Stephanie Hunder (left) and Jade Hoyer (right)
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 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. This enlightening conversation will dig deep into the ideas and processes that Jade and Stephanie explored and employed in the creation of their fellowship work.
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 still playing with Filipino American healthcare archives, though 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.
From a technical standpoint, I have enjoyed playing with lithography for the first time since attending graduate school! I am immeasurably grateful to Judy Baumann and other staff at the Highpoint for their generosity and sharing their expertise. I was privileged to take Judy’s photolithography workshop this fall, and I also have been lucky and grateful to Katie St. Clair to work with me on stone lithography.
I am excited for how these threads have come together in my artistic practice, creating metaphorical and unanticipated storylines- and will be equally thrilled to share this work in the New Year!”
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.
Once again, Highpoint would 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.
