Keynote Speaker
Dr. Stefan H. Bossmann
Professor and ChairThe University of Kansas Medical Center - Chair, Dept of Cancer BiologyThe University of Kansas Cancer Center - Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental TherapeuticsScientific Director of Small Animal Imaging
"New Dimensions at the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences."
Dr. Stefan Bossmann serves as the Chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which is part of the NCI-designated University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC), composed of three research programs, Cancer Biology, Cancer Prevention & Control, and Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics. His current cancer research is centered on glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer MRI-detection and treatment. Bossmann is a University Distinguished Professor of Kansas and hold the honorary title of Distinguished Professor of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.
Dr. Bossmann has a proven track record of conducting and collaborating on high-quality arts and sciences interdisciplinary research projects in areas relevant to his research expertise. At Kansas State University, he served as Co-PI on the National Endowment for the Arts grant "Transforming Printmaking through Chemical Innovation." This interdisciplinary project involved faculty and student researchers from the departments of art and chemistry and led to innovative developments of printmaking technology that use safer and more environmentally friendly etching methods and solvents.
MAPC Outstanding Printmaker Award
Melanie Yazzie
Professor of Arts Practices & Head of PrintmakingUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
Calling For Rain: Mixed Media works by Melanie Yazzie
"Creating Community through Printmaking"
As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Melanie Yazzie’s work draws upon her rich Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Her work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Diné culture. Her work is informed and shaped by personal experiences.
Ms. Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples. Her visits to New Zealand, the Arctic, the Pueblos in the Southwest, and to indigenous peoples of Russia, these travels have been the impetus for continued dialogue about Indigenous cultural practices, language, song, story-telling, and survival.
Ms. Yazzie has exhibited widely, both in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Print Collection, Providence, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Kennedy Museum of Art, Art Collection, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Rhodes University, Print Collection, Grahamstown, South Africa, to name a few. She has been reviewed in Focus Magazine, Santa Fe, the Los Angeles Times, New Zealand Herald, and she is mentioned in Printmaking in the Sun by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir and The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multi Centered Society by Lucy Lippard. She has had over 800 group and solo exhibitions combined. Yazzie makes prints, sculptures, paintings, and mixed media works. Her work can always be found at the Glenn Green Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kansas Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking and Student Mentorship
James "Jim" Munce
Professor Emeritus of PrintmakingKansas State University
James Munce received his BFA in printmaking at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1966. He completed his MFA in printmaking at Indiana University in 1971. After teaching in Hawaii for a year, Munce moved to Manhattan and began his long-term career as a professor in printmaking at Kansas State University. During the last 30 years of the twentieth century, Munce devoted his professional life to creating prints. Primarily his subjects have been taken from Christian literature – the time-honored subject of Michelangelo, Dürer and da Vinci. Unlike these earlier masters, Munce’s work exhibits a sense of humanity with a dose of humor in the spirit of the twentieth century. The artist’s technical virtuosity is readily apparent in all his prints. The final result is one common to all enduring art: it enables the viewer to be drawn into the scene and feel a connection to the artist’s mind and soul.
Kansas Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking and Student Mentorship
Teresa "Terri" Schmidt
Professor Emeritus of PrintmakingKansas State University
Manhattan-based artist, Emeritus Professor Teresa Schmidt, taught drawing and prints at KSU for the last 49 years, a faculty member since 1972. Teaching drawing and prints were her greatest joy - along with working in a print studio or at home with drawing and painting. The excitement of pulling a print from plate, board, stone, or screen has always been her joy. The techniques need not slow the process once understood. Speed, rhythm, and complexity compete freely with or without obvious imagery. Her interest is in the unexpected. Raised in the Northwest, her work is very much influenced by the kind of light on the coast and in the mountains, heavy fast-moving clouds and shadows. Nature, as landscape, the human figure, portraits, and the raw expression of non-symbolic abstract imagery seem so connected to the unpredictable prints’ processes. Rembrandt’s light and animation, De Kooning’s violent gesture and surfaces, and Alice Neel’s naked humanism all appeal to her sense of realism in art and life.