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Please join me at my upcoming artist reception and see my latest paintings during this solo exhibition at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art.
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Dartmouth College Class of '59 celebrated June 15th with the improv performance; Spontaneous Combustion, featuring celebrated recording artist, pianist Mike Melvoin and Roger Goldenberg, nationally known visual jazz painter. During the 10 minute jam session Roger and Mike conversed in their famliar mediums, Mike on the Hopkin's Center Steinway and Roger with his selected brush and black paint. During the final two minutes each artist traded fours, concluding simultaneously to the applause of the enthusiastic, enthralled audience. click here for Mike Melvoin
Mike Melvoin performing jazz while artist Roger Goldenberg, seen below responded with visual jazz, using paint and brush.
Visual Artist Roger Goldenberg begins jamming with pianist Mike Melvoin
Goldenberg riffing moments before trading fours with Mike Melvoin
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E–Motion Project: Art-Club at the Portsmouth Middle School
This spring Portsmouth’s Art Department Chair, Anna Nuttall, invited Roger Goldenberg to be the Visiting Artist for her Wednesday afternoon Art Club for Grades 6-8
Goldenberg jumped at the opportunity and together they brainstormed a theme for the 9-week session, drawing on his jazzy art and interest in kinetic sculpture. (You might remember his sculpture Bookmarks for the Big Reader displayed at Portsmouth Public Library last summer).
Goldenberg and Nuttall believe abstract art is the perfect medium for expressing emotional states of mind. During this session of Art Club, the middle schoolers had the opportunity to process the heightened and sometimes complicated emotions they feel as they navigate the transition from child to teenager. The name E-motion was an obvious moniker for the art club project.
Each student began by choosing an emotion. They described the emotion in a few sentences, then worked through the process of developing the conceptual idea into an actual three-dimensional sculpture. By the conclusion of the semester, the young artists were required to express their ideas verbally, in written form, and as visual art; each prepared brief artist statements to accompany their sculpture.
To honor these Art Club artists, Goldenberg hosted an evening artist reception in his studio where the parents could view the works for the first time. Subsequently, Anna Nuttall installed each sculpture in the Portsmouth Middle School Library. NOW the E–motion sculptures are installed at the Portsmouth Public Library.
Please make a point to view their exhibition.
Read Casey Sullivan's Portsmouth Herald article about the Portsmouth Middle School E-motion Project
Below: A few of the young artists and their sculptures
7th Grader Lara with E-motion Sculpture
Nick with his E-motion sculpture
Anna and her sculpture
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PRINTMAKING FOR EDUCATORS
with Roger Goldenberg
Professional Development Workshop Series for Educators K–12
Sign up now for continuing education printmaking workshops in the studio of Roger Goldenberg. Roger will share his enthusiasm and knowledge in these one-day classes designed for educators—both beginners and those with printmaking experience. In these workshops Roger will empower and encourage classroom teachers who want to integrate visual arts into their curriculum and bring lessons alive for their students with hands-on art making. Visual arts teachers can use their knowledge and skills while expanding their experience with this innovative, versatile art form. Each workshop uses non-toxic, water-based Akua inks and emphasizes safe studio techniques. Roger’s studio is located at The Button Factory, Suite # 325, 855 Islington Street in Portsmouth, NH. To register for one or both of these single-day workshops, call 603-303-4078.
 Monotypes Simplified for the Classroom
Dates will be scheduled for the Fall Sessions soon!
Registration Deadline: one week before class date
Monotype is the most forgiving of the printmaking processes, especially when using water-based inks. It allows for quick, direct experimentation with immediate results. Using simple tools, participants will learn to prepare various types of plates for printing, exploring subtractive, additive, stencil, ghost, and chine collé processes. Hand printing techniques that yield professional results will be emphasized in this session. This printing process is easily replicated in your classroom. Teachers and students can continue to explore the monotype at home.
