After completing a couple of these drawings, however, I began to notice that the marks from one drawing would bleed through onto the paper on the pad beneath. I initially began these pieces as explorations of color relationships, and I also intended on using them as 'sketches' for a quilt that I am in the process of sewing. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Despite this being a completely new process and having to learning to work alone with limited resources and space has caused me to have to be more creative with the process. The piece was inspired but an encyclopedia page giving the description of the etching along side it. I hand printed this piece using a plexiglass plate adding in collaged paper. In the studios at the college, we had unlimited supplies as well as a press where as now I am working with limited materials and have had to improvise. I found it most challenging going from a group studio working along side my peers being able to give one another feedback and learning from one another to working alone from my desk at home. This piece is made from etchings in to plexiglass, before this my prefered medium was Zinc Aquatints which were substituted with plexiglass for the rest of the semester. All work submitted must have been completed “at home” during the global response to Covid-19 in 2020.ĭue to the COVID-19 outbreak I have had to learn a whole new process from home. All media were welcomed in the creative process. Entries are digital images of the works created in the spirit of printmaking. This call was open to current college and university students and faculty who are experiencing “shelter in place” and “stay at home” conditions which have limited their printmaking options. We would like to see how others are coming up with ways to make artwork in the spirit of printmaking using creative problem solving techniques. As part of work suddenly being done at home due to ‘Shelter in Place’ we thought it would be a good project to reach out to many artists who are in the same predicament where creating work in a proper printmaking studio has been temporarily interrupted. Jess is a BFA in Printmaking, Painting, and Graphic Design with a minor in Art History and Tess is a BFA in Printmaking with a minor in Women and Gender Studies.

Jess Dowell and Tess Murphy are the undergraduate students at Illinois State University who work in Normal Editions for independent study credit, Spring 2020. The call was open for two weeks in April 2020 welcoming all media used in the creative process as students and faculty worked from home with limited resources. This exhibition is the result of a call for entries highlighting works created in the spirit of printmaking during the Covid-19 pandemic global response of “shelter in place” and “stay at home” conditions which displaced most art students and faculty from the facilities vital for their media.

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