Blake Sanders
blakesanders@gmail.com blakeanthonysanders.com
Education
2008 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art: Printmaking. Department of Art, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art Studio: Printmaking. Department of Art, University of
Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. A BA in Arts Education was also pursued.
2003 International Studies Program, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata City, Osaka
Prefecture, Japan. This was a study abroad program, no degree was pursued.
Professional Experience
2021- Press Coordinator, Catapult Press, Catapult Creative House, Southeast Missouri State
University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2019 Full-time Term Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
2015-19, 2020- Adjunct Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
2013-14 Instructor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
--Interim Printmaking Area Head, Spring 2014.
2012 Adjunct Instructor, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.
2012 Adjunct Instructor, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
2008-12 Adjunct Instructor, Printmaking, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009-12 Instructor, Introduction to Fine Arts, Baton Rouge Community College,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Courses Taught
AR302 Printmaking, Southeast Missouri State University
AR303 Screenprinting, SEMO
AR100 Drawing 1, SEMO
AR202 Drawing 2: Figure Drawing, SEMO
AR201 Color Composition, SEMO
AR 106 Three-Dimensional Foundations, SEMO
AR 112 Perspectives in Art (Art Appreciation), SEMO
Introduction to Printmaking, Bowling Green State University
Intermediate Printmaking: Relief and Monotype, BGSU
Intermediate Printmaking: Lithography, BGSU
Intermediate Printmaking: Etching, BGSU
Advanced Printmaking, BGSU
Senior Studio, BGSU
Graduate level Printmaking, BGSU
Intermediate Lithography, Murray State University
Advanced Printmaking, Murray State
Drawing 1, Murray State
Life Drawing, Austin Peay State University
Foundations of Art: Printmaking, Tulane University
Intermediate and Advanced Lithography, Tulane
Intermediate and Advanced Screenprint, Tulane
First Class (College Readiness), Baton Rouge Community College
ART 101 (Art Appreciation), BRCC
Exhibitions
Solo and Orange Barrel Industries Exhibitions
2021 Tied Together (as OBI). Blackburn College. Carlinville, Illinois.
Home Bound. Virtual exhibition. Shircliff Gallery, Vincennes University,
Vincennes, Indiana.
2019 (w)rest (as OBI). Christine DeVitt Exhibition Hall, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for
the Arts, Lubbock, Texas.
2018 Awash. Paperworkers Local, Birmingham, Alabama.
Spoiled (as OBI). Stevens Gallery, University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas.
2017 Running on Fumes (as OBI). Curated Gallery, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, Missouri.
Remains (Long-term collaborative installation, as OBI). Spring Hill College, Mobile,
Alabama.
2016 Split Ends (with Hannah March Sanders). University of St. Mary, Leavenworth, Kansas.
Domestic Dependence (as OBI). COS Gallery, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California.
Unchained and Unseamly (as OBI). Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama.
--Gadsen Museum of Art, Gadsen, Alabama.
2015 Pray for Oil (as OBI). Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Raising Series. Gallery Cases, Kamerick Art Gallery, University of Northern Iowa.
Domestic (as OBI). New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
2014 Untitled (as OBI),Arena Theater, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s
Jefferson Davis Campus. Gulfport, Mississippi.
2013 An OBI Introspective (as OBI). University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.
Part-time Lovers (as OBI). Curris Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.
2012 The Honeymoon is Over (as OBI). Nuance Gallery, Beresford, South Dakota.
2011 Hot Mess: Finding Love and Inspiration in South Louisiana. 567 Gallery,
Macon, Georgia.
2008 Gone the Way of the Dinosaurs Extended Cut. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College, Gautier, Mississippi.
Gone the Way of the Dinosaurs. M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Newcomb Art
Department, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 Wilhelmina and Friends. B.F.A. Senior Exhibition, UNI Gallery, University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
International Exhibitions
2022 International Juried Print Biennial. Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah,
Kentucky. Juror: Aaron Coleman.
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking. Janet Turner Print Museum,
Chico, CA. Juror: Aaron Coleman.
5th Global Print 2022. Douro, Portugal.
2021 Printmaking. Virtual Exhibition. The In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Juror: Ryan O’Malley.
5th Global Print 2021. Douro, Portugal.
2020 10th Douro Biennial 2020. Douro, Portugal.
IAPA Biennale Online Exhibition. Virtual exhibition.International Academic Printmaking
Alliance (IAPA) 3rd Printmaking Biennale, Beijing, China. Recommended for consideration for the exhibition by Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, Professor of Art
at Western Michigan University.
