work from the last couple of weeks

Shows just came down at the Emerson in Bozeman and Missoula Art Museum. Upcoming is a showing of Cataclysm at the Holter Museum and the Bozeman Studio Tour Nov. 3 and 4. 

#Repost @silverbowart ・・・ Woodcut, monoprint, lasercut paper print by American artist Sukha Worob. "Walking Away, Walking Toward" 2018. #sukhaworob #montanaartist #lasercutart
$10 in hardware and a little bit of home machining brought this press back to life! . . . #pressrepair #diy #likeaglove #ettanpress #homestudio #artist #printmaking
So excited to announce my appointment as managing co-editor of the MAPC Journal alongside Dylan Welch! Looking forward to working with @anita_e_jung and @hopsonwalker to continue this great publication! #mapc #midamericaprintcouncil @midamericaprint
New prints in progress! #typography #walkingaway #woodcut #lasercut #universallasersystems #typekit
Nice article on the @openpressproject in this months @makemagazine!
#Repost @holtermuseum with @get_repost ・・・ #SukhaWorob Hand made mixed media note cards. Each one unique and fun as the next. Perfect for this holiday season! #shopholter #shopsmall #shop406 #hohoholter
It was a great time talking , eating and printing with new friends during living room theatre with @naomiworob. Great to catch up with people and meet new people. #printmaking #performance #zamenhof #universallanguage
Well that fit very nicely. Prints, rollers and a @saltgrassprintmakers apron all snuggled up and headed to Iowa. Excited to participate in an evening of @naomiworob’s living room theatre @grinnellcollege. #travel #artist #printmaking #performance #builttofit
Sending cards out to the world. One of my studio goals this year has been to turn old things into new things and get them out of my head/working space. These are collaged using Gudy, my new favorite studio adhesive thanks to a workshop with Phoebe Toland! These are available through me now (dm if you want some). they will be at the @holtermuseum soon too! #gudy #talas #printmaking #makers #collage
Little inserts for print bags. Lasercut into monoprinted BFK. #design #lasercut #handmade #printmaking #monoprint
Good reminders, some knit chickens and a plastic skull. #printmaking #knitting #skulls #printcollection
Love these little guys from @blackwoodceramics! They are a perfect size Ben! Do you have any more?? #espresso #quadmornings #tinycups #ceramics
Voting and organizing. Trying to figure out systems to avoid the mass of boxes in the basement again:) #communitieswest #curation #artist #printmaking #west
Detail from one of the posters we got from the @itinerantprinter last night!
I shut the studio down a bit early today so we could get out to @quoin_press and make some prints with the @itinerantprinter!
Putting out some more prints from the collection this morning. Come on by and check them out along with my work. I have cards and small prints for sale too! @bozemanopenstudios #printmaking #collection #artist #supportlocal #bozeman #montana

Recents from Instagram

Voting and organizing. Trying to figure out systems to avoid the mass of boxes in the basement again:) #communitieswest #curation #artist #printmaking #west
It’s the final week for the Communities West:III exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum. Honored to have been invited to participate in this exchange portfolio curated by @sukhaworob and @purplehat and delighted to have a piece on exhibit and in the permanent collection @missoulaartmuseum. #missoulaartmuseum #communitieswest #montanainkslingers #reliefprint #imagetransfer #thetalkersweretalking #thespacebetweenus #confusionoftongues
Saturday reflection time Feeling truly blessed by the recent, current, and upcoming opportunities to share my work. If you are in the area, please check out the many Bozeman exhibits and performances this summer. #bozemanartist #neverbored #bozemanmoderndance @raisondetredanceproject @rangesmusic @sweetpeafest #waterworksartmuseum #communitieswest @missoulaartmuseum @theemerson_mt @indepen__dance @midamericaprint #wovenatwildergoods @valley_dance_ensemble
Woo hoo! Artwork = best mail ever! #communitieswest #communitieswestprintexchange #artinthemail #printexchange
Got my Communities West III print exchange in the mail today. Some juicy goods in this box. . . . . . . #printmaking #communitieswest #printexchange #mailtime
Not really ready for #rmpa2018 to be over...here’s to seeing friends old and new at @midamericaprint in the fall #westernprinters #montanainkslingers #printmaking #print #communitieswest
Marty Azevedo is a new and welcome addition to the group this year. More of his work can be seen at http://www.marty-azevedo.com/. See the rest of this and previous sets on my website (link in bio).⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #lithograph #westernprinters #worksonpaper #martyazevedo
Mary Hood made this beautiful image for CWIII. She is a new addition and hopefully will return for the next set! More of her work at https://hoodmary.com/.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #photoetching #westernprinters #worksonpaper #arizona #asu
This image came to us from Nate Abel (@npabel) from Casper, Wyoming. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #lithograph #chinecolle #westernprinters #worksonpaper #wyoming
Justin Diggle is another printer who has been with us from the beginning. More of Diggle's prints can be found at http://justindiggle.com/. See the rest of the Communities West III set on my website (link in bio).⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ .⠀⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #westernprinters #worksonpaper #drones #surveillance #utah
Jeremy Kirchhoff (@jeremykirc) is a new and welcome addition to the Communities West family. Kirchhoff works under the currently smoky skies of Santa Barbara. This print was made prior to the fires, and reads much different in the wake of them for me. ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #linocut #sblinocuts #ca #la #westernprinters #worksonpaper
Emily Browne created this delightful print for the set. Browne is currently running @myfirstbirds for all of your chicken based needs. ⠀ ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #communitieswest #west #printmaking #silkscreen #chickens #westernprinters #worksonpaper

recent imagery from Communities West III. 

