{"id":938,"date":"2015-04-27T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/?p=938"},"modified":"2020-01-04T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T14:44:06","slug":"visiting-artist-at-the-university-of-wisconsin-at-parkside-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenextfewhours.com\/KH\/visiting-artist-at-the-university-of-wisconsin-at-parkside-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching: Visiting Artist at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was invited by Kristen Bartel<\/strong>, the printmaking professor at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside<\/a>, to be a visiting artist on April 13<\/strong> and 15<\/strong>, 2015.<\/p>\n

\"K.<\/a><\/p>\n

For my time with Kristen<\/a> and her students, I chose to offer a chipboard relief\/collagraph workshop, which we printed with a combination of intaglio and color viscosity inking strategies.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a><\/p>\n

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I made shaped plates for my demonstration prints; one is below.<\/p>\n

\"Chipboard<\/a><\/p>\n

The other plate wasn’t so great, but this one worked out well.  It even had the added bonus of not having an ‘up’ or ‘down’.<\/p>\n

\"Chipboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Kristen also went to the University of Texas at Austin<\/a> (though well after I did), and learned color viscosity from Lee Chesney<\/a>, which was entertaining for us to recount, though perhaps less so for the students.<\/p>\n

Parkside is well-known for hosting the National Small Print Exhibition<\/a> every year (I should have applied!), and the opening for it was going to be just a few days after my workshop.  Fortunately, the work was installed, and I got to see the exhibition.  I was happily surprised to see some screenprints by Lise Drost<\/a>, a University of Miami<\/a> professor of printmaking, and my mentor, who was the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, as well as the head of my Thesis Committee, while I was pursuing my Masters there.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a><\/p>\n

Because they’ve held this exhibition annually since 1987, and there are purchase awards associated with it, Parkside has prints on nearly all the interior walls of the campus.  Like, really.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a><\/p>\n

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It made me incredibly happy to see so many prints as part of a day-to-day college experience.  It’s rewarding to be in a place where an esteem for printmaking is evident.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the Parkside printshop is very nice, and very well maintained!<\/p>\n

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I had a lot of fun in the Wisconsin overall–mostly thanks to my brother, who is a philosophy professor at Parkside.  He took me cool places, like to the Mars Cheese Castle.<\/p>\n

\"Mars<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mars<\/a><\/p>\n

It was cool because I like cheese.<\/p>\n

My brother took me to other cool places, too, like the headquarters of a personal care products corporation in Racine.<\/p>\n

\"Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

That was cool because I like personal care products.  Wait . . . no.  Architecture.  Because the architecture is cool.<\/p>\n

Have you seen Wright’s Johnson building (the Research Tower) at night, by the way?<\/p>\n

\"Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

If I were a certain type of person, I would be easily convinced that the Johnson Wax Headquarters was really an alien base.  All your base are belong to Johnson Wax!  That was a total non-sequiter.<\/p>\n

Another cool place that my brother took me was to the Kenosha History Center.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kenosha<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Kenosha History Center was cool because I am clearly a giant nerd.  Also: Annie Oakley riding a bicycle while taking aim.  Not just any bicycle, but a Sterling Bicycle.  Built like a watch!<\/p>\n

That alone was worth the price of admission.  Well. That and the AMC AM VAN prototype.<\/p>\n

Speaking of cool, Wisconsin in April is cold (nevermind that 60 degrees sign above–that was the warmest day I was there, and the natives were frolicking in the heat).  The landscape is so entirely different from Miami, too.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/a><\/p>\n

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And speaking of Miami, another cool place my brother took me was to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. [Wait for it!]  Stevens Point had a philosophy conference, which was fun, but it also has a sculpture park.  Look what I found in the sculpture park:<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

Work by a pal of mine from Miami.  Small, small, small, cool world.<\/p>\n

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