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Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter, 2020-21

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Normal Editions Workshop Veda Rives Aukerman, Interim Director and Master Printer Sarah Smelser, Professor of Art Morgan Price, Associate Professor of Art Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Wonsook Kim School of Art Illinois State University Campus Box 5620 Normal, IL 61790-5620 normaleditions.illinoisstate.edu e-mail: [email protected]

Normal Editions Team Fall 2020 (first row after logo) Veda Rives Aukerman, Morgan Price, and Sarah Smelser, (second row) Jess Dowell, Erika Shiba, Peytin Fitzgerald, and Nicole Arnold

Normal Editions Sponsors Awards Graduate Print award for her copper etching "Document Each year, Normal Editions sponsors a scholarship 5." The N.E.W. Best Undergraduate Print award went to recognizing outstanding artistic ability and performance Michael Monroe for his letterpress and relief print "As in printmaking. This competitive award is open to both the Universe, So the Soul." Erika Shiba also received the graduate and undergraduate art students with an Karen Deske scholarship and the Jen Franklin Memorial emphasis in printmaking and who will be attending Illinois award for her graphite drawing "Neurosphere." Jessica State during the following academic year. Tess Murphy, a Peterson received the fourth annual Richard D. Finch senior year undergraduate BFA major in Printmaking with Drawing and Printmaking award for her drawing "Hope." a minor in Women and Gender Studies, is the 2020-21 This award is sponsored by Kelsey and Jonathan DeGreef recipient of the Normal Editions Workshop Scholarship. in honor of Richard Finch’s 37 outstanding years of Normal Editions also sponsored two awards teaching drawing and printmaking. Jess Dowell, received highlighting achievement in printmaking for the 2020 the Elizabeth Stein Art Scholarhip. Antonia Diprima, Student Annual Exhibition in April. Erika Shiba, a received the ISU Glass award for her life-cast glass second year MFA student, received the N.E.W. Best sculpture, "When did I see you last?" Congratulations to all! 2020-2010 FINAL