Communities West II

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Here is the entirety of Communities West II. I have titled each print with the Artist's name. This has been one of my favorite projects to co-curate with Andrew Rice every couple of years and am so looking forward to this years exchange. 

more from the collection

I spent the evening going through a few portfolios. Below are some select images from the exchanges. I need a framing genie. *poof* and everything is beautifully framed. The issue with working in frame shops for years has become that it is like pulling teeth to frame anything. This may be why my work turned into installation and works on panel. The exchanges were "Rocky Mountain Response" organized by Melanie Yazzie after RMPA in Salt Lake City and "Disguise" juried by Alexa Unser and David Wischer. 

woodcut by Eunkang Koh

woodcut by Eunkang Koh

Lithograph by Kathryn Polk

Lithograph by Kathryn Polk

woodcut by Melanie Yazzie

woodcut by Melanie Yazzie

Woodcut by Sylvia Taylor

Woodcut by Sylvia Taylor

My piece for the "Disguise" portfolio. I believe I was struggling with the weight of moving, leaving grad school, having our first child. I also needed new jeans apparently. Softground etching over a lasercut relief surface.

My piece for the "Disguise" portfolio. I believe I was struggling with the weight of moving, leaving grad school, having our first child. I also needed new jeans apparently. Softground etching over a lasercut relief surface.

Great hand colored woodcut by Neal Harrington

Great hand colored woodcut by Neal Harrington

Reorganizing and rediscovering gems in the collection

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Big changes in the studio over the last little bit. Reorganizing and making a more functional working space in the studio. It's a dumpster fire right now but well on its way to a better workspace. As part of the process I'm moving flat files and re organizing my own prints and collection. I never get tired of looking through trades, purchases and portfolios from friends and colleagues that have come into my possession over the last decade. A longer (and better shot quality) cataloging process may begin in short order but for now here are a few shots of things that brought me joy today. More to come soon. 

small mezzotint by Art Werger

small mezzotint by Art Werger

just a bunny. This was a print from a block made for demo at the WaterWorks Museum by Calli Nissen. 

just a bunny. This was a print from a block made for demo at the WaterWorks Museum by Calli Nissen. 

Detail from a photopolymer piece by Sara Schleicher. 

Detail from a photopolymer piece by Sara Schleicher. 

Detail of an etching by David Williams. 

Detail of an etching by David Williams. 

I think this one was by Justin Powell (@justindangerson) from a class in undergrad. Piece is titled "Red Violin" 

I think this one was by Justin Powell (@justindangerson) from a class in undergrad. Piece is titled "Red Violin" 

detail from one of Julie Williams' amazing  reduction woodcuts. 

detail from one of Julie Williams' amazing  reduction woodcuts. 

Detail from a many colored silkscreen by Bill Thompson. Dave brought him in as a visiting artist when we were at NAU many years ago. They were printed using hand stretched screens, none of those fancy aluminum frame jobbies. DIY silkscreen at its best.

Detail from a many colored silkscreen by Bill Thompson. Dave brought him in as a visiting artist when we were at NAU many years ago. They were printed using hand stretched screens, none of those fancy aluminum frame jobbies. DIY silkscreen at its best.

Lastly a detail from a Sean Star Wars print that I had totally forgotten about! Reasons to go hunting back through the collections:) This was part of a grab bag set of prints sold by Canonball Press

Lastly a detail from a Sean Star Wars print that I had totally forgotten about! Reasons to go hunting back through the collections:) This was part of a grab bag set of prints sold by Canonball Press

Prints and pots

rolled out a new Zamenhof's Trials piece to fill a void in the house and finally hung some prints from the collection. My aversion to framing notwithstanding it is great to have Christa Carleton and Jason Clark on the wall. They are both right in front of the dinner table and have provided some good conversations with the kiddos   

4'x5' stamps on mulberry  

4'x5' stamps on mulberry  

Dark thoughts with dark lighting. Print by Christa Carleton and a Dave Peters mortar and pestle photo bomb.  

Dark thoughts with dark lighting. Print by Christa Carleton and a Dave Peters mortar and pestle photo bomb.  

One of my favorites by Jason Clark. Shelf o ceramics with work from Drew Nicklas, Greg Quinn, Jared Gabriel, Ryan Mitchell, Chris Bienek, Ernest Forward and Larry Meagher represented and a Just Noise piece in between it all.  

One of my favorites by Jason Clark. Shelf o ceramics with work from Drew Nicklas, Greg Quinn, Jared Gabriel, Ryan Mitchell, Chris Bienek, Ernest Forward and Larry Meagher represented and a Just Noise piece in between it all.  

Just part of the herd

We have been talking about collaboration and the power of a group of people set towards a similar goal in my drawing class. This has coincided with the start of our linocut unit so as a preliminary exercise I have the students cutting and printing as many cows as possible over the next couple of days. Below is the beginning of the herd and hopefully the beginnings of a few printmakers too;)  

 

Students were given almost no direction about the cows. The only rule has been that during class they couldn't look at any kind of cow reference. 

The herd in the beginning

The herd in the beginning

Nothing here but us cows  

Nothing here but us cows  

Doorknob DIY

My class is once again working on woodcuts so I made my semesterly trip over to ace hardware for their largest maple cabinet knobs. Cut off the mounting screw and screw the two knobs together and Voila! You get my favorite hand printing tool all for under $3. This is the tool I used for two years to print the key images on John Buck's blocks.  

Maple cabinet knob barens

Maple cabinet knob barens