In this 3 part series, we hear from a master printer at Crow’s Shadow Institute to recount the beauty and incentives of a program that facilitates the art of print.
In a Native American reservation in Oregon, a small group of printers and curators make original works of collaborative printing. As a master printer, Judith Baumann explains how she runs the printing residency program at Crow’s Shadow.
About the speaker
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts was founded in 1992 by James Lavadour on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation outside of Pendleton, Oregon. In 2001, Crow’s Shadow began professionally publishing collaborative fine art editions with regionally and nationally known Native American artists under the imprint Crow’s Shadow Press. To date, Crow’s Shadow has published over 300 unique editions and series with 70 artists. Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press are in the collection of the Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Eiteljorg Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.
In 2017, Judith Baumann became Crow’s Shadow Press Master Printer after previous Master Printer Frank Janzen retired. Since 2017, she has collaborated with over twenty artists including Dyani White Hawk, Natalie Ball, Raven Chacon, Yatika Starr Fields, Marwin Begaye, Emily Arthur, James Lavadour, John Hitchcock and Wendy Red Star. Baumann received her MFA in printmedia from Virginia Commonwealth University and she continued her studies in professional collaborative printing at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has taught at several institutions, including The Evergreen State College from 2005 – 2014. She lives and works in Pendleton, Oregon.
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