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January 2020 - 2021 Number 29 Normal Editions Workshop (N.E.W.) is a Recent Publications non-profit, professional, collaborative print A 2020 completed edition is a research and publishing workshop founded color lithograph by Nazafarin Lotfi in 1976 within the Wonsook Kim School of which was printed early in the year Art at Illinois State University. Welcome to with curating and edition signing ac- our annual review of the year's events. complished in the summer. Nazafarin Who Works at Normal Editions? Lotfi, an artist and educator living and In addition to the Director and print- working between Tucson, Arizona and making faculty, printmaking graduate Chicago, Illinois, collaborated with students work here as part of their as- Normal Editions as part of the ISU sistantships. Other students take an Visiting Artist Program from September independent study course to experi- 2 - October 2, 2019. Her interest in ence the inner workings of this profes- exploring opposition, tension, and sional printshop and expand what they harmony thru spatial arrangements to learn in studio courses. The minimum create places for possibility and growth prerequisite is one printmaking class. resulted in a three-color lithograph Students participate in all aspects entitled Fold using drawn elements in of our activities: preparing for artists' close color combinations. Three layers visits and projects, working with of ink include a warm gray, medium visiting artists in project development, blue, and dark blue on BFK Rives Fold by Nazafarin Lotfi proofing and editioning collaborative white paper. Co-printers Veda Rives three-color lithograph, 19" x 14" prints, writing grants, framing artwork, Aukerman and Morgan Price lead this installing local exhibitions, organizing project. The image was accomplished New Woodcut Portfolio traveling exhibitions, documenting ac- using hand drawing on three Artex Project with PGOBA initiated tivities, and promotional materials. Mylars and photographic techniques Members of the Peoria Guild of Student Team members in 2020 on positive working photo lithography Black Artists (PGOBA) have embarked and 2021 include Jess Dowell, Tess plates. Lotfi’s interdisciplinary practice on a collaborative project to create Murphy, Erika Shiba, Peytin Fitzgerald, includes drawings, sculpture, and per- woodcuts printed by Normal Editions and Nicole Arnold. Staff and faculty formance. Team members. This new project include Veda Rives Aukerman, Morgan begun in the fall semester has the goal Price, and Sarah Smelser. of being collaborative while observing Interested parties may contact us at Covid19 restrictions for social dis- [email protected]. tancing. Woodcut has the advantage of being more easily mobile, less COVID19 Sends Work Online equipment intensive, more intuitive In mid-March our typical work for artists, and less complicated for patterns ended in response to the printing. Eleven participating artists COVID19 global pandemic. All curric- ulum was transitioned to online delivery from Peoria include Kevin Bradford, after an extended spring break to Alexa Carey, Domonick Holloway, prepare for the radical change. Edition Kameron Hoover, Chantell Marlow, printing at the lithography press cannot Alexander Martin, Erik Minnis, Morgan be accomplished while maintaining Mullen, Hannah Offutt, Brenda Pagan, proper social distancing. Thus two and Quinton Thomas. Test blocks have editions for Mark Ritchie and three been proofed and we look forward to for Bethany Collins are on hold until seeing the edition blocks early in 2021 on-site teamwork is allowed. While followed by edition printing soon after. Veda Rives Aukerman, Bethany Collins, there is plenty of work to accomplish Peytin Fitzgerald, and Erika Shiba stand For more information about the artists remotely,we all eagerly look forward with two signed "Right to Print" impressions and the PGOBA organization, see their to printing lithos again in the future. during the collaboration in February website: peoriagoba.com. featured in a solo exhibition at The collaborative print project University Galleries of Illinois with Mark E. Ritchie, Professor, State University titled Bethany University of Wyoming, Department Collins: A Pattern or Practice. of Art educator and artist, includes Bethany Collins’ February visit to two four-color lithographs. These ISU was sponsored in part by Normal editions are next on the production Editions, University Galleries, and printing docket at Normal Editions and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. we look forward to the opportunity The collaboration resulted in not to return to such activities after the one, but three impressions signed restrictions from Covid19 are lifted. "Right to Print" for editions of large Ritchie's untitled prints explore Bethany Collins and Morgan Price inspecting two-color lithographs entitled "and individuality and relationships while drawings on mylar over the light table while love all hearts entwine (God Bless featuring his gestural drawing preparing to expose photo-lithographic plates Our Sunday School)", "and love all methods using the subject of horses Projects in Progress 2020-21 hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday and birds. Ritchie lives and works in Normal Editions is currently working School)" II, and "all hearts beneath the Laramie, Wyoming. An award from on several collaborative projects sun (Let War's Tempests Cease)". the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust of with artists Bethany Collins, Jaimie Jaimie Warren, a multidisciplinary the Illinois State Foundation partially Warren, and Mark E. Ritchie. artist living and working in Brooklyn, supported his visit to Illinois State. Bethany Collins was a visiting New York is the Co-Director of a artist in residence February 3 - 7 community arts project and fake Plans for 2021 Spring semester 2021 continues collaborating with students, staff, public access TV show "Whoop Dee distance learning while plans for the and faculty to produce a limited Doo" through which she collaborates fall semester at this point assume edition print. An artist from Chicago, with art programs for youth and local a return to on-site work and edition Collins works in a variety of media groups. Warren collaborated with printing. Appointments will still be including drawing, painting, prints, Normal Editions as part of the ISU required for visits to CVA 129A. sculptures, and artist’s books where Visiting Artist Program in 2019. Her Plans for acknowledging the 45th she incorporates fractured or illegible interest in performance and popular anniversary of the founding of Normal phrases, either punishingly erased culture lead to a three-color lithograph Editions are under consideration at or arduously rendered. She has featuring icons from her youth in the this time. Flexibility and openness explored personal, bureaucratic, and form of cards. The two-sided print to unexpected opportunities are lyrical language. As Holland Cotter entitled Tarot Deck #1, "The Dream important qualities during the recently wrote in The New York Master" also includes metal leaf on ongoing response to the pandemic. Times, “Language itself, viewed as the halos of the figures. Curating intrinsically racialized, is Bethany of this edition is currently nearing Instagram: @normaledtions_isu Collins’ primary material.” The completion. A unique aspect of this Our social media includes Instagram. artist elaborates, “I adore language work is the cutting of some of the Follow to stay up to date on recent because of its potential capacity, impressions into individual cards collaborations with artists and see but if language is biased and not which will be presented as a usable images from our archives. Some representative of us, it’s bound to fail.” set of cards in performance work by content is exclusive to Instagram while Collins’ work was recently the artist and as desired by patrons. some can be seen on "Printmaking

