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4 Color Separation silk screen print. Photo taken with my phone then ran through a filter. Took the image into Photoshop and separated the channels CMYK. Exposed onto a silk screen and printed.

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Combining silkscreen with some more painterly techniques adds color loosens the grip of control and allows for a gentle introduction to stencils and mixing color.

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A collection of photos from our recent projects. We designed shapes on the computer then cut them on the Brother ScanNCut. This was followed by more design work for silkscreen printing of the imagery with constructing the final product at the end.

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Education for Socially Engaged Art is the first “Materials and Techniques” book for the emerging field of social practice. Written with a pragmatic, hands-on approach for university-level readers and those interested in real-life application of the theories and ideas around socially engaged art. The book, emphasizing the use of pedagogical strategies to address issues around social practice, addresses topics such as documentation, community engagement, dialogue and conversation, amongst many others.

The term “social practice” obscures the discipline from which socially engaged art has emerged (i.e., art). In this way it denotes the critical detachment from other forms of art-making (primarily centered and built on the personality of the artist) that is inherent to socially engaged art, which, almost by definition, is dependent of the involvement of others besides the instigator of the artwork. It also thus raises the question of whether such activity belongs to the field of art at all. This is an important query; art students attracted to this form of art-making often find themselves wondering whether it would be more useful to abandon art altogether and instead become professional community organizers, activists, politicians, ethnographers, or sociologists. Indeed, in addition to sitting uncomfortably between and across these disciplines and downplaying the role of the individual artist, socially engaged art is specifically at odds with the capitalist market infrastructure of the art world: it does not fit well in the traditional collecting practices of contemporary art, and the prevailing cult of the individual artist is problematic for those whose goal is to work with others, generally in collaborative projects with democratic ideals. Many artists look for ways to renounce not only object-making but authorship altogether, in the kind of “stealth” art practice that philosopher Stephen Wright argues for, in which the artist is a secret agent in the real world, with an artistic agenda.

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Everyone should have a squeegee guard on standby when making paper.

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Using stencils to create small mini pizzas - cheese cuts easy and allows for good contrast while being a good snack later.

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A work of art that I did at George Mason University.

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A print that I made at George Mason University.