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Online YOUTH WORKSHOPS (ages 14 - 25) through AGO
Free Press organizers running a live screenprinting event in 2021.
Thursdays, October 6 + 13, 2022 at 4 pm on Zoom
Art as political action? Yes indeed. Join Free Press organizers Ananya and Katy for a series of free Zoom workshops as they discuss how printmaking can be an effective political organizing method, review the history of political printmaking and introduce several low-cost DIY printmaking methods.
Free Press is a print shop open house founded by artists and Guilford College professors Katy G Collier and Antoine Williams. Now a student staff art collective, Free Press is led by Ananya, Katy, and Guilford College senior Lacey-Ann Reynolds. Dozens of Guilford students have participated in organizing Free Press events since its inception in December 2016. Hundreds of Guilford community members, including alums, staff, students, and visiting artists, have participated in more than 25 printing events. The artwork at each event changes over time and is designed and created by Guilford College students, visiting artists, and attendees of the events. Live interactive printing happens at each event, and participants get to take home what they make. Find Free Press on Instagram @freepressguilfordcollege
QUILT NOT QUILT will exhibit at the Crossing Arts Alliance in Brainerd, Minnesota, from September 10th to October 2, 2021
Katy G Collier, Homage (Diamond Stripe for Anne) #4, monoprint
I’m teaching a weekend workshop on Woodcut and Collage in June 2021 at Alchemy Art Center. We will create quilt-like collages through the exploration of monotype and relief. Sign up at Alchemy Art Center — sliding scale available.
WINTER SHOW at GreenHill Gallery at GreenHill Gallery
December 6, 2020, through February 7th, 2021
Homage (sawtooth), monoprint on handmade paper
WGHP News story about the 2020-2021 GreenHill Winter Show
Alchemy Art Center, Virtual Studio Visit with Artist in Residence Katy Collier
July 3rd, 2020 at 10 am PST + 1 pm EST
Artist Katy Collier will tour her home printmaking studio, show some new prints, and talk about making art at home during COVID. Collier will also demo block carving techniques that can apply to many woodcut and linocut projects.
Collier states about her studio practice, "I work through multiple disciplines including printmaking, drawing, quilting, text, and collage. Through a laborious use of color layering, repeat patterns, and pastoral themes, my work pokes at the barriers held up between craft and capital A, Art." Collier earned her BA from Whittier College in 2006 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. She currently teaches printmaking, drawing, and interdisciplinary art at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
QUILT NOT QUILT at Kaddatz Galleries in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Feb 18 - March 20, 2020
Katy G Collier, Homage (Sawtooth) #2, monoprint, colored pencil
15th Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition
Guilford College Art Gallery, Main Gallery, 01/13- 03/23/20
Artists: Katy G Collier, Mark Dixon, Alyssa Miserendino, Miranda Reichhardt, Charlie Tefft, William Paul Thomas, Robin Vest, Antoine Williams
Deck the Halls - Sawtooth School for Visual Art December 2019
Katy G Collier, A feather floating on water, multi-block woodcut
I’m teaching WOODCUT PRINTS AND LARGE COLLAGE WORK at Sawtooth School for Visual Art - 10 am - 3:30 pm on 7/27 & 8/3, 2019
Woodcut printmaking offers a broad range of expressive possibilities, from abstract and pattern-like to intricately carved and narrative. Combined with collage, participants will explore the freedom and potential of both media. This course will offer printmakers tools for creating large collage artworks out of small and deconstructed woodcut prints. Traditional woodcut processes such as hand-drawn design and carving will be combined with advanced techniques for creating fabric-like collages. Artist Katy Collier will guide you through her process and introduce you to some multi-block printing, relief monotype, and acid-free collage techniques.
Residency at Alchemy Art Center - San Juan Journal
I’m very excited to spend all of June (2019) in Washington state making prints and teaching several relief printing workshops at Alchemy Art Center. Come make prints with me in the beautiful San Juan Islands!
