{"id":260,"date":"2016-12-29T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:44:40","slug":"lesley-dill-1996-1997","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/lesley-dill-1996-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Dill, 1996-1997"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lesley Dill instructs students on how to add stitching and use hand inked block letters to form words to her prints.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Students actively collaborate with Lesley to produce a variety of prints during the Smith College Print Workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lesley Dill<\/strong>
\nPeter Pettengill, printer
\n1996-1997<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Workshop: March 31- April 3, 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesley Dill received a BA from Trinity College, a M.Ed. from Smith College (1974), and a MFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. Her work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has received many grants and awards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dill works regularly in media as varied as sculpture, photography, printmaking, and performance, often melding several of these into multivalent interactive works of art. She uses the human form and its surrogates, such as articles of clothing, as vehicles to explore the interaction between the physical body and the soul. Often, her work uses poetry to reinforce the power of language in human existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dill\u2019s 1997 workshop was one of the most interactive. Students stamped, sewed, and stenciled prints to finish this complex edition. Dill, well known for her love of materials and collaborations, arrived for the workshop with a completed photogravure plate from one of her photographs, a box of rubber stamps, and many ideas. After attempting to print on a variety of surfaces, including fabric, she and Master Printer Peter Pettengill decided on a thin sheet of skin-like Gampi paper as the support, which would be stamped, sewn, and stenciled with a gold edge before being mounted on a thicker piece of Arches. The phrase \u201cBeauty Crowds Me Till I Die,\u201d is an excerpt from a poem by Emily Dickinson, “Part Five: The Single Hound XLIII.” This phrase is hand stamped on the prints.<\/span><\/p>\n