The start of a new 8 MONTH DIGITAL BILLBOARD PROJECT has begun! New billboard images by different artists will rotate every month for 8 months! Starting us off are Barbara Tharas (Kansas), Edie Overturf (Oregon) and Mateo Fuentes (West Virginia). The billboard is off 705, by the Mon Hospital Campus right above the Med Express.... Continue Reading →

Last day with visiting artist Jun Lee was filled with edition printing and lots of t-shirt printing! Jun was generous enough to offer t-shirt printing to any student who showed up with a shirt in hand! We were busy, and the shirts looks great!!! Thank you so much Jun for your time and expertise! It... Continue Reading →

Day two of Jun Lee’s visit to WVU was full of demos, presenting work, and printing alongside students! Along with edition printing, Jun brought smaller plates for students to print which helped create a lot of creative energy throughout the shop! The day ended with a fantastic lecture and exhibition reception! So grateful Jun was... Continue Reading →

Jun Lee is here!!! So happy to have Jun in the WVU printshop this week! Jun Lee is our 2022 Lost Arrow Printmaking Lecture in Memory of Joe Hestick. Jun is on campus Wednesday through Friday, making prints with students and giving a public lecture Thursday! Day one and we’ve already made good progress, printed... Continue Reading →

I was thrilled to give a talk to Matt Forrest’s capstone class at Georgia College. Matt is a WVU Alum, was one of my first graduate students, and is one of the hardest working and dedicated printmakers I know. Thank you so much for the invitation! I’ve been so lucky over the last 15 years... Continue Reading →

I’m excited to say that I will start the school year as the Associate Director of the WVU School of Art and Design. I have big shoes to fill as Professor Kristina Olson perfectly managed this position and is now our Director, but I am truly excited to work with Kristina and our amazing faculty... Continue Reading →

Congratulations to WVU printmaking alum Feliks Pyron for their solo exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh! The Museum of Queer Curiosities is an expansion of their thesis exhibition, it was so great to see the new work in relation to what existed already! Thanks to the WVU faculty, students and alum for showing up... Continue Reading →

Squeezing in some more studio time before I need to start thinking about next semester. I've been really happy with the way these images have come together. This series of prints uses copyright free comics from the early 20th century and uses appropriated text to construct English language anagrams. While the relationship between the image... Continue Reading →

Excited to be shipping this print off to PrintMatters Houston to be included in the NEXT 2022 Biennial of Contemporary Print exhibition. This one of the first anagram prints that I made in this series, when I was starting to figure out just exactly what I was doing. I’ll be sending a few prints out... Continue Reading →

Excited to announce that my work with part of the DEHAZE exhibition at PullProof studio in Pittsburgh. The show will be open to the public next Sunday, May 29th from 4-6pm for a closing reception!