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2023 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition
Mar
8
to Apr 26

2023 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition

Natasha Pestich (left) and Carolyn Swiszcz (right)

Exhibition on view: March 8 - April 26, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, March 8; 6:30 - 9pm

public conversation moderated by special guest Casey Riley: Thursday, April 4; 7 - 8pm

The 2023 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship concludes with the fellowship exhibition at Highpoint. Beginning on March 8, Carolyn and Natasha will welcome visitors into the galleries to view the fruits of their fellowship year. This is an annual highlight on Highpoint’s exhibition calendar, appointment viewing if you will.

Between the outset of the fellowship in and now, a lot has happened beyond simply time spent in the studio. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Highpoint brought the poet, artist, and critic John Yau to Minnesota for indivdual studio visits with Carolyn and Natasha. Then in late January, author and art educator Sarah Urist Green braved the Minnesota deep freeze to do the same. Both of these special guests were identified earlier in the fellowship by Carolyn and Natasha as two people that they would like to meet and converse with. 

In September, Carolyn and Natasha were honored alongside all the other 2023 McKnight Artist and Culture Bearer Fellows during a special celebration at McKnight Foundation HQ. in the past 12 months, they have also had the opportunity to attend numerous visits to local museums and guided tours of special exhibitions including In Our Hands at Mia and Paul Chan: Breathers at the Walker Art Center.

Here’s what the fellows have been working on:

Using the large intaglio press in the co-op, Carolyn has been making some massive monotypes. She has also been taking advantage of the screenprinting setup. Carolyn said she was enormously inspired by John Yau’s visit which gave her new ideas and encouragement. She is putting the finishing touches on about a dozen works which will be in the exhibition. The series includes some self portraits and images of her family and pets. Recently Carolyn also spent two months as artist in residence at the Northeast Sculpture Gallery Factory, this is where her visit with Sarah Urist Green took place. At the Northeast Sculpture Gallery Factory she had the room needed to spread out to complete her large work on paper inspired by a trip to the Boundary Waters. 

She’s been working mostly within screenprinting and monotype, but Natasha is awfully  excited to be incorporating her newly acquired papermaking skills into her practice. In the exhibition, she will showcase several distinct series of work that have been in development. Natasha offered this about her fellowship experience: “Over the fellowship year, I have been steeped in an exploration of what home means and where it resides, pulling from my personal experience of eviction. Inspired by the lottery tickets my mom regularly bought and the impromptu fridge collages my Dad forms from real estate ads and images of domestic life, I am seeking to develop a visual lexicon and material sensibility, through handmade paper and printmaking, that allows me to hold onto something while letting go of the things that cannot be changed.” Natasha is also excited to experience a fully-funded artist residency following the fellowship. This benefit is provided to recent fellows by the McKnight Foundation through a partnership with the Artist Communities Alliance. 

Don’t forget to join us for a special event on Thursday, April 4 featuring special guest Casey Riley. Casey will be moderating a conversation between Carolyn and Natasha on their practice, their work, and any other related topics that organically arise. The audience will also have the opportunity to ask questions of the artists and Casey during the conversation. Seating is limited but this event is free, free, free.

Casey RIley oversees Mia’s department of Global Contemporary Art and the research, exhibition, and publication of the museum’s renowned collection of art after 1970. Her curatorial practices are rooted in collaboration and informed by the principles of inclusion and equity. Recent projects at Mia include “Objectivity: Metaphorical and Material Lives of Photographs,” “Dayanita Singh: Pothi Khana,” “Hindsight: American Documentary Photography 1930-1950,” “Vision 2020: Jess Dugan,” “Just Kids,” and “Strong Women, Full of Love: The Photography of Meadow Muska.” In partnership with Mia colleagues and a curatorial council of fourteen artists, scholars, and knowledge sharers, she is co-organizing a survey of works by First Nations, Metis, Inuit, and Native American photographic artists, opening at Mia in October 2023.

Highpoint would like to once again thank Andrea Carlson (visual artist) and Alexis Lowry (Curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York) for providing their expert insight in reviewing the applications for the 2023 fellowship. We’d also like to thank John Yau (poet, critic, artist) and Sarah Urist Green (curator and art educator) for taking time out of their busy schedules to travel to Minnesota for meetings with Carolyn and Natasha


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.

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2023-24 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition
Jun
14
to Jul 20

2023-24 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition

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EXHIBITION ON VIEW: June 14 - July 20, 2024

OPENING RECEPTION (with artist remarks): FRIDAY, June 7; 6:30 - 9PM

Left to Right: Mei Lam So, Izzy Shinn, and Gidinatiy Hartman

The 2023-2024 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency kicked off in September, since then the artists Gidinatiy Hartman, Izzy Shinn, and Mei Lam So have been busy in the prinsthop, devoting much of their free time toward generating work for their upcoming exhibition. In early February, the residents welcomed Regan Golden-McNerney (Artist and Interim Chair of Fine Arts, MCAD) for their first of four in-progress critiques. Then in February, Suyao Tian came to Highpoint for the second such critique session. At these critiques, the residents share a selection of their artwork (at various stages of completion) along with sketches and ideas for other work seeking feedback and insight from the guest critics. Tamara Aupaumut will conduct a visit with the residents in April and then finally, while their culminating exhibition is on view in the galleries at Highpoint, Heidi Goldberg will provide a critique of the completed work. These critiques are one of the most beneficial components to the Jerome Residency program at Highpoint. Read on to find out more about what each of the artists has been up to along with what you might expect to see in their exhibition.

Based on their stated interests, Mei and Gidinatiy have worked individually with Highpoint staff member Josh Bindewald to learn a new printmaking technique. Mei explored a specific chine collé mounting technique using homemade wheat paste and Gidinatiy has begun to learn stone lithography.
The artists each provided a brief quote about the residency experience to this point:  Mei Lam So said “I'm grateful for the support Highpoint has provided thus far. The museum visits, group critiques, and various support through this residency have been valuable and helpful for developing my work. I enjoy working in the studio and getting the opportunity to talk with other co-op members. Such small discussions between printing and the constant exchange of knowledge have been a highlight throughout my studio time.” 

Izzy Shinn stated “I’ve been giving myself a chance to break away from old habits and a strictness I’ve often held myself to. I think in our first group critique I felt a good prod to get out of my own head and roll with a greater sense of freedom and gesture when it comes to my own drawing & printing process, which I’m wildly appreciative of. My expectations for myself have shifted and I’m excited to navigate the balance of precise composition and rougher spontaneous drawing and see how I can make these two work in tandem.”

Finally, Gidinatiy Hartman said “I am excited to use this residency to learn other printmaking techniques I couldn’t learn in college like lithography. I just finished prepping my first stone and I can’t wait to see how it prints.”

The residency exhibition will open at Highpoint on June 14 with a reception taking place from 6:30-9pm and artist remarks happening around 7pm. We hope that you can join us to celebrate and support these early career artists.

Mei Lam So (she/her) is a Minneapolis-based visual artist whose medium includes printmaking, textile printing, and ceramics. She received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Printmaking and Ceramics from the University of Iowa. Originally from Hong Kong, Mei’s work explores topics surrounding the acculturation process of bicultural Asian immigrants. Mei has exhibited her work nationally.

Izzy Shinn (they/he/she) is a butch Twin Cities-based printmaker and comic artist specializing in intaglio etching and ink illustration, having earned their BFA from the University of Minnesota. With a focus butchness, lesbian life, and history, their work is tied intimately with themself and their own experiences, showcased through characters and archetypes, exploring the sexual and social stigmatization of women, the body, and the queer subject.

Most recently, they have worked as a summer workshop studio assistant at Penland School of Craft. They have exhibited and sold work in various local venues, such as the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and the North Suburban Center for the Arts. They have also self-published multiple mini-comics and zines and participated as an exhibitor in the 2022 Minneapolis-based Autoptic Festival.

Gidinatiy Hartman (they/them) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Their artwork is about creating visual representations of the Deg Xinag and other Native languages and is centered around a desire to reclaim their family’s Athabascan language, which was taken from them due to colonization. United by a sense of whimsy and wordplay, their art seeks to make it easier for people to learn Deg Xinag and other Native languages. They aspire to have multiple modes of representation, including visual art, that makes language revitalization more accessible to people.

Highpoint would like to thank this year’s panelists Tamara Aupumaut and Heidi Goldberg.

Tamara Aupaumut is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis. She works in a variety of media, including printmaking.

Heidi Goldberg earned her BA from Hamline University and MFA in printmaking and works on paper at The University of Michigan. She taught studio art at Concordia from 1995-2022. Her works have been exhibited in local, regional, national, and international juried exhibitions. She lives and works in the sand hills near the National Sheyenne Grasslands in North Dakota. 


