Recent Projects
International Printmaking Exchange Portfolio: 'At the Threshold', In the spring of 2024, I was fortunate to be one of 12 printmakers chosen from the United States to participate in a collaborative juried print portfolio exchange between the Los Angeles Printmaking Society members and 12 printmakers from the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The portfolio's theme was the 2024 national elections that would be taking place in both countries later that year. The American artists were each paired up with an artist from South Africa and we engaged in cross-cultural conversations by email, WhatsApp and two Zoom group conferences, to reflect on the impact that the outcome of the two elections could have on our two countries.
The portfolio's theme was the 2024 national elections that would be taking place in both countries later that year. The American artists were each paired up with an artist from South Africa and we engaged in cross-cultural conversations by email, WhatsApp and two Zoom group conferences, to reflect on the impact that the outcome of the two elections could have on our two countries.
Democracy in Danger, screenprint, summer 2024
ABOUT ME
Printmaker and Professor
- MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University
- BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
I enjoy making prints using traditional printmaking media like lithography, intaglio, screen printing, monoprinting and relief, and I've worked hard to find non-toxic alternatives to the traditionally toxic printmaking materials like nitric acid, lacquers and petroleum-based solvents.
I occasionally offer non-toxic printmaking workshops at the following locations:
- Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR
- Ash Creek Arts Center, Independence, OR
- Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR (near Lincoln City, OR)
