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February 2, 2026 By squirt

Tickets On Sale for Chuck Sperry’s Retrospective at Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Finally, the public will get a comprehensive museum exhibition of 100+ of Sperry’s world-renown original screen printed wood panels, an exciting debut of new large-format hand-woven tapestries, and premier release of Sperry’s new 680 page art compendium Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026.

“Chuck Sperry: Archetypes”
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
April 25, 2026 – August 09, 2026
Opening: April 24, 6:30 to 9 pm

Chuck Sperry is an American printmaking master known for his psychedelic rock-and-roll posters full of intricate details, bold colors, and visually striking imagery. In his personal artistic practice, Ancient Greece has served as a source of inspiration for Sperry for its rich mythological history and its pioneering of a democratic society. The Greek Muses, nine goddesses of the arts and sciences, represent Sperry’s commitment to exploring the relationship between art, nature, and social commentary in the modern world. This exhibition highlights Sperry’s vision of the Muses rendered exclusively on just over 100 wooden panels in the most complete display of them to date. All the works shown in the exhibition will join Chuck Sperry’s Archive in FWMoA’s Permanent Collection.

This exhibition is supported by the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation and is curated by Curator of Contemporary Art and Senior Technician Josef Zimmerman.

Opening weekend details:

April 24, 6:30pm – Opening and Sale
$25 per person |
Get Tickets Here
At this event, celebrate opening night of Chuck Sperry’s retrospective exhibition “Archetypes”. Enjoy appetizers and cash bar.

Chuck Sperry artwork will be for sale through a lottery only under the following regulations:

Lottery tickets will be dispensed on a first come, first served basis outside the FWMoA West entrance from 4-6pm April 24. Lottery participants must be 18 years old or older.

The opening party will be from 6:30-9pm April 24. Anyone who participated in the lottery and who wishes to enter FWMoA to purchase artwork must pay the party price (at this link or at the door, while supplies last) regardless of whether you are staying for the party.

You will not increase your chances of obtaining a successful lottery ticket (giving you the chance to buy Sperry work) by purchasing more than one ticket to the party per individual.

Tickets to the party will not be refunded and transfers of tickets to other attendees will not be honored.

Lottery announcements with time slots for the winners to purchase their work will be announced via television in the FWMoA lobby starting at 6:30pm with sales starting at 6:45pm.

Each lottery winner will be given the chance to purchase ONE of each of the following: a new panel piece, an archival panel piece, a new card set, and two copies of Chuck Sperry’s newest book “Archetypes.”

FWMoA Member discounts will NOT be applied to artwork in the Chuck Sperry exhibition.

Fort Wayne Museum of Art will not supply shipping material nor offer shipping services. Panels will be wrapped in a basic protective plastic sleeve.

All sales are final.

9:00pm – Event ends

April 25, 11am – Artist and Curator Panel Discussion
$50 per person |
Get Tickets Here
Artist Chuck Sperry and FWMoA Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman, will speak on Sperry’s illustrious career and his most recent work. Enjoy a Bloody Mary cash bar.

April 25, 1-4pm – Book Signing with Chuck Sperry
Included with FWMoA admission. No special tickets required. Purchase books at the Opening and Sale on April 24 or at the Book Signing.

Contact Emily Uphoff at [email protected] or 260-422-6467 with your questions.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Chuck Sperry: Archetypes, Fort Wayne Museum of Art

October 14, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Weekend Events: “Home Show” Retrospective, TRPS, and “Ratified” at The Roxie

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective is opening this week! The exhibition includes rock posters, art prints on paper and wood, deep cuts from the artist’s 40-year career, and the West Coast premiere of several hand-woven tapestries. Running from October 17-November 24, 2024, the exhibition is Sperry’s most comprehensive exhibition since his Color x Color retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2022 and his first local exhibition since the acquisition last spring of four of his pieces by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two of which were featured in Art of Noise this summer.

“Joy” 2024
Edition of 300
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Check out all Chuck Sperry’s upcoming events below:

Friday, Oct. 18, 1 PM – 9 PM: Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective
Only a couple of tickets left to get a chance to purchase a piece of Chuck’s work yourself! Check out the ticket availability HERE! From 6-9 PM is a free opening reception for Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective. Join us in kicking off a poster-filled weekend!

Photo: Shaun Roberts

Saturday, Oct. 19, 10 AM-6 PM: TRPS Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024
Chuck Sperry will concentrate on poster and print offerings at TRPS this year: he’ll have many surprises, rarities, variants, one-of-a-kind test prints, black & white tests, and blotters — from Pearl Jam to Panic — to offer exclusively at TRPS on Saturday, October 19, 2024! San Francisco’s annual Fall Clas­sic, the Rock Poster Society’s Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024 is set to go for Sat­ur­day at the San Fran­cisco County Fair Build­ing (aka Hall of Flow­ers) in beau­ti­ful Golden Gate Park.

Ratified, 2024
21 x 31.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Monday, Oct. 21, 6-8 PM: RATIFIED new screen print by Chuck Sperry
A Film Showing of RATIFIED co-presented by Roxie Theater and Spoke Art. Featuring a new limited edition screen print by Chuck Sperry, part of the ongoing Spoke Art curated Roxie Theater poster series. Posters are only available on Monday, October 21. 

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality. It’s an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress and takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality.

Tickets HERE

Deepak Puri & Forest Stearns in a post-screening discussion facilitated by RATIFIED subject, Kati Hornung.

