Exhibition on view: July 31 - September 12, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 31, 6:30 - 9pm
remarks will begin at approximately 7:15pm
Highpoint is pleased to announce the 2024-25 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency Exhibition. The exhibition features work created by this years’ residents—Nancy Ariza, Conor McGrann, and Emma Ulen-Klees—over the last nine months. The three artists have been hard at work since September, pushing boundaries and exploring innovative approaches to printmaking. The culminating exhibition will showcase their creative growth and offer a glimpse into the vibrant future of contemporary printmaking.
Please join Highpoint Center for Printmaking in celebrating the 2025–2026 Jerome Early Career Printmakers at their culminating exhibition and congratulating them on their artistic accomplishments. Gabi Estrada, Dalton Carlson, and Edson Rosas will present an engaging collection of prints, objects, and assembled environments created during their year-long Jerome Residency.
Edson Rosas' residency project, which he describes as “a love letter to printmaking”, explores his family's history with immigration law and the ways those experiences have shaped his life and artistic practice. He says “My art was already touching on the impact of family separations, and with the recent events in Minnesota, I needed to pause and rethink my work. The art evolved, expressing my feelings and those of others, resulting in distinct moods across the work”.
Processing through screenprinting, lithography, relief, intaglio, and installation, Rosas examines themes of family separation, belonging, and community care. Developed during a period of significant tumult and reflection, the work traces a range of emotional registers while inviting conversation about immigration, resilience, and collective support.
Through reduction relief prints, papel picado (paper perforation), and installation, Gabi Estrada investigates the connections between food and printmaking as acts of labor, care, and cultural preservation. Considering food as a vehicle for memory, community, and cultural continuity, Estrada's work explores how the preparation and sharing of both food and prints can foster connection. They add “I have been thinking about how food, beyond being solely sustenance for our physical survival, sustains our histories, communities, and spirits. How food is a binder that brings people together, an avenue for cultural endurance, or a portal that transports us back to another time and place, blurring timelines together and reconnecting us with loved ones.” They underscore the labor that is inherent in both making food and creating prints and how each artform can result in offerings that can be shared.” While food is momentary, Gabi has been investigating the ability of print to “preserve”. Gabi hopes that their work evokes from viewers feelings similar to those experienced when sitting down for a meal with loved ones.
Dalton Carlson's prints celebrate the skill, labor, and artistry of workers in the food industry by recontextualizing these individuals within the art-historical canon. Through portraiture inspired by historical painting traditions, Carlson draws attention to workers whose expertise and contributions often go unrecognized. As the artist explains, "These people are often looked over and not thought about within society, so I wanted to create work to focus on their abilities."
Using complex multi-plate intaglio techniques, Carlson's printmaking process mirrors the precision, dedication, and craftsmanship required in these professions. The exhibition also features large-scale prints made directly from the tools of this labor: well-worn, retired cutting boards. These works transform the physical traces of use into abstract images that reveal and record the repetitive gestures, strength, and skill embedded within everyday work.
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.
Special thanks to the panelists for the 2025-2026 Jerome Early career Printmakers Residency Isa Gagarin and Emily Marsolek! Thanks also to Leslie Ureña, Jenny Schmid and once again Isa Gagarin and Emily Marsolek for joining the residents for critiques.
Finally, thank you to the Jerome Foundation for their continued support of this important program for early career artists!