The Jerome Early Career Residency is in its 21st year of programming and is funded with a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation. The program is open to early-career Minnesota printmakers — defined here as artists who show significant potential yet have not received a commensurate amount of professional accomplishment or recognition, regardless of age or recognition in other fields. You can find details about the program, application process, and creative benefits on our website.

About the Jerome Foundation –  Created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), The Jerome Foundation seeks to contribute to a dynamic and evolving culture by supporting the creation, development, and production of new works by emerging artists. Based in St. Paul, MN, the Foundation makes grants to not-for-profit arts organizations and artists in Minnesota and New York City.

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2024 McKnight Printmaking Fellows
Mar
7
to Apr 19

2024 McKnight Printmaking Fellows

Grace Sippy (left) and Fidencio Fifield-Perez (right)

Please join Highpoint in welcoming the 2024 McKnight Printmaking Fellows Grace Sippy and Fidencio Fifield-Perez! Panelists Mike Cloud and Rachel Skokowski were tasked with reviewing a record number of applications (nearly double our previous high). Their initial evaluation was followed by in-person studio visits with the finalists after which they ultimate determined to award the fellowship to Fidencio and Grace.

When asked what excites them about the fellowship and what they think they might accomplish, Grace offered this: “I am excited and grateful to have the resources and mentality to be able to pursue my practice to an extent I have not had before. It feels validatin I am excited and grateful to have the resources and mentality to be able to pursue my practice to an extent I have not had before. It feels vaildatiing.”

“I have had a completely new and separate vein of work spark up in the last year or so, and I still need to decide if I will pursue its creation for the fellowship, or if I will continue to push and evolve what I have been working on for many years.”

And Fidencio said this: “I'm excited about printing in a studio that draws community members and printers from all over the area. Based on my experiences teaching and exhibiting with Highpoint, I knew I wanted to be a part of this community. It's unlike any other print shop I've been in. I'm most excited about printing and taking classes taught by other printmakers in the upcoming year. 

Undoubtedly, this fellowship will enable me to print new work as well as components that will be incorporated into other collaged works. The prize, facilities, and working alongside others during workshops will spur new directions, techniques, and processes. My studio practice is one driven by material curiosity and learning new processes.”

For updates on the progress of the artists and other fellowship happenings, stay tuned to Highpoint’s website and social media.

Highpoint would like to thank the panelists Mike Cloud and Rachel Skkowski for the thoughtful review and consideration of all the applicants.

About the panelists:

Mike Cloud is a painter, writer, and educator.  His work and research in the field of painting is anchored in the contemporary life of reproduction, symbolism and description. Cloud’s paintings “aestheticize their subjects and function on social and political terms that go beyond the stakes of authentic expression.”

Cloud earned his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago with a concentration in art education. Cloud has lectured extensively on his work and contemporary theoretical art issues at the Jewish Museum, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Yale University, the Cooper Union, Bard College, New York Studio School, Kansas City Art Institute and the University of New Orleans.

Mike is associate Professor of Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Dr. Rachel Skokowski is the Curator of the Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico. She has worked with museum print collections in the US and abroad, including at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Sydney, and the Ashmolean Museum. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and holds a Masters from Oxford and a BA from Princeton University. Her research interests include 19th century French print culture, text and image studies, and women printmakers.


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.

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Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking
Jan
26
to Mar 2

Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking

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Brandywine Workshop and Archives
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Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition, Flowing Abstraction, works created by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, opening January 26, 7 - 9 pm. Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking highlights the creative process and the flow of artistic ideas and knowledge as revealed in 24 abstract fine-art prints by eight artists of varied African, Caribbean, and African-American heritages and nationalities.

And join us Saturday, January 27, from 12 -1 pm, as Highpoint hosts a free public curator conversation with Michele Parchment, Brandywine Executive Director, and Taylor Jasper, Walker Art Center Assistant Curator of Visual Arts. 

Flowing Abstraction will be on display at Highpoint Center for Printmaking from January 26 - March 2, 2024. Exhibiting Artists: El Anatsui, Enise Carr, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Sam Gilliam, Tim McFarlane, Julie Mehretu, Kebedech Tekleab, Tyler Yvette Wilson

Public Opening Reception: January 26, 7-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 26 - March 2, 2024
Curator Conversation: January 27, 12 - 1 pm

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“Flow is a state of being associated with creativity and enhanced performance,” explains Klare Scarborough, Ph.D., a curator, educator, author, and arts administrator who contributed to the exhibition catalog’s essay. “Flow enters the creative process in moments when action and awareness merge, when artists become completely absorbed in their tasks, and their sense of time slips away. Working within a turbulent political and social climate, including a global pandemic, these artists actively sought opportunities to expand their artistic practices through experimentation, learning, and collaboration.”

Tyler Yvette Wilson | Born 1992 | American/African American heritage | After a Time, 2023 | Color woodcut | 21 5/8 x 29 ¼ inches | Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives | Printed by Alexis Nutini, Dos Tres Press

Abstraction is currently understood to involve the translation of lived experience through embodied practices. The artists featured in Flowing Abstraction, while sharing African Diasporic heritage, represent a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and they are diverse in their artistic interests and goals. Their influences include music, dance, literature, philosophy, architecture, history, politics, current events, social injustices, personal stories, ancestral heritage, and the environment. They work primarily in artistic mediums other than printmaking, such as painting, sculpture, collage, photography, performance, and installation. While their artworks presented in Flowing Abstraction are considered non-representational, they emerge as passionate responses to their phenomenological experiences of the world.


Curator: Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking was organized by Brandywine Workshop and Archives with assistance from Klare Scarborough, PhD. 

Adama Delphine Fawundu | Born 1971 | Sierra Leonean and American/Mende, Bubi, Sierra Leonean, Equatorial Guinean heritage | Ancestral Songs III, 2023 | Color woodcut | 28 ½ x 22 ½ inches | Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives | Printed by Alexis Nutini, Dos Tres Press


About Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Founded in 1972, Brandywine Workshop andArchives (BWA) is a diversity-driven, nonprofit cultural institution that produces and shares art to connect, inspire, and build bridges among global communities. At BWA, creative expression is fostered through collaboration and processes that employ conventional as well as emerging technologies. BWA offers a Visiting Artist-in-Residence Program, changing exhibitions in The Printed Image Gallery and Glass Gallery, traveling exhibitions, and publishes exhibition catalogs and a Teacher Guide for Cross-Curricular and Cross-Cultural Learning.

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Prints on Ice
Dec
1
to Jan 6

Prints on Ice

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Highpoint's 43rd Co-op Exhibition

On View December 1, 2023 - January 6, 2024

Opening reception December 1, from 6:30–9:00 pm

Celebrate and support local printmakers and get some incredible works and gifts for the holiday season! Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Prints on Ice, an exhibition featuring prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 43rd semi-annual co-op member exhibition. As usual, we offer a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening weekend, December 1st and 2nd. 

Prints on Ice features 79 new printmaking works made by 38 of Highpoint’s artist cooperative members. The exhibition incorporates a variety of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, books, and more! Work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people doing the work! 

Visitors can expect to see a little bit of everything from maximal images of abstraction such as the large colorful, and hyper-detailed screenprint Desert Fire by Horacio Devoto and the hive of activity that is Lynnette Black’s Rhapsody. Also included are painstakingly rendered figurative prints like to be with you (holding hands) by Sophie Rogers and quietly contemplative pho-based prints like Catkin Pollen by John Pearson. If you’re looking for a gift or artwork, you’re sure to find something to meet the taste of every art lover.

Artists include Jon Mahnke, Anda Tanaka, Belle Hulne, Benjamin Capp, Beth Dorsey, Brian Wagner, Brian Kantor, Bridget Lips, Carl Nanoff, Carley Schmidt, Cathy Ryan, Cathy Spengler, Cedar Heffelfinger, Kurt Seaberg, Edson Rosas, Eileen Rieman-Schaut, Sally Gordon, Gabi Estrada, Grace Sippy, Heather Delisle, Horacio Devoto, Isabel Arevalo, James Boyd Brent, Jasper Duberry, Jeremy Lundquist, John Pearson, John Schulz, Josh Bindewald, Kristin Bickal, Lynnette K Black, Megan Wetzel, Melissa McElin, Melissa Sisk, Monique Kantor, Nancy Ariza, Nancy Bolan, Pamela Carberry, Sophie Rogers, Taylor Schumann, Tyler Green, Cathy Spengler, and Whitney Terrill.

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On Looking
Sep
15
to Nov 18

On Looking

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Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to present On Looking, a selection of work by artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez. Including printmaking, painting, and installation, On Looking highlights the ambiguity of boundaries in artistic medium and perception and the experience of immigration, revealing that solace can be found in the in-between.

