Early Exposure: Teaching Print Outside Higher Ed
About the Artist
I grew up in the Bronx, NY, and still consider myself a Bronx girl while living in the Boston area for the past 30+ years. I received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from the University of Iowa. I’ve participated in artist residencies at the Center for Contemporary Art (Norwalk, CT), the Lower East Side Print Shop (New York, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson VT), Pickwick Press (Portland, ME), Grafikwerkstatt (Dresden, Germany), and most recently at Hello Print Friend (Chiang Mai, Thailand). I have taught in various colleges and universities around the Boston area and am currently Chair of Visual Arts at Milton Academy.
Artist Statement
I’m a printmaker working mainly in lithography, relief, and screenprinting, but I’m also drawn to the spaces between these media—drawing, watercolor, and artist books. My work often centers on the body: the physical space it occupies and the metaphorical space it represents. I draw from memory and personal stories, and much of my practice is self-reflective, incorporating self-portraits and photographs. I think of self-portraits as a conversation between my past, present, and future selves, especially as I navigate the world as a Black queer woman.
Printmaking has always felt essential to my process. Its rhythm—of reflection, repetition, and reimagining—mirrors the way I think about identity and time. I’m drawn to print’s democratic nature too: how printed matter can circulate widely, carry stories, and give voice to people who are often left out of the narrative.
Artist:
Social media: @raepress
Website: https://www.raepressstudio.com/
Exhibition
Early Exposure: Teaching Print Outside Higher Ed
Too Much in My Head II
Lithograph
18″ x 14.75″
2025
Oshun/I dream in stereo
Lithograph
17″ x 24″
2025
Bees and Hydrangeas
Screenprint
10.5″ x 10.5″
2025
NOPE
Screenprint
11″ x 15″
2024
God don’t like ugly
Screenprint
15″ x 11″
2024
Waiting to Lick the Beaters
Lithograph
16″ x 18″
2018
Grace
Lithograph
15″ x 11″
2018
Wooden Book for the Parable of the Sower (in collaboration with Letta Neely)
Mixed media handbound book
Approx 11″ x 15″ x 4″
2021
Classroom Images
My classroom/printmaking studio at Milton Academy with large Takach press, smaller etching press on wheels, and exposure unit for screenprinting.
Example of printmaking being incorporated into other arts courses; this is a repeat pattern screenprint done in the Textile course.
Screenprinting shirts for an MLK community open studio event where participants could choose from different images and quotes to print their own shirts
Student arts group Arts with a Social Conscience screenprinting shirts for Arts Night
Printmaking class doing a full-day field trip to learn pronto plate litho at Muskat Studios in Somerville, MA with Carolyn Muskat
Senior Independent Study students doing a studio visit with Boston artist and printmaker Brooke Stewart.
Student Work
