Please join us in welcoming the 2025-2026 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Dalton Carlson, Edson Rosas, and Gabi Estrada!

Three artists are selected annually to participate in the Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency at Highpoint. Thanks to the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, this program has existed since 2003 and has served more than 60 early career printmakers.

Beginning in September, the artists will have 12 months of access to the co-op studio to generate artowrk for their culminating exhibition, which will open in July 2026. In addition to studio access and their eventual exhibition, Dalton, Edson, and Gabi received a stipend for materials and will enjoy periodic studio visits with invited guests, along with learning and professional development opportunities.

The Jerome Residency program is open to early career Minnesota printmakers who already possess training in one or more traditional printmaking techniques. Early Career is defined here as an artist with a record of creating and exhibiting original work who has not received consistent development and production opportunities and significant recognition, awards, and acclaim regardless of age or recognition in other fields.

About the artists:

Edson Rosas (he/they) is a queer Mexican-American artist and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a printmaker, installation artist, soft sculpture maker, and casual writer. His autobiographical work is focused on exploring his Mexican roots through memory and how they play a role in his everyday life emotionally, physically, and politically. The work is often honest and open, making the personal become universal. 
Edson received his MFA in 2021 from Pacific Northwest College of Art and his BFA in 2019 from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Dalton Carlson (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carlson received his Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2024 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Colorado Mesa University in 2020. His work analyzes his role and how he interacts within larger societal systems. His work flows between 2D and 3D practices, often finding refuge in painting and printmaking. Carlson has recently shown in group shows in Buffalo, NY with shows at El Museo Gallery and CEPA Gallery and in Colorado at Mesa County Libraries and 437CO. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Triangle Gallery in Colorado, Western New York Book Arts Center in New York, and Fried Fruit Art Space in North Carolina. 

Gabi Estrada (they/them) is a Mexican-American printmaker and arts educator based in Minneapolis. Their practice is rooted in identity and storytelling, honoring their ancestors and elders. They believe in the power that art has to facilitate healing and community building, which they prioritize in their art and pedagogy.

Stay tuned for updates on the artists progress as they move through the Residency!

Special thanks to our esteemed panelists Emily Marsolek and Isa Gagarin for their careful review of the outstanding applicants.

About the review panelists:

Isa Gagarin is an artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work draws from experiences of relating to her birthplace of Guåhan (Guam) through visual art, storytelling and Chamoru language revitalisation. Educated in painting and drawing, Gagarin’s practice has expanded to include writing and performance. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis, MN), the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO) and Grimm Gallery (Amsterdam). Her solo exhibition I Hagan Sirena (The Daughter of Sirena) is currently on view at Pilele Projects (Los Angeles). In 2026, her work will be included in the group exhibition Imagining an Archipelago, curated by Jessamine Batario, which will take place at the Colby Museum of Art (Waterville, ME). Gagarin was born in Guam and was raised throughout the US including Hawai’i. Gagarin received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (2018), and earned her BFA in Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2008).

Emily Marsolek is the Assistant Director at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts and Psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead MN, and first encountered Highpoint Center for Printmaking as a studio intern and printer’s assistant in 2017-2018.

Threshold Gallery

On view: January 5 - March 31, 2026

Spaces In Between

These prints spring from memories of trips taken with my husband and daughters, crossing the country and settling into places where we spend time together, explore, and appreciate the beauty of the natural world.

The snapshots I take along the way become reference images for etchings and lithographs. The slow, careful work of creating prints makes me observe more closely. I notice how poppies change in each stage of blooming, find a fish hiding in kelp leaves, and remember nights lying on campground picnic tables with each of our children, watching the stars appear.

Experiencing these moments, and remembering that we are each a small part of a whole, reminds me of our universal belonging to our natural home and to each other.

About the artist:

Nancy began printmaking while studying graphic design and art history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since then, she has lived and worked as a graphic designer in Chicago, Portland, and Minneapolis. She joined the Highpoint co-op in 2010 to learn more about printmaking through classes, practice, and a wonderfully helpful community of artists.

