In retrospect, I don’t think I would have had the determination if it weren’t for my mentor constantly supporting and challenging me. MCAD was the only school I researched into that had that unique learning experience attached to the curriculum. The school has it so that every graduate is partnered up with practicing artist in the area (and it’s a very artistic city, so lots of good choices).

Instead of going for a printmaking or even illustration mentor, I chose to be partnered up with Laura Stack, a painting and drawing mentor. She works with mixed media and although her type of work is fairly unrelated to my own (which is a good thing for me), it still has a graphic sensibility that I found in my own work. She’ll often bring ideas or critiques to meetings that often does not get brought up in my group critiques or with other teachers/visiting artists. Laura also helps me try to cope and with the school’s need to categorize myself into either fine arts or illustration, an issue she had to deal with in her own graduate school.

Some of my faves from her work:

Organic! Go!

-Megan

Returning to color! Hurrah! I started this before I went on a month long vacation. Just completed last week. It’s a one color silkscreen with conte/color pencil, spray paint, and tea stain added to it. Far simpler than it implies. When you see the print in real life, parts the paper’s texture fights the print is serendipitiously pretty (it looks like crayon/oil pastel in those areas). It’s sad that I’m becoming an expert at making bad prints look good. I’m working on striping down the techniques and just working on more immediate drawings/prints. I’ve started to work with some collaging, I hope to post that soon.

-Megan

P.S. Crummy photobooth pics of my recent studio progress. A preview to come: