By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu Bill Tourtillotte’s basic printmaking class and Ken Smith’s book cover design class have teamed with Brian Lair Books, a local bookstore specializing in books that provide inclusivity. Smith was contacted by the owner of Brain Lair Bookstore to have a class engage in a project for the bookstore, which
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By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu A new printmaking project brought students to a new place to show off work; the world around them. Unlike the usual print projects, the audience was the community. Although places differed, the idea of the project was to get artwork out in the world rather than have it in
By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu Printmaking is an art form where almost any idea seems valid due to the political and social history the art has made throughout the centuries. Bill Tourtillotte, the professor behind printmaking at IU South Bend, has continued to nurture the many ideas students have while in the shop. Tourtillotte
BY KATE LUCE Staff-writer “Zines” are a small-scale, self-produced magazine. They can cover a large range of topics encompassing anything from, music, poetry, feminism and virtually anything else one can think of. The world of zines has been around since the 70’s when photocopiers become readily available to the general public. At first, most zines
