Tomorrow is 3rd Thursday and it's all about screen printing. These 4 artists/printers will be showing you how. Take a moment and get to know them a bit.
Kelly Foshee is a Tulsa-born Teaching Artist who graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1998 with a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking. In 2002, she received an M.F.A. in printmaking from T.U., and has studied abroad in Italy with the university. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions around the country and in London, and she is a member of the Southern Graphics Council. Since 2002, she has taught at the Philbrook Museum of Art, where she has taught students of all ages. Kelly is currently teaching studio art and art history at the Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, a charter high school, where she has been proud to teach since 2006.
Michelle Martin is an Associate Professor of Printmaking at The University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she teaches all printmaking media at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She received her BFA in 1993 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and she went on to earn her M.F.A. in Printmaking at The Ohio State University in 1996. An active artist working in all print media and drawing, her work has been shown in over 90 national and international exhibitions since 1995, including venues in Iceland, Italy and England. She has won numerous awards, including an Oklahoma Artist Fellowship in 2008 and the 2007 Print Prize in the Bradley Print and Drawing Exhibition.
Darshan Phillips is the co-founder of Live4This, a multidisciplinary design and art studio. Live4This operates as a collaborative multidisciplinary design studio. As artists, art directors, advertisers, designers, photographers, and programmers. Aside from showing at many galleries, Darshan has recently returned from a trip to Panama where he began large-scale collaboration with Go International.
Denny Schmickle is an artist and graphic designer who specializes in hand-printed silkscreen concert posters, gallery installations, and artwork that investigates how the two practices interact. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Rogers State University in Northeastern Oklahoma. He received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006, and a bachelor’s degree from College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.
