100 Prints For Hunger
While working on a project exploring the nature of chance and suffering, I inked and printed some old wooden cutting boards that were heavily marked by years of use. The resulting prints seemed to hold dual meanings, suggesting family life, abundance, shared meals, and the staff of life, while the densely marked and heavily scarred surfaces seemed to also suggest hardship and struggle. I overlaid images of small children in the lightly inked areas and had the idea to develop a project that would contribute to alleviating hunger. Support for this project was provided by USA Projects, and 100% of the sales from the unframed prints went to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank/Feeding America.
Additional works grew from this project, and those are included here, beginning with the most recent.
She/Her, They/Them, He/Him, ink on mulberry paper, 2018
Small Problems, watercolor paintings depicting human suffering on heavyweight Arches paper, crumpled, washed, dried, ironed, and stitched into a log cabin quilt, 2014
Small Problems detail
Huckleberry Buckle, 2013
Woman's Work ,Installation view, Bennett College, 2013
Soul Searchings, Installation view, Theatre Art Gallery, 2013
Taking the Heat, 2012, Private Collection
Taking the Heat (Arch), 2012
Woman's Work ,Installation view, Bennett College, 2013
Three Sisters (Job), 2012
Job 38, 2012
Woman's Work ,Installation view, Bennett College, 2013
Triple Apparition, 2012, Private Collection
Soul Searchings ,Installation view, Theatre Art Gallery, 2013
Taking the Heat 3, 2012
Bread Lessens All Sorrows from 100 Prints for Hunger
If You Cannot Feed 100 Just feed One from 100 Prints for Hunger
100 Prints for Hunger (child with spoon)
100 Prints for Hunger (variation)
100 Prints for Hunger (variation)
As Above, So Below: 2023
This quilt is the work of many hands. Each appliqued image was created during a Round Robin Stitching Workshop held at Vitrine, during my exhibition there. Once the pieces were completed, I incorporated them into a finished quilt that was auctioned to support Winston-Salem’s new Intergenerational Arts Center. It is now in the collection of Sawtooth School for Visual Art.
