Saturday, February 22, 2025

10:30 am – 1:30 pm

SOU Marion Ady building – Room 104

Free, Registration Required | Limited Space

SOLD OUT

Please email sma@sou.edu to be placed on the waiting list.

About the Workshop

In anticipation of the spring: a communal printmaking activity and meal

In anticipation of the change that comes with one season giving way to another, this term’s VAST (Visiting Artist & Scholar in Teaching) resident Louise Mandumbwa invites students and members of the wider Ashland community to participate in a relief printmaking workshop, framed around things to look forward to. The workshop serves as an occasion for participants to receive instruction on carving linoleum blocks and printing with fabric inks, and work alongside other participants to create a collaborative textile over which we will share a meal. Additionally each participant will have an opportunity to customize a tote bag to take home with them. There will be a range of references for participants to choose from of local flora that bloom in the spring, but participants are invited to bring with them an image they may use as reference for something they “look forward to”, to add to their communal prints.

If participants have dietary sensitivities we request you share them when you sign up so they might be taken into consideration.

About the Artist

Louise Mandumbwa (born 1996, Francistown, Botswana) is an artist working in painting, printmaking and drawing to explore ideations of home, figurative and botanical works. Her practice is a counter mapping endeavor examining the ranging registers or memory through material exploration, the illegible image and failed translation. An immigrant artist her works revisit sites of both familial and diasporic history to and appends them with affect and the anecdotal.

Louise holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University as well as a BFA in Painting from the University of Central Arkansas. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Sakhile&Me (Frankfurt, DE, 2025), Chili Art Projects (London, UK 2024), Spurs Gallery (Beijing, CN), David Castillo (Miami, FL), The Wright Museum (Detroit, MI) and Yossi Milo (New York, NY). She was a 2024 recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation and the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award from Yale University. She has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts (New Berlin, NY 2022) and Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY 2019). Louise lives and works in New Haven, CT.

Learn more about Louise at louisemandumbwa.com

Free event parking is available in designated lots.