Upcoming Visiting Artists in Printmaking / Spring 2025 (TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
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February 24 - February 28, 2025
David Miles Lusk Matrix Press Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10-3 m-f Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10:15 am. David Miles Lusk is an artist living and working out of Missoula, Montana. David received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Montana in 2014. He is inspired by the intersection of science and mythology, and nature & humanity. He started Anomal Press in the fall of 2016. |
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March 24 - March 28, 2025
Duane Slick Matrix Press Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 @ 10-3 m-f Duane Slick is a Meskwaki painter and storyteller, whose visual work includes black-and-white photo-realist paintings on linen and glass. His work has been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.” Born in Waterloo, IA, Slick earned his BFA in painting from the University of Northern Iowa and his MFA in painting from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching painting and printmaking at RISD in 1995 and has also lectured at colleges and universities across the US and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. His work has been exhibited widely – most recently at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, MA and at RK Projects in New York City – and is included in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, among many others. Slick is currently represented by the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. |
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Dates: Spring Semester 2025 / TBA
Jason Clark Visit his exhibition Free Land at the Missoula Art Museum February 18-June 14, 2025 Printmaker Jason Elliott Clark. In his work, Clark explores Algonquin legends mixed with personal stories and misinformation about Native American Indian culture today. The works in the exhibition focus mainly on Clark’s early career as a printmaker in the University of Montana’s MFA program (2004) and soon after. “My work is rooted in the traditional teachings and beliefs of my ancestors and the erroneous teachings and beliefs of western society about Native Americans. The subjects portrayed in my art are from personal experiences and the legends of my Algonquin heritage. I am also interested in what people are being taught about Native Americans by western culture through parents, teachers, textbooks, films, television, cartoons, consumer advertisements, products, and other transmitters of misinformation. My work deals with subjects that I have observed or experienced firsthand. These are the stories that have shaped and formed my life. They illustrate how I see the world around me and how I have learned to respect it. The images and stores in my work are reflections or parts of me.” |
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Dates: Spring Semester 2025 / TBA
Dagny Walton Visit her exhibition This Land is Haunted! at the Missoula Art Museum December 20, 2024 - April 12, 2025 Dagny Walton, aka Stray Dog Press, 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. She has also served as the Laura Grace Barrett artist in residence at the Zootown Arts Community Center in Missoula, MT, where she currently teaches printmaking workshops.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 2025 / TBA
Crystal McCallie Visit her MFA exhibition at the UC Gallery 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. |