Brick Journal, curated and published by Alexis Iammarino, is available for viewing and purchase at Printed Matter, New York, NY
From March 4 - April 27, I will be an Artist in Residence at Wave Hill as part of their Winter Workspace Program. https://www.wavehill.org/
Artist Lecture: January 22
Wednesday, January 15 at 7pm
I will be experimenting with digital printing on textiles. December 2024
I am collaborating with the Textiel Lab at the Textiel Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands to translate graphic designs screenprinted on found textiles into programmed, digitally knit patterns that are continuous designs integrated into the structure of the fabric— to create editions of wearable, useable, interchangeable, soft sculptures.
I will be presenting my site-specific installation of screenprinted posters titled “Fist in a Velvet Glove” and giving an artist talk. Please join me! 7pm on July 4th
Parallelogram: The Waves Project
Many of us are familiar with famous naturalists such as conservationist John Muir and artist John James Audubon, both white men, who inspired generations to explore and preserve the outdoors. But who are the women, LGBTQ, or BIPOC environmentalists and artists of history and the present day, and what can be learned from how they have approached their subjects? “Living Proof: Radical Ecofeminist Printmaking” will contextualize the work of contemporary women, LGBTQ, and BIPOC printmaking artists working with themes of ecology, landscape, and nature, within historical traditions and contemporary theory.
Panel Chair:
Taryn McMahon, Associate Professor, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Taryn McMahon’s recent works explore the entanglements between humans and our environment via Northeast Ohio’s waterways. She grew up in New Jersey and received her BFA from the Pennsylvania State University followed by an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has received numerous awards for her work including an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge, and Puffin Foundation grant. Her work has been shown at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, the International Print Center, New York, NY, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, and the McDonough Museum, Youngstown, OH, among many other venues. She is an Associate Professor at Kent State University. McMahon lives and works alongside her artist husband and two young children in Northeast Ohio.
Panelists:
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas is an artist, educator, and activist based in Los Angeles, California where I am the Head of Printmaking and Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. Botanical imagery, specifically plants that are considered invasive, fill the visual space of my prints and installations. Language used to describe invasive species speaks volumes about how we as a society form narratives about who belongs where. I specifically investigate “invasive” species as a non-native and non-binary person, and research metaphors and symbols to address the very question of belonging. My work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Casa Lu in Mexico City, Handwerker Gallery, Buffalo Artists Studios, and Sediment Arts. Originally from Denver, Colorado, I received a BA in Liberal Arts from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and an MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
R Kauff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
R Kauff (she/they) is a visual artist and educator currently living in Cleveland, OH. Their current work looks at the picture plane, mark making, time, and the embodied experience of living in chronic illness. Their multidisciplinary practice is centered on a sense of touch, which they explore through drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and poetry. They hold an MFA in printmaking and sculpture from University of Iowa where they were an Iowa Arts Fellow. Residencies include The Luminary, Jentel, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Platteforum, and the Tallgrass National Preserve. They are currently a Lecturer at Oberlin College.
Jennifer Schmidt, Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA
Jennifer Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who works with print media, graphic design, writing, and sound to create site-responsive installations, video, and performances that question the role of visual iconography and repetitive actions within a given environment. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware; and is Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, MA.
Taro Takizawa, Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs. His works contains both western and eastern aesthetics with appreciation of traditional printmaking processes and mark making. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations.
He received with his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan, and MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited nationally and internationally such as at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum and its exhibition at CK Zamek in Poznan, Poland; and ArtPrize 10 at Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, Ty Pawb in Wales and China Printmaking Museum. And recently went to artist residencies at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Morgan Conservatory, GoggleWorks, and Lawrence Arts Center.
Saturday, April 6, 3:30-5:00pm
1 Sabin Street, Providence, RI 02903
Brick Journal is a collaborative publication devoted to the visual language, social + geologic histories, and cultural production that stem from and connect to brickmaking and brick work.
Looking to the building arts as cultural expression, Brick Digest exists to create an evolving document for sharing and archiving the occupational traditions, pragmatic beauty, poetic abstraction and complex histories of built environments and land.
Each issue forms a participatory vessel where contributors are invited to share how their own habits of perception and making are animated by giving deep attention to the brick itself as a vast conceptual terrain–––considering it’s materiality and form to inspire and connect us by following the questions it asks of us.
“Weight of Words” Typography Workshop is an event sponsored by Erasmus+ to promote collaboration and skill sharing amongst typographers, designers, artists, fab lab technicians, printmakers, and educators. Participants in the workshop included: Typa Centre (Estonia), Mart Anderson Typography (Estonia), Andrea Vendetti and Elettra Scotucci of Slab Letterpress Studio (Italy), Leonardo Facchin of Tipoteca Printing Museum (Italy), Hannah Harkes of Labora Studio (Estonia / Scotland), Mana Kaasik (Estonia), Tiago Navarro Marques of University of Evora (Portugal), Filipe Alexandre dos Santos Rebelo (Portugal), Alexandra Maria Cordeiro Mariano (Portugal), Marius Meierrose de Araujo of Arteria Lab (Portugal), Merilin Metsamaa (Estonia), and Jennifer Schmidt (United States).
