More Mize printstallations

Rock and Roll Waskom ISD High School Students

This past Thursday, 16 students of the Waskom ISD Art Club came to SFA to tour the campus and experience a class at art school. The club sponsor, art teacher Angela Bradshaw, asked them to create rock and roll relief prints.


A big thank you goes out to the printmaking students who assisted and to these future artists!

Printstallation collaborations at the old Mize department store

The first group of collaborative projects between advanced printmaking and advanced digital media students are up and on view at CBH Insurance Company in downtown Nacogdoches.

CBH Insurance is posting information on the art displays on their website. Click here to view current work and past work.
http://www.cbhins.com/artwork.html

A special thank you goes to the Heard family of CBH Insurance for their hospitality and generosity















Our video installation consists of three screens overlayed with silk screen prints or print cut-outs of rice paper and transparent mylar. What we are attempting to do is to combine two totally different media that complements each other while at the same time takes advantage of the juxtaposition of older more traditional media with the more modern digital media. Members of our group included printmaking students Orin Orth and Keenan Grimes, and digital media students Javier Vega, Jonathan Pike, and Trey Fleenor.














































Printmaking students Katherine Timaeus and Natalie Rodriguez worked with digital media students Kat Goins, Bear Mossbarger, and Heather Warren on an installation of sea creatures.

Our window presents an underwater scene, where the sea creatures are screen printed in bright colors on bright paper to achieve a whimsical look. The animals hang from the ceiling using fishing line. In the corner hides a bright pink octopus, a "mother" of sorts to this project. A shiny, large black egg in the corner shows a process video of how the prints were made. The project is meant to be "birthed" out of the egg, with the mother watching.

Stephen F. Austin State University students Emily Grogan (BFA Printmaking), Maria Alvarado (BFA Printmaking), Kim Gless (BFA Digital Media and Photography), Charles Roberds (BFA Digital Media), and Morgan Rogers (BFA Digital Media) combined printmaking and digital media in their collaborative installation. In a juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary, the space portrays their interpretation of the evolution of women’s role in society and the home.

Rockin' Rollin' Prints sign up

Registration is free to sign up to carve a block for Rockin' Rollin' Prints at www.printmattershouston.org. Events take place Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Art Supply on Main in Houston, Texas. The theme is "The Seven Deadly Sins". Individuals or groups are welcome to register. Registration ends June 4.

Click here to register.

Spotlight Alumni: Terri Goggans, Peripheral Vision

Peripheral Vision is Terri Goggans MFA printmaking based thesis exhibition from the fall of 2010. Terri Goggans now lives and works in Nacogdoches, volunteering her time at Lanana Creek Press and working on art in her home studio. Below is her artist statement on this body of work and a few images from the installation.

Memories for me are fragments of images and thoughts, based on past experiences, that are clear and recognizable yet their meanings sometimes remain elusive. The most recent experiences retain almost all of their clarity and meaning while the older memories tend to break apart, fade and compress into certain images. It is these common images that are repeated over and over in my art which have evolved into a visual language over the last several years. The focus for Peripheral Vision came from a memory I have of playing in a clothesline full of white sheets that were blowing in the breeze.

The choice of materials, traditional and non-traditional, allows the viewer to have a personal relationship with the work. The use of panels of translucent fabric suggests the vagueness memories take on over time. Together they create intimate spaces for the images to appear and reappear moving in and out of space. Some are faded and ethereal, just a mere suggestion of memory, while others are very clear as if the event just took place. The stitching found throughout plays many different roles. As a formal element it acts as a tool for drawing, creating patterns and lines on the surface. The wrapping and encasing of various elements with thread suggests binding and restraining, loss of freedom and silencing. The dangling threads are a metaphor for the fragility and tenuous nature of emotions and relationships. The birds stand for the ability to break free, both physically and mentally, while the text comes from my love of language and handwritten communication.  

The influences in my life have been rich and varied.  My grandmother and great grandmother were both professional tailors passed  and they passed along a love of fibers and stitching me at a very early age.  It is this rich tradition coupled with a love of the relationship between image, fiber and thread that led to Peripheral Vision.