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University of Wyoming Art Department Partners Up with Jentel Foundation
Under a new partnership, the University of Wyoming’s Department of Art and the Jentel Foundation will award a residency to visiting artists for participating in the Inky Paper Press Program. Initiated in 1995, Inky Paper Press provides students and members of the community with the opportunity for interaction and exchange with a nationally renowned artist printmaker. An artist is invited to campus to present a series of lectures, workshops and an exhibition of prints created throughout the week. For several days and sometimes long evenings in the printmaking studio, the artist works closely with students acting as assistants and apprentices to create an edition or series of prints. This learning experience is inspiring for all who may closely observe the individual processes and special techniques of printmaking developed by the guest artist. Professor of Art Mark Ritchie, Director of Inky Paper Press, commented that while the series complements and reinforces the day to day instruction in the studio, it makes the intensity and challenge of the creative process alive and dynamic. Since artist’s creative processes are unique and varied, students may directly experience the planning, decision making, intuitive responses and critiquing as they watch the artist at work in developing a print and completing an edition. The artist printmakers have advanced professionally, received awards and honors, hold teaching positions or manage their own studios. They offer contacts and a professional network for graduate studies, residencies, internships and awards. Likewise, the printmakers’ career paths serve as models for students. Mary Jane Edwards, Executive Director of the Jentel Foundation noted that the partnership will further enhance the quality of printmakers who come to Sheridan County and interact with members of the community through Jentel Presents, our monthly outreach program.

A subscription program helps underwrite the expenses of the Inky Paper Press series. Becoming a subscriber to the Inky Paper Print Series is an excellent way to support a great educational program and start an affordable original print collection. Subscribers receive a signed original print as a gift, a student receives an opportunity to meet an artist and see work habits modeled, and the community receives a lecture and exhibit. Each IPP artist also presents an exhibition of work, a lecture and demonstrations open to the public with special interaction times reserved for subscribers.

Inky Press Jentel Residency Recipients