Inaugural International Fresno Print Guild Print Exhibition of 2020, Virtual Exhibition at
https://fresnoprintguild.com/ on the theme of Catharsis, Juried by Stephanie J. Ryan, Professor of Art in Drawing/Painting at California State University and Matt Hopson-Walker, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Fresno State University, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA.
2019 Remnants. Specto Art Space. Harrisonburg, Virginia.
The Boston Printmakers 2019 North American Print Biennial. Jewett Art Gallery,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Juror: Shelley R. Langdale.
Nervo 100+: Carpeta Internacional de Gráfica. Mexican Embassy in Uraguay,
Montevideo, Uraguay.
-2018 Aidé Partida, Gabazo Contemporary Graphic Workshop. Mexico City, Mexico.
37th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Bradley University,
Peoria, Illinois. Juror: Janet Ballweg.
4th Global Print 2019. Douro, Portugal.
Moth Migration Project Stage 2, Crowd-sourced Collection of Hand printed, Drawn and
Cut Paper Moths Exhibited in Multi-sensory Collaborative Installation, Founded
in 2016 by Hilary Lorenz, Professor of Visual Art, Long Island University,
Brooklyn, NY. https://mothmigrationproject.net/
-Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Australia.
-Gympie Regional Gallery in Australia.
2018 SGCI Member’s Exhibition. Las Vegas, Nevada. Juror: Tanja Softic.
Imprint. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
9th Douro Biennial 2018. Douro, Portugal.
2017 Full Court Press North American Juried Print Competition. K Space Contemporary,
Corpus Christi, Texas. Jurors: Margaret Simpson and Tom Druecker. The exhibition was the featured show of the FCP Print Symposium in conjunction with Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
2017 Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition. Louisiana Tech University, Ruston,
Louisiana. Juror: Ben Hickey.
3rd Global Print 2017. Douro, Portugal.
Atlanta Print Biennial. Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Juror: Sydney Cross.
36th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Contemporary Art Center of
Peoria, Peoria, Illinois. Juror: Kathryn Polk.
2016 neo:print prize 2016. neo:gallery27, Bolton, United Kingdom.
Jurors: Nancy Campbell, Rachel Gladfelter, Gill Saunders, and Jo Stockholm.
Joint Effort (organized by Expanded Draught international artist collective). Pinecone
Gallery, Paducah, Kentucky.
2015 35th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Bradley University,
Peoria, Illinois. Juror: Beth Grabowski.
2014 Dialogos e Interpretaciones III. International Print Exchange and Traveling Exhibition,
organized by Jules Floss of the University of North Carolina- Pembroke, United States and Jorge Eliécer Rodríguez Osorio of Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia. Exhibited at multiple locations, including:
-Mission Grafica, San Francisco, CA.
-Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia.
-Frogman's Print Workshops, I.D. Weeks Library Galleries, University of South Dakota, Vermilion, SD.
East Meets West. A collaboration and exchange between printmakers at BGSU and the
American University in Dubai, UAE.
2012 Les Outlaws de L’Estampe. A L’Arrache: Rencontre Autour de la Gravure. Exposition
Franco Americaine. Sponsored by L’Ecole D’Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Riom
and Le Centre Culturel Le Bief, Ambert. Le Centre Cultrel Le Bief. July 26-27,
2012. Ambert, Auvergne, France.
Printmaking In Graafika Festival: Live Brain Branding.Parnu Linnagalerii Kunstnike
Maja: Galerii Saal. Parnu, Estonia.
2011 New Prints 2011 / Winter. International Print Center New York.
Fold. A Featured Exhibition of the IMPACT 7 Conference, RMIT School of Art Gallery,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Graafika üldnäitus: Printmaking In Joint 2011 Invitational International Exhibition.
PÄRNU, Estonia.
2009 Space International Print Biennial. Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
2008 New Prints 2008 / Summer: Artists' Commentary. International Print Center New York.
2007 Graphic Communications. Gallery 6, National Library, Tallinn, Estonia.
31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Bradley University,
Peoria, Illinois. Juror: Judith Brodsky.
New Prints 2007/ Spring. International Print Center New York. Juror: James Siena.
2006 Terror at Intersection International Exhibition. Intersection for the Arts,
San Francisco, California.
Juried Exhibitions
2022 Visions of the American Landscape. St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri.
Juror: Emmy Lingscheit.
Innovations in Printmaking and Mixed Media. D’Art Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
Juror: Melanie Yazzie.
Four Rivers Print Biennial. Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale, Illinois.
Jurors: Susanna Crum and Rodolfo Salgado Jr.
2021 Connect:Collect. Hulsey Gallery, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma.
Elevate Gallery, 21C Museum Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
PaperWest: 3rd National Works on Paper Exhibition. Gittins Gallery, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah. Juror: Sam Vernon.
