Credit: Matthew Johnston
Credit: Matthew Johnston
Credit: Tammy Jo Wilson
a collaborative printmaking project featuring 11 artists working with communities along the Columbia River
Working with Tammy Jo Wilson and Matthew Johnston, and as well as other students from Lewis and Clark College, I took part in the Maryhill Museum of Art’s collaborative Exquisite Gorge Project.
Modeled after the Surrealist art practice known as exquisite corpse, the Maryhill Museum of Art invited 11 artists to each create a 4’x6” woodblock print of a section for the Columbia River, working with the communities and history of their assigned section to design their print.
The result was a 66-foot long print representing 220 miles of the Columbia River.
Our group was given the area where the infamous Eagle Creek Fire burned. Immediately I propose that this event would be the focus of our piece.
For this project, I started by interviewing community members impacted by the Eagle Creek Fire and visiting the burn site. From the images I took on site, the team physically collaged an outline of our idea, from which I then created the final design in photoshop.
behind the scenes:
