Resch Expo Center
June 12-14
Introduce
Inspire
Ink
Repeat
What We Are
First Impressions is a conference all about printmaking! We aim to introduce the medium of printmaking to people and make them fall in love with it.
Speakers
Jenifer L. Roberts
Roberts has long advocated for the value of making as a form of historical and interpretive research. She was the co-founder of Harvard’s Minding Making Project (now on hiatus), which hosted a series of workshops exploring artisanal knowledge as a bridge between the humanities and the fine, decorative, scientific, and industrial arts. She teaches a course with artist Matt Saunders that fully integrates the theory and history of printmaking with studio practice. Her own photography has taken on an increasingly formative role in her scholarly work.
Chadwick Tolley
Chad teaches Printmaking and Drawing at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. He exhibits widely across the United States and won various awards for his work including a Purchase Award in the Atlanta Print Biennial, a Purchase Prize in the “Ink and Clay” exhibit in Pomona, CA, the C.G. Metals Purchase Prize from the Boston Print Biennial and a Best in Show award from the Oso Bay North American Printmaking Exhibition. His work is also included in several public collections in the United States, the Guandong Museum of Art in China and the Jordanian National Gallery of Art in Amman, Jordan.
LaToya Hobbs
LaToya M. Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, AR, who is currently living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her B.A. in Painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and M.F.A. in Printmaking from Purdue University. Her work deals with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora. Hobbs is also a Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a founding member of Black Women of Print, a collective whose vision is to make visible the narratives and works of Black women printmakers, past, present and future.
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