27th Parkside National Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: John Hitchcock.
Text and Visual Language. National exhibition. St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis Missouri.
Juror: Tate Foley.
Printin’. National exhibition. St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis Missouri.
Juror: Aaron Coleman.
2020 Art St. Louis XXXVI. Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
2019 Artists Who Teach. Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
39th National Print Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Juror: Monica Meler.
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition. Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State
University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Juror: José Diaz, Chief Curator of The Andy
Warhol Museum.
2018 96th Annual All Media Exhibition. Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Juror: Sarah Rose Sharp.
Suspend. Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado.
For Every Negative There Is A Positive. St. Louis Artists’ Guild. St. Louis, MO.
Juror: Tom Huck.
Impressions. Artworks Loveland, Loveland, Colorado. Juror: Johnny Plastini.
38th National Print Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Juror: Liz Maugans.
Four Rivers Print Biennial. Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale, Illinois.
Juror: Lisa Bulawsky.
2017 2017 Printmaking National Exhibition. Mark Arts, Mary R Koch Arts Center.
Wichita, Kansas. Juror: Sarah Riley.
Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibit. St. Louis Artist’s Guild. St. Louis,
Missouri. Juror: Emily Eddins.
Flights of Fantasy (with Hannah Sanders). Arts Council of Southeast Missouri.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Art Now: Printmaking. Ann Arbor Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Juror: Tyanna Buie.
25th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: David Jones.
Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition. Lee Gallery, Clemson University,
Clemson, South Carolina. Juror: Sydney Cross.
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition. Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State
University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Juror: Ann Prentice Wagner.
2016 Utopia/Dystopia. Paper Plane Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Southern Printmaking Biennial. Bob Jones Art Gallery, University of North Georgia,
Dahlonega, Georgia. Juror: Nicholas Ruth.
Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition. Carnegie Center for Art and
History, New Albany, Indiana. Juror: Brian Jones.
Four Rivers Print Biennial. Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale, Illinois.
Juror: David Jones.
48th Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood (with Hannah March Sanders). Octagon
Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa.
2015 Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition. Founders Lounge Gallery,
Frick Center, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois. Juror: Nicole Hand.
24th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: Michael Barnes.
2014 Printwork 2014. Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Juror: Bill Fick.
Strange Figurations. Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York.
The Bowery Gallery Annual Juried Competition. Bowery Gallery, New York, New York.
Juror: David Cohen.
Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. Columbus, Ohio.
Jurors: Dennis Harrington, Deborah Maris Lader.
2013 Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition. Banshee Press,
Denver, Colorado.
2012 Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition. Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Juror: Liz Zanis.
2011 24th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition. Grand Gallery,
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Juror: Dan Cameron.
Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition. River Campus Art Gallery,
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2010 The Surreal Salon. Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2009 Los Angeles Printmaking Society 20th National Exhibition. Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Juror: Peter Frank.
20x20x20. Union Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The 30th Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Exhibition. Sidney Larson
Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri. Juror: John Hull.
National Print Exhibition 2009. Ingram Hall University Gallery, Pacific Lutheran
University, Tacoma, Washington. Juror: Margaret Bullock.
SGC Travelling Exhibition 2009-2012. Debuting at SGC Conference in
Chicago, Illinois. Juror: Warrington Colescott.
2008 No Dead Artists. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Jurors: Tony
Fitzpatrick, Billie Milam Weisman, and Michael Wilkinson.
21st Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: Karla Hackenmiller.
2007 Animal Instincts: Allegory and Anthropomorphism. Athens Institute of
Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia.
Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s 107th International Anniversary Exhibition
of Works on Paper. The Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Juror: George James.
20th September Competition. Alexandria Museum of Art,
Alexandria, Louisiana. Juror: Peter Jones.
20th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Juror: Yuji Hiratsuka.
2006 The 27th Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Exhibition. Sidney Larson Gallery,
Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri. Juror: David Morrison.
2005 The Cat Show. Quad City Arts, Rock Island, Illinois.
Annual Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition. UNI Gallery,
Department of Art, UNI. Juror: Teresa Paschke.
2002 Annual Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition. UNI Gallery,
Department of Art, UNI. Juror: Will Mentor.
Invitational and Small Group Exhibitions
2020 Imprint III 2020 National Invitational Print Biennial. VAM Gallery, Austin, Texas. This
will be a featured exhibition during PRINTAUSTIN 2020.
Black Lives Matter, Invitational Group Exhibition, Catapult Gallery Letterpress Wall,
Catapult Creative House. Cape Girardeau, MO.
Graphic Activism: A Group Exhibition, Invitational Group Exhibition of Protest Art,
Curated by Crystal Brown, Director, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan
College. Buckhannon, WV.
