Tag Archive: Printmaking
Alumnae Spotlight: Toby Millman
Apr 09, 2014
In 2011, Artist Book Resident Toby Millman came to WSW to produce Facts on the Ground, a 52-page hardbound book consisting of printed and cut paper maps, oral testimonies, and personal accounts, from and about occupied Palestine. Palestine was the geographic center of Toby’s work for several years after her first trip to the region in 2006. Since… View Article
Alumnae Spotlight: Susan Fateh
Mar 06, 2014
Susan Fateh is a Scottish-Iranian artist whose history with the workshop is long and rich. As an artist alumna, former staff member, and longtime friend, she’s found a way to stay involved with the Workshop since she first started pulling paper here in the 1980s. Now based in Italy and Scotland, Susan has coordinated and designed… View Article
Mirabelle Jones & the Artist’s Book as Activism
Jan 16, 2014
In 2011, workspace resident Mirabelle Jones began collecting the stories of 22 anonymous survivors of sexual assault. She broke the narratives down into three parts, keeping each part in a colored glass jar. In a green jar: the beginning of each experience. In a red jar: words and phrases describing the assault. In a blue… View Article
All in the Details: Devra Fox in the Studio
Jan 01, 2014
For workspace resident Devra Fox, sitting perched on a stool in our etching studio, spending hours cutting out intricate shapes with an X-Acto knife is all in a day’s work. A handful of feathers printed on translucent paper sit next to her as she traces along the labyrinthine lines of what looks like a bit… View Article
Lindsay Stern on Piecing it All Together
Dec 11, 2013
About a year ago, Lindsay Stern was shocked to discover she’d been awarded WSW’s Ora Schneider Residency for regional artists—initially because it would be her first residency, but also because she was 10 weeks pregnant. The symbiotic relationship between herself and her son Henry, now a flirtatious four month old, has come to quite literally… View Article
Audrey Hurd Makes Her Mark
Oct 16, 2013
In the silkscreen studio, Audrey Hurd and WSW Studio Manager Chris Petrone are each pulling one half of a long squeegee across a 55×39” screen burned with a large halftone of a smooth and curving form. The ink – once thick as cake frosting – is finally the right consistency, and it pushes through the… View Article
Cheryl Paswater & the Importance of Being Playful
Sep 09, 2013
Cheryl Paswater has sprawled her double-sided 14×14” woodblocks across one wall of our intaglio studio, and she’s approaching her work the best way she knows how. “I’m about to try something I’ve never done, which should be fun,” she announces with a shrug and a laugh, inking a block. Cheryl is introducing chine colle into her… View Article