Journal Painting: Kiluea Kulaniapia (Hawai’i). Solander box by Wyvern Bindery, London

JLM atop Ellafjallajokuk, Iceland

JLM at the summit of another volcano: Kilaeua, Hawai’i. July 1, 2015

JLM signing prints, November 17, 2017. Publication date for Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One., Needlewatcher Editions.
2017 Pollock Krasner Grant recipient James Lancel McElhinney will discuss the practice of plein-air Journal Painting, as the revival of historic expeditionary art, unpacked as limited-edition books and archival digital prints. The talks will take place in Suite 9D (Building 9), Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, 55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, New York. (Rockland County). The facility is located thirty minutes north of the George Washington Bridge. McElhinney’s talk will be one of a number of activities taking place as part of the annual Garner Arts Center annual Arts Festival.

Admission to the talk is free to all attending the 2018 Garner Arts Festival.
Tickets to the festival can be purchased here: http://garnerartscenter.org/arts-festival/

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McElhinney (MFA Yale) has been described as a Visual Historian. He is the author of several books on painting and drawing, who has conducted many art-world oral history interviews for the clients such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, Rauschenberg Foundation, Newington Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, Vermont Studio Center, to name a few. He is the owner of Needlewatcher Editions, LLC.

Its first publication Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One. (2017) has been acquired by West Point Museum, Boscobel House and Gardens, Hudson River Museum, Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library, Huntington Library, Museum and Gardens (CA), Newberry Library, Chicago, Avery Library, Columbia University, University of Denver, and other notable public and private collections.