#folk yeah

Happy Macabre Monday! 

In the final edition of Macabre Monday for 2020, we present Folk Yeah, a print portfolio arranged by Milwaukee artist and member of the Justseeds cooperative Colin Matthes for his 2010 “Principles of Relief Print” course at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The prints selected for this post were created by Matthes’s students Sara Caron, Tricia Boyle, Julio Cordova, Caitlin Donald, Erin Hill, Steve Sainsbury, and Patrick Sharrow, respectively. The collection is comprised of 17 relief prints printed on BFK Rives Paper in an edition of 25 copies. Each print is a response to a folklore theme, with colors ranging from shades of yellow, black, and maroon on cream, beige, or white colored paper, casting the collection in a light that matches the tales they are based on. All manner of scary beings inhabit the pages of this collection, including ghouls, goblins, ghosts, a man-goat creature, and the downright frightening woman with a fire iron watching me type this post. Although we may not be able to identify the exact folk tales these images are based on, we can confirm that there will be nightmares tonight!

We hope you have enjoyed our Macabre Monday posts and have a happy (socially-distanced) Halloween!

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