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Department of Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Published 2014. Wrappers, 40 pp (unpaginated); 26 cm; illustrated throughout in color.
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In Very Good condition. Pictorial wraps. A couple of small dark specks to rear cover. Binding tight, perfect bound. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalog of the 2014 MFA thesis exhibition of the Printmedia department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eight artists, each given a biographical note, an artist's statement, and full-page color plates of thesis work captioned with title, media and dimensions: Richard Blackwell, Kate Conlon, Rea De Guzman, Ilan Gutin, Annelies Kamen, Aaron Smith, Janna Van Hasselt and Erin Woodbrey. Cover designed by Alex Valentine III and screen printed by Todd Rau. Rea De Guzman, who now works as Rea Lynn de Guzman, is represented by two works of 2014: "Ang Alamatng Pina (The Pineapple Legend)," image transfers on abaca fiber set into found glass votive containers, and "After Maria Clara's Sleeve," a cast abaca pulp relief. Born in Manila and now working in the Bay Area, she has continued to work with pina cloth, abaca, and the colonial history of the Maria Clara dress. She was Root Division's first Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow in 2017 and received an API Artist Futures Fund award in 2022. Annelies Kamen later attended the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and works between Berlin and Amsterdam. Kate Conlon is Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts and, with Ilan Gutin, founded Fernwey Gallery in Chicago in 2014. Erin Woodbrey's work is held by Columbia College Chicago, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Fundacion ace, Buenos Aires. Janna Van Hasselt and Richard Blackwell each came to SAIC on Fulbright awards in 2012, from New Zealand and Australia; Van Hasselt exhibited in the 2016 SCAPE Biennale and won the 2020 Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award.