Spring Pentaculum 2022 has come to an end at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts! I am so appreciative to be given this opportunity to spend a week with so many dedicated and smart individuals! I don't think I can really say exactly all the things that happened, or all the feelings I experienced during... Continue Reading →

What could be better than ending the school year with printing with 5th graders??? This afternoon 5th grade students from Mylan Elementary visited the print shop to print t-shirts and make our patented multi layer Mothman print! I love having K-12 students in the shop experiencing what printmaking and the arts have to offer!

So excited to see the final results of the new portfolio COMICKY 2! This is the second COMICKY portfolio I have helped organize with the fantastic printmakers John Shulz, Bill Fick, and Amze Emmons. We had an incredible line up of artists this time around: Madeleine Conover Olivia Fredricks Celine Hudreaux Gaby Hurtado-Ramos Christina Kang... Continue Reading →

Friday held our closing reception for our annual WVU student exhibition Smorgasbord Vol.3, at Artists Image Resource last Saturday. We also squeezed in a quick visit to Pullproof Studio before. We have been running this show in the spring for over a decade now, students are responsible for every aspect of the exhibition. I was... Continue Reading →

So excited that WVU alumni Stephanie Alaniz was able to spend some time with our Advanced Printmaking class and give an amazing talk to WVU printmaking students and alumni! If you don’t know Stephanie Alaniz and their work, you need to! Stephanie has cracked the code on making aesthetically and technically great work while at... Continue Reading →

So much this weekend in Fayetteville at the opening reception of “Trifecta” an exhibition of WVU faculty and graduate students at the Love Hope Center for the Arts! Big thank you to everyone at Love Hope for their help and support, a big thank you to Sculpture Professor Jason Lee for organizing the show, and... Continue Reading →

The WVU Printmakers spent a Saturday at Fellowsville Elementary School in Preston County, WV conducting a screen print workshop for families. It is always so much fun watching kids make prints for the first time! We used the 3 color Mothman print designed by our Print Club president Lauren White and printed our unofficial WVU... Continue Reading →

A huge thank you to Trishelle Jeffery who gave a fantastic, honest, and sincere lecture! Our students loved it! As always, it was good to see some of our alumni and print friends from around the country showing up as well. I’ve worked with Trishelle on various projects over the years, and I am such... Continue Reading →

The Morgantown Billboard Project part THREE is up and running! Like last time, the idea is to appropriate space that is designated for commercial use, marketing, and messaging that tells us what to do. Most of these messages are succinct and to the point. They direct the reader to go online and make that medical... Continue Reading →

It has been two long years since I’ve been able to work with Mon County students in the classroom. This week I was able to visit with students at North Elementary to talk about comics! We started off their autobiographical comics project by talking comics and seeing what questions they had before getting started. Even... Continue Reading →