Department of Visual Arts Printmaking Faculty and Students Collaborate with Nicholls State, SLU, and LSU in Steamroll Printmaking Event at the First Annual “EBB and Flow Festival” in Baton Rouge

On April 2nd Professor of Printmaking Brian Kelly and departmental printmaking students collaborated with printmaking faculty and students from Nicholls state university, Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University in organizing a steamrolling printmaking event at the first Annual Ebb and Flow Festival located in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Supported by Baton Rouge Gallery and the Baton Rouge Arts Council, Professor Kelly and his printmaking students along with faculty and students from Nicholls State, SLU and LSU collaborated we each other utilizing a steamroller as a printing press to print student woodcut blocks to produce 4’x8’ large scale woodcut prints. Along with the production of the woodcut prints the students also helped in the organization of printmaking opportunities for the community during the printmaking event. At the end of the event the schools donated some of the produced woodcuts to the Baton Rouge Arts Council for their annual fundraiser.

Featured in this event was a woodcut block produced by Professor Brian Kelly in collaboration with Thomas Cline a faculty in the UL Lafayette School of Architecture and Design. This Block was developed with the support of a College of the Arts SPARK Collaborative Grant.

Image credit: PRESS Annual Spring T-Shirt Sale poster. Designed by printmaking student Tucker Howard. Professor Brian Kelly, UL Lafayette printmaking students, printmaking faculty and students from LSU, Nicholls State University, and SLU.