Cutting & Pruning

Fifield-Perez calls attention to this precarity by creating personal barriers within his work, from photo-realistically painted plants covering his address on immigration documents in his series dacaments to a moiré effect obscuring the text beneath intricate weavings in To Live Not Just Survive or to figures and landscapes masking the details of maps in his installation Surge

On Looking invites the viewer to delve deeper into different levels of observation, wander between them, and celebrate the undefined. We invite the community to join us for a public opening reception on Friday, September 15th, 2023, from 7 - 9 PM. The artwork will be on display through November 18th, 2023.

Cutting & Pruning by Fidencio Fifield-Perez

About the Artist: Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers on the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self-documents discarded after fulfilling their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and painting are ways to visualize and connect mental landscapes of the past and present.


Fidencio Fifield-Perez received his BFA from Memphis College of Art and an MA & MFA from The University of Iowa. He has exhibited at multiple institutions, including The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the International Print Center New York. He has completed artist residencies at The Studios at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow, ACRE, Crosstown Arts, and the Galveston Artist Residency, among others. He has been awarded The Eliza Moore Fellowship at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. He is currently one of the inaugural Dr. Harold R. Adams Artist-in-Residence Fellows at The University of Minnesota.

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Hot off the Press
Aug
4
to Sep 9

Hot off the Press

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Highpoint’s 42nd Semi-Annual Artist Cooperative Exhibition

On View: August 4 - September 9, 2023

Opening reception: Friday, August 4 from 6:30- 9 PM

Toast to Highpoint’s outgoing Co-Founder and Master Printer Cole Rogers @ 7:30

MEGA BLOWOUT PRINT SALE:

Friday, August 4: 6:30-9pm and Saturday, August 5; 12-4pm

There will be TONS of extra co-op member work available to purchase during the exhbition. This is an opportunity for you to get your hands on some fabulous original artwork at a great price while supporting the artists and helping them make space in their studios! Don’t miss this sale! As usual, all co-op member work on the walls and in the gallery sales racks will be 20% off.

The 21st installment of our Hot off the Press will feature 84 examples of printwork made by 41 members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate all manner of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!

Artists and artwork involved in the project:

The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 70+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Highpoint interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together by the love of printmaking processes. The cooperative printshop first opened in 2001, and a few of the members in this exhibition have been printing and taking classes at Highpoint since the very beginning.

Participating Artists

Maneli Aygani

Kristin Bickal

Josh Bindewald

Nancy Bolan

Lynn Bollman

James Boyd Brent

Pam Carberry

Horacio Devoto

Heather Delisle

Beth Dorsey

Jasper Duberry

Victoria Eidelsztein

Gabi Estrada

Anne Feicht

Matt Otero

John Pearson

Eileen Rieman-Schaut

Edson Rosas

Carley Schmidt

John Schulz

Lila Shull

Grace Sippy

Melissa Sisk

Cathy Spengler

Pam Sullivan

Anda Tanaka

Whitney Terrill

Megan Wetzel

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2022 - 2023 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition
Jun
9
to Jul 22

2022 - 2023 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition

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L to R: Brandon Chambers, Brian Wagner, Nicole Soley

Exhibition opening reception: friday, June 9; 6:30-9pm

Artist remarks at 7pm

Exhibition on view through July 22

Please join us at Highpoint for the culminating exhibition of the 2022- 2023 Jerome Early Career Printmakers. Through the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, resident artists Brandon Chambers, Brian Wagner, and Nicole Soley have been working industriously toward this exhibition since their residency began in September of 2022.

The nine-month residency provided the artists with access to the Highpoint cooperative printshop, technical support, and professional opportunities to create, learn, and show new work within a supportive studio environment. The exhibition includes images created using foundational printmaking techniques such as lithography and woodcut but also features less conventional print work like stop motion animation and transfer monotypes made with alcohol-based ink. The common thread binding the work of these three artists is the significance of thought informing it. The exhibition is conceptually charged; the founding thoughts, ideas, and feelings are poetically expressed through figures, text, scenes, and material.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND WORK:

Brian Wagner (they/them) was educated at the University of Minnesota Moorhead and shortly thereafter completed the professional printer program at the Tamarind Institute of Fine Art Lithography in Albuquerque. They draw upon their experience of growing up as a queer person in rural America and how that has been formative to their sexuality, identity, and transness as a non-binary individual.

I have spent this residency rendering densely-layered lithographs that explore the tenderness, loneliness, acceptance, and gentle anger of queerness and healing. These prints and writings consider the physical and emotional spaces of love, hurt, trauma, and remembrance of relationships in the forms of drawn landscapes and queer symbolism of the day-to-day life of a queer person. I view many of the scenes I draw as places of transition; shifting and ever-changing. Something that is cohesive with my own queerness. I spent most of this residency fighting the healing that was needed of me –– I think it’s easy for queer people to get used to resilience and ignore the trauma that we face every day, even from our own community and partners. In the laborious nature of lithography, I think it was only natural to have a bit of a breakdown and face the physical and emotional trauma that was being echoed and start to heal and it’s my hope that these spaces can offer solace to someone who has faced the same. – Brian Wagner

Nicole Soley (she/her) is an area artist and educator who studied at Minnesota State University Mankato. Using a novel approach along with a touch of sardonicism, Nicole’s traditional and sculptural prints tell stories that critique the culture of ‘American Dissonance’ we are collectively living in. She synthesizes lived experience and research to comment on education, gun culture, individual freedoms, and the harrowing upholding of the patriarchy.

​​Contemporary strife has moved me to create in order to process, distribute, and hopefully motivate political organizations to cause change. My personal experiences this year heavily influenced the trajectory of this work in newer experimental directions. I think that’s where the best art lives, though: in the fluidity and uncertainty of the human experience, propagating and releasing new truths to orbit an ever-moving molten core. Thank god for woodcut printmaking: carving was possibly the only gravity I felt while I was both lost and searching, grasping and letting go, disillusioned and fully standing in my own truth. – Nicole Soley

Brandon Chambers (he/him) completed his MFA at the University of Minnesota in 2021. A multidisciplinary artist, Brandon’s current research is into virtual reality as both a philosophical concept and a creative tool. His recent works employ geometry and grids to illustrate systems and visually establish a sense of clarity about the world. He states, “I am interested in merging nostalgia for the distant past with fantasies of the distant future as a way of conceptualizing the present.”

Semantic satiation is a phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to lose meaning for the listener. It becomes a meaningless sound. I wonder at the routines and archetypes we are inundated with throughout our lives. Was there an idea so important that it was repeated and repeated and repeated until it was lost?” His response as an artist is seen in the lithographs, monotypes, and drawings that contemplate this question. – Brandon Chambers

Highpoint would like to thank our panelists Jovan Speller and Jeremy Lundquist for their intensive review and evaluation of the submitted applications as well as the Jerome Foundation for their continued support of this important program. As well as Ruthann Godollei and Nancy Julia Hicks for visiting with the residents to conduct in-progress critiques.

About the panelists: 

Jovan C. Speller is a Minnesota-based artist originally from Los Angeles.  Her work interprets historic narratives through contemporary discourse. Her research-based practice is centered around elevating, complicating and inventing stories that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory. Speller is a recipient of a 2018 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship and a 2016 Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship. She completed a residency at Second Shift Studio Space in St. Paul, and was awarded the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize in 2021. She holds a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, and studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Speller's work has been acquired by national and international private collections and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.


Jeremy Lundquist was born in California, grew up in the Chicago area, and currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. He works in print, drawing, photography, video, installation, and cut and collaged paper. He has been an artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow, Harold Arts, Spudnik Press, Kala Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded the Grant Wood, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships. His work has been exhibited at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois – Chicago, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and additional venues nationally and internationally. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Currently he teaches at the Perpich Center for Arts Education, an arts high school run by the state of Minnesota.

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ACCESS/PRINT & LOOK/SEE Student Exhibition
May
19
to Jun 3

ACCESS/PRINT & LOOK/SEE Student Exhibition

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ACCESS/PRINT & LOOK/SEE Student Exhibition
On display May 19th - June 3rd, 2023
Opening Friday, May 19th, 5:30 - 8 PM

*Also join us for the closing reception 
and
Free Ink Day on June 3rd, 12 - 4 PM

Join us for the annual student exhibition opening on May 19th, 5:30 - 8 pm. The show will include artwork from the ACCESS/PRINT teen mentorship program, as well as LOOK/SEE, a showcase of youth artwork from Franklin Middle School and works from the Creative Clean Water Stewardship project, generously supported by a Hennepin County Green Partners Environmental Education Grant. Exhibitions are always free and open to all – come support the students and learn about these unique programs! 

There will also be live screenprinting! Local artists will assist with the printing process using designs made by the ACCESS/PRINT students.

Interested in helping out? We are looking for volunteers to help with the Student Exhibition opening. See details and sign up here.

