Printmaking-a semester's culmination

individual final project

(stone litho scanned, photoshopped,

digital printing, hand coloring)

photo/plate lithograph

(not particularly my favorite)

metamorphosis project

(1st copper etching proof)

(5th copper etching proof)

(10th copper etching proof)

Printmaking was the most intense course I've taken thus far at A&D. It was labor intensive and had a severe learning curve. So, after having survived

one semester with the fantastic Endi Poskovic, why am I enrolled in

another printmaking course in the fall? Madness! Insanity! Yes,

printmaking is a ton of work but the results are SO worth it. After having

produced so much work that I am so proud of in just one semester - I've

never felt so accomplished at the University of Michigan. For the first time, I feel like every ounce of sweatand tears - yes, there were tears - made my

artwork even better. While lithography andintaglio were amazing and I

learned so much, I'm stepping into woodcuts next semester -

a whole other beast.

A beast I am ready to tame.

Pike Comedy Night 2010 T-shirts

I designed these T-shirts for Pike's Comedy Night this year. Stephen Lynch was fantastic and Pike raised nearly $17,000 (even before all the donations we brought in) for Wyclef's Helping Haiti fund. Congrats you guys! (especially Nelson, Andrew, and Kyle for putting the whole thing together)

home - mixed media dress

multiple views of mixed media dress

interview/collaboration piece for "Home" course

(finished)

The dress itself was sewn by my grandmother, Ellie Hurley, nearly fifty years ago. I spoke with her over the phone quite a bit about the project, interviewing her about her experience with sewing and her own mother. Adding my own element, I stitched text onto both the front and back of the dress. The piece would ideally be displayed hanging up, so that the viewer could walk around it, seeing both sides - reading front to back, obviously.

Special credit to my grandmother, Ellie Hurley, aka Amah. She never got to see this piece finished, but it's dedicated to her.