UW-Stevens Point dean exhibits artwork
The dean of the College of Fine Arts & Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is currently exhibiting artwork in Wisconsin, California and Washington D.C.
Dean Jeff Morin, an accomplished artist and book designer, has his own works on exhibit as well as pieces that he has collaborated on with other UW-Stevens Point staff members.
Exhibitions include:
“Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art” at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minn. This exhibit includes collaborations with Caren Heft, a senior lecturer and director of UW-Stevens Point’s Carlsten Art Gallery. The exhibition investigates wider cultural influences evidenced in current letterpress works by established and emerging book artists. The works explore literary content, respond to social or political concerns, are directed by conceptual programs or sign systems or were created through chance and observation. This exhibit will tour to additional locations over the next two years, including the Center for Book Arts in New York City.
“Artist’s Books as Social/Political Critique” at the Golda Meir Library on the UW-Milwaukee campus. This exhibit, curated by Max Yela, contains collaborative work with Brian Borchardt, curator of the Scarabocchio Art Museum in Stevens Point, who also has work in this exhibition. The books on exhibit are all part of UW-Milwaukee’s Special Collections–Book Arts Collection, permanently housed on the campus.
“Selected Artists’ Books from the Corcoran Library” at the Tyler Gallery in Washington, D.C., includes work that Morin created himself. Morin was one of a select group of 17 artists whose works were selected to be on display during National Library Week. The piece on display is from the Corcoran’s permanent collection.
Morin and Heft also have collaborative work on exhibit in “Women Over 25: Printing Letterpress for Over a Quarter of a Century,” at the Clark Humanities Museum located on the campus of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. The show’s curator says, “In this exhibition, we honor women who have been printing by letterpress for at least 25 years and are still printing and/or teaching letterpress.”
Morin has taught graphic design and photojournalism at UW-Stevens Point for 15 years and previously taught at the University of Tennessee and Bethany College. His professional experience includes graphic design in New York, work with the National Geographic Society and as director of sailorBOYpress. His degrees are from UW-Madison and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Notable locations that house Morin’s work as part of a public collection include the Victoria and Albert Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, the Library of Congress and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
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