Studio Noize teams up with the good folks at Print Austin to bring you interviews with the winners of the 2022 Print Austin 5x5. This annual juried show features 5 amazing printmakers with a fantastic range of skill and experience. Linda Whitney is a long-time educator and internationally known mezzotinter. We talk about her amazing prints that highlight the movement and magnificent regalia of the powwow, the indigenous dance celebration. Linda talks about her husband and her connection to indigenous culture, the process of mezzotint, and what inspired her work. Listen, subscribe, and share!

Episode topics include:

powwow dancing and regalia

mezzotint printing

indigenous culture

making art about tough subjects

teaching in university

Print Austin

Linda Whitney was born in Minnesota and raised in North Dakota. She began her art career early, earning a first place for one of her woodcuts in 6th grade. As an adult she earned her MFA (University of North Dakota) in art with an emphasis in printmaking. There she developed a reputation throughout the US for her full color intaglio prints and won several awards in juried exhibitions. She was also awarded national grants for her work with abused children, the subject matter of her intaglio prints.

In 1994 she was hired as an assistant professor of art and chair of the art department at Valley City State University where she taught a variety of art courses including history, printmaking, theory, painting, drawing and design.

She retired as professor emeritus in 2014 and now her focus is on mezzotint printmaking

See More: www.lwhitneystudio.com/

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