Upcoming Visiting Artists in Printmaking / Spring 2024 (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
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Dates: Spring Semester 2024 / February 14
Dagny Walton Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10:15 am. Dagny will be doing a demo on CMYK printing in addition to showing her prints. Dagny Walton is an illustrator and printmaker. Originally from Colorado, she received her BA in Classical Studies from the University of British Columbia and her MFA in Fine Art from the University of Montana in 2023. She is currently the Laura Grace Barrett artist in residence at the Zootown Arts Community Center in Missoula, MT. Dagny applies her background in Classical Studies to a literal interpretation of the myth of the American West and incorporates themes and visuals from Greco-Roman mythology in her work. Her work explores the inheritance of stolen land, the industrial exploitation of the landscape, and the deification of the cowboy archetype. She also examines the interplay between human ambition and natural entropy: the permanent consequences our actions have on the land, and the chaotic nature of the environment that threatens our own existence. |
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Dates: Spring Semester 2024 / February 21
Crystal McCallie Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 3:15 pm. 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: March 4-6, 2024
Max Mahn Matrix Press Printmaking Residency Former student Max Mahn (2015 BFA/Printmaking) will be visiting with all the printmaking classes today showing us his awesome prints. Max is a full-time printmaker creating GIG posters under the press name TWIN HOME PRINTS for bands such as Wilco, The Melvins, WEEN, PHISH, Primus and The LIL SMOKIES to name but a few. He has also been selected to create four labels for Dogfish Head Seasonal Beers. Max has been a visiting artist to several of my print classes over the last several years and continues to be an inspiring artist. |
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Dates: Spring Semester 2024 / Tuesday, April 9th 11-Noon
Jason Clark Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10:15 am. 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. |