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.