Island Press - Contemporary Print Editions and Artist Projects

Island Press - Contemporary Print Editions and Artist Projects Collaborative Print Workshop and Publisher Founded in 1978, Island Press is a research-based printmaking workshop at Washington University in St.

Louis that is committed to creating and publishing innovative prints and multiples, educating students and the broader community about print media, and advancing the printmaking field. In the context of intensive visiting artist residencies, Island Press explores the expansive theoretical and material terrain of the print. The Press is project-driven, tapping into the place where the artist's crea

tive activity and research intersect with the philosophical underpinnings of printmaking. Experimentation with new modes and technologies is a natural part of this pursuit, resulting in the creation of innovative and ambitious editions in a wide range of media. Fostering the creative relationships of the printmaking workshop is central to the Island Press mission. Visiting artists work in collaboration with the master printer, faculty, and students to create a reciprocal environment for education and research. Artists reap the benefits of numerous dedicated, energetic student assistants to help push to new levels of complexity and originality in their projects. At the same time, undergraduate and graduate students taking part in the development of artistic ideas gain access and insight into both the technical and conceptual challenges that make each artist’s project unique.

We are so excited to welcome Sonya Kelliher-Combs next week as the Fall 2025 Arthur and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visi...
10/22/2025

We are so excited to welcome Sonya Kelliher-Combs next week as the Fall 2025 Arthur and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist!
She will be in residence October 27 - 31.

Public lecture: Monday, October 27, 5:30pm, Steinberg Auditorium!

Sonya Kelliher-Combs was raised in the Northwest Alaska community of Nome. Through her mixed media painting and sculpture, Kelliher-Combs offers a chronicle of the ongoing struggle for self-definition and identity in the Alaskan context. Her combination of shared iconography with intensely personal imagery demonstrates the generative power that each vocabulary has over the other. Similarly, her use of synthetic, organic, traditional and modern materials moves beyond oppositions between Western/Native culture, self/other and man/nature, to examine their interrelationships and interdependence while also questioning accepted notions of beauty. Kelliher-Combs’ process dialogues the relationship of her work to skin, the surface by which an individual is mediated in culture.

Congratulations to LJ Roberts! We’re super excited for their debut solo exhibition at Hales Gallery, New York that opene...
09/08/2025

Congratulations to LJ Roberts! We’re super excited for their debut solo exhibition at Hales Gallery, New York that opened this past week. Don’t miss it!

The exhibition title - The Q***r Mechanix of the Lands Currently Referred to as the U.S. & Canada Before & During the 54th Year of the Stonewall Era - is also the title of a two-sided print with silkscreen and photolithography that LJ made in collaboration with us at Island Press. One side of the print maps q***r and trans auto mechanic shops across the United States and Canada that were in operation from 1969 to 2023. The other side shows images and graphics from and about those shops.

We are so proud to debut this edition as part of LJ’s exhibition. Also soon to be published - a suite of related and spectacular etchings in a portfolio titled Oil Changes. Stay tuned!

Image credit (front side and back side):
The Q***r Mechanix of the Lands Currently Referred to as the U.S. & Canada Before & During the 54th Year of the Stonewall Era, 2025
Double-sided photolithography/silkscreen print
56.5 x 75.6 cm
22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in
Edition of 20 plus 2 artist’s proofs

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First two days in the studio with as our 2025 Emerging Artist Fellow!
06/25/2025

First two days in the studio with as our 2025 Emerging Artist Fellow!

The Island Press Post-Graduate Fellow works with Island Press as an assistant printer, helping with production and all a...
06/05/2025

The Island Press Post-Graduate Fellow works with Island Press as an assistant printer, helping with production and all aspects of management of artist projects, including inventory, marketing, and communications. This fellowship is open to BA, BFA, and MFA graduates of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

For more information, find the link in our bio!

