For the student project, Susan will be working with students on adding color to their etchings, which would start with a demo class, and continue with outside work, as well as a “crazy palette” application to their work in the next class.

For her solo project, Susan will be working on a piece involving many tiled photopolymer plates, much in the same fashion as her Invasive Species piece (which the attached sample is from). She will be making some of the plates during her stay and will be using a series of about 40 total plates to make one large piece.

For her artist talk, Susan will speak about her own art practice, her involvement with safer print (Acrylic Resist Etching; Photopolymer films) research/teaching in Maine, Scotland and Australia, and her oversight and design of the just completed construction of a full system safer print studio at the Wyeth Center, UMaine.

Susan Groce will be working with Bowdoin students the week after Spring Break!

She received her MFA from the University of Michigan. She has worked at Atelier 17, Paris; the Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland; Open Bite Print Workshop, Australia; and the MacDowell Colony, NH. She has been an Artist Mentor for the MFA program at Vermont College, and has been an Artist in Residence, Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer, and Visiting Researcher (safer print practices) at over 40 art schools, programs, and universities in Australia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U.S.

Her prints and drawings have been in over 180 solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions and are included in private, public, and corporate collections in the U.S., Portugal, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore. Her research focus is on innovative and safer print materials and processes. Susan has received a variety of research grants and awards in the arts, including the University of Maine System Trustee Professorship.