Winston Harris

Winston W. Harris is a Washington, DC area artist who collaborated with the University of Maryland printmaking area in 2010. Supported by a Prince George Arts Council Grant, Harris worked with Assistant Professor Justin Strom along with students to create a new series of flat and sculptural prints. These screen print and digital hybrids will be showcased as a solo exhibition at the University of Maryland University College Spring 2011, and included in a group exhibition at the David C. Driskell Center 2011.

Music plays a prominent role in the abstract, mixed-media drawings and prints by Winston Harris. He often listens to music while he creates and uses both sound and instruments as blueprints for his work. Harris is inspired by different musical styles and a performer’s choice of song when he improvises his freeform images. The heavily applied doses of line and color speak to the power of suggested movement and visual harmony. Characteristics of the artist’s works are geometric shapes that float and speed onto others, causing intricate intersecting patterns. Just as jazz music communicates primarily through melody, Harris’s messages are offered as abstract visual symbols. Each artwork vibrates to a different visual tune and offers engaging examples of spontaneous creative thought.

For more info please visit the Prince George's County website: http://princegeorgesartscouncil.org/2010/08/03/winston-harris/

Lenore Thomas

Lenore Thomas received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and can currently be seen at Markel Fine Arts in New York City and Fresh Paint in Los Angeles.  She is a member of No Fun, an artist collective originally based out of Madison. She is also the co-director of Red Rocket Gallery which is a virtual gallery space focused on showing the work of emerging artists. Her newest endeavor, Satan’s Camaro, is a collaborative project with artist Justin Strom. Currently, Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Thomas’ work is a melding of observed reality with the imaginary.  In a desire to escape the truth of the everyday world, she creates fantastical, abstract environments via the realm of video games, pop culture, television, and contemporary design. By reworking found imagery into a language of mark making, color, and design while allowing the process of chance to alter the art, she composes a personal language that is rooted in a vocabulary of geometry and space. In essence she is allowing viewers a moment to forget about their reality and enter a landscape that transcends their own.

John Hitchcock

John Hitchcock is an Artist and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches relief, screenprinting, and installation art. His current works depict personal, social, and political views that are a blend of printmaking, digital imaging, video, and installation. His awards include a Jerome Foundation grant and American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar Fellowship. Hitchcock has a national, international, and regional exhibition record including exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Poland, Ireland, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Estonia, New York, California, Washington DC, and other parts of North America.

COLLATERAL CONSUMPTION: A PRINT ACTION! John Hitchcock worked
with students and faculty to create a multi-media print installation in three days.
Printing and installation of artwork began at 9am on Tuesday November 13 and
was completed by 5pm on Thursday November 15.


COLLATERAL CONSUMPTION is a large-scale variable size screenprint action.
The hand printed repeat patterns act as a metaphor for change, cycles,
endurance, collaboration, and intent.

The installation will consists of mythological hybrid creatures (buffalo, wolf, boar,
deer, moose) and military weaponry (tanks and helicopters) based on his
childhood memories and stories of growing up on indigenous lands (United
States Government lands) in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (a Wildlife
Refuge) next to Ft Sill, Lawton (the largest field artillery military base in North
America). Hitchcock explores notions of good, evil, death, and life cycles. His
depictions of beasts, animals, and machines act as a metaphors for human
behavior and cycles of violence. His artwork is a response to intrusive behaviour
by humans towards nature and other humans.

COLLATERAL CONSUMPTION is a statement about current events such as the
US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the major conflict between the Palestinians
and Israelis, and the recent announcement by the John Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health that “An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since
2003.”

"I stand by the figure that a lot of innocent people have lost their life...and that
troubles me, and it grieves me," Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House

Dusty Herbig

Dusty Herbig received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. Herbig is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. During his visit Professor Herbig worked with students to produce an edition of large screen prints fom his Outlet series, and continure his poduction of 3-dimensional paper constructions for the Paper Bullets series.

Herbigs' work which has been shown nationally and internationally, examines humanity through counting and generically cataloging the world’s population and its disputes. This requires the implementation of the most basic tenet of printmaking: the multiple. Overwhelming numbers of analogous yet antithetic objects reinforce feelings of over-crowdedness and quandary. Numbers are becoming more of a reality for all of us. Whether studying political statistics like voting records, worldwide military deployment figures, or death tolls of all varieties, counting emerges as the primary focus.

http://www.dustyherbig.com/index.html

Free Transform Studio welcomed Hero Design Studio in Spring 2010.  Hero workied with print faculty and students to produce a rock poster for Austin City Limits season 36 performers Rosanne Cash & Brandi Carlile, completing 200 impressions of the three color design along with a small edition of monoprints. This is the first stop for Hero in their travels the Flatstock in Austin, TX. They had a load of prints on display and for sale, also sharing their experiences as top professional designers and printmakers.

HERO is a multidisciplinary design studio dedicated to producing hand-crafted illustration and design, run by Buffalo-based husband and wife team, Beth Manos and Mark Brickey. Formed in 2003, Hero focuses primarily on design and illustration for the music industry and cultural institutions, yet have enjoyed collaborating on a wide range of projects for a variety of clients. Hero’s innovative screen prints have been featured in magazines such as HOW, Print, and SPIN, and design publications including Gigposters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century (Quirk Books), 1000 Garment Graphics (Rockport Publishers), and Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design(Gestalten Verlag). Their work has been exhibited in various museums and galleries including Museum of Design Atlanta, Gallery 1988 (LA), and Crewest Gallery (LA).

http://heroandsound.com/

Drive By Press

Drive By Press was created to educate and share the contemporary practice of printmaking with students and art audiences across America. DBP has visited well over 150! Universities, Colleges,and public schools, traveling over 200,000 miles! During each stop DBP collects prints from area artists, amassing the largest collection of contemporary prints from across the country!

DBP is a self- funded endeavor solely surviving on small visiting artists honorariums from schools and from the sales of printing wood blocks on paper and t-shirts. Many blocks have been graciously donated from some of the greatest wood cut artists in the country to support and perpetuate the the endeavor of Drive By press!!

DBP loves the opportunity to share prints, techniques, Artists, and stories about the journey with students. Also, individual critiques and information about graduate programs for students who are interested in a M.F.A.

Hands-On Demonstrations

Drive-By Press can give demonstrations in multi-block relief printing as well as color reduction screen-printing, and the amazing “No-Print”, in screen printing! We also offer demonstrations in etching as well as plate or stone lithography techniques using host facility.

Drive-By’s Lecture Series

We have power point presentations on the history of Printmaking from the 14th Century to the present, Contemporary Printmaking in America, and the history and stories of Drive-By Press. Joseph and Greg also host a question and answer session about the graduate school experience in art for those students thinking of pursuing an MFA. The final presentation is a hands-on session about contemporary trends in printmaking with examples of art for the students to view and handle.

Drive-By Press workshops are two-day events using our mobile print lab or utilizing hosts’ facilities. The first day includes our lectures and demonstrations. The second day is a hands-on printing session with the students printing artist blocks of their choice

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