The wonderful Althea Murphy-Price joins the Studio Noize fam today! Althea is an awesome printmaker and professor at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville. Her work explores the politics and culture of Black women’s hair. She’s not confined to one medium in her exploration. She does lithography, screenprinting, collage, photography, and 3D printing. We talked about what inspired her to do so much experimentation and where she found her love for printmaking. Of course, we talk about her wonder work, ideas of realness and perfection, adornment of little girls, being a “good printer,” and much more. Two printmakers that love printmaking talking that good art talk like you like it. It’s the Noize! Listen, subscribe, and share!Episode 178 topics include:Falling in love with printmakingstruggling with letting gogetting into teaching having an artistic communitythe politics of Black women’s hairexperimenting with materialsbeing a good printerusing technology in experimentingmaking mistakes in the print shopAlthea Murphy-Price is inspired by the social implication of beauty and its relationship to female identity, women, and culture. Topics of real and false, decoration, and imitation are explored in two and three-dimensional working methods, using traditional and non-conventional approaches to printmaking and sculpture.Althea Murphy-Price began her studies in Fine Art at Spelman College before receiving her Master of Arts in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and later studying at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts. Her artwork has been shown widely throughout the country and in international cities in Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden. Her writings and work have been featured in such publications as Art Papers Magazine, CAA Reviews, Contemporary Impressions Journal, Art in Print, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process., and Printmakers Today.See more: Althea Murphy-Price website + Althea Murphy-Price IG @altheamurphypricePresented by: Black Art In AmericaFollow us:StudioNoizePodcast.comIG: @studionoizepodcastJamaal Barber: @JBarberStudioSupport the podcast www.patreon.com/studionoizepodcast

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