"SEQUOIA
PRESS" was initiated in 2000 as a means to bring visiting artists
to the UND print studios, allowing students and faculty the opportunity
to interface with artists.
In cooperation with the UND Colonel Eugene Myers Gallery
and the North Dakota Museum of Art, visiting and exhibiting artists have
had the opportunity to create limited edition prints at UND's Sequoia
Press, involving upper-level undergraduate and graduate printmaking majors
as collaborators in the printing process.
To date Sequoia Press has published a suite of ten constructed lithographs by New York artist Barton Lidicê Benes´ entitled "Wet Dreams" (2005-'06) and a series of four more prints in that series, a suite
of ten lithographs titled "Overlanders" (Fall, 2004) , highlighting the visiting
artists that have come to UND and the upper Midwest to that date. Participating artist in "Overlanders Suite" are:
Nancy Friese, Dan Jones, John Hitchcock, David Madzo, Duane Penske, Kim
Fink, Zhimmin Guan, Douglas Kinsey, Jennifer Nelson and Walter Peihl. Other visiting artists to UND are: Audrey Flack, Bill Harbort, Adam Kemp, Gregory Blair, Suzanne Kanatsiz, Barton Lidicê Benes´, Oscar Munoz', Linda Welker, Zoe Charleton, Daniel Heyman, Kim Abeles, Samina Mansuri, and Dan Welden.
Sequoia Press is also dedicated to public education of
printmaking. In 2001, S.P. curated, organized and partially funded a traveling
exhibition "Works Under Pressure:
50 Years of Prints & Drawings 
from
the collections of UND", The exhibition traveled throughout North
Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and parts of Wyoming, exhibiting every
major artistic style and varying printmaking techniques dating from late
1950's until the 1990's. Also, begining 2005, the "Plain Brown Wrapper Biennial: A National Juried Print Portfolio for Undergraduate Students" was innitiated, nationally promoting fine art printmaking at undergraduate levels. The inaugural portfolio project was juried by Nancy Friese of Rhode Island School of Art and Design. The second installation "Night Vision: Printing Darkness" juried by Master Printer Anthony Kirk of the Center of Contemporary Printmaking in 2008.
For further information about Sequoia Press, please call (701) 777-2905 or E-mail: kim_fink@und.nodak.edu
Plain Brown Wrapper: National
Undergraduate Print Portfolio Biennial Competition Prints
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