2019 Deconstructing the Aesthetic: Form, Figure, and Function, Catapult Faculty Exhibition,
Catapult Gallery, Catapult Creative House. Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Annual Members Exhibition. Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
Sticks and Stones. Three-person exhibition with Meg Hogan Campbell and Hannah
March Sanders. Macon Arts Alliance, Macon, Georgia.
Reproductive Media. Mobile Zine Library project in conjunction with Texchange: 2019
SGCI Conference, Dallas, Texas. Artists were invited to share zines, interviews, and other information that highlight the realities of family, sex, and gender issues as they relate to contemporary printmaking and academic/arts employment.
Faces Not Forgotten. Catapult Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
The Faces Not Forgotten project asks artists to create a portrait of a casualty of gun violence. Portraits are then digitally printed on fabric and incorporated into quilts that travel to exhibitions around the country. The original portraits are then donated to the families of the victims.
2018 Annual Members Exhibition. Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
New Harmony Bicentennial Print Invitational. Indiana Institute of Technology,
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
2014: New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana.
Lonesome No More. Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Indianapolis, Indiana.
FIRE AND FURY: Anti Trump Art. Resonator Gallery, Ada, Oklahoma.
2017 Mudras. Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
Mercatus (with Hannah March Sanders).New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art,
New Harmony, Indiana.
Frogman’s Faculty Exhibition. Main Gallery, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha,
Nebraska.
In/Home, The Printmaking Center New Jersey, curated by Dave DiMarichi of 9INHANDPRESS.
Branchburg, NJ.
NIU Printmaking Triennial. Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Nature’s Grasp (with Hannah March Sanders). Lee Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia.
-Lee Arts Center, Arlington, VA (April 2017)
-Gallery 3700, South Arlington, VA (July 2017)
-Carroll College in Maryland, VA (October/November 2017)
Frogman’s 36th Annual Anniversary Portfolio Exchange and Exhibition, University of
Nebraska Omaha. Omaha, Nebraska.
Disseminator of Useful Knowledge Print Invitational (with Hannah March Sanders).
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana.
Pulp as Portal: Socially Engaged Hand Papermaking (Gumbo, a collaborative book
made from recycled fibers from the lives of participating artists, was displayed. I contributed fibers and illustrated/collaged pages for the project). Center for Book Arts, New York, New York.
2016 Reframed, Catapult Gallery, Catapult Creative House, curated by Joshua Newth.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
4th Annual Arts Council Member's Exhibit, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri.
Cape Girardeau, MO.
Frogman’s 35th Annual Anniversary Portfolio Exchange and Exhibition, University of
Nebraska Omaha. Omaha, Nebraska.
2014 Pressed. LeSo Gallery, Toledo, Ohio.
Nashville Print Revival Visiting Artist Exhibition. Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
Nashville Print Revival Invitational Print Exhibition. Two Tone Gallery,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Tribute to Sandy Chism: An exhibition of work by her friends, colleagues, students,
and mentors. Carroll Gallery, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
2013 Gumbo: A Collaboration of People and Pulp. The International Artists’ Group Expanded
Draught’s Paper Project, Cherokee Street Exhibition during the Friends of Dard
Hunter 2013 Conference. Saint Louis, Missouri.
MSU Art and Design Faculty Exhibition. Baker Gallery, Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, Madisonville, Kentucky.
Impression. Wolfe Gallery, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio.
Pounds of Pressure: Contemporary Prints in Large-Format. The Arts Council of Greater
Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Black, White &Things. Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2012 Modern Impulses and Surreal Dreams. Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
The Paper Chase, Vol. 1. The Invisible Hand Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas.
Unchartered Territories. Healing Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2011 Grudge Match. Evil Prints, Saint Louis, Missouri.
2010 Kiss My Prints. Art Studio Inc., part of Gulf Print Storm 2010, Beaumont, Texas.
The Ink Slingers Ball. The Arts Council, part of Gulf Print Storm 2010.
Editions at Dawn: Prospect 1.5 Print Exhibit. Louisiana ArtWorks,
New Orleans, LA.
Southern Froggies vs. Evil Print. Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University,
Johnson City, Tennessee.
Grudge Match 4. Tattooed Mom's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2009 All-City Faculty Show. Universal Furniture Building, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Grudge Match. Happy Dog Gallery, Chicago.
2008 Originals. Carroll Gallery, Tulane University.
Printer’s Picks. Highpoint Printmaking Press and Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2007 New Art, New Media, New Orleans. Carroll Gallery, Newcomb Art Department,
Tulane University.
