Radical Intersectional Printmakers’ Guild
Panel co-chaired by Becci Spruill and Edie Overturf
Description
The Radical Intersectional Printmakers' Guild is a volunteer-led, non-profit organization designed to center the voices of marginalized printmakers and their allies. We are a supportive community for anyone involved in print at any level. We aim to cultivate an inclusive space where knowledge, experiences, and information relevant to our membership can be shared in an accessible, transparent, and equitable way. This panel will be an invitation to share the Guild’s mission, as well as the work of some of our members, with the broader print community.
About the co-chairs
Becci Spruill currently lives in a small mountain town in New Mexico, where she is developing the first visual arts & design degree at the Institute of Mining and Technology. Her practice is interdisciplinary in nature, as she has degrees in Sociology and Fine Art and an interest in gender and women’s studies, illustration and technology. Her current research interests include the intersection of traditional and digital processes, as well as an exploration of the societally imposed limitations of feeling unideal. Her artistic practice involves printmaking, installations, drawing, sculpture and ceramics.
In addition to her studio practice, she is interested in generating opportunities for historically underfunded and/or underrepresented artists, and has organized and juried multiple exhibitions and panels that work to expand historically white, patriarchal institutions in the field of printmaking. She is one of two co-founding members of the international printmaking organization, the Radical Intersectional Printmakers’ Guild.
Edie Overturf currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches Printmaking, Drawing and Visual Storytelling at Mt Hood Community College. Her practice keeps one foot firmly rooted in printmaking and book arts, while also stepping into sculpture, installation, and drawing as an element of her studio work. Overturf is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, the Larry Sommers Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts, and the Waddell Printmaker of the Year 2023 award from Whitney Center for the Arts. She has attended several residencies, including those at Kala Art Institute, InCahoots Residency, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and a Professional Development residency at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut.
Panelists
Daniel Luedtki is an interdisciplinary artist and musician living in Tallahassee FL. He received an MFA in Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelors of Music Performance from Augsburg University in Minnesota. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University. Luedtke’s interdisciplinary work illustrates ways that health, mortality and bodily pleasure are quantified, categorized and assigned value. These ideas are often illustrated by emphasizing the physicality of printed images in installations and other flat-but-dimensional objects. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums such as the Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Tom of Finland Foundation, Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Schwules Museum in Berlin. His work has been published in printmaking anthologies by Princeton Architectural Press and Chronicle Books.
Ina Kaur is an active practitioner, whose studio practice over time has grown to become interdisciplinary. Materiality, physicality, dimensionality, and meditative qualities through repetition provides structural complexity in her work. Living in this heightened global, political, ecological imbalanced and socially unequal and unjust environment, the need to locate, decode, and connect with one’s inner self as one responds to the exterior world is central to her oeuvre. Ina’s work is essentially an amalgamation of many influences as it abstractly expresses the essence of daily existence, alternating between competing realities and concerns.
In addition to her studio practice, her interest extends to pedagogy and curation. She is passionate about developing new initiatives, implementing projects to engage with the community, and participating in responsive practices. Ina currently lives and works in New Orleans, LA.
Christina Kang is an artist and printmaker currently based in Cambridge, MA. Originally born and raised in Morgantown, WV she earned her BFA in printmaking from West Virginia University in 2018, MFA in printmaking from Northern Illinois University in 2021, and was the Print Technician and Artist-in-Residence at the Maine College of Art & Design in Portland, ME. She is currently the Studio Coordinator at Harvard University’s Art, Film, and Visual Studies department. Christina’s work is influenced by instructional diagrams, grids, graphs, and other organizational tiny lines.
Brett Taylor is a print based artist and art educator from South Florida currently based in Columbus, Ohio. They earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from the University of Florida and their Master of Studio Art in Printmaking from The Ohio State University. Taylor’s auto-theory practice explores how the denial and disruption of binaries acknowledges that we are all in a constant state of becoming. Their work has been exhibited internationally including at the Eliot Museum, the Haugesund Museum of Art, Field Projects, Amos Eno Gallery, Agitator Gallery, and Shands Hospitals. They have 6 years of teaching experience in community and university print shops and is the Visiting Professor of Printmaking at Denison University and Lead Printmaker at Chautauqua Visual Arts.
Time
10:30am-12pm Saturday
Location
Kent State University School of Art
Center for Visual Arts (CVA)
Room 251
Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.