Under Pressure: Really Big Prints!

I recently had the opportunity to head down to Manitowoc by the invitation of Berel Lutsky, Professor of Art at UW-Manitowoc, to print a 40×60 inch wood relief block under the pressure of a steamroller. About 45 artists participated in this event, and the resulting work will be exhibited at the Rahr-West Art Museum and Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. We started coming up with ideas months ago and began the carving earlier this summer. My friend Katie Ries, art professor at St. Norbert College, collaborated with us on a large-scale print depicting a trio of invented Saints of the Fox River.

Our crew was Dayna, Don, Johanna and Katie, and Annica steamrolled many of our prints. The final print: “The Saints of the Fox River.”