Dana Potter has been selected to participate in the University of Tennessee Knoxville artist-in-residence exchange with the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland May 7-June 6, and will attend a residency at Arts Quarter Budapest in Hungary in June, 2019.

Dana with fellow artist in residence in Budapest, Hungary.

above: Monica Farrar

above: Noah Breuer

above: Roberta Restaino

Location: University of Dallas, Haggerty Lane, Irving, TX 75062. Upper Gallery, Painting/Printmaking Building

Organizer: Dana Potter, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Statement: Postdigital, emerging technologies, and new media, to name a few, are vague terms used as catch-all funnels for print processes which incorporate laser-cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing, etc. The funnel metaphor, however, stanches fluidity between printmaking techniques and incorporated technologies. A re-imagined structure of these methods may be presented as tree roots with equal stems for laser systems as printmaking’s relationship with paper-making or book-arts. Laser technologies specifically build on similar conceptual questions brought up by printmaking: quality of technique, loss of aura in mechanical reproduction, the look and feel of the hand-made, and issues of physical and time-based labor.

Contributing Artists:

• Miguel Aragon, artist
  
• Denise Bookwalter, Director Small Craft Advisory Press, Professor, Florida State University
  
• Noah Breuer, Assistant Professor, Auburn University
  
• Tim Dooley, Professor of Printmaking, University of Northern Iowa
  
• Monica Farrar, artist
  
• Joseph Lupo, Professor of Art, West Virginia University
  
• Conor McGran, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  
• Sarah Pike, Director of FreeFall Laser
  
• Dana Potter, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  
• Roberta Restaino, Adjunct Instructor Printmaking and Foundations, University of Colorado Boulder
  
• Hannah Smith, artist
  
• Meagan Sterling, Professor, Westmont College
  
• Aaron Wilson, Professor of Printmaking, University of Northern Iowa
  
• Jonathan Wright, MFA candidate, Arizona State University
  
• Sangmi Yoo, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
  

An interactive exhibition by Ashlee Mays and Dana Potter.

“Throughout our day to day lives we trade time for money, money for goods and services, information for access, and so on. Artists Dana Potter and Ashlee Mays use traditional and new media to lead viewers through a series of Transactions and Translations of material and time.”

Dana Potter, a new MFA student in printmaking, is one of two students in the School of Art to receive the Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence.

Master of Fine Arts student Dana Potter grew up working beside her mother, a ceramic artist, in an arts center in her small Iowa hometown of Okoboji.
“I saw her bringing people together and creating a sense of community through art,” said Potter, who will be attending UT’s highly ranked printmaking program as part of the first class of recipients of UT’s new Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence, a premier fellowship program designed to help recruit the nation’s best graduate students.

Potter earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Northern Iowa in 2015. Her minor was in interactive digital studies, which looks at how digital technology shapes modern culture.

Her passion has been creating artwork that illustrates how the digital culture, including our pervasive use of cell phones and computers, affects our everyday lives. Her work has received accolades from SGCI, a leading organization for artists engaged in printmaking, drawing, and graphic media...

In 2016, Dana Potter won the undergraduate award as a UNI student (pictured on the right). Her SGCI exhibition was held at the Hudgens Museum in Atlanta and featured a series of screenprints using social media advertisements and a group of prints exploring computer mouse movement tracking and interface layouts. Her work was based on her investigations in targeted digital advertising.

Artists Elise Hanson, Dana Potter, and Jenny Harp. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, February 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. Every Thu. and Sat. from Feb. 18-March 4. Free. Vine Arts Center, 2637 27th Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-728-5745.

Traditional printmaking is process-oriented. It relies on a series of intricate steps carried out by a printmaker to create an image. Similarly, computer-incorporated creation relies on preset methodologies from a computer for output. In their artwork, these three emerging artists undertake complex processes to combine both print and digital technologies. Each artist walks the line between what is purely mechanical and what is innately human. ​

This is an exhibition I curated! It was a part of the MAPC Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, and was is on display at FirstBuild from October 1st to October 31st, 2016. FirstBuild is not a traditional gallery. They are a maker-space, so their front room was an interesting challenge for an art-show. We made it work well and the FristBuild team was an amazing help. Their staff is engineers, designers, scientists, students, and artists and they mainly work on projects for GE creating unique and innovative appliances (You'll see some of that influence in the pictures, they are very good at what they do!). They also take ideas from the public and work with community members to complete projects (What an amazing concept!!). Any community member can submit project ideas to FristBuild and get help completing the project from FristBuild staff or come in on their own to work. The resources are free to the public (you just buy material) and the space is open in the evenings. It is a phenomenal maker-space and the city of Louisville is lucky to have this resource. The space (as I'm remembering it) has several 3' x 4' bed laser-cutters, 4 or 5 MakerBot 3D printers, electronics prototyping center, hardware tools, Amanda Metal lasers, water-jet cutter, and several CNC machines (It was mightily impressive). (more info https://firstbuild.com/co-create/ ) Anyways, they are hoping to work more with artists so be on the look out for what they do next! They were excited to have our show in their space, and truly felt the artistic presence is a great inspiration to their work. I think the methodical approach to digital abstraction and the use and influence of digital technologies present in Elise Hanson, Jenny Harp, and my work complimented FirstBuild's workspace. And now a bunch of photos from the show! I'm also including still images of the prints from the show from Jenny and Elise's websites.

​http://elisehanson.net/saturation/

​http://jennyharp.com/section/407378-Gradient-Fill.html

Friday, September 16, 2016 from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
On View: September 16, 2016 – October 15, 2016

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to present Stand Out Prints, Highpoint’s second international juried print exhibition. 72 prints and objects (by 64 artists across four countries and 27 states) were selected from more than 800 submissions through an international call. Juror Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum, offered the following remarks:

As I studied the strong field of entries, I was excited to see so many artists approaching new and old media in intriguing ways, and working on a large scale as well. The field of entries was impressive and varied, and in the end it was my hope that the show would convey a sense of how this group of artists is tackling a range of issues both familiar and unfamiliar, where the primary aim could be pictorial, personal, conceptual, or political, alone or in combination. All of these works demonstrate how art, whether it shocks or pleases, always moves the viewer.

The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, September 16, from 6:30 – 9 pm. At this free event, guests will have the opportunity to mingle, tour HP’s printshop, and enjoy beverages and hors d’oeuvres. Stand Out Prints Juror Elizabeth Wyckoff will give brief remarks that evening at 7 pm.

EXHIBITION REVIEW
This exhibition and the artwork of each artist was reviewed on the art e-journal Aeqai. "ÆQAI (pronounced ‘I’ as in ‘bite ‘ and ‘qai ‘ as in ‘sKY’ ) is a Cincinnati-based e-journal for critical thinking, review and reflective prose on contemporary visual art." - Aequi
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