@carriescanga
Hi! I’m an artist in Maine working in printmaking. Especially using intaglio in images, books, installations. Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/carriescanga/p/looking-back-looking-forward?r=i8p54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=
Welcome
Art Print Residence is pleased to welcome a new artist in residence, Carrie Scanga from the United States, and Shai Rosenfeld from Haifa; residency March 2025.
I’m at @artprintresidence and in the etching flow. So happy to be back in my favorite creative place!
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Welcome, @carrie.scanga, resident for the fifth time. We are in the process of creating an electroech hardground.
Also, awesome fungi!
I know that feeling of classroom shakiness when students make their first reductions. 😄 they got this!
Hey Sarah! I’m in bed with Covid and this art just made my day. I’m down a stained glass rabbit hole now. Xo
Oh magnificent
The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.
Newsletter coming soon! It’s February of 2025, and already I’m looking back at 2024 with a sense of nostalgia.
If you want to take a look back with me, you can subscribe to my substack at the link in my bio!
#bookarts #artistresidency #printmaking #printmaker #printprof #printsky #printmaker
A close up of a print peel - showing the top of a bird with some shifty eyes
Who’s in for #printpromptmonday tomorrow?
Check back here (or with @gemmatrickey.bsky.social and @printsbythebay.bsky.social) to find out the prompt…
Beautiful!
![Yam growing forms a large part of Abelam society. The growing of large yams (they can be as large as 80-90 inches (2.3 m) long) determines the status of individuals as well as the whole village.[1] At yam festivals an individual would give his largest yam to his worst enemy who would then be obligated to grow an even larger yam or have his status fall each year in which he was unable to do so. Separate villages would gather at yam festivals where the hosting village's status would be determined by the size of their yams as well as their ability to provide more food than could be eaten and carried away by the rival village.
During the yam growing season, strong emotions were kept to a minimum as they were thought to impede the growth of the yams. Fighting was taboo as was sexual activity. It was thought that the yams had a spirit and could sense any of these strong emotions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid7x3upm64jswmz7hcfxddklajmoqsmncxvex3f56qmmnjjfcpxre)
Yam growing forms a large part of Abelam society. The growing of large yams (they can be as large as 80-90 inches (2.3 m) long) determines the status of individuals as well as the whole village.[1] At yam festivals an individual would give his largest yam to his worst enemy who would then be obligated to grow an even larger yam or have his status fall each year in which he was unable to do so. Separate villages would gather at yam festivals where the hosting village's status would be determined by the size of their yams as well as their ability to provide more food than could be eaten and carried away by the rival village. During the yam growing season, strong emotions were kept to a minimum as they were thought to impede the growth of the yams. Fighting was taboo as was sexual activity. It was thought that the yams had a spirit and could sense any of these strong emotions.
Indigenous group of Papau New Guinea whose culture revolves around giant yams! It determines a person's status by the size of the yams they grow. If only the rest of the world competed on ability to feed people!
Snapshot of a page from an editioned artist’s book from 2023 called Back Then and Now. This one is a collaboration with Rebecca Goodale.
Oh, that baby kitty curled tail! 🤩
Agree! It would be great if we could get the same thing going here.
Thanks Jenie! Can you add me to the list?
Thanks, Ruben! It used to be an elementary school library, so there are good book/illustration energy abs happy, playful ghosts 😄
You have to visit sometime!
I’ve found the Facebook group super helpful over the years, and I wonder if we could get that going here. If you want to start it, I’ll help spread the word!
This looks great! I’d love to see your prints in person.
Your results are elegant 😍
So helpful. Thank you!
#printmaking #printmaker Does anyone know if there’s a feed for printmaking professors on Bluesky yet?
I’m glad you like it too. Thanks!
One of my favorite artist’s books. Warja Lavater was a Bauhaus artist who invented codes and used them to retell fairytales.
#printmaking #printmaker settling in
🖐️ The Hand Magazine High Five! Submissions to Issue 48 are due Feb. 28! We welcome any artwork that incoporates any type of printed or photographic media. Find out how to a ubmit at the link in our bio @thehandmagazine.bsky.social
Thank you! I love how drypoint can show gesture.
Will you please add me? Thanks!
Hi Caleb! I’m happy to be able to keep up with you!
I have a new artist’s book coming in 2025! Editioning intaglio plates is a pleasantly human-paced activity.
You captured so much movement in etching! I really admire this. I can see the connection to your animations, and I just appreciate the ethereal quality. Etching can be so static. 🤩