes in printmaking and drawing and aspires to the title of “Chief Printmaking Wizard.”
Crickett Fisher was born in Providence, RI, in late May 2003. This makes her a Gemini, which, if one subscribes to such superstitions, likely predisposes her to being an artist (two-faced tricksters who arrogantly try their hand at the divine act of creation). She grew up in Warren, in a house-sized Wunderkammer among cats (symbolic of mischief) and art (symbolic of a genetic predisposition to overvaluing the mechanism of sight). She has always loved to draw, leading her to pursue a B.F.A. with a concentration in printmaking at Rhode Island College, where she studies under the illustrious print wizard Stephen Fisher. She intends to pursue a Master of Fine Arts.
The exhibition, which will be on display in the gallery through April 23rd, also includes work by 12 other IFA exhibiting artists, including Sally Barker, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Philip Gruppuso, Carl Keitner, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Howard Windham and Meredith Wolf.

Regular gallery hours are Thursdays, 12 – 3 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.

IFA encourages IFA artists and guest artists to explore their creativity by providing a supportive community and exhibition space. IFA also focuses on art programming for the public and collaborative projects with other local and regional organizations to promote the arts.
Its mission is to inspire creativity and promote art-making that enriches the community.