Risograph prints made with Museum of Arts and Design visitors between August 2023 - February 2024
A community collaboration between Museum of Arts and Design visitors and myself, created while I was was an artist-in-residence from August 2023 - February 2024.
Many of the inks used were fluorescent, and viewers were given blacklight flashlights to explore the work, which had hidden details that glowed under the UV light.
As an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, I invited studio visitors to make a drawing, which I RISO-printed onto my own patterned prints. As the collectively-made prints accumulated, they became a patchwork of layered memories and experiences on my studio wall, with unexpected narratives generated through the placement of each new image.
RISO is a cross between screenprint and offset lithography, all housed in a machine that looks like a photocopier. It's a stencil based process that uses soy based inks. Images are printed one color at a time. Pictured here is the green drum for the duplicator.
A pile of prints sits beneath the RISO. These will be printed over with images created by visitors.
Sometimes I would host workshops in my studio for school groups or families. I gave this group a prompt, to draw a mythical or magical creature.
A portion of the wall was preserved and installed permanently on the education floor at the Museum of Arts and Design.