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by Rowan Johnson
SOU Class of 2025, Creative Writing
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Julie Mehretu, Among the Multitude IX, 2020-2021, Ink and acrylic on canvas

Julie Mehretu

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during 1970, Julie Mehretu uses contemporary art to make commentary on identity within complex sociological structures. She is well known for creating topographical “maps” of specific places where the political, geographical, social, and cultural climates of the past and present meet. Selective erasing and the visual language she developed using shapes, symbols, dots, and lines are what make her work uniquely identifiable. Learn more about Mehretu’s journey as an abstract artist with the link below and see her piece Among the Multitude IX  in the Entry Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art today.

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/mehretu-julie/

Marc Mitchell, The Changer, 2018, Acrylic and silkscreen on custom-shaped panels

History of Silk Screen Printing

Serigraphy, the technical term for silk screen printing, literally translates to “silk writing”. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses mesh screens to create images on fabric or other mediums. The original silk printing started in Asia around 1000 years ago and was different from what we see today. More recognizable silk screen printing came out of Europe in the 1900s. Providing better colors for fabric designs, screen printing became popular in the fashion industry before finding its way into the traditional art world. Learn more about silk screen printing with the link below and see an abstract take on this process in Sensate Objects in the Heiter Gallery with Marc Mitchell’s The Changer.

https://www.holdensscreen.com/blogs/news/the-origins-of-silk-screen-printing-serigraphy

Art Historian and Essayist Sue Taylor

Sue Taylor

Art historian, curator, critic, and professor Sue Taylor joins the SMA for a virtual Creative Industries Discussion. Tune in on December 8th at 12:30pm to learn more about her career and read the essay she wrote for Sensate Objects with the link below.

https://sma.sou.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sensate-Objects-web-catalog.pdf

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