A WSW Artist-in-Residence Profile
By Steven Andersen
Tucked away on her website, Nicole Donnelly has a 10-second video clip of a wayward book as it’s tossed and tumbled by waves on the banks of the Thames. It’s one of those strange, serendipitous moments where a random event takes on a kind of transcendence. The pages of the [...]

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A WSW Artist-in-Residence Profile
By Steven Andersen
Your Honor, this inmate would like to request time to arrange her business.

And what business would that be, ma’am?
My baby. This inmate requests to go home to pick up my baby. After that I have no problem to be deported.

This is a pivotal moment in a life, rendered with [...]

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The lovely and talented Melissa Jay Craig is featured in the show Respite, at the Vespine Gallery in Chicago. Melissa spent the spring here with us at the workshop coaxing pulp into dazzling shapes and colors. She writes about her experience at the workshop, and at two other residencies she took part in this past [...]

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Somehow Abigail Uhteg managed to not only edition a book and take some of the sweetest photos ever during her residency here at WSW, but she also managed to put together over 3000 of her photos to make a fabulous video of the process. We cant stop watching this!
You can learn more about abby at [...]

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This week a recipe, of sorts, in honor of the arrival of some new friends- Process Yellow, Process Cyan & Process Magenta! Oh! how excited we are to meet you!
And how lucky we are to have Kyla here to give us a formal introduction:

Color Separation
for Silkscreen in Photoshop
Kyla Luedtke
Open Photoshop and open your image.
Under Image>Image [...]

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