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Volume 128 Issue 37
Imprinting the art world Savannah Gilman Copy Editor Today, printing is more synonymous with Kinkos than originality. But the students in printmaking want to prove just the opposite. BJ Alumbaugh is one such student. In his second year in graduate level printmaking, he has been chosen to showcase his take on printing to the art world. Alumbaugh received a graduate fellowship from the Southern Graphics Council International Fellowship to develop his proposed project, which will be featured during the program next year in Portland, Ore. The fellowship also awards him a grant to complete this proposed project, which will be nearly a year in the making.
The concept within Alumbaugh’s proposal was to create an immersive space and to fill it with prints that utilize three-dimensional forms known as sculptural prints. For Alumbaugh, coming up with his proposal was a matter of building off of his foundation of completed prints. “I started it and came back to it,” Alumbaugh said. “A lot of the decision process came from images of existing works that were submitted, work that is in a line that I have created.” Having completed his undergraduate at the University of Northern Iowa, Alumbaugh found himself drawn to Knoxville on many levels. He had lived in Knoxville for nearly six years, and UT has a top printmaking graduate program in the country. See ALUMBAUGH on Page 8
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A print by BJ Alumbaugh
Wednesday, March 4, 2015