2006 Virus Show. The Green Room, New Orleans.
Curated Exhibitions
2019 A Banner Day. Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas. This is a collaborative project
that was a featured exhibition during Lawrence Print Week. The show consisted of protest flags and banners made by regional activists from relief and screenprint components printed on repurposed fabrics. The pieces contributed come from local artists/activists participating in a print and fibers workshop taught by Orange Barrel Industries.
2018 Encountering Our Indelible Mark. Santander, Spain. I curated and submitted this
exhibition. The show was accepted as part of the exhibitions held at Centro Civico Numancia for IMPACT 10 – Encuentro, a refereed international printmaking conference. The project included a bilingual website featuring the dozen participating international printmakers and book artists, as well as an essay by Dr. Gary Machlis, science advisor to the Director of the National Parks Service from 2009-2017.
2017 Dispatch: The Quilted Print. As a part of our workshop at Frogman’s, The Quilted Print,
we organized a collaborative exhibition of products made during the week-long workshop for a two-month exhibition at R N G Gallery, Dixie Quicks. Council Bluffs, IA. The exhibition is currently being shown at Art Accelerated gallery in Tillamook, OR and will later be featured in the Dobbins Center in Cape Girardeau, MO.
2014 Worth the Trip. SPACE Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.
2013 MilwauKEY. Imagination Giants, Featured Exhibition during 2013 SGCI Conference,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2012 Metamorphosis. Oscar C. and Geraldine F. Hirsch Rooms, Cape Girardeau Public Library, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2011 Metamorphosis: An Exchange Portfolio Featuring 30 Years of Frogman’s Assistants
and Friends of Froggy. Nuance Gallery, Beresford, South Dakota.
Blessed Unions. Fort Gondo, Saint Louis, Missouri. Acted as exhibition organizer and
curator.
2009 Man Overboard. Studio 101, Chicago, Illinois. Organized the portfolio and exhibition.
Flotsam and Jetsam. within(Reason) Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Other Portfolio Exhibitions
2020 What’s So Funny? Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.
2018 Too Bad the Good Times Don’t Last. SGCI Themed Portfolios Exhibition, Bally's Hotel Conference Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2017 Slowness. Featured at Terminus: SGCI Conference 2017, Atlanta, Georgia.
2014 American Food. King Family Exhibition Case, University of Colorado Boulder.
2013 The Worst Portfolio Exchange Ever!Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Unicorn! SGCI Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee, WI.
2011: Mani-Pedi Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri.
2012-15 History of the United States, Volume 1. Catapult Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Volumes 1 & 2. Kenneth P. McCuthan Art Center / Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana.
Volumes 1 & 2. Smith Family Gallery at the Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Volume 1. Print Summit 2010, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
Volume 1. Bixby Hall, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Volume 2. University Libraries, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Volume 2. "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Art of Social Commentary", Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
50 Places. Printmaking Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
2011: College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
2011 Metamorphosis. Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
2010 Head Shot. Mid-American Print Council Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Frogman's Portfolio Exhibition. W. H. Over Museum, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, South Dakota.
2009 Covert Operations: A National Print Exchange Portfolio Exhibition.
Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.
2008: College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, College of the Sequoias, Visalia,
California.
A Moveable Feast. Happy Dog Gallery, Chicago.
College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California.
2007 Exchange III: Contemporary Prints. Reuff Galleries, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana.
The Circus and the Night: A National Print Exchange Portfolio Exhibition.
College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California.
Publications
2021 HomeBound, published in The Hand: Issue 34, November 2021.
(w)rest (with Hannah March Sanders), published in The Hand: Issue 32, April 2021.
2019 Adriane Herman. “Disrupting Our Disruption: Recycling Our Indelible Mark to mine a
‘wee bit of hope’”, (Encountering Our Indelible Mark exhibition review), sgcinternational.org, September 16, 2019.
Mary Ann Anderson. “Lubbock is smack in the middle of nowhere but offers a bit of
everything”, Dallas Morning News, July 22, 2019.
Natalie Hegert. “Three’s a Trend: Blake and Hannah Sanders, and LHUCA’s Eyes on the
Planet”, Glasstire, July 19, 2019.
2018 Work featured in “Material Encounters: Printmaking and Sewing in Contemporary
Practice” presented by Professor Melissa Harshman of UGA, as part of the Printmaking in the Contemporary Landscape panel at the IMPACT 10: Encuentro international conference in Santander, Spain.
Spill (with Hannah March Sanders), published in The Hand: Issue 20, April 2018.
Contributing Artist & Interview Feature for Volume 5—Winter 2018 of Friend of the
Artist.