"and love all hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday School)" "and love all hearts entwine (God Bless Our Sunday School)" II Bethany Collins Bethany Collins two-color lithograph, 22 1/2" x 30 1/2" two-color lithograph, 22 1/2" x 30 1/2" two untitled works by Mark Ritchie four-color lithographs, 17" x 26" (left) and 15.5" x 30" (right) at Illinois State University" Facebook her academic program at Illinois State. with limited equipment. Her graduate page. Many thanks to Erika Shiba for Normal Editions welcomes back third assistantship duties this semester maintaining the Instagram site this year! year printmaking graduate student, include Normal Editions, Intermediate Erika Shiba and two second-year Drawing, lab hours in the intaglio studio, Illinois Arts Council Support printmaking graduate assistants, and publishing a weekly printmaking Normal Editions takes this opportu- Peytin Fitzgerald and Nicole Arnold, newsletter for the current print students. nity to express our appreciation to the pursuing M.F.A. degrees in Printmaking. Peytin Fitzgerald was selected in Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) for Erika Shiba had two works selected the Fall of 2020 by a juried process its generous support. Normal Editions for IPCNY’s (International Print Center to speak at MAPC (Mid-America Print received $6,100 in fiscal year 2020 of New York) 2020 Summer New Council) biennial conference which for general operating support and prints show “Give Me Space” in June. was an online event this year. Peytin $5,200 for fiscal year 2021. We are She also gave a virtual artist talk for presented a five-minute artist's talk very grateful; this funding enhances this show. Erika’s current graduate during the Student Lightning Talk our ability to provide programs which assistantship duties include Normal session. This semester her graduate attract public interest in the visual arts, Editions and 2D Fundamentals. assistantship duties included Normal supports our mission to make high-qual- Nicole Arnold's previous work Editions, Intaglio Lab hours, teaching ity work with visiting artists, and gives experience as an assistant at Evil assistant in Special Project Printmaking: students the opportunity to work in a Prints working with Tom Huck in St. Monotype, and Lithography Lab hours. professional printshop. Louis, Missouri plus her own practice of Normal Editions welcomed two Personnel News printing woodcuts at home combined to undergraduate students to the Team in Normal Editions sends hearty create a great opportunity for her to be 2020. Jess Dowell is an undergraduate congratulations to Halie Hugenberg our resident expert in work-from-home team member in both the spring and fall who graduated in May 2020 with printing woodcuts outside the studio. semesters. Spring 2021 she is also a a BS in Art Education and a BFA Nicci created a couple of videos and Graphic Design Intern helping Normal concentrating in drawing and check-list tips for the artists of PGOBA Editions with all manner of promotional printmaking. Halie participated in and Normal Editions Team regarding items and communication methods. Normal Editions three semesters during cutting woodcut blocks and printing Dowell is a BFA and Graphic Design

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Photo credits: Morgan Price, Sarah Smelser, Erika Shiba, Peytin Fitzgerald, Nicole Arnold, Bethany Collins (seated) welcomes students to observe the collaborative project Tess Murphy, Jess Dowell, in progress during her visit to Normal Editions Workshop, February 2020 Meda Rives Smith, and Veda Rives Aukerman

