Student Lightning Talks

Panel co-chaired by Adrian Gonzalez, Danqi Cai, and Alanna Austin

Description

Support student MAPC members and hear about their current work! In this panel, 12 undergraduate and graduate student MAPC members will present fast-paced 5-minute artist talks.

About the co-chairs

Adrian Gonzalez, Danqi Cai, and Alanna Austin are student representatives on the board of the Mid America Print Council Conference.

Panelists

Charlie Bloede is an Artist and Printmaker raised in Grayslake Illinois. Her trips to visit art museums in Chicago as a child are what influenced her to become an artist. Charlie is anticipated to graduate from Kansas State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a concentration in printmaking this May. She has spent her summers in college traveling and enjoys pulling inspiration from her time abroad. She loves creating narrative prints to tell stories through all printmaking processes, especially etching and woodcut.

Grant M. Brownlow, raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, utilizes industrially derived imagery, layered in collage-like compositions to explore ideas of influence, containment within experiences, and decay through continued repetition of ideas or forms. During his upbringing, Brownlow was heavily influenced by the decaying industrial manufacturing landscape of the Midwestern United States. His work equates this industrial degradation to the construction or deconstruction of influences, their origins, meanings and the resulting effects on us as people as these influences contort over time. Brownlow is a current MFA Candidate at Purdue University working in Printmaking and Painting.

Jaquelee Chit Yu Chau is a Hong Kong mixed media and printmaking artist currently based in Athens, OH. Her work investigates cyclic pathways and material culture of everyday objects. They gain and lose value while possessing object power through exchange as they interact with established yet arbitrary systems that govern the economic, cultural, and political. 

Chau received her BFA in 2D/Printmaking with a minor in Art History at the University of Arizona and is currently pursuing an MFA in Printmaking at Ohio University.

Anna Hite is a third-year graduate student at the University of Mississippi. She is working on an MFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking. Before this, she attended Hinds Community College and the university, receiving a BA in Studio Art with minors in English and Art History. Outside of her conceptual work on social issues, she also likes making art about the punk movement, queer history, Dungeons and Dragons, Pokemon, and her cat Balgheera. Her goal is to become a college-level art instructor.

Katheryn Horne (she/her/hers) is a second year MFA Candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Horne received her BS in Art at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. Her practice is reclaiming a history, a culture, through repetition, learning, and exploration of new, safer printmaking processes. It is essential to her experience, as a water protector and as an Indigenous person, because it is valuable to share this knowledge with her communities as she moves forward. As a person in a fight to bring truths to the front, Horne creates that which shares and teaches viewers about herself and who she is.

Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist and educator making prints and illustrations dedicated to queer archives and joyful resistance. Gaby grew up in Houston, Texas, studied art at Oberlin College, and later lived in Tucson, Arizona where they were involved with immigration justice. In 2021 they were an artist-in-residence at The Printing Museum where they made work around Houston queer history. Gaby is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Their illustration work has been commissioned by ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Tucson Jewish Museum.

Jenn Johnson is a printmaker from Oklahoma whose work focuses on queer experience. They obtained a BFA in Printmaking and a BA in Art History from Oklahoma State University in 2018. Johnson has worked with artists throughout Oklahoma as a printmaker at the Prairie Arts Center in Stillwater, OK, and as an intern at Universal Limited Art Editions. Their work has been shown in the 2022 Changsha International Youth Printmakers Invitational in Changsha, China, and in 528.0: Regional Juried Printmaking at the Arvada Art Center in Colorado. Currently they are a 3rd year MFA candidate at Indiana University.

Joey Leppo. Hello, my name is Joey Leppo and I am currently a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Art earning my BFA in Interior Architecture with an emphasis in printmaking. Born in Yokosuka, I grew up between the U.S. and Japan. I’ve lived in many states, however I consider Japan and Hawaii home; much of my artwork is inspired by my upbringing and experiences as a Japanese-American. Although art has been a lifelong passion of mine, I was able to begin taking it more seriously when I auditioned and got accepted into a local performing arts high school in Jacksonville, Florida. During high school, I was awarded a National Gold Medal for my portfolio submission from the Scholastic Arts & Writing organization. Since then, I have been exploring and finding my place in the art world. Outside of school, I’m a passionate skateboarder and chef.

Lilliana Reinoso works primarily within printmaking to analyze the relationship between colonialism, fascism, and their legacies in contemporary institutions. In 2020 Lilliana was a recipient of Florida State University’s Idea Grant, which funded her examination of Instagram’s ban on “female presenting” nipples, For Your AI’s only: Exposing the Nipple Ban. In 2021 she completed her Honors Thesis: Reclaiming Restitution: Give it Back!, creating a body of work that addresses the stolen artifacts remaining in museums and advocates the restitution of cultural patrimony. She is currently exploring the life of artifacts within and outside the museum as a SAIC MFA candidate.

Jacqueline Kate Walker is a printmaker and painter from Allen, Texas, working primarily in screen print, woodblock relief, and watercolor. In 2021, she received a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in printmaking from the University of North Texas and is now pursuing an MFA in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. Spending most summers hiking across the country, her fascination with nature extends to her practice. Her work depicts animals and their interactions, telling stories and fragmented narratives of conflict and consequence.

Time

3:45-5:15pm Saturday

Location

Kent State University School of Art

Center for Visual Arts (CVA)

Room 165

Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.