2017 Shadows Are What We Leave Behind, published in The Hand: Issue 17, October 2017.
2016 Adrift 8, published in The Hand: Issue 14, October 2016.
2015 “Licking the Platter” (article on collaboration and professionalism with Hannah Sanders), published in the MAPC Journal, Fall/Winter, 2015.
2014 Adrift 1, published in The Hand: Issue 6, October 2014.
2013 Laura Hutson. “The Nashville Print Revival will make you a believer”.
Nashville Scene, February 21, 2013.
Additional Experience
Recent Departmental/University Service
2019-20 Organizer and Host of Art Guild Film Series. Southeast Missouri State University,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2019 SGCI Traveling Members Exhibition installation. Diboll Center, SEMO, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri. T-shirt printing for Cape PRIDE and P-FLAG organizations. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2018- Catapult Gallery Committee. Catapult Creative House, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2018 Brett Anderson exhibition installation. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Relaxation Station and Live Printing. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Students from my screenprinting class created a collaborative installation using hand printed bedsheets to create a “Relaxation Station”—á la giant blanket forts—for visitors to decompress during the holiday/finals season. The class also printed custom t-shirts, from their own designs, as a fundraiser for programming in Catapult Press at Catapult Creative House, a community and entrepreneurial space affiliated with the university.
Appropriation Art Lecture (with Hannah Sanders). Part of Tuesdays at the Crisp Lecture
Series. Crisp Museum, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Workshop Instructor— “Screenprint Sketchbook”. Creative Kick (art workshop for high
school students interested in attending the university), SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2017 Linocut design and printing for university PRIDE organization. Catapult Press, SEMO,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Blocks were designed in collaboration with the organization. Profits from live printing events went to the organization.
Linocut design and printing for university Black Student Union. Catapult Press, SEMO,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Blocks were designed in collaboration with the organization. Profits from live printing events went to the organization.
Linocut design and printing for university chapter of the National Association of Black
Journalists. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Valentine’s Card Community Workshop. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
2016 Press loan, block donation, and live printing. Catapult Press, SEMO, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri. I donated several woodcuts and linocuts from my library to be used for live printing on my relief press during monthly First Friday events at Catapult Creative House. All profits from prints and shirts go to support Catapult Press programming.
2015-16 Sustainability Faire. Organized by Roxanne Dunne and Zack Tucker, Kent Library,
SEMO. A one day event celebrating community, student, and faculty sustainable
practices. I demonstrated water-based screenprinting processes along with 2 students.
2014 Print Studio “Lock-ins”. BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
BFA Portfolio Review. BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Juried Student Exhibition Juror. BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Organizer of Service-Learning Project, printing t-shirts for a local nonprofit that provided
free dental, medical, and mental healthcare for the regional homeless
population. BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
2013 Suits Me Project. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
The collaborative installation by my Relief/Monotype class was designed in conjunction with Arts-X, the BGSU Arts festival. The theme was “Wonderland” so students created a large-scale face card self-portrait of what they wanted to be--as children--when they grew up. The woodcuts were executed in a variety of techniques, editioned, and a pattern was screen printed on the back to mimic a deck of cards. The students designed and built a house of cards large enough for a small child to enter (the peak is roughly 8’ tall). Students then donated three from their editions to shape into masks for children attending the festivities to decorate and take home.
Organizer of Exchange Portfolio Common Ground bringing together printmaking
students from BGSU and American University in Dubai.
Master printer for visiting artist Sue Coe. BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Screenprinting Demonstration. Riley Elementary, Fostoria, Ohio.
“It Came from the Black Swamp” Project. Linocut/screenprint designs for the Black
Swamp Arts Festival. Proceeds from print sales went to BGSU Print Guild. I later donated the matrices to the BGSU print program for future fundraisers.
Visiting Artist/Artist in Residence/ Instructor
2021 Free Form Crochet Virtual Workshop. Arts Council of Southeast Missouri,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
2020 Polyester Lithography Demonstration Instructor. St. John’s High School, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. This collaborative demonstration, led with two students from SEMO, was part of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Community Exchange’s initiatives for Puertográfico, the 2020 SGCI international printmaking conference. This project has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2019 Visiting Artist. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Visiting Artist. East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
2018 Visiting Artist. Kansas City Art Institute, for their annual Road Roller steamroller
woodcut event, Kansas City, Missouri.
Workshop Instructor. “Relief on Fabric”, Paperworkers Local, Birmingham, Alabama.
Visiting Artist. University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas.
2017-18 Sketchbook Bootcamp Instructor. Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
2017 Visiting Artist. Spring Hill College and University of South Alabama, Mobile Alabama.
Workshop Instructor. “The Quilted Print-Relief on Fabric”. Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshops, Omaha, Nebraska.
Valentine’s Card Workshop Instructor. Catapult Creative House, Southeast Missouri
State University.
