Episode Details

Jennifer Mack Watkins is making thought provoking and powerful work. Jennifer's hard work and her unique approach to mokuhanga, screen printing, and lithography has begun to pay off. Her current solo show, "Children Of The Sun," has been written about in The New York Times, Essence, Vogue, and Bust. Along with her solo show at the Brattleboro Musuem and Art Center in Vermont, where she organized all of the events regarding her exhibition, she is also currently taking part in Womb of Violet 2 or Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed at the Trout Museum of Art in Appleton Wisconsin. It is a group show which recognizes how marginalized peoples have been affected by society today. In this episode of the Unfinished Print I speak with Jennifer about her mokuhanga experiences, what she has learned from travelling to Japan, what mokuhanga brings to her life as an artist and the evolution of her work.

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Jennifer Mack-Watkins - website Instagram

Morris Brown/Clark Atlanta

Power Grip - are beginner/middle range tool set which are easy to use and are perfect for all levels of carvers. This set is sold at Intaglio Printmaker in London.

Tufts University

Pratt Institute

Lower East Side Printshop

April Vollmer - a seasoned printmaker who wrote one of the standards in woodblock printmaking, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, sold wherever you buy your books. Her long and successful career as a teacher and a printmaker are unparalleled.

MI Lab - (Mokuhanga Inovation Laboratory) at Lake Kawaguchi. It is a program dedicated to the art of mokuhanga and hosts artist in residence programs.

Takuji Hamanaka - printmaker based in Brookly, NY. Uses bokashi, a printmaking technique, predominately in his works. Unique and powerful. website Instagram

Manhattan Graphics Center

Speedball - make printmaking tools for various styles of printmaking.

McClains Printmaking supp