Saturday April 06th marked the closing reception for the annual WVU exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh. This year we decided to make the exhibition for the WVU Printmakers only. My printmaking students were responsible for all aspects of the exhibition, installation, promotion, and reception. This has been such a wonderful event for our... Continue Reading →

We are continuing our recent tradition of asking current MFA students or emerging artists from around the country to show their work in our glass cases. Today I am SUPER excited to announce that we have Trishelle Jeffery’s work in our glass classes! Trishelle currently lives and works in Salt Lake City at Saltgrass Printmakers,... Continue Reading →

Today saw the completion of a two day relief printmaking workshop with students from Skyview Elementary this week. On day one of the workshop, students drew images on paper with black marker. I also brought two linoleum blocks already cut with some WVU Printmaking logos for students to print. I then went back to the... Continue Reading →

The annual SGCI Conference in Dallas concluded and was a success! This year was the first time I chaired a panel titled "Critical Comics". I was really lucky to have three great artists talk about their work and comics. Trishelle Jeffery is an artist working in Salt Lake City. She makes mostly autobiographical work that... Continue Reading →

Today we were so lucky to have a visit from Professor of Art Benjy Davies! Benjy teaches at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. He brought his great sense of humor, kindness, and wisdom as he discussed his career making lithographs, taught us how to draw with sticks, and gave a demonstration about printing... Continue Reading →

The WVU Print Club has been busy these last few days holding a print sale during a Morgantown Arts Crawl and a live printing event at WVU for their weekly "Up All Night" events at the Mountainlair! WVU Print Club downtown at Gary's Comics for a sale during Arts Crawl... There was a consistent crowd... Continue Reading →

This week we were so lucky to have a visit from printmaker Althea Murphy-Price. Althea received an MA in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. As a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee, she is one of three printmaking faculty... Continue Reading →

I just got back from visiting the University of Rio Grande. Benjy Davies, Professor of Art and Chair-School of Arts and Letters, invited me to show my work at the Greer Museum and conduct a mini-comics workshop with local high school students. This was the second half of this visit, about a week and a... Continue Reading →

I have recently completed a series of prints for my solo show in the Greer Museum at the University of Rio Grande. The matrices for these prints were all made using the new laser engraver purchased for the WVU Printmaking Program. This new series dramatically expands on the work I started a year or two... Continue Reading →