“The ACCESS/PRINT class was full of students who quickly fell in love with printmaking and were very eager to experiment with different concepts, techniques, and media.” says the ACCESS/PRINT coordinator and teacher, Gabi Estrada. “These students were all brilliant young artists who were incredibly thoughtful in the conception of their projects and creative with the freedom they had to explore different print techniques. Everyone in this class was so inspiring and it was an immense pleasure getting to know them and watching their ideas come to fruition!”

ACCESS/PRINT is a teen mentorship program that supports creative youth with over 70 hours of studio time, printmaking tutorials, technical assistance, and support as they work to create a body of work. The 2022/2023 ACCESS/PRINT exhibition includes work by Tay Wright, Anastasia Kol-Balfour, Lee Greve, Aiyana Beaulieu, Mia Lambert, Sterling Rouleau, CJ Alexander, Catrielle Barnett, Zara Ridenour, and Emma Zauhar

Creative Clean Water Stewards is a year-long education program designed to teach students about clean water initiatives, rain gardens, and pollinators, and allow them to create artwork around sustainability. The exhibition includes poems and work by Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet School, Whittier International School, and Burroughs Community School. Funded by Hennepin County Green Partners.


STUDENT ARTWORK HIGHLIGHTS:

South High School senior Mia Lambert created a final project on the themes of Asian American identity and religious iconography. Her series included a veil made up of screen-printed fabric scraps sewn together, a multi-layer screenprint created with translucent inks on mylar to mimic the appearance of a stained-glass window and relief-printed tree trunk slices. 

After learning about the use of printmaking in social movements through Access/Print, Southwest High School sophomore Anastasia Balfour was inspired to produce some of her own protest art. Through her print, she aims to disrupt racist stereotypes that are attributed to Black girls and women by drawing on her own experiences as a Black person, living in the predominantly white neighborhood of Linden Hills. 

Perpich senior Lee Greve chose to depict a series of extinct animals who were victims of the Holocene Extinction. Greve intentionally used a monotype technique to present these animals, in order to reflect the impermanence of animal species. 

Inspired by the prevalence of the Wild West in their childhood and their current interest in 70s glam rock, Shakopee High School junior Tay Wright created a series of “Rhinestone Cowboy” portraits. Wright chose to pair the more precise aesthetic achievable through screenprinting with more varied techniques like relief hand printing and blotted line monoprinting. 

Aiyana Beaulieu, who is also a senior at Perpich, wanted to draw from their Anishinaabe culture and depict the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Through drypoint intaglio and monotype techniques, Beaulieu depicts a portrait of an Inuit woman surrounded by animals native to Turtle Island, rock formations, and constellations. 

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Highpoint Presents: Jungle Press
Mar
31
to May 6

Highpoint Presents: Jungle Press

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Highpoint Presents: Jungle Press Editions

A partnership celebrating the breadth of work, techniques, and styles by 

fifteen esteemed artists with Jungle Press Editions



Closing Event:

Join us on Saturday, May 6th at 12 PM in the Highpoint Galleries for the exhibition closing and a public walkthrough with Director and Master Printer, Andrew Mockler. Andrew will share behind-the-scenes stories about the printing processes, details about works in the show, and will lead guests through the exhibition on display at Highpoint.

The event is FREE to the public, but we ask that you RSVP here

Highpoint is thrilled to present a selection of works published by Jungle Press Editions of Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition features an array of vibrant and experimental prints by fifteen artists, including Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ellen Berkenblit, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Nicole Eisenman, Sam Messer, and others. Join us for a public opening reception on Friday, March 31st, 7 - 9 PM. Artwork will be on display through May 6th, 2023.

The artists have collaborated throughout Jungle Press’ history with Director and Master Printer, Andrew Mockler, to create new work utilizing their themes and mark making styles, transformed into print medium. This exhibition showcases the breadth of work created at Jungle Press Editions and the diverse and bold styles of printmaking by the artists.

“A major part of Highpoint’s founding mission is to increase the appreciation and understanding of the printmaking arts and to expand access to the many contemporary voices and perspectives it serves. Over the years, Highpoint has partnered with international printmaking studios from Japan, Cuba, Pakistan, South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Arctic Circle, among others to bring exhibitions to Highpoint’s galleries to share with Minnesota audiences. Highpoint has also been proud to feature quite a few printshops from Canada, Mexico, and the US whose work helps connect us with current artwork coming out of communities closer to home. These partnerships introduce new artists to Minnesota, elevate the artists’ work and help advance their perspectives - which is foundational to the notion of prints as vehicles for communicating images and ideas. This spring, we are thrilled to recognize the work being created at Jungle Press, and HP looks forward to presenting this exciting art in our galleries.”  – Highpoint Artistic Director and Master Printer, Cole Rogers

Exhibition Highlights:

In 2022, Jungle Press worked with printmaker Jennifer Mack-Watkins to create two new lithographs continuing her exploration of themes of racial identity and history, injustice, and societal conformity related to gender roles. Space Boy and Space Girl will be featured in the exhibition alongside her earlier works with Jungle Press. 

Painter Sam Messer's work from a 2020 collaboration with Jungle Press will also be included. These playful portraits of Olympia typewriters, an ongoing subject for Messer, using multiple techniques and handmade additions in these variable editioned works.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’s paintings emerge from a perspective of what the artist describes as ‘cultural addition, combination and collaboration’. Born and educated in the UK and now living and working in the USA, his practice is inspired by the ancient history of West Africa and its attendant mythology, and by his Yoruba heritage.

Artists Include:
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ellen Berkenblit, Elizabeth Cooper, Nicole Eisenman, Jane Fine, Jacqueline Humphries, Robert Kushner, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Michael Mazur, Sam Messer, Andrew Mockler, Jill Moser, Katia Santibañez, Joan Snyder, Brian Wood

Andrew Mockler, Jungle Press Master Printer, visits Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Highpoint is dedicated to the mission of making printmaking accessible, creating educational opportunities, and continuing the practice of traditional printmaking techniques. Along with the exhibition, Highpoint has invited Jungle Press’ Master Printer, Andrew Mockler, to Minneapolis for the opening reception, and for a special members' event and printshop talk discussion between Cole Rogers, Highpoint Master Printer, and Andrew Mockler. An invitation will be sent to members by email and the recording of the discussion may be made available online. 

About Jungle Press Editions

Jungle Press Editions, founded in 1995, is a publisher of fine art prints and multiples by internationally renowned contemporary artists. Collaborating with master printer Andrew Mockler in his Gowanus, Brooklyn workshop, each artist is encouraged to develop an experimental approach. Working together in lithography, etching, monoprint, and relief printing, the printer and artist bring the artist's work out of the studio into the realm of printmaking.

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Jan
20
to Mar 18

2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship and Exhibition

The 2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship began in February (2022) and ran through January (2023). During this time, Amy Sands and Nicole Sara Simpkins worked extremely hard to develop visual (and audio) content for their 2-person exhibition that took place in Highpoint’s galleries. Many images of the exhibition can be viewed below.

Other highlights of the fellowship year include a visit In from Orin Zahra (Associate Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC). In October, she traveled to Minnesota to visit with and view the in-progress work of Amy and Nicole in their studios. Then in November of 2022, the artists welcomed Ruth Erickson (Mannion Family Senior Curator at Institute of Contemporary Art Boston) for individual studio visits.

In the midst of the exhibition run, Highpoint welcomed Amy E. Elkins to lead a public conversation with the fellows on Friday, February 3 from 6-7 pm. You can view a recording of the conversation here or by pressing play on the image to the left.

Amy E. Elkins is an Associate Professor of English at Macalester College and is the author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Oxford University Press, 2022). As a multimedia artist and scholar, her work takes up intersectional feminist approaches to practice-based research methods in the humanities. 

You can purchase Amy’s book here.

About the fellows:

LEFT: Orin Zahra with Amy Sands RIGHT: Nicole Sara Simpkins with Ruth Erickson

Amy Sands said this about the work she’s developed during the fellowship: “This new body of work embodies investigations into nature. Using light and shadow as a metaphor for our existence, I have been examining the precarious balance of an ecosystem. My current work uses photography, videography, printmaking, and installation to explore shadows of natural forms diffused through fabric. Nature is reduced to simple shapes and colors revealing only the silhouette of the plant. Differences between species are camouflaged, leaving one to admire the beauty and simplicity of the shadows and finding commonalities between forms.”

Amy Sands (MFA, Pratt Institute) is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator. She has exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally and has been recognized with awards including First Prize ~ Mini Print III International Cantabria/Impact 10 in Santander, Spain; Juror’s Choice Award ~ Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017, Tokushima, Japan; First Place ~ Home exhibition at the Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN. Her work is included in many public and private collections and is represented at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York City, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, and Base Gallery, Tokyo. Sands is Associate Professor of Studio Arts at Metropolitan State University, St Paul, MN. 

