Many of us are familiar with famous naturalists such as conservationist John Muir and artist John James Audubon, both white men, who inspired generations to explore and preserve the outdoors. But who are the women, LGBTQ, or BIPOC environmentalists and artists of history and the present day, and what can be learned from how they have approached their subjects? “Living Proof: Radical Ecofeminist Printmaking” will contextualize the work of contemporary women, LGBTQ, and BIPOC printmaking artists working with themes of ecology, landscape, and nature, within historical traditions and contemporary theory.

Panel Chair:

Taryn McMahon, Associate Professor, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Taryn McMahon’s recent works explore the entanglements between humans and our environment via Northeast Ohio’s waterways. She grew up in New Jersey and received her BFA from the Pennsylvania State University followed by an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has received numerous awards for her work including an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge, and Puffin Foundation grant. Her work has been shown at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, the International Print Center, New York, NY, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, and the McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH, among many other venues. She is an Associate Professor at Kent State University. McMahon lives and works alongside her artist husband and two young children in Northeast Ohio.

Panelists:

Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas is an artist, educator, and activist based in Los Angeles, California where I am the Head of Printmaking and Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. Botanical imagery, specifically plants that are considered invasive, fill the visual space of my prints and installations. Language used to describe invasive species speaks volumes about how we as a society form narratives about who belongs where. I specifically investigate “invasive” species as a non-native and non-binary person, and research metaphors and symbols to address the very question of belonging. My work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Casa Lu in Mexico City, Handwerker Gallery, Buffalo Artists Studios, and Sediment Arts. Originally from Denver, Colorado, I received a BA in Liberal Arts from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and an MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

R Kauff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

R Kauff (she/they) is a visual artist and educator currently living in Cleveland, OH. Their current work looks at the picture plane, mark making, time, and the embodied experience of living in chronic illness. Their multidisciplinary practice is centered on a sense of touch, which they explore through drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and poetry. They hold an MFA in printmaking and sculpture from University of Iowa where they were an Iowa Arts Fellow. Residencies include The Luminary, Jentel, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Platteforum, and the Tallgrass National Preserve. They are currently a Lecturer at Oberlin College.

Jennifer Schmidt, Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA

Jennifer Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who works with print media, graphic design, writing, and sound to create site-responsive installations, video, and performances that question the role of visual iconography and repetitive actions within a given environment. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware; and is Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA.

Taro Takizawa, Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. His works contains both western and eastern aesthetics with appreciation of traditional printmaking processes and mark making. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations.

He received with his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan, and MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited nationally and internationally such as at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum and its exhibition at CK Zamek in Poznan, Poland; and ArtPrize 10 at Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, Ty Pawb in Wales and China Printmaking Museum. And recently went to artist residencies at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Morgan Conservatory, GoggleWorks, and Lawrence Arts Center.

Saturday, April 6, 3:30-5:00pm

1 Sabin Street, Providence, RI 02903

https://www.sgcinternational.org/conference-round-2/#!event/2023/6/28/living-proof-radical-ecofeminist-printmaking-panel

Brick Journal is a collaborative publication devoted to the visual language, social + geologic histories, and cultural production that stem from and connect to brickmaking and brick work.

Looking to the building arts as cultural expression, Brick Digest exists to create an evolving document for sharing and archiving the occupational traditions, pragmatic beauty, poetic abstraction and complex histories of built environments and land. 

Each issue forms a participatory vessel where contributors are invited to share how their own habits of perception and making are animated by giving deep attention to the brick itself as a vast conceptual terrain–––considering it’s materiality and form to inspire and connect us by following the questions it asks of us. 

https://www.debouwput.com

“Weight of Words” Typography Workshop is an event sponsored by Erasmus+ to promote collaboration and skill sharing amongst typographers, designers, artists, fab lab technicians, printmakers, and educators. Participants in the workshop included: Typa Centre (Estonia), Mart Anderson Typography (Estonia), Andrea Vendetti and Elettra Scotucci of Slab Letterpress Studio (Italy), Leonardo Facchin of Tipoteca Printing Museum (Italy), Hannah Harkes of Labora Studio (Estonia / Scotland), Mana Kaasik (Estonia), Tiago Navarro Marques of University of Evora (Portugal), Filipe Alexandre dos Santos Rebelo (Portugal), Alexandra Maria Cordeiro Mariano (Portugal), Marius Meierrose de Araujo of Arteria Lab (Portugal), Merilin Metsamaa (Estonia), and Jennifer Schmidt (United States).

