For [Emily Arthur’s] etching Water Moccasin (with Shot) [seen above], the work was first blown apart with a shotgun then reassembled before printing. Her iconography of snake, bird, and moth is broken by bullet holes as an example of what art historian Nancy Mithilo identifies in Arthur’s work as an ‘attraction to the vulnerable and the traumatic.’–Jan Davis, writing about Emily Arthur’s work as part of the Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference and published in IMPRINT, 2013
Emily W. Arthur
The Language & Practice of Etching
In the printmaking studio
This intaglio intensive will introduce beginning printmakers to the major acid-etching techniques of line etch and aquatint. Experienced printmakers will be able to work with more advanced methods such as sugar lift, pochoir, chine collé, spit bite, water bite, and multiple-plate color printing. Bring your curiosity, energy, and ideas along with drawings, found imagery, and/or previous plates and prints of any kind. All levels. Code S03X
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Emily Arthur is associate professor at University of North Florida. Her residencies include the Venice Print Studio (Italy), Vermont Studio Center, A.I.R. Vallauris (France). She has been the lead printer for Penland’s winter print residency, and her work is included in collections in Russia, Estonia, Japan, New Zealand, U.K., Italy, and France.
Annie Evelyn received her BFA and MFA in furniture design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught classes in furniture design, woodworking, and upholstery at The New School (NY), Anderson Ranch, RISD, Penland, and others. A recipient of the Windgate Fellowship in 2010, Annie spent a year as an artist in residence at Indiana University Center for Turning and Furniture Design. Her work has been shown throughout the US and abroad, most recently at the 2013 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. From 2010 to 2011, she worked in New Orleans as set decorator, assistant casting director, and associate producer on the award-winning film Beasts of the Southern Wild, all the while maintaining 
Andrew Hayes studied art at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and arrived at Penland as a core fellow in 2007. For four years during and following his core fellowship, Andrew worked as a studio assistant to former Penland resident artist Hoss Haley, while beginning to exhibit his altered books throughout the US. In 2013, Andrew established his own studio in Asheville, NC, and began work as a full-time artist. He is now represented by galleries in California, Oregon, North Carolina, Ohio, and Canada. In 2012, Andrew was an Emerging Artist Spotlight presenter at the national Society of North American Goldsmiths conference. 
Mercedes Jelinek earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2007 and an MFA from Louisiana State University in 2012. Her work has been shown nationally and has recently been included in exhibits at the Ogden Museum (Louisiana) and Cuchifritos Gallery (NYC). Mercedes has built a freelance career working in several genres of commercial photography— architecture, fashion, events, and journalism. She is one of the first photographers to be granted access to the top of the new World Trade Center building, and is currently photographing its final construction. Mercedes has taught in several universities and photo centers, run professional and community photo studios, and assisted several elite photographers.
Jaydan Moore earned his BFA in jewelry/metal arts from California College of the Arts in 2008 and an MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2011 and 2012. He has taught at several esteemed metals programs throughout the country and has studied under and/or assisted master metalsmiths including Richard Mawdsley, Fred Fenster, Bob Coogan, and Marilyn da Silva. Jaydan was a university fellow at UW/Madison in 2009; a resident artist at the Houston Contemporary Craft Center in 2012; and is currently the Fountainhead Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Craft and Material Studies. He is also teaching in the metals department at VCU.