Put it back together (detail), Three-block woodcut, 20" x 16"
SUSTAINED INGRAIN at TURCHIN CENTER for the VISUAL ARTS
Jelm, Three block woodcut on Kitakata washi
On view June 1 through November 3, 2018 at TCVA
Exhibition Reception July 6th, 6 - 10 pm at TCVA
Sustained Ingrain highlights printmakers working primarily in woodcut and will be shown at several venues across the US and China with an initial exhibition at TCVA.
How is it possible that the oldest method of making prints, one that emerged in China during the first millennium, is still a rich, viable and relevant option for printmaking today? Why has such a basic process historically sustained itself in the face of constantly emerging and changing technologies?
For many, a simple block of wood, long associated with craft traditions in both the East and West, emerges as the ultimate, natural antithesis to 'hi-tech' methodologies that seem to negate the hand. It is the ingrained, natural beauty and sensual materiality that perfectly lends itself to the meditative act of cutting and carving - material that is so inherently connected to the environment of planet Earth.
This exhibition, aptly entitled, "Sustained Ingrain", features twelve artists from China, and twelve artists from North America. Diverse in its range of cultural context, creative vision, and innovative process, each artist works extensively in the enduring, wild and wonderful medium of woodcut.
The exchange is co-curated by Scott Ludwig, Professor of Printmaking at Appalachian State University and Liu Jing, Professor of Printmaking at Changsha Normal University.
QUILT / NOT QUILT is a group show featuring work that chronicles the history of several quilts from the Midwest.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts: Open Book Cowles Literary Commons, Minneapolis MN
On view October 12 – December 2, 2018
Katy G Collier, Homage (Diamond Stripe for Ann), Monotype on lavender paper made from quilts, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17; 6-8PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The participating artists contemplated connections to the original quilts and their makers, focusing on craftsmanship and labor, scarcity and plenty, and stories that can be recalled and stories never to be recovered. Responding to questions of social, cultural, and economic history, the resulting exhibition culminates in a multitude of diverse and unexpected transformations of material, story, and form.
Past
EMERALD PRINT EXCHANGE
Katy G Collier, Coast Flora, 2019
Emerald Print Exchange, Eugene OR
OUTSTANDING AFFILIATES - August 25 - October 6, 2018
Highpoint Center for Printmaking show, Centennial Complex Gallery at the University of Wyoming, August 25 - October 6, 2018. This exhibition is courtesy of Highpoint Center for Printmaking and was curated by Josh Bindewald, Exhibitions and Artists Cooperative Manager at Highpoint. It coincides with Highpoint Editions: Contemporary Prints, on view in the South Two Gallery.
BLANKETS: NEW WORK BY KATY G COLLIER a Solo Exhibition at WASECA ARTS CENTER
July 5th through August 3rd, 2018 in Waseca, MN.
Closing reception August 3rd, 5 - 7 pm at Waseca Arts Center
Katy G Collier, Not superimposed, not fiction, Paper quilt, woodcut, monotype, and collage, 2018
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH installation at Guilford College, 2018
ART FACULTY BIENNIAL EXHIBITION at the GUILFORD COLLEGE HEGE ART GALLERY
On view November 16, 2017 - February 28, 2018
Opening Reception November 16, 2017, 5-7:30 pm
The Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition is a sampling of the recent creative research undertaken by the faculty, including both traditional and nontraditional approaches. Highlighting the diversity of ideas, materials and imagery these artists explore, the exhibition includes painting, collage, mixed media sculpture, photography and ceramics. Faculty exhibitors include Katy G. Collier, Maia Dery, Mark Dixon, Roy Nydorf, Meg Stein, Charlie Tefft and Antoine Williams.
WERKED at THE ENGINE ROOM + ART PROJECTS
2839 N Robertson, New Orleans, LA
Harebell and Lupine, woodcut and monoprint collage
On view November 10 - December 18, 2017
Opening Reception November 10, 2017, 6-10pm
PAPER QUILTS at WHEREHOUSE ART HOTEL
Solo show at Wherehouse Art Hotel: Gallery Room in Winston Salem. On view August 9th - September 9th, 2017. Opening reception: August 9th, 6-10pm. Stay overnight in the gallery or arrange a private viewing by contacting wherehousearthotel@gmail.com.
