44" Prints

My students and I played around with the 44" HP printer in class yesterday:

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There's an upcoming juried exhibition, and my students are prepping work for it!

Werk Ethic: The Work of Werner Design Werks

Concordia Gallery has a really interesting exhibition up through TODAY, so come check it out if you have a moment. It's a design exhibition called "Werk Ethic: The Work of Werner Design Werks." Here are a few photos I took last month:

The opening reception.


Some CVAers at the opening! Me, Rudy, Cory, Ian, Sarah, Liz, John, Abby, Carly, and Rosie.

I stopped by a few days later to walk through the show. It's a trip:

Old CVA branding.


That floppy on the wall contains CVA's "final identity" from 1995.


We all know that name!


Slightly older CVA branding.


Even OLDER "College of Associated Arts" branding (CAA became CVA).

And here are a few final shots that Concordia Gallery posted yesterday:

Check it out in the next 8 hours if you are nearby: 1301 Marshall Ave, Saint Paul, MN.

Processing Film

A few weeks ago, we had a very successful day in the darkroom. We had 2 groups go through and process film, and everyone's turned out. Here's a quick short I shared @PhotoStenzel on Instagram:

Direct link: youtube.com/shorts/DPgOlHa_FoY

Here are 2 videos from last semester in the darkroom of my boys making their first darkroom prints.

This Makes Me Want To See The Art EVEN HARDER

Seen at the entrance of the Goldstein Museum of Design.

How to Finish

This is important to remember in all aspects of life, but especially for art making:

How Technicolor Changed Movies

This is just a bit of an interesting history of Technicolor, along with 3 "lies" (or just filmmaking tricks) with regards to the Technicolor usage in "The Wizard of Oz:"

Direct Link: youtu.be/Mqaobr6w6_I

Film and Paper Order!

Here's around $800 of B&W film and paper sitting in my office for my 3 courses at Concordia University this semester:

70 rolls of film and 38 packs of paper!

New Semester

I start a new semester teaching at Concordia University tomorrow, and then the University of Minnesota next week. Here's a pic from the end of last semester when I was collecting the last 35mm cameras from my students to return to my office: