Summer Screenprinting Dance


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Saturday, April 12 + Wednesday, April 16
Davis and Union Squares, Somerville, MA




“Event Horizon” is a public art project that seeks to create a site for inquiry into the nature of current events and history through the use of print media, performance, and individual interpretation.

Artists within “Event Horizon” interpret and re-present topics, headlines, graphics, and text found in widely circulated newspapers, broadsides, and fliers to produce creative, critical, and poetic interplays in the form of printed posters and broadsides. The reader’s ability to translate and creatively respond to “popular” issues will underscore a story or subject’s meaning, thereby exposing “the style” of interpretation as a determinant element of how events or topics are individually understood and communicated to a larger public.

Traditionally hung in public places to announce news and events to the public, broadsides locate information within a locality of interest, while creating a visual tableau, indexing issues within a splayed format. Physically unbound, the broadside references the loose sheets of a newspaper, with large type and simple script, easily read by the passerby, to be papered and hung on poles, store windows, buildings, and folding displays.

Using print media as a means to create a backdrop for the projection of ideas and opinions, “Event Horizon” re-contextualizes current events within a staged setting of signage and performative happenings. By situating themselves within a public place, calling and handing out their print media, participating artists will be inadvertently quoting other historical and contemporary performance traditions, including: town-crier, soap-boxer, street performer, mystic, publicist, recruiter and activist. The public is invited to engage notions of the “newsworthy” through absurdist, practical, educational, comic, mundane, and dramatic presentations of topical material.

-Curated and Produced by Jennifer Schmidt








I no longer photocopy hand-outs for demos* Please buy the Screenprinting Technical Reader. It's your bible for all things screen! Includes info about how to build your own exposure unit and printing diy, in addition to all the fabulous hand and digi approaches to making stencils.


Graduate Thesis Show Exhibition Opening: Thursday, Nov 29, 5-8pm
@ Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center




TEAM SCREEN: Multiple Acts - Part 2
Exhibition Reception + TSHIRT SALE: Wednesday, November 28, 4-7pm, MHB



WED 11/29 *TEAM SCREEN Exhibition + SALE!!!*