I am excited to announce that I will be the next Artist-in-Residence at the Pinney branch of the Madison Public Library on the east side of Madison. The residency will run from May 15-November 15, and will include weekly Open Studios with free drop-in activities at the library, as well as workshops, studio work time and more.
The residency is titled Call & Response, and takes inspiration from jazz and improvisational musical practices. I will be explore many levels of interplay and collaboration between text & layout, word & image, letter & ornament, color & form, and artist & community. Over the course of the residency we will work with wood & metal type and ornaments to print at a variety of sizes—from buttons to posters, and we’ll explore layering, iterative collaboration, and ways that the rigid grids of letterpress type can be used as a foundation for both carefully planned and improvisational prints. We’ll explore the use of letters to create images and the use of ornaments to create letterforms, how communities shape words and stories and how words and stories shape communities. Along the way we’ll get a little inky, and have a lot of fun.
Open Studio Hours are currently scheduled for Tuesdays from 4:30-6:30. Workshops and additional opportunities will be announced as they become available.
The Pinney Library is located at: 516 Cottage Grove Rd, Madison, WI 53716
Additional information about the residency is here: https://www.madisonbubbler.org/residencies/pinney
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Hope to see you at the library!