Mia Pons will be joining us for the month of June as our second 2025 Summer Intern! Mia Isabel Pons is a print media ar...
05/30/2025

Mia Pons will be joining us for the month of June as our second 2025 Summer Intern!

Mia Isabel Pons is a print media artist from Oklahoma whose ongoing work explores the body as an ephemeral vessel for memory and space. Her practice explores the intersections of printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and fiber art. Pons holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Oklahoma and is a current MFA candidate at Louisiana State University.

Welcome Mia!!!!

Next week we will be welcoming Casey White as one of our 2025 Summer Interns! Casey White is a printmaker originally fr...
05/30/2025

Next week we will be welcoming Casey White as one of our 2025 Summer Interns!

Casey White is a printmaker originally from Bethesda Maryland and is a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She graduated with her BFA in printmaking. Casey focuses on reduction woodcuts, etchings, and screen prints, examining imaginary worlds and unconventional mediums.

What a treat to have EJ Hauser at Island Press this week as the 2025 Prensky Visiting Artist! They gave a fantastic lect...
03/19/2025

What a treat to have EJ Hauser at Island Press this week as the 2025 Prensky Visiting Artist! They gave a fantastic lecture for the Sam Fox School community and have been in the trenches experimenting and working on a new print project with us and our students in the print shop.

Image:
Tangerine Dream, 2023-24
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 inches

It is 75 degrees and sunny and come by and say hello to us in Suite 157!Cheers!!
12/06/2024

It is 75 degrees and sunny and come by and say hello to us in Suite 157!
Cheers!!

Join us at the INK Miami Art Fair next week, December 4-8! Island Press will be among other exceptional exhibitors at th...
11/29/2024

Join us at the INK Miami Art Fair next week, December 4-8! Island Press will be among other exceptional exhibitors at the Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Ave, Miami Beach in suite 157.

The INK Miami Art Fair is renowned for its emphasis on works on paper and is a distinctive satellite fair during Miami’s Art week. The fair is free and open to the public with an opening brunch on Wednesday, December 4th from 9am-Noon and a Pulp Party on Thursday, December 5th from 7-9pm.

We’ll have new work and recent favorites by Shaun O’Dell, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Stephanie Syjuco, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Beverly Semmes, Radcliffe Bailey, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paula J Wilson, and more!


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Island Press is excited to announce the publication of Shaun O’Dell’s print series, CARTOPHANTASMS FROM THE TONGUES ABOV...
11/21/2024

Island Press is excited to announce the publication of Shaun O’Dell’s print series, CARTOPHANTASMS FROM THE TONGUES ABOVE.

Shaun worked collaboratively in residence with us in the fall of 2022, producing a series of four mixed technique prints in editions of 14.

“Working within a hieroglyphic lexicon of abstract and figurative marks, O’Dell investigates the colonial histories of his ancestors and their contemporaries to reveal the imperial roots of modern-day ecological change.”
(writing by Grace Earick, from the essay for Island Press’ PROOF brochure for this project.)

We’ll feature this new work at the upcoming INK Miami Art Fair, December 4-8, 2024 at the Dorchester Suites in Miami Beach.

image 1: URPFLANZE GIST, etching, relief, and silkscreen with chine collé on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 2: PARATAXONOMOONELEGY, relief on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 3: COCKLEBUR RESONANCE, relief with etching on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 4: COLD CANDLE, etching and aquatint on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

We’re seeking proposals from under-recognized artists for our Artist Research Fellowship - a one week residency in June ...
11/12/2024

We’re seeking proposals from under-recognized artists for our Artist Research Fellowship - a one week residency in June 2025 to realize a print project in collaboration with Island Press. Details on our website. Due date for applications is January 15, 2025.

We had the most incredible week with Stacy Lynn Waddell in the print shop making big collagraphs! Stay tuned as we conti...
11/03/2024

We had the most incredible week with Stacy Lynn Waddell in the print shop making big collagraphs! Stay tuned as we continue to develop and edition her project.

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