Visual artist and printmaker Talia Ryan is joining Foundlings Press as the resident artist of the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize. Working at the Western New York Book Arts Center, Talia will design and produce a limited-edition broadside for Emma Fuchs’s “Sestina for Klein Blue", which guest judge David St. John selected for the second annual Ralph Angel Poetry prize. The broadside will be available from Foundlings Press in late 2022.
View some of Talia’s recent work, including textile prints, lino, intaglio, letterpress incorporated, and book arts, below:
The Ralph Angel Poetry Prize
Established in 2021, the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize honors the late Ralph Angel, a friend of Foundlings press who appeared in the inaugural Stray in January 2020 before his passing that spring. Each year, Foundlings welcomes single-poem submissions, and a guest judge picks one work to honor with publication in a limited edition broadside. In the first year of the prize, guest judge Mary Ruefle selected Margarita Serafimova’s poem “The Biologists.” Foundlings Art Director Darren Canham produced the limited edition broadside at the Western New York Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) in Buffalo. In the second year of the prize, guest judge David St. John selected Emma Fuchs and her poem “Sestina for Klein Blue,” which will be available later this year.
About Talia Ryan
Talia Ryan is a Buffalo-based artist and art educator. She is primarily a printmaker and painter, but her wide-ranging practice has included photography, textiles, and sculpture. PAUSA Art House hosted the first solo exhibition of Talia’s work in December 2019, and she has joined group exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum and Nazareth College Calacino Gallery. In the summer of 2021 she was awarded an artist residency at the WNY Book Arts Center, where she is now a teaching artist. She holds dual BA and MA degrees in Studio Art and Art Education from Nazareth College. In addition to working as a studio artist, she teaches advanced studio and AP art at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School in downtown Buffalo.
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