2015-16 Printmaking Instructor. Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
2016 Visting Artist Lecture (with Hannah March Sanders). University of Saint Mary,
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Artist Lecture “Working on Working Together” (with Hannah March Sanders). DNSPE
Print Symposium—in conjunction with the opening of the Delta National Small Print Exhibition. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Visiting Artist. Clemson University.
2015 Artist in Residence. Matfield Outpost artist residency. Matfield Green, Kansas.
2014 Visiting Artist. Fresno State University and College of the Sequoias, Fresno & Visalia,
California. A stone lithography edition was created with the help of students at both institutions. Lectures were also provided on professional work and working in a creative partnership.
Artist in Residence and Workshop Instructor. Mission Grafica, Mission Cultural Center
for Latino Arts. San Francisco, California. While at Mission Grafica I taught a workshop on polyester plate lithography as well as talked with students in a high school after-school program about relief printmaking and collagraph.
Demonstrator. The Quilted Print (with Hannah March Sanders). Print City: The 2014
MAPC Conference. Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan.
Visiting Artist. University of Colorado-Boulder. Boulder, Colorado.
Visiting Artist. Middle Tennessee State University. Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
2013 Visiting Artist. University of North Carolina Pembroke. Pembroke, North Carolina.
Visiting Artist. University of Colorado-Boulder. Boulder, Colorado.
Printmaking Instructor. S.A.W. (High School Summer Art Workshop), Murray State
University, Murray, Kentucky.
Visiting Artist. University School of Nashville. Nashville, Tennessee.
Live screenprinting project and demonstration. Riley Elementary. Fostoria, Ohio.
2012 Printmaking Talk and Demonstration. Jackson Elementary, Fort Campbell Army Base. Clarkesville, Tennessee.
Visiting Artist. Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Middle Tennessee State
University. Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
2011 Visiting Artist. Snow College. Ephraim, Utah.
2010 Instructor, Plate Lithography. Louisiana ArtWorks. New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009 Instructor, Large Format Woodcut Printmaking. Louisiana ArtWorks.
Instructor, Alternative Lithography. Louisiana ArtWorks.
2008 Visiting Artist. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Jefferson Davis and Jackson
County Campuses. Southern Mississippi.
Leadership
2019- Board member and web curator for Southern Graphics Council International. As web curator currently collaborating with the web editor to reimagine and relaunch Graphic Impressions, the SGCI journal as a web based publication. Other responsibilities include curating online exhibitions, conducting interviews, and recruiting contributors and features subjects.
2019 SGCI Ad Hoc Committee for Community Exchange member. Lead member on school
outreach initiatives for member demonstrations and projects in schools around San Juan, Puerto Rico. Contact for Vendor and member donations for crowdsourcing and materials registry to benefit print institutions around San Juan. Most initiatives have been postponed to 2023 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2018 Curator and Organizer, Encountering Our Indelible Mark exhibition.
IMPACT 10—Encuentro, Santander, Spain.
2017 Panel Chair, Three Minutes to Midnight. Terminus: The Southern Graphics Council
International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
2014 Juror. Regional Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri. Cape Girardeau,
Missouri.
Juror, Impressed, Tacocat Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
2013-14 Organizer. Nashville Print Revival Print Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Revival called together six regional institutions to pool their resources to host visiting artists, lectures, exhibitions, and an open portfolio. Participants from schools as far away as Jackson, MS attended the events.
2013 Organizer and Curator. MilwauKEY exhibition held during Print MKE, the 2013 SGCI
Conference.
2012 Curriculum Development. Collaborated with full-time faculty to create the POD
program, an integrated curriculum that introduced common conceptual themes into all foundations courses at Murray State University.
Demonstrations Coordinator and Steering Committee Member for Navigating Currents,
the Southern Graphics Council International Conference in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
2011 Organizer. Metamorphosis, a portfolio exchange and exhibition featuring prints by over
35 artists who assisted the Frogman’s Workshops over the last 30 years.
Panel Chair. Blessed Unions panel on printmaking partnerships. Southern Graphics
Council International Conference. Saint Louis, Missouri.
Curator. Blessed Unions exhibition featuring printmaking partnerships. Fort Gondo
Compound for the Arts. Saint Louis, Missouri.
2009 Curator. Flotsam and Jetsam group exhibition. within(Reason) Gallery. Chicago, Illinois.
Organizer and Curator. Man Overboard International Print Portfolio Exchange and
Exhibition. Studio 101. Chicago, Illinois.
2008 Juror. Annual Juried Student Exhibition, and Visiting Artist. Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College Jackson County Campus. Gautier, Mississippi.