Peytin Fitzgerald and Erika Shiba with Veda Rives Aukerman working with masks and social distancing, September 2020 Smelser, University Art Gallery, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL and a group show The Pandemic Faire, online exhibition curated by Ted Kincaid, Glasstire.com Normal Editions Team Spring 2020 (top row) Jess Dowell, Nicole Arnold, Erika Shiba, Tess Murphy Morgan Price spent much of (second row) Peytin Fitzgerald, Morgan Price, Sarah Smelser, and Veda Rives Aukerman 2020 working from his home/studio spaces. He exhibited work in the Two major with a minor in Art History. Her is a Wonsook Kim College of Fine Rivers Print Biennial in Carbondale, studio focus is painting and printmaking. Arts Council member. Awards include IL, the Illinois State University Faculty Dowell previously attended Spoon River Normal Editions Best Undergraduate Biennial in Normal, IL, and the Mid College where she was a scenic artist Print award and the Jen Franklin America Print Council Juried Exhibition and set painter for the SRC theater Memorial Award from the 2019 Student in Kent, Ohio. He organized a print productions. At Illinois State University, Annual exhibition. Tess was co- exchange portfolio entitled What’s So Dowell was co-organizer for Printmaker organizer for Normal Edition’s online Funny?” for the 2020 Mid America Interrupted. In Spring of 2020, Dowell exhibition Printmaker Interrupted. Print Council conference, and these was also the lead organizer for the Professor Sarah Smelser prints are currently on display in the BFA show Open Discussions and a continues her role as Associate first floor hallway of the Center for collaborative show The Back Room. Director of the Wonsook Kim School Visual Arts building. In fall of 2020 She is a recipient of the Irving Tick of Art. Solo exhibitions in 2020 include Morgan received the Gwen and Ted award in the 2020 Student Annual and Skopeloakland, Todd Art Gallery, Crowley grant to support his work to her anticipated graduation is in Spring Middle Tennessee State University, create a bicycle powered printmak- of 2022. Murfreesboro, TN and EXIT Gallery, ing gallery and press. When weather Independent Study Montana State University, Boseman, Tess Murphy, and global health are more conducive, undergraduate student at Normal MT with an upcoming one-person show he looks forward to the public launch Editions in the spring semester 2020, at Folsom Gallery, LUX Center for the of this mobile interactive printmaking is a BFA major in Printmaking with a Arts, Lincoln, NE. Other exhibitions adventure! minor in Women and Gender Studies include the two-person show, A Brief Interim Director and Master Printer (anticipated graduation 2021). She Rhythm: Erin Furimsky and Sarah Veda Rives Aukerman continues directing Normal Editions, marking her seventh year in the position in fall 2020. She also maintains an active exhibition schedule of collaborative works and large-scale installations with twin sister,