Nicole Sara Simpkins uses printmaking, writing, and drawing to explore entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing. Her fascination with relationality has fueled her continued research into the culturally-determined category of invasive plants. Using linoleum prints, screen prints, cyanotypes and drawings, she constructs assemblages of cut and stitched layers that invoke complex entanglements of resurgent plants and tumultuous extraction. She presented cyanotypes layered with etchings and drawings as 2-dimensional works on paper, as well as an immersive installation of tapestry-forms suspended from above.

She holds an MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University - Bloomington and a BA in Creative Writing from Macalester College. Her work has been supported by a 2018-19 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and by artist residencies at Millay Arts, The Ucross Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, The Jentel Foundation, Artspace Raleigh, The Future, and The White Page. She teaches courses in drawing and printmaking and has exhibited work locally and nationally.

Highpoint would like to offer our sincere gratitude to Orin Zahra, Ruth Erickson, and Amy E. Elkins for their support of Amy and Nicole during the fellowship and exhibition. We’re also again like to thank artists Willie Cole and Nicola López for all their effort as the panelists for the 2022 application cycle.

And of course, thank you to the McKnight Foundation for their generous and continued support of this program and their recognition of Minnesota artists.


The McKnight Printmaking Fellowships are open to Minnesota artists who are at a career level that is “beyond emerging” — defined here as artists who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence within the field of printmaking. The artists are selected on the basis of the artistic merit of their work, and their dedication, interest, and continued growth in printmaking.

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Prints on Ice Co-op Exhibition
Dec
9
to Jan 7

Prints on Ice Co-op Exhibition

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Highpoint’s 41st Semi-Annual Co-op Exhibition

On View: December 9th - January 7th, 2023

Opening reception: Friday, December 9th from 6:30- 9 PM

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Prints on Ice, an exhibition featuring prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 41st semi-annual, co-op member exhibition and we are ready to celebrate! As usual, we are offering a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening event (Dec 9th, 6:30 - 9pm) and during our gallery hours on Saturday (Dec 10th, 12 - 4pm). 

Prints on Ice features 72 prints made by 34 members from Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate all manner of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!

Artists and artwork involved in the project:

The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 70+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Highpoint interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together by the love of printmaking processes. The cooperative printshop first opened in 2001, and a few of the members in this exhibition have been printing and taking classes at Highpoint since the very beginning.

Artists include: Megan Bakke, Jeffrey Berger, Kristin Bickal, Josh Bindewald, Lynnette Black, Lynn Bollman, Ben Capp, Pamela Carberry, Beth Dorsey, Jasper Duberry, Victoria Eidelsztein, Gabi Estrada, Anne Feicht, Sally Gordon, Belle Hulne, Nancy Johnson, Brian Kantor, Monique Kantor, Therese Krupp, Mei Lam So, Erin Leon, Carl Nanoff, John Pearson, John Schulz, Kurt Seaberg, Lila Shull, Melissa Sisk, Pam Sullivan, Anda Tanaka, Megan Wetzel, Kara Yeomans, Jeremy Lundquist, Jon Mahnke, and Horacio Devoto. 

Image preview (above) by Belle Hulne

A Selection of the Featured Artwork:

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Hot Off The Press Opening July 22nd
Jul
22
to Sep 16

Hot Off The Press Opening July 22nd

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Highpoint’s 40th Semi-Annual Co-op Exhibition

On View: July 22nd – September 16th, 2022

Opening reception: Friday, July 22nd, 6:30- 9 PM

Featuring: Refreshments, light snacks, and live music from Joe Haus (President of the Minnesota Guitar Society), plus 20% off discount on all artist cooperative member prints July 22nd and 23rd. 

Artists Include: 
Anda Tanaka, Belle Hulne, Beth Dorsey, Carl Nanoff, Cathy Spengler, Eileen Rieman-Schaut, Erik Farseth, Erin Leon, Gabi Estrada, Grace Sippy, Heather Delisle, James Boyd Brent, Jeremy Lundquist, John Pearson, John Schulz, Josh Bindewald, Kristin Bickal, Kurt Seaberg, Lauren Alfaro Nuñez, Lila Shull, Louise Fisher, Lynn Bollman, Lynnette Black, Megan Bakke, Melanie Eng, Melissa Sisk, Monique Kantor, Nancy Bolan, Natalie Wynings, Nicole Soley, Pam Carberry, Sally Gordon, Therese Krupp, Tyler Green, and Zoe Rogers. 

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Hot Off The Press, an exhibition featuring 84 individual prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 40th semi-annual, co-op members exhibition and we are ready to celebrate!

As usual, we are offering a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening event (July 22nd, 6:30 - 9pm) and during our gallery hours on Saturday (July 23rd, 12 - 4pm). 

Hot Off the Press features recent work made by 35 members from Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate a wide variety of techniques and styles, including large-scale woodcuts, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the 35 participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!

Scroll onward to see a small selection of the featured prints, and for additional information


Artists and artwork involved in the exhibition:
The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 60+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Education and Studio Interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together for the love of printmaking processes. The cooperative printshop first opened in 2001, and a few of the members in this exhibition have been printing and taking classes at Highpoint since the very beginning!

Artist Highlight:
Meet Carl Nanoff.
For the exhibition, Carl displays new works that represent some of the ideas he learned while studying architecture and art back in college, and the structure and forms he has worked with over the last 40 years as a draftsman and designer. As Carl neared the age of retirement, he returned to printmaking and joined Highpoint to develop ideas and printmaking techniques. 

Entropy is the first work of a series of prints titled Architectonic. The origins of Entropy began as a digital drawing. It was created as a large-scale print to both challenges myself and convey a combination of form and structure with artistically pleasing shapes – it represents some of my own observations related to aging. This work combines the left brain discipline that was required for work and the right brain chaos of my art.”

Entropy image also used on the Hot Off the Press postcard graphic.


Artist Highlight:
Meet Louise Fisher.
Louise is a practicing artist and educator based in Minnesota, specializing in printmaking, photography, and installation. Within the printmaking umbrella, Louise creates relief, silkscreen, post-digital techniques (laser-cutting, digital printing), and also risograph and lithography. Louise has been practicing printmaking for 10 years and has been a co-op member of the Highpoint co-op since February 2021. Louise is currently an art instructor at the Normandale Community College, and also an active member of the Mid-America Print Council and Southern Graphic Council International (executive board 2019-2022). 

Louise’s work investigates the built environment and architectural spaces, how natural and artificial light affects circadian rhythms and urban versus rural landscapes. “While day allows for productivity, night affords us contemplation, privacy, silence, intimacy, and most importantly – rest. Commonly overlooked, light pollution has drastically altered ecosystems, our biological rhythms, and our collective sense of wonder. For the Hot Off the Press Exhibition, I’ve been experimenting more with size (scale), materials, and process. I think the end result is a body of print work that’s a little untraditional. The smaller works will also be affordable and easy to fit in any space, and I hope a few of them will find a new home!”

About special guest musician Joe Haus: Like many of his generation, Joe Haus discovered the guitar while watching the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, February 9, 1964, when the Beatles performed. He started guitar lessons at Traficanti Music in the summer of 1967 and used his first paycheck from the MN State Fair to buy a good electric guitar. Discovering that the members of the band Chicago met in music school, he headed to college to learn music and take up the classical guitar. He studied with James McGuire. Since then he has played at weddings, art galleries, and other events and venues as a soloist and with flutist Kay Miller. As a soloist, he performs an eclectic mix of styles and genres. He has been a member of the Minnesota Guitar Society for many years and is currently the president of the board of directors.

Ice Cream refreshments available by Leprechaun’s Dreamcycle

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Jun
17
to Jul 16

QUE CONSTE / FOR THE RECORD, presented by POCOAPOCO

POCOAPOCO is pleased to present works by eight Oaxacan multidisciplinary artists whose varying mediums and perspectives demonstrate the critical and widespread presence of printmaking in Oaxaca.  Utilizing print as an opportunity to unite their practice and voice, the artists in this exhibition connect around a shared desire to critique and communicate the rapid transformations of their territory, city, and home. Que Conste / For the Record challenges the limits of the medium stemming from possibilities provided by language, playing with the translation and definitions of print from English (printmaking - an artistic process) to Spanish (grabado - recorded or engraved).  Based in Oaxaca’s comprehensive, historical and often quite fluid relationship to the discipline, this exhibition allows artists and viewers alike to reexamine their relationship to the practice of printmaking, in which grabado es un punto de encuentro (a meeting point), un recurso (a resource), una forma de repetición (a form of repetition) una comunidad (a community) la tradición (the tradition), una registro (a recording) un punto de acceso (an access point) una traducción (a translation) una lengua en común (a common language) y una voz compartida (and a shared voice).

