Jasper Duberry and Victoria Eidelsztein are s the inaugural Full Color Printmaking Fellows at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. With the guidance of a steering committee, this program has been in development since 2019 for the purpose of creating a more diverse and equitable space for artists of color to participate, create work, and engage in the printmaking community! We are thankful to the steering committee and all of the individual donors and family foundations that helped make this program possible now and into the future!

Jasper Duberry is a printmaker that resides in St. Michael, Minnesota.  Jasper learned printmaking at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Jasper often explores themes that are various stages of the Black experience – pain, joy, healing, and resistance to name a few.  

As Michelle Alexander, author of The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness writes, “Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.” 

Victoria Eidelsztein is an Argentinian artist and screenprinter based in Minneapolis. Victoria’s artwork reflects on simple yet complex themes like loneliness, self-care, and homesickness. “My immigration process started in 2019 and coincided with the pandemic which delayed my documentation. This created a very delicate situation for me; I found myself very lonely, not being able to work or go back home, and I was feeling very homesick without a sense of belonging. My artwork was shaped by these events and overwhelming feelings, and printmaking became a powerful tool to express them.” In one image, Victoria’s blue women are alone in the middle of the paper, without any background or elements that ground them; they seem to be floating but they always have themselves. Victoria prints her drawings on paper and apparel and is currently exploring large-scale fabric printing techniques, creating tapestries with intricate patterns.

Victoria offered this about her practice and how the fellowship will be a benefit: “My practice now is mainly focused on screenprinting; I also do ceramics and paint murals. Recently, I learned how to sew which expands the limits of my creativity and gives me access to new formats. Being selected for the Full Color Print Fellowship is a dream! Having access to a fully equipped studio, mentorship, and guidance for a year will help me expand artistically but also be able to create on a higher level and even larger scale.”

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