As part of the BIG XII Fellowship guidelines, I hosted University of Kansas Associate Professor of Art Michael Krueger.
Michael was in Morgantown from Nov. 13 to Nov. 15. We had a jam packed visit for him planned: meals, critiques, lecture, demonstrations, printing, and of course bowling. The visit was a ton of fun, Michael was incredibly nice, and the student turn out was really great to see. Thank you to Michael, thank you to all my students who helped out, and a big thank you to the BIG XII Fellowship for funding the visit.
Poster for Michael’s lecture…
DAY ONE:
The first day started out with graduate and undergraduate critiques. Michael and undergraduate student Alex Martin are talking about his work here…
After lunch, there was some proofing of the copper plates Michael brought…
Then it was time for Michael’s lecture, seen here in front of a packed Litho Shop…
Everyone was really engaged with the talk…
Next up, more critiques! Now with undergraduate student Kelsie Lilly…
Once the critiques were over, it was time to head to the Black Bear for dinner. Michael was pretty enamored with the PRT, so they all rode it over to the Black Bear…
Bowling…although we bowl every year, Michael beat us all…two games in a row…
Fun times…
DAY TWO:
Day two was intense, to say the least…9 straight hours of printing…Here, Michael is talking to WVU Curator Bob Bridges about the project we are about to undertake…
Art Historian Kristina Olson stopped by to see what was going on…
Alex cutting up some stencils for a relief roll on an intaglio plate…
Alex Engelman mixing up colors…
Looking and thinking, with Sam Boehm totally in the way…
Kelsie, Alex, and Elisha Rush talking with Michael…
Kelsie looking at the progress so far…
Lots of proofs to look at, lots of decisions to make…
This was the proof that brought it all together…
Jordan Welsh inking up a 45 record…
Alex and Sam hoping for the best. Michael asked some students to go out and get some old 45 records to ink up Intaglio style and run through the press…
Close up of one of the record prints. There is a small copper plate etching in the center of the 45…
Sarah Olsen, Bret Herron, Cassandra Delimon, Jordan and Alex…
Lots of prints piling up…
We had to move out into the hallway because we ran out of room to dry the prints…Cassandra was our official clean hands person, this was the point where her fingers were becoming numb from pining so many prints…
Roughly 9 hours later, we are done!
Joseph Lupo 
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