Join us for the opening reception!
Friday, June 17th, 2022
7 - 9pm

 

This exhibition features work by the following artists:

Ana Hernández
Ana Hernández is a visual artist from the Isthmus region of Oaxaca. Her work reflects the knowledge inherited from the women in her family and her community and uses traditional techniques such as weaving and embroidery to discuss issues that have been present throughout the artist’s life such as migration, the loss of native languages, and the passing down of traditional knowledge from generation to generation. By using materials such as gold leaf, natural fibers and clay, Hernández expands the plastic and discursive possibilities of the popular trades of her land that have fallen into disuse. @hernandez.ana.hernandez

Adriana Monterrubio
Adriana Monterrubio is a textile artist whose practice focuses on working with leather, natural fibers and natural dyes as her main creative medium. Her process emulates the physicality of the material. She works with her body, her hands and her mind to transform the material into shapes and objects inspired by memory. Her sculptures seek to connect intimately with the space and the viewer by creating a personal language through which she evokes memories of her hometown. Monterrubio has participated in group exhibitions in museums around Mexico and her work is part of the collection of the Textile Museum in Oaxaca. @adriana.monterrubio

Evelyn Méndez Maldonado
Evelyn Méndez Maldonado is a dancer, performer, cultural manager, and producer from Oaxaca City. She has traveled the path of interpretation, creation and collaboration in contemporary dance and performance since 2009. Without institutional training, Oaxaca has been her school. Movement exploration in-situ is one of her deepest interests, same as collaborating with artists from all different disciplines open to establishing a dialogue with movement. She produces and directs the performing arts biennial Casa Abierta. @evelyn_m_maldonado

José Ángel Santiago
José Ángel Santiago is a Oaxacan artist originally from the Isthmus, pushes and questions the limits between drawing and painting. His interest in astronomy is predominant in his work, particularly in drawing, as well as his intimate relationship to land, nature, and the endemic animals of the Isthmus. In addition to paper and canvas, José Ángel uses wood panels, fresco, and ceramics to create pieces that address issues of identity, memory, and belonging through the use of symbols and characters in his work. He also reflects on the role of the native languages and local traditions as an element of identity within a society crossed by global issues. @joseangelsantiago

Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez
Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez is a ceramic artist working with sculpture, installation, and ritual practice. In her work she reflects on language, healing, beauty, brokenness and repair. Through clay and movement, she seeks to reconnect with her body as a woman and as a mother. She works with local clay that she and her son collect on a sacred site in Santa Cruz Papalutla, the town where they live. She hand-builds all her pieces and fires them using a traditional local method of low temperature firing. Her work has been exhibited in Oaxaca, Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco. @mujer_barro

Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez
Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez (artist-in-residence) is an artist, printmaker and educator. Born and raised in Oaxaca, he is the co-founder of Espacio Pino Suárez, a printmaking workshop and space for visual arts and is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez, a group investigating and discussing contemporary art in Oaxaca. He is interested in understanding and expanding the concept of drawing as an exercise in observation, recognition, memory, writing and as an object, working with issues such as violence, the political and the personal, collective creation and his relationship with everyday objects. Marco studied design, drawing and graphics at the Mesoamerican University, at the Centro de Artes de San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca and at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Austria, Italy and the United States. @marco_velascomartinez

Santiago Rojo
Through sculpture, drawing, and photography, Santiago's work addresses the ways in which art can detonate knowledge about issues related to urban space and its transformations. Through field exploration and observation of the landscape, he generates pieces of subjective interpretation that highlight the changes in the economic, social, and political processes of a place. His work has been exhibited in different spaces in Mexico and in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, the United States, Lebanon and Venezuela. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Philately of the city of Oaxaca (MUFI), the FEMSA collection and the Toledo / INBA collection. @santiago_rojog

Yatiní Domínguez
Yatiní Domínguez (artist-in-residence) is a visual and performing artist originally from Oaxaca de Juárez. She is co-founder of “Ojo Tres” a workshop creating ties between artists through graphic, photographic and editorial production. Ojo Tres is a member of MUTACIONES editorial -- a platform for creation and dissemination of the work of women artists. She collaborates in various multidisciplinary projects mixing illustration, graphics, audiovisual and dance. Her work investigates memory and boundary, exploring the relationship between image and movement and our human footprint, the way we move and the traces we leave. @yati_nii


Pocoapoco is an arts and cultural organization approaching creative practice as a means to further exploration, opportunity, and connection between individuals, cultures, and communities.  Based in Oaxaca, our residency and programs bring together local and international artists and creative thinkers across all fields, offering a platform for fundamental reflection, creation, and dialogue.  pocoapocomx.com

 
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May
13
to Jun 11

2021-2022 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Exhibition

Savannah Bustillo, Ryan Gerald Nelson, Sarah Evenson

Exhibition Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, May 13; 6:30-9pm

L to R: Savannah Bustillo, Ryan Gerald Nelson, and Sarah Evenson viewing the work of Julie Mehretu

Please join Highpoint to celebrate the artistry of the 2021-2022 Jerome Early Career Printmakers at their culminating exhibition. With generous support from the Jerome Foundation, Savannah Bustillo, Sarah Evenson, and Ryan Gerald Nelson were awarded with the opportunity to work within a supportive studio program that fosters experimentation and growth. The artists were provided access to the artists cooperative printshop at Highpoint, technical support, and critical dialogue with invited arts professionals during the nine-month residency. This exhibition features prints, printed objects, and other works of art created during the residency.

Savannah’s work focuses on the ways language practices shape her identity as a queer second-generation bilingual Latina woman. By taking small discarded objects, sounds, and movements that seem silent and insignificant, she reemphasizes them to show both the strength and trauma in marginality. A key aspect she explores is the relationship between “authenticity” and race. The body of work she is working on so far during the residency continues exploring these dynamics, including research into the history of racist phraseology and teaching practices, historical shibboleths, and the way language works through the semantic concept of assimilation (when phonemes are adjusted by the phonemes that come before or after them, done often in English). 

Sarah uses their experience as a queer transgender artist to create books, zines, prints, and pieces of writing that explore queerness, transformation, embodiment, and the subversion of structural hierarchies. In making this work, they are not interested in normalizing queer and trans lived experience. Rather, their pieces are spaces in which queer joys are celebrated as strange, wild, and exuberant sites of social change and bodily resistance.

Nelson’s body of work visually and conceptually investigates his own developing theory of the Image by breaking down and depicting different stages of the metamorphosis of the Image as it traverses a myriad of mediated landscapes. By presenting the Image as being more analogous to a biological organism in an unforgiving ecosystem than simply a stable technological relic, Nelson points to the susceptibility of both the Image itself as well as the structures and apparatuses that make the Image possible or not. Nelson contends that our new world has proven that the Image—highly compressed, politicized, venerated, even iconoclastic by nature—exists in a perpetual state of precarity: its visual constitution open to manipulation, its meaning able to be rewritten many times over, often simultaneously, and its existence (digital or physical) certainly no guarantee.


Highpoint would like to thank the jurors for the 2021-2022 Residency Laura Wertheim Joseph and Connor Rice as well as guest critics, Esther Callahan, Laura Wertheim Joseph, Connor Rice, and Gregory Smith and Rebecca Heidenberg.


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2021 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship
Jan
14
to Feb 12

2021 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship

Exhibition ON VIEW: JANUARY 14 - FEBRUARY 12, 2021


Josh Winkler, Pissing on Fire, color woodcut

Since February 2021, McKnight Printmaking Fellows Josh Winkler and Gaylord Schanilec have been busily translating ideas into prints for this exhibition. Despite never having met prior to this fellowship, their work is remarkably congruous. Each artist is an admirer and advocate of the natural world with a particular appreciation for trees. Not only do trees inform some of the content in their work, historically both artists have used wood as their printing matrix of choice; woodcut for Josh and wood engraving for Gaylord.

Originally from Indiana, Winkler is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking at Minnesota State University Mankato. He primarily works from his home studio (SKS Press) in rural Nicollet County where he and his partner are rewilding a few acres. He offered the following thoughts about his artistic practice:

Direct experience and research feed the content and connections that are important to me as an artist. The environmental and cultural tragedies of the past must engage the high stakes of the present. Ecosystems are rapidly changing. So much has been lost, and there is much more to lose.

Gaylord Schanilec, Total Despair, relief

Recent research has taken me to the Grand Tetons and Crater Lake to study the plight of a dying keystone species, the whitebark pine. Camping in drought-stricken landscapes of northern California, I walked through burned forests and the dried-up arms of massive reservoirs. In Minnesota, I visited the last northern remnants of old-growth eastern white pine, and explored beaver habitat in southern Minnesota.  

