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To support our teaching goals we integrate the classroom experience with a vigorous visiting artist schedule. We believe that first hand interaction and collaboration with artists is a valuable experience for students. Each year we invite emerging and established printmakers to work with our undergraduate and graduate students to produce editions, installations and exhibitions. |
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 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 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