Tuition: $145 • Materials fee: $45
Tools will be provided. However, if you have favorite palette knives and assorted, small paint brushes, please bring them along. Participants are also encouraged to bring colorful textured
scraps of paper to use in chine collé.
 Woodcut Simplified for the Classroom
Registration Deadline: one week before class date
Dates will be scheduled for the Fall Sessions soon!
This basic introduction to woodcut printing will use both wood blocks and soft-cut linoleum blocks. After reviewing how to prepare a wood block, participants will draw directly onto the block or transfer a simple sketch, then work the image using carving tools. Images will be printed both by hand and with a Takach etching press, using water-based relief inks. Hand printing techniques that use simple tools and yield professional results will be emphasized in this class. The process is easily replicated in your classroom and students can continue to explore woodcut printing at home.
Tuition: $145 • Materials fee: $45
Each participant must bring a Speedball linoleum carving set, a woodcarving set, or the equivalent. Speedball linoleum sets are inexpensive and may be purchased at local craft
stores or ordered online.
ABOUT ROGER
Roger Goldenberg’s teaching experience ranges from the university level to grade school. He has taught painting and drawing at the University of New Hampshire as well as paper construction with Rye Montessori Schoolers, life drawing for adults at Sanctuary Arts, Eliot, ME; Roger was an artist in residence with A.I.R., an organization offering arts mentors for at-risk teen girls, and served as an artist mentor for Seacast Outright Wall and Center Project. In addition to offering weekend workshops in his new printmaking facility, Roger is on the faculty of the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH, where he teaches a printmaking series that includes variations on monotype, dry point, etching and woodcut. In the spring of 2009, Roger will be a Visiting Artist at the Portsmouth Middle School where he will work with kids on an abstract kinetic sculpture project titled E-MOTION. This residency was inspired by the 2008 Overnight Art sculpture Bookmarks for the Big Reader, which Goldenberg designed and fabricated to honor the new Portsmouth Public Library.
Roger plays trumpet as a hobby and listens to jazz as he works. “Even when my studio is silent, jazz is there, inside me,” he muses. His imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding. This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Roger explains, “Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas.” His paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, saxophonist Charlie Byrd and jazz explorer of ‘terra incognita,’ Wayne Shorter. Chris Millis, the former Living Arts Editor for Boston’s South End News and current editor for artsMEDIA, exclaimed, “these are paintings you could ‘listen’ to forever.”
Additional biographical information about Roger can be found at his websites www.rgpaints.com and www.rgpaintswebstore.com
Registration Deadline: one week before class date
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Recent Exhibition: Visual Jazz at the AVA Gallery and Art Center
live interview by Charlotte Davenport host of Sculpture Fest
Goldenberg interviewed by Gossip Lady (video)
live interview: Gossip Lady Heads to the Button Factory
Bookmarks for the Big Reader!
link to NH Chronical coverage of Portsmouth NH's Overnight Art Sculpture Competition
Roger Goldenberg is one of the 6 Overnight Art public art competition winners for 2008! Goldenberg describes his sculpture and the inspiration behind it; My sculpture is a gently kinetic meditation piece originally designed as an amalgam of metaphors: Tibetan prayer flags, sybolic mandalas, and the Phoenix. Bookmarks for the Big Reader is a site-specific sculpture that whirls its colorful "bookmarks" in celebration of our new public library.The sculpture inspires contemplation and invites a person to sit in contemplation. It provides an outdoor place to read, rest and be renewed. The arc of the flags recalls a mandala, a design symbolic of the universe and in some cultures, an aid to meditation. The sculpture as whole is peacock-like, a metaphor for the phoenix, a splendor risen from ashes, a transformation, which I use as an emblem of idealism or hope. In total my piece encourages intellectual flight through ideas. I've been a longtime supporter of the new library, and it is a special honor for my sculpture to reside on the library’s premises. For me these simple place markers, Bookmarks for the Big Reader, are a metaphor that call to mind how books give flight to our imaginations.