Kati Hornung, Executive Director of VoteEquality
Kati advocates for an equality table so large every American can find a seat. Her gender equality advocacy work was memorialized in the movie RATIFIED, as the cameras followed the successful VAratifyERA campaign and later VoteEquality. Kati has a professional background in accounting and software consulting. Although initially involved in advocacy because of her oldest child’s interest, she rediscovered a passion for feminism that had been simmering on a back burner since childhood. Kati is very “task oriented” and the task she most wants to accomplish is the complete dismantling of systemic gender inequality. Step one: closing the equality gap in our Constitution.

Deepak Puri, Co-Founder of Democracy Labs
Deepak is the co-founder of Democracy Labs, a SF based non-profit that connects progressive groups with free and affordable solutions. DemLabs works closely with grassroots groups to identify their needs, finds the best solution to meet them, and then freely shares how to use those new tools through a free blog with over 1,900 case studies. Deepak is a Silicon Valley veteran with fifteen years of experience at Netscape, Oracle, and VMware.

Forest Stearns, Artist
Forest Stearns is the Principal Artist at DRAWEVERYWHERE LLC where he produces unique artwork and leads collaborations between artists and institutions. He has a passion for founding Artist in Residence programs that connect art, science, and technology. Currently he is the Creative Innovation Consultant and Artist in Residence co-founder at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, CA. Stearns is an academically trained prolific illustrator, an arts educator, creative facilitator and community builder. Also an engaged father and supportive partner, he was one of twenty-eight artists who launched the national Artists4ERA collection in support of the VoteEquality campaign and the fully ratified Twenty-Eighth Amendment (Equal Rights).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art of Noise, Artists 4 ERA, Color X Color, Deepak Puri, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Festival of Rock Posters, Forest Stearns, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Haight Street Art Center, Home Show, Kati Hornung, Muses, Ratified, Retrospective, Roxie Theater, SFMOMA, Spoke Art, The Rock Poster Society, TRPS, Vote Equality US

May 2, 2022 By squirt

“Syrinx” Variant Edition Release on May 3

Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Regular Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Not Available 

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Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Silver Edition of 10
7 colors on silver paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Gold Edition of 10
7 colors on gold paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Satin Black Edition of 20
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Sparkle Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Syrinx, 2022
21 x 32
Lava Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on lava foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Syrinx was a devotee of Artemis. When Pan saw her he was smitten. At first sight Syrinx ran away from Pan, bounding toward the reedy shore of a river, where the river nymphs helped her, and as she jumped into the water, she was transformed into reeds. Pan gathered the reeds he thought to have been Syrinx, and from them made his signature pan pipes, thus Syrinx was turned into music.

I released the regular edition of my latest muse “Syrinx” at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art retrospective exhibition, “Color x Color”. 

I will be making a very limited online release of my “Syrinx” variant editions on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 9-10 am PST. (No regular editions will be offered online.)

Limited to one print (1) per household. This limit of one print (1) includes all variants offered. Subsequent orders will be cancelled.

I would like to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. My “Syrinx” variant editions will be available, right here, in this post on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 9-10 am PST. The variants will appear at the same time as the PayPal “Buy Now” buttons. All the variants and their PayPal “Buy Now” buttons will appear at 9-10 am PST, and I will announce the price of each variant at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Color X Color, Color x Color: Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Muses, Sappho, Syrinx

April 28, 2022 By squirt

“Sappho” Variant Edition Release on May 1

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Regular Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Not Available 

________________

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Silver Edition of 10
7 colors on silver paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Gold Edition of 10
7 colors on gold paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Satin Black Edition of 20
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Sparkle Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Sappho, 2022
21 x 32
Lava Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on lava foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

________________

Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the “Tenth Muse” and “The Poetess”.

I released the regular edition of my latest muse “Sappho” at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art retrospective exhibition, “Color x Color”. 

I will be making a very limited online release of my “Sappho” variant editions on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9-10 am PST. (No regular editions will be offered online.)

Limited to one print (1) per household. This limit of one print (1) includes all variants offered. Subsequent orders will be cancelled.

I would like to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. My “Sappho” variant editions will be available, right here, in this post on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9-10 am PST. The variants will appear at the same time as the PayPal “Buy Now” buttons. All the variants and their PayPal “Buy Now” buttons will appear at 9-10 am PST, and I will announce the price of each variant at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Color X Color, Color x Color: Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Muses, Sappho, Syrinx

April 28, 2022 By squirt

Photo Story: Opening Weekend “Color x Color” at Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Fort Wayne Museum of Art is currently hosting my retrospective exhibition of art, “Color x Color, Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive.” The exhibition remains on view from April 23 to July 10, 2022.

I would like to thank the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for a spectacular opening last weekend! 

My supporters came from every corner of the country to share in the opening celebration of events. I can not thank each and every one of you enough for your beautiful energy and enthusiasm! The staff of the museum showed Olympian hospitality, good humor and grace to me and all my supporters, friends and family.

Special thanks to Museum CEO and President Charles Shepard and Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman for mounting this massive retrospective of my printmaking art, and the establishment of a special permanent collection of my entire body of work. I would like to send my appreciation to the entire organization, from trustees to staff who support the archive and the exhibition of my work. 

Talented photographer Shaun Roberts documented the excitement of opening night, artist talk, museum curator tour, and artist workshop at the museum (below).

Friday: Exhibition Opening

Saturday: Artist Talk with Carlo McCormick

Saturday: Curator Tour with Josef Zimmerman

Sunday: Printmaking Demonstration

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Carlo McCormick, Chuck Sperry, Color X Color, Color x Color: Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Josef Zimmerman, Shaun Roberts

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Chuck Sperry lives in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where he’s made his particular style of rock poster designs for over 20 years. He operates Hangar 18, a silkscreen print studio, located in Oakland. Learn More…

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