By Steven Krolak
The Mid-America Print Council conference delivered a blast of creativity on campus last week, filling studios, theaters and meeting rooms to capacity with demonstrations, panels, exhibitions and spontaneous gatherings of impassioned artists from around the nation and abroad.
Impressions of the conference: a celebration of ideas, inspiration and fellowship.
(Please click on thumbnails for full-size images.)
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- Keynote speaker Carmon Colangelo of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. reflects on his career in printmaking.
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- IU Southeast fine arts student Shelby McGohon displays her prints at an open portfolio session.
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- Standing room only for a demonstration of beeswax and cold wax medium toner transfers, by Darian Goldin Stahl of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
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- IU Southeast fine arts students Kacey Slone and Bethany Barton display their work at the vendors’ fair.
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- Jonathan McFadden, assistant professor of pint media in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, demonstrates the finer points of color and monoprint photogravure printing.
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- Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts Brian Jones with two of his former students: Diana Hatchitt ’06 (l) was the very first IU Southeast printmaking graduate, and Angie Howard ’16 (r) is the most recent.
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- Artists, students, faculty and staff jam the Hoosier Room for the vendors’ fair.
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- Lt. Stephen Miller of IU Southeast Campus Police takes a quiet moment to view print works by MAPC Outstanding Printmaker Deborah Maris Lader.
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- Ross Mazzupappa, instructor of printmaking and photography at Bowling Green State University, demonstrates how to create photo-mechanical intaglio plates quickly and affordably.
