The second half of my BIG XII Fellowship was carried out last week. The first half consisted of a two day visit from University of Kansas printmaking professor Michael Krueger.
On Feb 24-25, it was my turn to visit the University of Kansas. Michael, Yoonmi Nam, Shawn Bitters and all the graduate and undergraduate students were great hosts! During my visit, I got to see the wonderful facilities, have critiques with the grads, give a mini-comics workshop, and give a lecture about my work. The entire visit was such a blast, and everyone was really engaged, those two days could not have gone better. Thank you so much to everyone at the U of Kansas Department of Visual Arts for being such wonderful hosts.
Greetings from KANSAS!
A good sign that a visit is going to go well, pinball was played on the first night…
Downtown Lawrence has some great storefront designs…
Again, really fantastic classic storefront design…
Poster for the lecture and workshop…
Inside Michael’s studio, this is a portfolio box constructed to look like an old amp, next to actual old Mac computers…
Transparency for the piece Michael made for the “Shame of the City” exhibition…
A Bill Fick/Michael Krueger collaboration…
Every printshop needs a piano…
And a house band…a real life printmaking based band composed of KU students…
Intaglio Club printed material…
Yoonmi and Shawn’s summer study abroad program in Japan…can I go?
A former student made Yonnmi this litho press out of paper! The press bed actually moves…
Label explaining the printshop…
There was a trip to the Lawrence Arts Center…we were able to squeeze in some time to see a great show of work by William S. Burroughs…and we were able to get to the Spencer Museum of Art which had a really nice James Turrell show, and some wonderful prints from World War I…
Actual work being done! I was able to teach a really great mini-comics workshop…the students (and Michael) were so engaged!
Cutting and folding…
“Pre-press” photo of Michael’s “Everything in my pockets” zine…which once it was xeroxed actually turned out really well…
Some students brought in old comics to cut up, and make new mini-comics out of…
SUCCESS! A whole new bunch of mini-comics to add to my collection!
And finally a fitting end to the visit…a great stout by local brewery Free State called “IRON MAN”…
Joseph Lupo 
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