Professors Imin Yeh and Addoley Dzegede teamed up for a special combined project across their Advanced Studio classes exploring the intersection of printmaking and dyeing.
In “Print in Space,” Professor Imin Yeh’s students are learning to expand printmaking beyond the page, transforming repeated images into sculptural, spatial, and wearable forms. One floor up in Doherty Hall, Professor Addoley Dzegede’s “Dye Lab” students are exploring color as both process and history, experimenting with natural and synthetic dyes while considering their cultural and environmental origins.
Now midway through the fall semester, the two classes came together in the School of Art’s print media studio to merge their respective materials, methods, and creative instincts in a joint project. The students first carved 4-inch by 4-inch woodblocks, which they used to print on large cotton panels using dyes mixed with soda ash, an addition that intensifies the color and helps dye bond permanently to fabric. The result was a quilt of layered, alternating, and interlocking prints that showed the possibilities that exist between precision and unpredictability.
Keep scrolling below for a look at how the classes shared collaborative space.
Photos by Kevin Lorenzi