Nicci Arnold, Bethany Collins, and Lisa Lofgren observe the printing of the first plate Peytin Fitzgerald (right) mixing ink with visiting for Bethany's project. Peytin Fitzgerald is the sponger for printer Morgan Price. artist Bethany Collins. Meda Rives Smith. Exhibitions include the Illinois State University Faculty Biennial, Printmaker, Interrupted, and Sacred & Liturgical Art Exhibit at the Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL. Magnolia BookEnviron is currently 2020 branding refresh by Amanda Smith installed at Constellation Studios in the exhibition Paper Fiber: Shaped & Redesigned Website and The acronym "N.E.W." is now de- Formed in Lincoln, NE as part of the emphasized in promotional materials city's FiberFest featuring contemporary Branding Refresh for 2020 Our newly redesigned website yet lingers as an internal and historic fiber and textile artists. The show launched in late January 2020 after reference. The goal of this choice of continues through February 27, 2021. nearly a year of focused work. Many naming conventions is for "Normal Veda is active in the College Book Arts thanks to Amanda Smith from WEB Editions" to more accurately describe Association (CBAA) creating an edition and Interactive Communications for the activities of this unit as a collabora- in collaboration with Meda featuring her expertise and leadership during tive printmaking workshop publishing handmade paper (tea dyed abaca this process. The website has great limited edition fine art prints. The fiber) with watermark imagery and content in an elegant presentation. website address remains the same, so stratography print methods for CBAA's Images are presented via Flickr check out the new look at https://nor- Midwest Exchange Portfolio. albums for a more versatile viewing maleditions.illinoisstate.edu/ Keep in Touch experience. The branding refresh Open Invitation As our network continues to grow, was also revealed during the website Normal Editions has an ongoing we remain proud of the artistic, profes- launch. The logo is now on the banner commitment to the production of sional, and personal accomplishments of this newsletter. It honors the chop limited edition prints in collaboration of our alumni. Please send personal (blind emboss) still used to designate with visiting artists—including many and professional updates to normaledi- the authorization of each impression who have not worked previously with [email protected]. Additionally, since the founding of the workshop in any printmaking media—and the thanks to everybody who has liked 1976 while modernizing and stream- distribution of these images to promote Printmaking at ISU on Facebook! lining the symbolic shape for the visual dialogue among a variety of We continue to keep our website and twenty-first century. Naming conven- audiences. The opportunities for Facebook page updated with current tions have also been considered. For these artists to explore (with the help events, media, and opportunities from promotional purposes, a short name of Workshop staff) the challenging, the printmaking community, including of "Normal Editions" is now preferred. expressive, and creative potentials of news from Normal Editions. https:// Normal Editions Workshop remains printmaking have allowed the artists www.facebook.com/ISUPrintmaking the official legal name of this unit. the freedom to concentrate on their visual imagery while learning about the expressive potentials of printmaking. The collaborative process always yields many insights for the artists, staff involved in the projects, and observers. Proposals for projects are welcome and reviewed periodically. Future Renovation of CVA Early planning is underway for temporary swing space equipment needs during the anticipated future displacement while the first floor renovation of the CVA building takes place. Actual timelines have yet to be finalized for the $61.9M Fine Arts Rehabilitation Project. Planning is moving forward at full speed and we are eager to learn more about the details as they become available. Meanwhile, Normal Editions prints continue to be displayed in Wonsook Kim School of Art and Wonsook Kim ""all hearts beneath the sun (Let War's Tempests Cease)" College of Fine Arts offices, conference Bethany Collins room, and various offices and display two-color lithograph, 22 1/2" x 30 1/2" areas on campus. Printmaker, Interrupted despite limitations while being Printmakers, Over 125 works in this online exhibition Interrupted. Some of works directly feature art highlighting the ways print- address COVID19, while others explore making students and faculty from many related issues such as interpersonal locations continue to make work in the relationships, isolation, and communication spirit of printmaking even without typical methods. Some artists were able to adapt studio resources due to COVID19. traditional printmaking techniques in limited Immediately upon resuming classes fashion in their home settings while others remotely at the onset of the global discovered alternative uses, methods, and pandemic response, undergraduate techniques to convey their messages. students Tess Murphy and Jess Dowell Many artists included short descriptions used their work-from-home independent of their alternative methods and studies at Normal Editions to organize