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Joan Meixell will be the featured
artist at Hands Gallery from July 18 to the 31st. The theme of
this year’s show involves prints of barns as well as a new
technique Joan has developed using chocolate. Silk screening
is a stencil process where each design is placed upon a porous
piece of material stretched on a frame. Ink is then forced
through the screen with a squeegee. Joan has found a way to
use chocolate as one of the many ways to apply a stencil to
the screen. The effects created are similar to pastel in
nature.
During the
year, Joan has experimented with other screen methods
including one using a stencil applied in multiple minute
shapes as well as another method involving the computer. One
of her new prints of a hay barn is based upon a photo by
fellow Hands Gallery member Pat Johns (handmade books). Joan
used the computer to create a design that is subsequently put
on the screen using a photo process. As with Joan’s other silk
screen prints, each color is applied separately, one over the
other. Be sure to come by the gallery and see her latest
prints as well as others done by the artist.
Joan has
been working with the silk screen medium for over 30 years.
She was introduced to the process (using oil based inks) at
Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, and has since
developed different techniques using acrylic inks. She has had
her work in several juried shows and has won awards in
same.
Joan
thoroughly enjoys teaching and seeing what students will do
with the process. She has taught silk-screening at The
University of Memphis through its continuing education program
and currently, an interdisciplinary course through Watauga
College, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian
State, in which she uses the process as a way for students to
experience printmaking as they study the history and culture
of other printmaking methods such as woodcut and
etching.
In
addition to Hands Gallery, Joan’s work can be seen in Main
Street Gallery, Blowing Rock, and in the Appalachian State
University Cultural Museum on University Hall Drive off
Highway 321 in Boone. She has been a member of Hands since
October, 1997.
Hands
Gallery, 454 West King Street in Boone, is open everyday from
10:00 am to 6:00
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