Carolyn Hisel Retrospective Book
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- above: "Threshold #4", by Carolyn Young Hisel, 2017, approximately 20 x 28, mixed media
Carolyn Young Hisel was a well-known Kentucky artist who passed away in 2017. Her art consisted of an incredibly diverse range of paintings, collages, pastels and drawings that spanned a career of more than 50 years. As her work matured it moved from vibrant colorful abstractions of friends, landscapes and neighborhoods, to become more and more about our human relationship with the spiritual realm. In Carolyn's own words:"I ask the questions shared by every struggling human soul: questions about virtue and evil; guilt and innocence; the meaning of suffering and loss; redemption; revelation; love and transcendent joy; hope and despair."
Carolyn's family is raising funds for a retrospective book entitled This Light, This Ringing: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of the Work of Carolyn Young Hisel. The roughly 250-page book will include a biography, excerpts from her own voluminous writing about her process as an artist, and essays by friends and scholars including Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Sue Richards, and Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts. The book will be published by Iota Books in Lexington, Kentucky, and its release will coincide with a 50-year retrospective exhibit of Carolyn's work. The estimate for a nice, hardback, offset print version is around $27,000 for 1000 copies.
We are seeking help with this production cost. If we could get $200 dollars (or more) from just a few of Carolyn’s fans, it would ease the burden on the family. Of course any amount that you can give would be sincerely appreciated. The family will be contributing $5,000 to this effort. Gifts of $150 or more will receive the following awards:
$150 -- One copy of This Light, This Ringing.
$250 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing. Plus a small (approximately 9" x 12") print signed by Carolyn before she passed.
$500 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus a Large (approximately 18"x22") print signed by Carolyn before she passed.
$1,000 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus two large (approximately 18" x 22") prints signed by Carolyn.
$2,000 -- Four copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus three large (approximately 18" x 22") prints signed by Carolyn.
UPDATE 12/27/2018:
Due to a change in venue for the retrospective exhibition, we are not going to be able to have a Preview Opening. However, donors at all levels will get free admission to the opening at the Headley Whitney Museum on April 6th (a $10 value). We apologize for this change to the awards structure. If you have already made a donation and would like to revise it because of this change, please feel free to contact us.
Please note: there is a limited number of signed prints available, and while we will work with donors to get them a print they're happy with, we cannot guarantee that donors will get a particular print of their choice. These signed prints are of the highest quality: chromogenic prints on heavy weight archival paper, approved by Carolyn, and previously offered for sale on her website . While prints are no longer available for purchase through that site, you can see the prints by searching for the titles here . More technical information about the prints can be found here. And a list of available prints is below. Our sincere gratitude and deepest thanks go out to Tom Gerner and Tracy Gryger for making these prints available to this campaign.
A Scholarship Fund will be established in Carolyn’s name to benefit need-based children in the study of the creative arts. Any proceeds from the sale of the book (over and above the production costs), will go to that fund. (Nothing to the family).
Thank you very much for considering this campaign. We need to have the funds in hand by July 8th.
- Petitions, 2000, Oil on Canvas, by Carolyn Young Hisel
Carolyn Young Hisel was a well-known Kentucky artist who passed away in 2017. Her art consisted of an incredibly diverse range of paintings, collages, pastels and drawings that spanned a career of more than 50 years. As her work matured it moved from vibrant colorful abstractions of friends, landscapes and neighborhoods, to become more and more about our human relationship with the spiritual realm. In Carolyn's own words:"I ask the questions shared by every struggling human soul: questions about virtue and evil; guilt and innocence; the meaning of suffering and loss; redemption; revelation; love and transcendent joy; hope and despair."
Carolyn's family is raising funds for a retrospective book entitled This Light, This Ringing: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of the Work of Carolyn Young Hisel. The roughly 250-page book will include a biography, excerpts from her own voluminous writing about her process as an artist, and essays by friends and scholars including Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Sue Richards, and Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts. The book will be published by Iota Books in Lexington, Kentucky, and its release will coincide with a 50-year retrospective exhibit of Carolyn's work. The estimate for a nice, hardback, offset print version is around $27,000 for 1000 copies.
We are seeking help with this production cost. If we could get $200 dollars (or more) from just a few of Carolyn’s fans, it would ease the burden on the family. Of course any amount that you can give would be sincerely appreciated. The family will be contributing $5,000 to this effort. Gifts of $150 or more will receive the following awards:
$150 -- One copy of This Light, This Ringing.
$250 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing. Plus a small (approximately 9" x 12") print signed by Carolyn before she passed.
$500 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus a Large (approximately 18"x22") print signed by Carolyn before she passed.
$1,000 -- Two copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus two large (approximately 18" x 22") prints signed by Carolyn.
$2,000 -- Four copies of This Light, This Ringing, plus three large (approximately 18" x 22") prints signed by Carolyn.
UPDATE 12/27/2018:
Due to a change in venue for the retrospective exhibition, we are not going to be able to have a Preview Opening. However, donors at all levels will get free admission to the opening at the Headley Whitney Museum on April 6th (a $10 value). We apologize for this change to the awards structure. If you have already made a donation and would like to revise it because of this change, please feel free to contact us.
Please note: there is a limited number of signed prints available, and while we will work with donors to get them a print they're happy with, we cannot guarantee that donors will get a particular print of their choice. These signed prints are of the highest quality: chromogenic prints on heavy weight archival paper, approved by Carolyn, and previously offered for sale on her website . While prints are no longer available for purchase through that site, you can see the prints by searching for the titles here . More technical information about the prints can be found here. And a list of available prints is below. Our sincere gratitude and deepest thanks go out to Tom Gerner and Tracy Gryger for making these prints available to this campaign.
A Scholarship Fund will be established in Carolyn’s name to benefit need-based children in the study of the creative arts. Any proceeds from the sale of the book (over and above the production costs), will go to that fund. (Nothing to the family).
Thank you very much for considering this campaign. We need to have the funds in hand by July 8th.
- Petitions, 2000, Oil on Canvas, by Carolyn Young Hisel
Organizer
Dan Hisel
Organizer
Lexington, MA