Upcoming Visiting Artists in Printmaking / Fall 2024 (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
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Dates: September 23-26, 2024
Mary Farrell Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10:15 am. I was raised in a large family in northern Kentucky and received a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1989, with an emphasis on printmaking and drawing. I received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Cincinnati in 1995 and joined the art faculty at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington to direct the printmaking program. I taught printmaking and drawing at Gonzaga until my retirement in 2020. My work has been supported and recognized by various awards, honors and scholarships. I was awarded the Scholar of the Year Award at Gonzaga in 2001 and, through 2019, I was the Kreielsheimer Professor of Art in the art department. I was awarded an Artist Trust Fellowship Grant from Washington state in 2000 and two Artist Trust GAP Grants in 1997 and 2000. As a student I received travel scholarships to France, Italy and Ireland, and I’ve exhibited my work in shows both nationally and internationally, including China, Italy, India, Bulgaria, the UK, South Korea, New Zealand, Finland, Mexico, Spain, and the Ukraine. My work is part of private and public collections including the Portland Art Museum, the City of Seattle Art Collection, The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, The China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou China, and many corporate collections. In 2008 I was invited as a visiting professor to teach and exhibit work at the Hubei Academy of Art printmaking department in Wuhan China. In 2012 I returned to China to teach, show work and collaborate on woodcut prints with Zhang Guanghui, chair of the Hubei Academy printmaking program. |
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Dates: October 28-November 1, 2024
Stella Nall Matrix Press Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10-3 m-f Stella Nall is a Montana based multimedia artist and poet from the Úuwuutasshe (Greasy Mouth) clan of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe. Her Crow name is Bisháakinnesh (Rode Buffalo) and was given to her by Ronnie Yellowmule. Her work often engages with current issues pertaining to Indigenous identity, visibility and representation; while also inviting connection from people of all backgrounds by discussing ubiquitous human experiences such as love, loss, joy and grief. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2020 with a BFA in Printmaking, a BA in Psychology and a minor in Art History and Criticism. She now lives in Missoula, where she is represented by Radius Gallery. Her work may be viewed as murals across Montana, as well as in national public collections, including The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Publications featuring her work include Scribendi, Cutbank, Denver Quarterly, McClain’s Printmaking Catalog, Montana Quarterly, The Thalweg, Stray, Word Dog, and Poetry Northwest. |
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Dates: Fall Semester 2024 / TBA
Crystal McCallie Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 For 40 years, McCallie called the Texas Panhandle home where she grew up on a dryland farm. McCallie attended Amarillo College and West Texas A&M University. After moving to Missoula she enrolled at UM and received her BFA in printmaking/drawing and is currently pursuing her MFA in Printmaking at UM. Artist Statement: Life is made up of an infinite number of intricate stories that coalesce to form our existence. Often the most impactful stories are the rare, quiet moments that are as fleeting as vapor. I seek to capture these intricacies into a visual representation that portrays shared emotional experiences of the human soul - our sorrows, our celebrations, our family impressions, our regrets, our hopes, our fears… In my drawings, I enjoy the challenge of rendering subjects in stylized realism where I attempt to capture both the tension and tranquility of the subjects. I have a love for the tactically stimulating process of silky, smooth graphite gliding across creamy, textured paper where fingerprints make evident the hand of the artist. I depict subjects of my family (past and present), nature, and objects of curiosity that evoke a sense of familiar nostalgia. |
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Dates: Fall Semester 2024 / TBA
Jason Clark Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 Jason Clark grew up in a rural town at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and has lived and worked many places throughout the United States. He was raised near the Tule River Indian Reservation in central California, but with his family’s Algonquin traditions and legends from the eastern part of the country. He entered college in Hawaii and studied with a Maori artist schooled in Northwest Coast Native art. He resides in Missoula, Montana as a printmaker, Adjunct Professor and the 2-D Technician in the School of Art at the University of Montana. From 2006 -2012 he taught and ran the printmaking studio first at the University of Louisiana in Monroe and then at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. His prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, The Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, the William Wipple Gallery, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, the Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Applestick Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia, the Warepuke gallery, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, and The 15th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria. His prints have also been collected in various collections including the Boise Art Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, West Virginia University, Morgantown, the Junt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, The Museum of Arts and Culture, The University of Montana, Missoula, and the Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana. |