Printmaking Today: Prints, Books and Multiples ISSN 0960 9253
Journal of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
“Printmaker’s Diary: Jennifer Schmidt”
Editor: Leonie Bradley
Published quarter, 4 Issues per volume
Issues published March, June, September and December
The Power of Print, Mid America Print Conference
Kent State University, Kent OH
October 13-16, 2022
IMPACT 12: International Printmaking Conference
September 21-25
An installation of screenprinted textiles as poster swatches. Printed while an artist in residence at AGA Lab in Amsterdam during August 2022.
I am honored to receive one of New York City Department of Cultural Affair’s City Artist Corps Grants to conduct several community zine making workshops in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with the goal of creating a mobile community zine library that can be shared informally in the park, as well as, with local public libraries and schools for all to read. Events happening soon — in late August / early September!
Collector, Curator, and Researcher: Felix Koltermann recently acquired my artist newsprint publications “Reviewing the Review, Everything for Review” 2017 for their Newsprint Photobook collection. You can learn more about the collection and exhibitions here: https://www.newsprint-photobook.org/p/about-newsprint-photobook.html and follow them on instagram @newsprintphotobook
Looking forward to taking part in this conversation with artists Barry Stone and Nathier Fernandez: hosted by Claudia Sohrens and Virtual Art Walks. * Join Us *
A conversation around "Mark Making" and "Intersections of Text and Image" on February 19, 2021, with guest artists Nathier Fernández, who's research focuses on the relationship between human and non-human interactions; Barry Stone, who currently has a show of photographs at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in the Lower East Side; and Jennifer Schmidt, who is currently Artist-in-Residence at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn.
Date: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time: 12 pm – 2.30 pm (ET)
Location: Zoom
dm @virtual.artwalks to RSVP
Jennifer Schmidt:
Deciduous Leaves Turn.
On View: January 23, 2021 - February 6, 2021
Trestle Gallery is pleased to present Jennifer Schmidt: Deciduous Leaves Turn., an exhibition culminating from Schmidt's time as an Artist-in-Residence in 2020 as part of Trestle Gallery's Visiting Artist Residency (VAR) program. VAR Residents are offered a studio at Trestle Art Space to explore and deepen their practice, while sharing their artistic experience and creative process with the Trestle Art Space community and the public.
Deciduous Leaves Turn. is a walking, writing, speaking, installation project— informed by the time we are living in, visual and auditory observations of community, and neighborhood development. Through poetry, performance, and printed publications, the project questions ideas of public and private space, social presentation, personal responsibility, and everyday patterns of decision making.
Referencing philosophy and an interplay of characters and events relating in time, Schmidt will read her poetry as a performance within the gallery and on the street, while leading a socially distanced walk through Sunset Park, Green-Wood Heights, and Park Slope, Brooklyn beginning at the gallery near the BQE, prison, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Industry City, and continuing past the gas station, police station, school, hotel as shelter, new hotel, bodega, residential houses, eventually to follow the contour of historic Green-Wood Cemetery through light industrial spaces up the hill within view of the Statue of Liberty. Participants will be able to see and observe how neighborhoods continue to develop firsthand, as well as, the effect of changing sentiments involving cemeteries and death on urban planning. Participants will be invited to sit in the open air on the sidewalk for a reading within close proximity to green space, utilities, businesses, and residences, in an area that is both public and private—enacting “the woods” of the city.
Visitors to the gallery may experience the installation, attend a reading, and participate in a performance as a walk, sitting-in at a site-specific location.
Trestle Gallery, 850 3rd Ave, Suite 411, Brooklyn, NY 11232
By appointment only: bit.ly/trestlegallery , gallery@trestlegallery.org , www.trestlegallery.org
Performance Events:
Reading / Walking / Sitting-In (outdoors, in person):
Saturday January 23, 3pm & Saturday, January 30, 3pm
After visiting the exhibition, all are welcome to join the artist on a participatory walk from the gallery, along a curated route through Sunset Park, to Green-Wood Cemetery, where Schmidt will perform a reading of her poetry.
Reading / Walking / Page-Turning on Zoom:
Sunday, January 24, 4pm & Sunday, January 31, 4pm
Poetry reading performance with Schmidt will be accessible via Zoom.
In the Cool of the Evening
October 30 - December 30th 2020
Exhibiting artists include: Nathan Catlin, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Cara Lynch, Erica Mao, Lina Puerta, Jennifer Schmidt, Kiki Smith and Craig Zammiello
Curated by: Cary Hulbert and Trinity Lester
insta: @projectgalleryV
3pm on Saturday, October 24
