Elizabeth Castaldo Art and Books

I was invited to be an Art-in Ed Artist in Residence at Women’s Studio Workshop. I was elated. I had been to WSW a few times for their summer intensive workshops and to use the studio as a renter a handful of times in the past. I loved being there, the studios, community and history…

Last Fall, my solo exhibition, Proximate Magic was presented at Saint Joseph’s College Board Room Gallery in Patchogue, NY. A big thank you to John Cino, the curator, for inviting me to exhibit my work, and to Anna Malzone, the gallery director.  Much of the work in the exhibition was very new work that I…

Click Images to Enlarge   Earth/ Mother is an exchange portfolio that was organized for the 2020 Southern Graphics Council Conference to be held in San Juan Puerto Rico. The conference was postponed because of the COVID- 19 pandemic. The inspiration for this portfolio came out of current events around women’s rights and climate change,…

End of Campaign Update and Thank You! I hope this message finds all of you well. My campaign to raise funds related to two artists residencies has ended and unfortunately “Make Art, Will Travel” did not reach its funding goal. Perhaps I was overly ambitious, or maybe it was the bad timing of launching this…

As an artist educator, something that seemed really daunting at the beginning of this whole self isolating period, was the prospect of converting in person classes into something that could be taught and learned online. I teach book arts and printmaking, so like many instructors of visual arts, this came as quite a challenge, mainly…

In June I had the opportunity to attend session 2 of Print Camp 2019. Print camp is a 9 day residency/ workshop conceived of and run by Shelley Thorstensen at her personal studio, Printmakers Open Forum in Oxford PA. Shelley embodies the spirit of community that makes printmaking so awesome and has a commitment to…