Things I forgot to mention: part 1

In the first week of October, my former instructor Eva Wiley asked me and a couple other students (James Bouche, Rei Lem and Mollie Little) to help her out with an installation for the 2012 Juried Faculty Exhibiton at MICA.

Eva's work is incredibly intricate and beautiful to look at. Turns out it's super complex and dynamic to create. She came to the window (where we installed the piece) with at least 25 screens all pre-exposed with her imagery. We were there to hold the screen while she pulled the squeegee and positioned the images where she felt they should go. It was amazing to see the whole thing come together. The task seemed daunting at first but by the end of the second day we all felt very accomplished and the piece was finished.

 The space we had to work with in between the window and the wall. It was a tight squeeze and we had to walk like an Egyptian to get past one another as we were darting back and forth to the washout room.

A view of us working from outside. We had to cover the window because the sun did a good  job cooking us. Then towards the end we uncovered it to get an idea of what it looked like from outside.

Us adding the few last touches and admiring the nearly finished piece.

Johannesburg bound

This Friday I will be leaving the USA for three months to work at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A few interesting facts about Johannesburg:

It is the only major city that is not built on or near a major navigable body of water. This means that when the city was originally founded (before the modern conveniences of roads and airplanes) all items had to be brought in by ox-wagon.

Johannesburg is also the worlds largest man-made forest. This is because as soon as people began to settle there they started planting trees. This has been of tremendous benefit to the city which was once considered a dust bowl.

Johannesburg is home to internationally renowned artist William Kentridge. He often works with David Krut Projects to produce fine art pint series.

I hope to get a real sense of the city and I hope that it will be a beneficial experience for myself as well as the team at DKP.

During my time there I will be helping to edition fine art prints in the studio as well as teaching bookmaking workshops to South African teachers and students. I really hope that fine art bookmaking can be incorporated into the cannon of amazing work that comes out of South Africa.

I'll try to keep this blog updated more for family, friends and future reference.
More on the way!

So I know I said I would post more.....

Somehow this year I fell waaaaay behind but I have been taking a lot of pictures and process shots. I've been keeping up my website with more success than the blog so definitely check it out at www.ingridschindall.com

So let us begin the updates:

This week we had Trenton Doyle Hancock as the artist-in-residence at Globe Collection & Press. We worked on a poster for the BMA print fair and a fine art print which the profits from will benefit both the BMA and the Globe Collection & Press at MICA. I was in charge of coordinating interns and working first hand with the artist on the collaborations. Trenton said he had a great time working with us and I think he really took a liking to Bob Cicero, former owner of Globe Poster.

This was taken on the Monday, the second day of the three day collaboration, of our working wall. The color swatches are for the benefit print and the faces are all of Trenton.

Trenton was enamored with the fraction of the Globe Collection that is currently in the letterpress studio. He had a great time setting a palindrome with wood type; he used some of the rare typefaces that haven't even been proofed yet which means that the benefit print will show the variety of type that is in the Globe Collection. Trenton started to get a little overwhelmed during the typesetting, it was about 1130pm when he started working on it.

Bob gave Trenton life lessons while cleaning up the Vandercook 325g

This is a proof of the photopolymer plate that mysterious lines appeared on. We pulled the colors for the poster over the face to test the transparency.

Trenton quietly reviewing a Color Trial Proof while the rest of us stood around and offered opinions and options.

Trenton and Bob laughing about something, they definitely left an impression on each other (it was easy to forget that this was Bob's first time working collaboratively with a fine artist.) I don't think I took this picture but I'm glad it was on my camera because it's priceless.

Justin Caruso (Globe Intern,) Lyla Shlon (Globe Intern,) Trenton, Amy Cousins (Globe Intern,) and I (Globe Coordinator) We had to get all of our photo ops in on the last night. I'm sure it's apparent that we were all exhausted and proud of what we accomplished. We were all slap happy by Tuesday night.

Last supper with Trenton. Gail brought out some bubbly and we made a toast to a successful collaboration.

Now all we have to do is print two editions of 100 (not including tear, artist proofs, printer's proofs, and color trial proofs) before late April. nbd.

Type in the World

I have a super nerdy obsession with finding letters out of their natural habitat. Here's a few examples:

OK so I may have been lying

THE NEW WEBSITE IS UP!
There's still some more stuff to update but for the most part its up and running. Please check it out at www.ingridschindall.com. I coded the whole thing and added my most recent work.

enjoy!

OK so I may have been slacking

I was super sick a couple weeks ago and I'm now running at the speed of light trying to catch up after being out of school for TWO WEEKS. Any who, I'm better now and have very few excuses for not blogging. I've been working on my website www.ingridschindall.com and I hope to have the new revamped and updated site working by next week.
So, now is the time for pictures. Like I said, I've been working like crazy so I have a lot to post!


The image I posted about before has taken developed a lot and while its still not finished, there's a lot to show.




Also, I started on a project right before I got sick involving every rule in the letterpress shop that fit on my paper printed in CMYK.

Mr. SP20 all inked up with an inordinate amount of rules locked up

First two layers next (left) and first three layers (right)
Final print (left) and one that ran through the press crooked (right)

I'm not entirely sure if this one is really finished or what to even call it; I go back and forth between "noise" and "looks like" but I'm sure there is a better title hiding deep within my brain.
These two pieces conjure the dialogue between digital media and traditional media, image making media specifically, that I have been struggling with as a mostly traditional printmaker in the digital age.

I have so much more to post but if I did it all now you would have nothing to look forward too, except the new site of course.

Prints from Italy

These prints came all the way over from Italy and got to travel all throughout Europe on the way. They were printed in the Studio of Roberto Stelluti, a master printer in Fabriano, Italy. We worked with Roberto for our last three days in Fabriano, his studio is in an old church and he even has a fresco on the wall of his acid room. We worked on 5"x7" zinc plates that you could see yourself in. Roberto patiently put grounds on our plates and then smoked the ground with an oil lamp as the plate hung upside down.

Anywho, the prints came out great and I cant wait to try printing the plate here in the US. This print, and Roberto, are the inspiration for my thesis work this semester. More to come soon!