The Printing Museum is pleased to announce the Spring 2023 cohortof the museum’s Artist-in-Residence Program. The artists will join the vibrant, creative community at the museum and use our studio spaces and teaching resources to create unique bodies of work.
Launched in 2020, the Artists-in-Residence provides access to TPM studios, one-on-one instruction in book arts, mentorship, and a materials stipend. Each artist will create a unique body of work from the residency and donate an edition to the museum.
Welcome!
Jen Bootwala
Jen Bootwala’s practice advocates for craft as a graphic design medium, leveraging its unique material affordances for visual communication. The repetitive labor of knitting is transformative for both maker and viewer. The creative process is cathartic and communal, allowing for collaborative narratives across time and space. Through her interdisciplinary approach she seeks to move beyond categorical boundaries and focus on moments of intersection and creative convergence. Bootwala earned an MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Houston.
Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi is a Korean-American multidisciplinary designer and artist working in the playful intersection of 2D and 3D. Her artwork spans illustration, risograph experiments, ceramics, and more. Choi is interested in creating art that encourages participation and investigates play and interaction. She draws inspiration from her childhood in Seoul, Surrealist painters, and Participatory Art. She holds a BFA in Design and BA in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas in Austin. She currently resides in Houston.
Nyssa Juneau
Nyssa Juneau is a painter who lives and works in Houston, TX. Juneau earned a BFA in Studio Arts from Louisiana State University. Juneau studied drawing installations with Phyllis Bramson at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and interactive programming at Rice University, later using that knowledge to create an interactive geometrical program for her solo exhibition, “Three Sides to Every Story.” She is currently working on the The Send Nudes Project in partnership with Art League Houston with the goal of engaging with the figurative tradition for a 21st century public while re-framing the nude figure under the lens of body positivity.
Gissette Padilla
Gissette Padilla is a Venezuela-born artist whose work and research has often explored various aspects of her identity, both individually and culturally. The work stands in the intersection of formalist abstraction and social commentary. Using painting, drawing, and various printmaking techniques, she will construct multi-layered images that evoke the experience of the events as they occur and as a historical bystander. The work is an amalgamation of real, distorted, and perceived experience built from fragments of personal photographs, memories, and current found images. She holds an MFA from UT San Antonia and a BFA from the University of Houston.