challenges overcome in the creative an online exhibition entitled Printmaker, process. As a group, the works span Interrupted. Normal Editions is hosting the range of human emotions, carrying viewers through a journey of serious the show to encourage creative problem Watershed III by Meda Rives Smith solving to generate art speaking to topics, playful presentations, somber and Veda Rives Aukerman printmaking in some fashion. images, joyful visuals with artworks which stratography While the global response to COVID19 are surprising, comforting, confusing, 11.5" x 8.5" image size caused colleges and universities to move somewhat disturbing, uniquely delightful, all courses to online and alternative and ultimately uniting in their mutual formats to accommodate social distancing expression of determination to continue rules, many art students are displaced creating work as an artist irregardless of from their usual classroom studios. limitations imposed by the global pandemic Equipment-dependent art media, such response. The exhibition is still available as printmaking with its presses, matrix- online at https://normaleditions.illinoisstate. making gear, and work spaces, adjusted edu/exhibitions/printmaker-interrupted/ the remaining projects of the semester to utilize materials the “stay-at-home” students Going Virtual for the Annual have available in their individual situations Printmakers’ Exhibition & Sale The 36th Annual Printmakers’ Exhibition rather than the on-campus studios. Construction by Sarah Smelser These Normal Editions students are and Sale is an online experience for print collage with thread reached out to their peers in similar viewing and purchasing works created 6.5" x 7" image size situations to highlight the creative work still by Illinois State University printmaking being produced by students and faculty students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Even alike despite separation from expected the submission of works for the event was studio facilities. Printmaker, Interrupted is an online process for the first time this year. intended to bring community awareness Patrons will enjoy added features in the of this art to a wider audience via digital online enviroment with short biographies presentation in the online exhibition. Plans of the participating artists and some videos for the exhibition also include arranging highlighting printmaking techniques. the images into a printable digital PDF- Purchases are accomplished online with zine to be made available in the future. options for free curbside pick-up or local This exhibition was open to all current delivery by appointment or shipping via college and university students and faculty UPS for an additional fee. who are disconnected from their usual The online event launched November printmaking studios yet still producing work 17, 2020 and runs thru January 22, 2021. “at home.” The focus of the exhibition is Purchases can be made at anytime via the creative results being produced in the the TouchNet uStore. Appointments for spirit of printmaking while using alternative materials and methods for visual creative curbside pickup or local delivery will be the man in black (in red) by Morgan Price arranged by email and follow business monotype, collage, thread, hand coloring expression. Therefore, all media are 7.25" x 9.75" image size welcome in the exhibition which includes hours (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m Monday- digital images of the works submitted. Friday). University closure between Many students and several faculty semesters is a period of time when appoint- members from over 50 schools responded ments are not possible. (December 24, to the call for entries which was open 2020 - January 1 and January 18, 2021) for just two weeks, April 13 – 27, 2020. Proceeds from the sale support the In total, 126 entries are included in the Printmaking Speaker Fund and Printmaking online exhibition. The works come from Student Travel Fund to help support 27 states and three countries outside students participating in professional print- Sunset by Teri Croft the USA showing diverse and creative making conferences. This online event is four- color monotype examples of art produced from home free and open to the public. 5.5" x 10" image size In the Jungle by Peytin Fitzgerald drypoint 6" x 6" image size Calami-tea by Nicole Arnold two-color woodcut 13" x 10" image size Under the Sea by Evelyn Whitfield Love Letter Home 2 by Erika Shiba monotype and collage copper etching 9.5" x 7.5" image size 4" x 6" image size

untitled by Ryan Paluczak collagraph 8" x 7" image size

Summer Night by Rebecca Hodel monotype The Courtship (1) by Jess Dowell 10" x 8" image size lithograph untitled by Molly Markow 9" x 6" image size etching 8.5" x 5.5" image size

Khalila and Dimna by Amber Gravett three-color lithograph 10" x 10" image size

This makes me uncomfortable by Amanda Smith Meet Cute by Megan Hinds one color woodcut with India ink linoleum cut 4" x 6" image size 5" x 6" image size

vertical III by Felicia Cannon untitled by Micah Zavacky Widening Circles by Lisa Lofgren Reception by L J Douglas lithography and collage silk screen relief, etching, and watercolor trace monotype, chine colle 5" x 3" image size 10" x 13" image size 10" x 8.25" image size 8.125" x 10" image size