{"id":199,"date":"2016-12-29T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2017-01-24T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:35:57","slug":"rita-dewitt-1991","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/rita-dewitt-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Rita DeWitt, 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rita DeWitt<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">Peter Pettengill, printer<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">1991<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop date: March 7, 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Rita DeWitt earned her BFA and MFA from the University of Alabama. She uses digital technology and photography to create works that explore memory, self, and history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">DeWitt was a Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith when she was asked to participate in the print workshop. As she works frequently with digital and photographic imagery, she decided to translate these interests into creating a photo-etching with Master Printer Peter Pettengill. Computer technology was still very new in the art department. In 1988 the department introduced the course \u201cDesign with Computers,\u201d but the first digital imaging lab at Smith was not built until the 1992 renovation of Seelye Hall. DeWitt used her own equipment to scan images of flowers and slips of paper from fortune cookies and manipulated the pixels on her computer. She photographed the result, and Dwight Pogue then exposed the image onto halftone film for transfer to a copper etching plate. Although there are multiple colors in this print, it was printed from a single plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Rita De\u00a0Witt. American, 1948 \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-200 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.21.38-AM.png\" alt=\"Five\u00a0Fortunes\u00a0in\u00a0One\u00a0Cookie. March 7, 1991 Photogravure\u00a0printed\u00a0in\u00a0color\u00a0on\u00a0paper Sheet:\u00a030\u00a0x\u00a022\u00a03\/4\u00a0in.;\u00a0image:\u00a023\u00a07\/8\u00a0x\u00a015\u00a03\/8\u00a0in. \" width=\"212\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.21.38-AM.png 212w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.21.38-AM-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five\u00a0Fortunes\u00a0in\u00a0One\u00a0Cookie. March 7, 1991<br \/> Photogravure\u00a0printed\u00a0in color\u00a0on\u00a0paper<br \/> Sheet:\u00a030\u00a0x\u00a022\u00a03\/4\u00a0in.;\u00a0 image:\u00a023\u00a07\/8\u00a0x\u00a015\u00a03\/8\u00a0in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita DeWitt Peter Pettengill, printer 1991 Workshop date: March 7, 1991 Rita DeWitt earned her BFA and MFA from the University of Alabama. She uses digital technology and photography to create works that explore memory, self, and history. DeWitt was a Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith when she was asked to participate in the print &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/rita-dewitt-1991\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00a0Rita DeWitt, 1991<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}