PosseFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The

Those things somehow show up on my work and it's easier for them to come out if I'm controlling the myth

Collaborating Printers: Leslie Friedman

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In his paintings

slowly conceiving a landscape that will fit the irregular cuts that have been made into the prints

Ballard collaborated with master printer Alexis Nutini to develop a print that expresses the deliberate tension between beauty and violence that runs throughout her practice

Art that is purposely meant to bless others is what I want to share

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It is pretty much where I'm at now

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Brandywine used Arches Cover White

Although my art