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Beth Howe

Associate Professor, Print Media

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Education:

BA, Fine Arts Haverford College
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute

Bio

Beth Howe works with printmaking, artists’ books, histories of printed matter and digital/analogue intersections in print, often in collaboration with others. She has exhibited at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Mixografia in Los Angeles, Shunpike Storefronts Public Art Projects in Seattle and B.C.’s Lake Country Art Gallery. She has received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants and residencies at The Banff Centre, Kala Art Institute and Djerassi Foundation. She produces printwork under the imprint Emelar Editions.

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Research Interests

Beth’s recent scholarly research has focused on collections and archives, especially pertaining to printmaking and artists’ books collections, through two SSHRC-funded projects: Collective Description of the Wosk Print Collection: a knowledge exchange for printmakers, archivists, and librarians and 'Robots and Rembrandt: Technological and Archival Research in Printmaking, as well as an ECU Teaching + Learning Centre Fellowship, What Kind of Print is That? Improving Collections Access and Developing Material Literacy with the Wosk Print Collection. Beth’s studio practice emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together intangible matrices built of code, graph and geometry with the material constraints of wood, metal, paper and ink. From large-scale woodcuts to artist book editions to experiments with intaglio processes using XYZ-axis milling machines, Beth and her collaborators search for what can emerge from using anachronistic technologies and different disciplinary mindsets to make studio-based work.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Print Media PRNT 216 26/SU

Description

This course is an introduction to fundamental processes in Relief and Etching. Students will learn how to make etching, including working with a range of copper plate techniques and relief prints (lino and woodcut) on paper including an introduction to colour. The class will be taught through workshop demos and projects. Class critiques and tutorial discussion will encourage the student's artistic development. Emphasis will be on the critical examination of the students work, technical development the exploration of contemporary ideas.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.