Photo by Charlotte St. Julien Patton
Collier's work most often uses woodcut, monotype printmaking, drawing, and text. She has shown her work throughout the country, including the Hyde Park Art Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Detroit Artists Market. Collier teaches printmaking and drawing at Guilford College in Greensboro.
About the art: "In my art practice I privilege labor over all other notions, such as the notion of the abstract, the notion of the narrative, etc. The centering of labor is a political choice, which extends from the lineage of feminist performance art and feminist approaches to the body. In my recent work I have focused on creating layered woodcuts and monotypes by drawing and reinventing traditional textile imagery. By repeatedly carving and printing patterns and pastoral forms, I am able to participate in these craft traditions, which often contain a peculiar nostalgia for the natural world."
AFTER THE COLLAPSE - SGCI, Atlanta GA
SGCI 2017 group exhibition AFTER THE COLLAPSE with Michael Barnes, Marcin Bialas, Mark Bovey, Sean Caulfield, Katy Collier, Nicholas Dowgwillo, Ana Fernandez, Oscar Gillespie, Agata Gertchen, Orit Hofshi, Tim Musso, Goedele Peeters, Endi Poskovic, Brett Schieszer, Tanja Softic, Evan Summer, Ruth Weisberg
Anselm Kiefer: “Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.” This portfolio is about the inherent possibilities that come after the breakdown of a system, entity, or organism. The debris and ruins resulting can be fertile ground for new iterations of the original, or a complete metamorphosis. The cyclical process of collapse and rebirth mirrors the structure of the Terminus, expanding and contracting in a constant state of transformation.
STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshops in Print Media, Ann Arbor MI
Visiting Stamps School of Art as a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist:
Lecture and color woodcut demo
Tuesday, September 20 1:45pm - 4:30pm, Printmedia Studio, Room 2143
Individual critiques with students
Thursday, September 22 1:45pm - 4:30pm, Printmedia Studio, Room 2143
REPETITIVE PRACTICE at INSTINCT
Repetitive Practice (A Print and Pottery Pop-Up) is open for one weekend only at Instinct Art Gallery, 940 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. Pop up open April 29th - May 1st, 2016.
HOT OF THE PRESS at HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING
Highpoint Exhibition on view July 8th - Aug 27th, 2016
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshops, Brookings SD
Visiting SDSU in Spring 2016, Photo by Diana Behl
SAMPLER at LEGION ARTS in Cedar Rapids IA
A solo show of new work, Sampler, at Legion Arts CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On view April 7th - July 3rd, 2016.
Sampler is a collection of new work by Minneapolis artist Katy Collier, riffing on the idea of a “sampler,” an artifact produced as a test or example of a skill. The series of collaged works explore the influence of pastoral themes within domestic design and traditional craft practices. In the last four years Collier has printed multilayered woodcuts and monotypes that create and borrow symbols and patterns used in traditional crafts. The printed collages recall quilts, samplers and other textiles. When women work–quilt, weave, or knit–the results of their labor are often viewed as a functional and emotional record of that effort within a given tradition. In Collier’s work the processes of carving, printing and collaging make visible the essential role of labor in art making.
BLANKETS & VASES is an exhibition of new woodcuts by Katy Collier.
On view April 6th - June 29th, 2015 at Highpoint Center for Printmaking.
Many of her prints use multiple woodblocks to create color-saturated fields that blend borrowed and invented motifs. Exhibited as repeated patterns the prints have a visual presence that links the past to the future.
ABSTRACTION AND LANDSCAPE: CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT at DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET
Exhibition on view Friday, September 12th – Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 2014 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Special “Meet the Artists” Reception: Thursday, September 25, 2014 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Curator: Endi Poskovic is a print artist and professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Exhibiting Artists: Susan Goethel Campbell, Teresa Cole, Katy Collier, Karen Kunc, Amanda Lilleston, Goedele Peeters
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