Printmaking Today: Prints, Books and Multiples ISSN 0960 9253

Journal of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

“Printmaker’s Diary: Jennifer Schmidt”

Editor: Leonie Bradley

Published quarter, 4 Issues per volume
Issues published March, June, September and December

The Power of Print, Mid America Print Conference

Kent State University, Kent OH

October 13-16, 2022

IMPACT 12: International Printmaking Conference

September 21-25

An installation of screenprinted textiles as poster swatches. Printed while an artist in residence at AGA Lab in Amsterdam during August 2022.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Chu0ZhIoKvn/

https://debouwput.com/

https://agalab.nl/en/

https://agalab.nl/en/nieuws/

https://www.limitedtimeengagement.com/

I am honored to receive one of New York City Department of Cultural Affair’s City Artist Corps Grants to conduct several community zine making workshops in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with the goal of creating a mobile community zine library that can be shared informally in the park, as well as, with local public libraries and schools for all to read. Events happening soon — in late August / early September!

Collector, Curator, and Researcher: Felix Koltermann recently acquired my artist newsprint publications “Reviewing the Review, Everything for Review” 2017 for their Newsprint Photobook collection. You can learn more about the collection and exhibitions here: https://www.newsprint-photobook.org/p/about-newsprint-photobook.html and follow them on instagram @newsprintphotobook

Looking forward to taking part in this conversation with artists Barry Stone and Nathier Fernandez: hosted by Claudia Sohrens and Virtual Art Walks. * Join Us *

A conversation around "Mark Making" and "Intersections of Text and Image" on February 19, 2021, with guest artists Nathier Fernández, who's research focuses on the relationship between human and non-human interactions; Barry Stone, who currently has a show of photographs at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in the Lower East Side; and Jennifer Schmidt, who is currently Artist-in-Residence at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn.

Date: Friday, February 19, 2021

Time: 12 pm – 2.30 pm (ET)

Location: Zoom

dm @virtual.artwalks to RSVP

In the Cool of the Evening

October 30 - December 30th 2020

Exhibiting artists include: Nathan Catlin, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Cara Lynch, Erica Mao, Lina Puerta, Jennifer Schmidt, Kiki Smith and Craig Zammiello

Curated by: Cary Hulbert and Trinity Lester

www.projectgalleryv.com

insta: @projectgalleryV

3pm on Saturday, October 24

I recently had the opportunity to participate in an artist interview with Cary Hulbert and Trinity Lester of Project Gallery V. The interview is in anticipation of an upcoming show  they curated, titled “In the Cool of the Evening” including artists working in print at the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies 🌿

Thank you Cary and Trinity!

@projectgalleryv @cary_hulbert @triiinity333 special mentions @miriam.gallery @mitlistarts @mitpress @cooperhewitt @eabfair @historicgreenwood

Happening in real time online on September 23 @ 7pm EST.

She would practice public speaking in the woods
A performance by Jennifer Schmidt

February 15, 5-7pm

February 22, 5-7pm

“She would practice public speaking in the woods” is a reading, writing, speaking and recording project that draws inspiration from the assertions of the activist: Lucy Stone, and the writings of the author: Virginia Woolf to create an audible space for reflecting that is at once public and private. Referencing the history of speaker bureaus and public speaking engagements, Jennifer will read her notes and writings as a performance that visitors to the gallery can experience as “a talk” without a set beginning or end.

Visitors to the gallery will not be expected to stay for the duration, and are encouraged to wander in and out of the space.

#Performance #soundartinstallation #soundrecording #writing #socialsculpture

http://miriamgallery.com/calendar/performanceschmidt/

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http://www.psreader.com/the-arts/gowanus-open-studios/