These trips generated the experiences and imagery presented in this work. Half of the projects reflect on environmental conflict and destruction. The other half focus on positivity, and the potency of personal connection to the land. These parallel forces of hope and despair are emblematic of the present. We must look at Nature as a cultural force that can foster unity over division. 

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In 1980, Gaylord Schanilec established his own press, Midnight Paper Sales. Since then he has published more than 25 books under his imprint, and has accepted numerous commissions including works for The Gregynog Press in Wales and the Grolier Club of New York. His work is represented in most major book arts collections in the United States and in the United Kingdom, and the archive of his working materials is held at the University of Minnesota.

Gaylord writes:

Consider the tree  turned upside down roots to the sky trunk to the ground.


Highpoint would like to thank the McKnight Foundation for their generous support of this program as well as this years panelists Tanekeya Word (artist, printmaker, scholar, and founder of Black Women of Print) and Lyndel King (Director Emeritus, Frederick R. Weisman Art Msuem). We would also like to express our gratitude to Dennis Michael Jon (Curator of Prints and Drawings at Mia) and Jerry Saltz (Author, Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine) for conducting studio visits with the fellows. Finally, thank you to Kim Todd for preparing questions and leading a discussion with the fellows during their exhibition.

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Prints on Ice
Dec
10
to Jan 8

Prints on Ice

Opening reception: Friday December 10, 6:30-9pm

20% off all exhibited co-op member work:

Friday December 10; 6:30-9pm and Saturday December 11; 12-4pm

Carl Nanoff, 2020 Hindsight, Lithography and monotype

Please join us for Highpoint’s 39th cooperative exhibition. Print’s on Ice will showcase 68 prints and printed objects recently made by 26 members of our artists cooperative printshop. These semi-annual exhibitions are a showcase the diversity of scale, technique, and content possible within printmaking.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, December 10 from 6:30-9pm. Guests will enjoy 20% off the sale price of all co-op prints during the reception as well as during gallery hours Saturday, December 11.

Participating Artists:

Josh Bindewald

Kristin Bickal

Lynnette Black

James Boyd Brent

Pamela Carberry

Don Dickinson

Beth Dorsey

Gabi Estrada

Erik Farseth

Tyler Green

Nancy A. Johnson

Therese Krupp

Erin Leon

Jon Mahnke

Carl Nanoff

Austin Nash

John Pearson

Bethany Richards

Kurt Seaberg

Ruby Sevilla

Lila Shull

Nicole Soley

Cathy Spengler

Natalie Wynings

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Hot off the Press
Jul
30
to Sep 10

Hot off the Press

ON VIEW: July 30 - September 10, 2021

SPECIAL OPENING EVENT: Friday, July 30; 5 - 9pm

Please join us at Highpoint for our first in-person reception in over a year! This event will feature an on-site food truck from our neighbors at World Street Kitchen, a cash bar (wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages available), and music as we come together to celebrate the exhibition of new work by members of our artist cooperative. We can’t wait to see you there!

For this exhibition opening, we will be transforming Highpoint’s classroom into an additional gallery where visitors can peruse (and purchase) many more prints made by our co-op artists all of which are shrink-wrapped and ready to take home.

As usual, we are offering a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening event and during our gallery hours (12 - 4pm) on Saturday, July 31.

Hot Off the Press features recent prints made by 31 members from Highpoint’s artist cooperative. These prints vary widely in technique and style but include everything from geometric abstraction to convincing realism. Examples of each of the traditional printmaking techniques; lithography, screenprinting, monotype, relief, and intaglio will be available to view and purchase.

Participants:

Megan Anderson

Levi Atkinson

Kristin Bickal

Josh Bindewald

Lynnette Black

Lynn Bollman

James Boyd Brent

Meg Bussey

Ben Capp

Pamela Carberry

Beth Dorsey

Louise Fisher

Sally Gordon

Tyler Green

Nancy Johnson

Monique Thouin Kantor

Therese Krupp

Erin Leon

Jon Mahnke

Carl Nanoff

Austin Nash

John Pearson

Sydney Petersen

Bethany Richards

Eileen Rieman-Schaut

Amy Sands

Kurt Seaberg

Cathy Spengler

Pamela Sullivan

Anda Tanaka

Clara Ueland

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Apr
30
to Jul 17

Prints from Crow's Shadow

ON VIEW: April 30 - July 17, 2021

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Ka’ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath Modoc)
Alien Invasion, 1492
Lithograph
Paper and image size: 30” x 22.25”
Collaborating master printer: Judith Baumann
2018
Edition of 18

Highpoint is extremely excited to welcome a selection of prints from The Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts archive. Crow’s Shadow is nestled within the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation at the foot of the Blue Mountains just outside Pendleton, OR. They are a non-profit organization offering a fully equipped studio for contemporary fine art printmaking, an artist-in-residency program, and workshops in Indigenous Arts.

Thank you to all who joined us for a virtual event with Crow’s Shadow Executive Director Karl Davis, Jim Denomie and Alex Buffalohead on May 20!

Click HERE for the Zoom recording

We’re honored to partner with Crow’s Shadow to present works from their illustrious body of work

Read more about the show here.

All images below are presented courtesy of Crow’s Shadow.

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Grafiska Sällskapet; Contemporary Swedish Printmaking
Feb
12
to Apr 17

Grafiska Sällskapet; Contemporary Swedish Printmaking

ON VIEW: February 12 - April 17, 2021

GALLERY DISCUSSION WITH CURATORS: archived below

Ronald Miller, Incident at Grand Central, relief

Ronald Miller, Incident at Grand Central, relief

The history of print in in Nordic countries like Sweden is incredibly rich and the artform remains vibrant today through the support of organizations such as Grafiska Sällskapet (the Swedish Printmakers Association). Located in Stockholm, Grafiska Sällskapet has provided opportunities, information, resources, and mutual support to its members since its inception in 1910. Currently, Grafiska Sällskapet boasts a membership of close to 500 printmakers in Sweden and abroad! 

The pandemic delayed our presentation of this exhibition and has minimized the additional programming we had planned. However, we are thrilled to be able to partner with Grafiska Sällskapet to exhibit a selection of prints made by its members, their first such exhibition in the United States. Compiled by Chairperson Anne-Lie Larsson Ljung, board member Bo Ganarp, and association member Maria Eriksson, the exhibition showcases 60 individual prints made by 34 of Grafiska Sällskapet’s members. 

This exhibition features each traditional printmaking disciplines; lithography, intaglio, relief, monotype, screenprinting, and collograph. The show also includes examples of twentieth-century technical adaptations like acrylic engraving and photopolymer gravure.

As is typical with group shows, variety is the defining aspect of this exhibition. Image styles and content range from contemporary abstraction to the more traditional narrative naive. There is truly something for every type of print lover in this exhibition.

Thank you to Highpoint Cooperative Artist Nancy A. Johnson for telling us about Grafiska Sällskapet and thank you to Karen Nelson and Bruce Karstadt at the American Swedish Institute for helping us to spread the word about this marvelous show.

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2020 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition
Jan
15
to Feb 6

2020 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition

Mike Marks, Remainder, woodcut

Mike Marks, Remainder, woodcut

ON VIEW: JANUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 6, 2021

PUBLIC CONVERSATION: JANUARY 28, 2021 7-8:00pm

This exhibition fills Highpoint’s galleries with a quantity of original collographs, intaglio, and relief prints made by 2020 McKnight Printmaking Fellow Mike Marks. Much of the featured work is recent, however because this McKnight Printmaking Fellowships are for mid-career artists, some older gems will also be on view.

Exhibition walk through and Q&A with Mike Marks

About the artist: Mike Marks holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware. In 2016 he relocated to Minneapolis where he now lives and works. Mike’s prints are included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo do Douro (Douro, Portugal), Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan), Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), and the California College of Arts (Oakland, CA). Marks has been a resident artist at South Dakota State University, the University of Evansville, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Crooked Tree Arts Center/Good Hart Residency, Stone Trigger Press, and Acadia National Park. His work has exhibited both nationally and internationally. He recently received an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, during which he produced his most recent solo exhibition, No Trace (2020).

Mike’s work focuses on critical habitat and landscapes under duress, using printmaking as an analogue for the mechanisms that reshape the environments around us. The prints often incorporate an act of deletion in their image-making process, representative of Mike’s ongoing interest in unmaking one object in order to create another.

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Dec
4
to Jan 2

Prints on Ice 2020

Lynn Bollman, Middle Ground, relief with collage

Lynn Bollman, Middle Ground, relief with collage

ON VIEW: December 4, 2020 - January 2, 2021

EXTENDED 20% OFF SALE: Friday, December 4 through Friday, December 11; 9am - 5PM

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to present Prints on Ice, the annual winter exhibition of prints by members of our artists’ studio cooperative. This show will feature work made in Highpoint’s facilities by 28 of those member printmakers. The prints will be on view and available for purchase December 4, 2020 - January 2, 2021.

