Phil VanderWeg, WMU Frostic School of Art Emeriti Director and professor of art, will discuss Under Pressure, the large format printmaking event that took place on WMU’s campus in 2017 and 2019. A steamroller was employed instead of a more conventional printing press to accommodate very large woodcut prints.

Current art students were joined during the day-long event by an assortment of area high school students, alumni, faculty, and community artists. In 2017, his particular image was linked to a serigraph print, Houses (2005), by Jennifer Bartlett, in the KIA Collection. He will also discuss the creative evolution of his related print Bartlett Homes (2017) and the subsequent painting Bartlett Homes (2019).