Click here to link with Art-Speak's Overnight Art Webpage
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Artist Entrepreneur Grant Award
In 2007 Roger Goldenberg received the Artist Entrepreneur Grant Award from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for his innovative plan to enhance his website and to create his new webstore This award is made possible by appropriations from the Governor of New Hampshire, the NH State Legislature and a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
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Intelligent Design, 2006, is the most recent donation by Philanthropist Tom Haas to The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum in St. Louis , Missouri.
Intelligent Design, by Roger Goldenberg, oil on canvas assemblage with rope, string, thread and other fabric, 90" x 75"
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Head Space for Kate, was donated this summer to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans, following in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This painting is proving to be a morale booster for the children and parents in New Orleans, the birth place of jazz.
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Hairy Harry! seen below, was donated last year by philanthropist,
Tom Haas, to the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, in Gulfport, Mississippi. Their children's museum was also devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. This gift is part of an on-going national children's museum project to spark children's creative imaginations through Roger Goldenberg's dynamic paintings such as this one.
Hairy Harry by Roger Goldenberg, oil on canvas assemblage on panel with string, 28" x 36"
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Goldenberg's
paintings can be found in children's
museums across the country and many other noted private and corporate collections. These paintings are vivacious oils on dynamically
shaped canvas assemblages.
Goldenberg plays trumpet as a hobby and listens to jazz as he works. “Though even when my studio is silent, jazz is there, inside me,” he muses. His imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding. This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Roger explains, “Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas.” His paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, saxophonist Charlie Byrd and jazz explorer of 'terra incognita', Wayne Shorter. Chris Millis, the former Living Arts Editor for Boston's South End News and current editor for artsMEDIA, exclaimed, "these are paintings you could 'listen' to forever."
For the past 5 years artist Roger Goldenberg has been working in partnership with philanthropist Tom Haas to place his paintings in children's museums throughout the nation.
Philanthropist Tom Haas' Children's Museum Project comes to a successful
conclusion this year. Haas donated 26 of artist Roger Goldenberg's paintings to children's museums throughout the United States: some major cities include New Orleans, Dallas, Cleveland, Memphis, Miami, Philadelphia and some humbler locales include Masphee and Easton, MA; Derry and Portsmouth, NH; and Bangor, ME and Gulfport, MS.
The idea for this project was inspired by Haas' eight year old son Tommy, who relishes telling his Dad about the stories that he sees in Goldenberg's painting, Tree House, which hangs in his bedroom. Citing Tommy as an example, Mr. Haas believes that Goldenberg's paintings can be used within the forum of children'smuseums to inspire visiting children to use their gifts of imagination and to encourage them to develop their spirit of creativity. Tom Roger's artwork will broaden children’s exposure to art, deepen their understanding of art, and help build a trustworthy foundation from which they can confidently follow their creative instincts to boldly use their imaginations.
Roger Goldenberg believes it is an honor to be selected by Tom Haas as an ambassador for this purpose. Goldenberg is currently working on a book project to document this extensive project. This book will not only herald the generousity of Mr. Haas and the importance of his philanthropy, but will underscore Haas' vision: to bring unique high quality abstract art to children throughout the USA. The book will also provide simple curriculum for parents and children during their museum visit.
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Roger was just named by the United States Small Business Administration as NH SBA’s “2006 Home-Based Business Champion of the Year” for 2006. Goldenberg is an active member of , having served three years as the Vice Chairman and currently serving as the Chairman of the Arts Space Committee. The committee is charged with exploring the issue of space for the arts and artists; for living, performing and exhibition. The committee is actively pursuing local legislation to institute a public art ordinance, which would require that 1% of public buildings’ space be utilized for art. In addition to raising public awareness of art space issues, the committee has also brought the issue of affordable “live/work" space to the attention of the city council.
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