This year, the WVU School of Art and Design is trying something new. In an effort to get first year students more experience in processes they may have not encountered in their high school art programs, like printmaking, faculty across the School are conducting short workshops in their studios. BFA printmaker Lauren White walked students... Continue Reading →

This summer I was asked to teach a week long printmaking class for our local park district, BOPARC. This was the second time I've taught a community based workshop for kids, and I continue to find more opportunities to bring printmaking to younger artists. Making a sketchbook is the first project we do. This gets... Continue Reading →

So great to get back to teaching print workshops for kids! Just completed a two day workshop for the WVU Visual Arts Academy day camp. Back to finding more ways of introducing printmaking to younger artists and kids in general! We printed t-shirts using our "WVU Printmaking" logo on the front. On the back, we... Continue Reading →

This week we hosted printmakers Olivia Richardson and Becci Spruill to talk about their work and the Radical Intersectional Printmakers Guild. This was such a great way to end the semester, excellent conversation about the realities of being an artist outside of school, finding one’s artistic voice, and being a part of a supportive artistic... Continue Reading →

A just completed a new CMYK screenprint for Andrew Kozlowski’s print exchange “Routine Maintenance”. About the project: “Each artist will be assigned an hour of the day and create a new print that in some way represents that hour.  The idea of each hour is simply a starting point.” I found this image from an old... Continue Reading →

Last month, WVU Printmaking students traveled to Pittsburgh to set up our annual student show at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh. This exhibition is the culmination of our academic year and the students are required to do all the work that goes into organizing and installing this group exhibition. Like last year, because of the... Continue Reading →

This week printmaker, book artist, and teacher Zeinab Saab gave an amazing presentation to our Advanced Printmaking students, WVU alumni, and other friends of the program from all over the country. Zeinab make really amazing, labor intensive work, so I was really happy that our class could see it all. Zeinab also shared really insightful... Continue Reading →

This month I rented time on a local digital billboard! I asked local artists Liz Pavlovic, Bryn Perrott, and Eli Pollard to create imagery to take over this commercial space with nonsensical messages. Everyone's work looks so amazing, I am already thinking about more ways to do this again! The idea is to appropriate space... Continue Reading →

A BIG thank you to Gregory Santos and his super informative lecture last week. Gregory talked about Mixed Grit and his experiences with collaborative printing with my Advanced Printmaking students and WVU alumni from all over the country! This was such an informative talk, Thank you so much Gregory!

Excited to share the Radical Intersectional Print Guild’s inaugural exhibition, "Rise and Pull", juried by Co-Founders Becci Spruill and Olivia Richardson. Putting this together has been some time in the making, and the results are well worth the wait! So many great prints by amazing printmaking from all over the country! Thanks to everyone involved... Continue Reading →