This week I participated in two events at Mylan Park Elementary School in Morgantown. On Tuesday, I talked with Mylan students during their annual career week. Every year Mylan Elementary asks speakers to talk about their careers as engineers, doctors, first responders, scientists, everything! It is always fun to get a chance to tell students... Continue Reading →

Friday May 4th was the opening reception for the exhibition Under the Blankets - Printmakers Together, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and presented by the Pittsburgh Print Group. This was a huge group show, and it was so great to be in an exhibition with so many other artists I admire. The volunteers... Continue Reading →

Friday April 13th marked the closing reception for the annual “CONFLUENCE 2018” WVU MFA exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh. This has been such a wonderful event for our program and our students. Thank you so much to everyone at AIR for being so supportive of the special relationship we have forged with them.... Continue Reading →

This year's annual SGC International Conference was held in Las Vegas. This was my first trip to Las Vegas since I was a kid. As most people already know, Las Vegas is a weird place...its no wonder that academics see Las Vegas as a representation of American hyper-capitalism... These penny slots were the closest I... Continue Reading →

This semester I asked four WVU Printmaking alumni to create new stickers for the print program. I couldn't be happier with the results! Every sticker showcases each artists' unique perspective and artistic style. Thank you so much to alumni Leslie Norris, Jess Poole, Sage Perrott, Luke Novel, and current MFA Printmaking student Feliks Pyron for... Continue Reading →

Recently, I helped organize a new portfolio exchange called COMIKY. Friends and co-organizers John Schulz and Bill Fick did much of the heavy lifting on this portfolio of mini-comics by some really great artists, along with Amze Emmons. The final line up of artists are: John Brown, Scotland; Raphael Cornford, Bloomington, IN; Bill Fick, Durham;... Continue Reading →

Our student print exchange with the University of Cape Town in South Africa is complete! Last semester, WVU Advanced Printmaking students participated in an international portfolio exchange with printmakers from UCT, and now the student prints from UCT came in! Thank you so much to UCT printmaking professor Stephen Inggs, the rest of the print... Continue Reading →

This year SGCI is trying something new. They are holding a silent auction of members' work during the conference. I was honored to be asked to donate a print for this cause. There are a TON of amazing printmakers in this list, so this is a real honor! SGCI is such an amazing organization and... Continue Reading →

Recently we hosted visiting artist Lenore Thomas. Lenore is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. I've known Lenore for a while now, and we have been talking about visiting each other's schools for a long time, so it was really great to finally have her in the WVU Printshop! Lenore brought A... Continue Reading →