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Exhibition on view: February 6 - March 21, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, February 6; 6:30 - 9pm

Artist Conversation featuring guest moderator Vanessa Reubendale:

Saturday, March 14; 4 - 5pm @ highpoint

Please join us at Highpoint for the culminating exhibition of the 2025 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship. Jade Hoyer and Stephanie Hunder were awarded this prestigious Fellowship early in 2025 and have been hard at work since. This exhibition will celebrate their artistic accomplishments and put a wrap on their fellowship year.

In addition to the exhibition, on Saturday, March 14 Highpoint will be hosting a conversation with Jade and Stephanie that will be moderated by Vanessa Reubendale conversation will dig deep into the ideas and processes that Jade and Stephanie explored and employed in the creation of their fellowship work, more details here.

In addition to the fruitful creativity Jade and Stephanie have enjoyed, accomplished artist and educator Stephanie Syjuco visited Minneapolis in September and met separately with the fellows to view and discuss their work. For Hunder, the visit was “highly inspiring”. She added: “She (Stephanie Syjuco) seems to question how documentation of the world affects our perception of it. Her inquiry seems closely related to some of my own interrogations so it was exciting to see her approach.”

Regarding her work for the exhibition, Hunder said this: “I created a large, five-panel piece that examines our complex relationship with the land. I began with impressions of vegetation via collagraph printmaking – a tangible record of leaves and plant materials run through the press capturing their complex shapes and delicate surface textures. Layered atop these are hand-drawn maps of the Namekagon watershed, screenprinted onto the panels, obscuring and revealing the collagraph in varying degrees, creating an interplay between geography, and material presence. Adding another dimension to the piece, are NMDS charts. As a method for visualizing complex data, NMDS charts introduce a contemporary lens through which to interpret the landscape. Finally, geometric and abstract ideas about surfaces, such as non-Euclidean tiling, add a suggestion of dimensional depth. These may sound like wide ranging ideas, but they are all about how we perceive and comprehend our surroundings. One of the things I love about printmaking is how the artist can draw together such disparate layers into a new sense of cohesion.”

Jade offered this: “It’s a gift for us as artists to have the opportunity to closely inspect and to revise our ideas. My work over the past few months has been informed, delightfully, by the opportunity to have input from our visits with Stephanie Syjuco, and being able to participate in the artistic community at the Highpoint, especially its community critiques organized by Edson Rosas. 

Conceptually, my ideas are playing with Filipino American healthcare archives, especially images from nursing programs at the turn of the 20th century. I have found that the project has evolved into a reflection not so much on archive per se, but on the translation of archive imagery and messaging across time, distance, and storytellers. This is particularly interesting for me as a mixed-race, Filipina-American. Motifs like stamps and postcards have emerged in my work. I have played with this idea using paper weaving, silkscreen, portraiture, and risography.

From a technical standpoint, I have enjoyed getting into lithography at the Highpoint! I am immeasurably grateful to Judy Baumann and other staff at the Highpoint for their generosity and sharing their expertise, especially Katie St. John. 

I am excited for how these threads have come together in my artistic practice, creating metaphorical and unanticipated storylines!”

While their exhibition is on view and right before their public event in Highpoint galleries, artist Judy Pfaff will visit Minneapolis to meet with Jade and Stephanie individually. She will walk through the exhibition with each of them and converse about their work.

Highpoint would again like to thank the panelists Katrina Andry and Chitra Ganesh for their effort and attention to the selection process. Katrina Andry is an artist and printmaker based in New Orleans, LA. In her work she challenges the ideology of individualism by examining inequalities and resulting degradation as the result of our color-based prejudices. She argues the belief in individualism allows Americans to turn a blind eye to inequality, suggesting barriers to well-being lie with the individual and not also within our social structures, in spite of documentation of the collective experiences of these groups and data on outcomes of disfavored groups.

Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings, collages, computer generated imagery, video, and sculpture. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Ganesh ‘constantly attempts to challenge patriarchal norms and empower her female and queer subjects by constructing alternate visual narratives’, while drawing on South Asian visual traditions as well as canonical and contemporary feminist and queer scholarship. 

The McKnight Printmaking Fellowships are open Minnesota artist/printmakers who are at a career stage that is “beyond emerging” — defined here as artists who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence. Fellows are selected on the basis of the artistic merit of their work, and their dedication, interest, and contributions to Minnesota’s arts ecosystem.