Unfortunately there will not be an in-person public reception for this exhibition. However viewers will still have the opportunity to take advantage of 20% off all co-op member prints in the exhibition walls as well as shrink-wrapped work for an entire week Friday, December 4 through Friday, December 11.

To make a purchase, please call Highpoint at 612-871-1326 or email info@highpointprintmaking.org. In accordance with COVID-19 related mandates, this exhibition is only available to view online until further notice.

Kristin Bickal

Josh Bindewald

Lynnette Black

Nancy Bolan

Lynn Bollman

James Boyd Brent

Pam Carberry

Heather Delisle

Participants:

Beth Dorsey

Erik Farseth

Nancy A. Johnson

Monique Kantor

Matt Kunes

Jeremy Lundquist

Jon Mahnke

Carl Nanoff

John Pearson

Jeremy Piller

Eileen Rieman-Schaut

Amy Sands

Kurt Seaberg

Tina Tavera

Clara Ueland

Natalie Wynings

Featured in the Exhibition

(arranged as seen in gallery)


Shrink-wrapped Prints

(available for immediate pick-up)


Kurt Seaberg Lithographs

(on view in the Threshold Gallery, also eligible for 20% off)

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Stand Up Prints
Oct
23
to Nov 21

Stand Up Prints

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In honor of the voices in Minneapolis that have inspired communities worldwide to stand up, Stand Up Prints will showcase how contemporary printmakers are working to amplify the messages of people and communities who demand racial and social justice in America.

Printmaking has functioned historically as a means of disseminating information and knowledge, but also as a powerful tool for communicating social and political messages to a mass audience. Dissent, outrage, inspiration, hope, and calls for social justice are common themes in prints made by artists including Kara Walker (US), Francisco Goya (Spain), Honore Daumier (France), Jose Guadalope Posada (Mexico), Glenn Ligon (US), Käthe Kollowitz (Germany), Sister Corita Kent (US), and collectives like Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico), AfriCOBRA (US) and See Red Women's Workshop (UK).

On view at Highpoint Center for Printmaking from October 23 - November 21, Stand Up Prints is comprised of 62 works by 60 artists from 23 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The works were selected by Curator Ellen Y. Tani and Community Guest Curator Esther Callahan from a pool of more than 260 submissions through a national call for entries.

About our guest curator: Ellen Y. Tani, PhD is the 2020-2022 A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC. A Minnesota native, she has held curatorial positions at the ICA/Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. A historian of contemporary African American art, her broader research within contemporary art engages critical race studies, disability studies, and feminism, and has been supported by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies, the Clark Art Institute, and the Getty Research Institute.

About our community guest curator: Esther Callahan, a mixed-raced, multi-cultural American born in Minneapolis, MN,  moves across disciplines as an organizer, editor, curator, speaker and trainer. Over the past 20+ years in the Twin Cities, she has created and co-created various platforms for cultural production rooted in interrogating the impact of racial and gender equity. Most recently, she was a 2018-2019 Curatorial Fellow at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and co-curated Mapping Black Identities - still on view, and is currently Co-Directing the Emerging Curators Institute, a first of its kind in the region. She holds degrees in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Social Justice from the University of Minnesota. 

Curators Remarks (video)

From the curators of Stand Up Prints:

“A print happens by way of pressure: it often involves the impression of one physical surface on another,
but images can also be figuratively printed on the mind, in the form of a strong impression or image that lingers in one’s memory. 2020 has been a year of tremendous pressure and lasting impressions. We must recognize, sit with, stand up, and actively negotiate ways to be in a world of turmoil, threat, and uncertainty.

The artists in Stand Up Prints use a variety of printmaking methods to address ideas, imaginaries, and experiences rooted in our very real lives. In dialogue with the print practices on view are featured local artists speaking to perspectives on representation with/in community. From depictions of who we are to critiques of who we are assumed to be, the works here hold space for the paradoxes of today: messages of uplift in mourning, the promises and betrayals of a nation whose mythos idealizes the immigrant experience but whose reactions to demographic change reveal xenophobia, and whose promises of opportunity are deferred for many.

Some offer conceptual prompts for the imagination or declarations of solidarity, some use high-volume typography as a call to action for social change, while others depict everyday heroes, known and unknown, who have fought and died for justice and survival. All are evidence of cultural practices that sustain communities, whether as collective demonstration or individual statement, by making an impression.”

Exhibition Discussion featuring Esther Callahan

with artists Vie Boheme and Mychal Fisher (video)

Exhibition Highlights with Ellen Tani (video)


Featured Work:

Mychal Fisher and Vie Boheme

Curious Moon [Face], 2020

digital film


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Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibition 2019-2020
Sep
12
to Oct 10

Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibition 2019-2020

Grace Sippy, Benjamin Merritt, Karmel Sabri

On View: September 14 - October 10

Grace Sippy, Benjamin Merritt, Karmel Sabri

Grace Sippy, Benjamin Merritt, Karmel Sabri

In August 2019, invited jurors Keisha Williams (Contemporary Art Department Curatorial Assistant and Artist Liaison, Minneapolis Institute of Art) and Bryan Ritchie (Professor of Art, University of Wisconsin-Stout) selected Karmel Sabri, Benjamin Merritt, and Grace Sippy as the 2019-2020 Jerome Emerging Printmakers. This was our offering the program funded by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation. The residency is open to emerging Minnesota printmakers — defined here as artists who show significant potential, yet have not received a commensurate amount of professional accomplishment or recognition regardless of age or recognition in other fields.

The residency was running along smoothly until the middle of March when the pandemic abruptly forced Highpoint to close. The unexpected closure lasted until July and the Residency exhibition had to be postponed. The good news is that the Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibition will be Highpoint’s first public exhibition since we shut down in March. The exhibition will be on view beginning Monday, September 14 and will run through October 10.

Here’s what you can expect to see from the artists:

Benjamin has created a body of work that originates from a love of language and a need to communicate what living with a chronic illness entails. He uses the etching processes to reflect on the continually changing nature of chronic illness. Benjamin is able to scrape, manipulate, scar, and erase on the copper, leaving a collection of marks in the resulting printed image that reveal the history of the plate. He also implements monoprinting techniques in much of the work, creating a play between the stagnant, repeated etching and the fluid monoprint. 

More recently, through the COVID-19 pandemic, his thinking about the role of care in our society has manifested in his work. His personal relationship to care is that which he receives in treatment for a chronic illness, as well as his own employment in the care industry. Similarly to the work about chronic illness, he is interested in highlighting how complicated and multifaceted care can be, the importance and necessity of understanding the subtleties of healthcare that are often overlooked in America.

During this challenging and unstable year, Karmel pushed her aesthetic boundaries by playing with color and texture while channeling printmaking and embroidery into a therapeutic method of expressing the pain and frustration of intimate generational and personal traumas. The title of this body of work “The Question of Palestine” relates geopolitical relations between the US, Palestine, and Israel to personal experiences. Layering legal documents, personal stories, and found materials with bold colors and sharp, organic gestures, Karmel connects themes of resistance and resilience. 

Grace developed a large series of simultaneously delicate and weighty figurative studies that she turned into photolithographs and screenprints. The lightweight, translucent paper they are printed on further enhances their aura of fragility. Grace uses the figure to explore what cannot be said, or what she does not wish to say through words, and regularly visits themes of disintegration, doubles, the Grotesque, vulnerability, and conflict. Grace's creative methodology begins with photography; using herself or her husband as a model. She makes sketches from the photographs and then toner drawings (on mylar) based off the sketches. The toner drawings are used as films to make screens and photolithographic plates, from which prints are finally made. She will be exhibiting these finalized prints, and possibly some of the toner drawings they are made from.

In November Bryan Ritchie visited Highpoint and Dyani White Hawk was here at the beginning of January to conduct in-progress critiques with the residents. Tricia Heuring joined the residents for another critique at the end of February and in August, Keisha Williams met with the Residents to advise them on the layout of their exhibition.


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Jul
24
to Sep 5

Hot Off the Press (virtual)

ON VIEW: beginning July 23

The summer exhibition from our artists cooperative takes on a different look for 2020. Hopefully this online version of the show is the only one of its kind because we’d rather you be able to gather and experience the artwork in person. When access to the HP printshop was interrupted in March our co-op members had to adapt. Some continued making prints at home (and elsewhere) while others have found additional ways to exercise their creative muscles during the shutdown. Normally co-op shows feature only prints and print-related items but amidst these unique circumstances we asked members to share any/all creative pursuits they’ve been engaging in.

We hope that very soon we’ll be able to welcome visitors back into our galleries. Until then, take care and please enjoy this selection of co-op member art.

If you would like to purchase something presented here, contact Highpoint by and we will put you in touch with the artist.

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