Organized travel, demonstrations, and critiques for visiting artist Tom Christison,
Tulane University.
Founder. Art Studio Graduate Association at Tulane University. Acted as the first
president of the organization.
Assistant
2012 Studio Assistant, Matthew Egan, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop, Vermillion,
South Dakota.
2011 Assistant to Jeremy Menard, Executive Director, Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshop.
2009 Studio Assistant, Oscar Gillespie, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2008 Studio Assistant, Gordon Mortensen, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2007 Studio Assistant, Tom Huck, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2007 Primary Assistant for the Samurais in “Iron Printmaker”, a cooperative printmaking
competition performed at the 2007 Southern Graphics Council Conference in
Kansas City, Missouri.
2006 Assisted Teresa Cole in a collagraph demonstration at NOCCA art magnet school,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Notable Workshops Attended and Visiting Artist Activities
2012 Color Intaglio, Matt Egan, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2012 Polymer Plate Intaglio, Mary Jones, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2011 Water-based Screenprint, Lynwood Kreneck, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2011 Plastic Relief Prints and Bookmaking, Fred Hagstrom, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2010 Leather Book Binding, Bonnie Stahlecker, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2010 Monotype / Monoprint, Koichi Yamamoto, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2009 Metal Engraving, Oscar Gillespie, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2008 Reduction Woodcut, Gordon Mortensen, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2008 Monotype and Lithography Workshop and Demonstrations with Visiting Artist
Tom Christison, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 Tonal Intaglio, Professor Arthur Werger, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2006 Color Woodcut, Professor Karen Kunc, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop.
2004 Site Specific Print Installation Collaboration, Phyllis McGibbon, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
2002 Public Art Collaboration with artist Mel Chin, Department of Art, UNI.
Other Work Experience
2008 Production printer, Shirtworks (Twin Tees) Screen Printers, Athens, GA.
2006-08 Instructor of Record, Foundations of Art: Printmaking, Tulane University.
2005-08 Graduate Assistant, Department of Art, Tulane University.
2000-02 Graphic Designer, Center for Educational Technology, Graphics Department, UNI
Center for Educational Technology, UNI, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Additional Skills
Adobe™ Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Working knowledge of html/xml, css, and WordPress
Digital photography and editing
Some experience with laser engravers
Letterpress
Bookmaking
Professional Membership
Southern Graphics Council International
Mid-America Print Council
College Art Association
St. Louis Artist’s Guild
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
Scholarships and Awards
2022 Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft. The Hambidge Center for the
Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia. Fellowship covers residency fees
and provides a $700 stipend.
3rd Place, International Juried Print Biennial. Paducah School of Art and Design,
Paducah, Kentucky. Juror: Aaron Coleman.
2019 Grants and Research Funding Committee Grant. Coauthor, “Community Exchange in
Puerto Rico during Southern Graphics Council International Conference 2020”, Southeast Missouri State University.
Mary & Don Vollman Purchase Award. Delta National Small Print Exhibition,
Jonesboro, Arkansas.
2018 2nd Place, For Every Negative There is a Positive. National juried exhibition,
St. Louis Artists’ Guild. Juror: Tom Huck.
Provost Summer Research Grant. Coauthor, “International Printmaking/Fibers
Ecologically-Conscious Art Exhibition.” Southeast Missouri State University.
Grants and Research Funding Committee Grant. Coauthor, “International
Printmaking/Fibers Ecologically-Conscious Art Exhibition.” Southeast Missouri State University.
2014 Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative Award, Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition,
Columbus, Ohio.
Medici Circle Grant, Medici Circle, Bowling Green State University.
2013 Speed Grant, Faculty Development Committee, Bowling Green State University.
2007 Purchase Award, three impressions of etching Invasion: Stealthy purchased as gifts to
board honorees, International Print Center New York.
2007-09, 2011 Assistantship, Frogman Print and Paper Workshop, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, South Dakota.
2005-08 Full Tuition Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2003 Study Abroad Scholarship, UNI Study Abroad Office, University of Northern Iowa.
1999 Eagle Scout Award
Collections
Permanent Collection. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Permanent Collection. University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Indianapolis, Indiana.
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Lee Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia.
Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan.
Impact 7, Melbourne, Australia.
Collection of Cork Printmakers, Ireland.
Proyecto’ ace Print Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Zuckerman Museum of Art SGCI Archives Collection, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.
Texas Tech University Museum of Art, Lubbock, Texas.
Special Collections, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.
Fluke Atwell Special Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Permanent Collection, University of North Carolina Pembroke.
Permanent Collection, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California.
Print Collection, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Frogman’s Press and Gallery Permanent Collection, Council Bluffs, IA.
References Upon Request