Makayla Reese

Printmaker

401-543-5901

makayla.reese25@gmail.com


Education

2017-2021   BFA(pending) - Printmaking - Maine College of Art - Portland, ME (Expected May 2021)


Exhibitions

2020  BFA Show - Maine College of Art - Portland ME


2019  BFA Show - Maine College of Art - Portland ME


2011  Holocaust Memorial Show - Holocaust Museum - Providence, RI


Awards

2020    BFA Show- Best Work


Professional Experience

2016

Internship - The Brass - Warren, RI

  • Assisted people living with mental disabilities with cleaning and art supplies

  •  Created collaborative art work with the individuals

  • Heat and serve food during Lunch Time 

2016

Curator -  (Hosted by The Brass) - Like Minded Public Reception - Warren, RI


2014-2017

Wear Your Music, Providence RI - Internship

  • Social Media Posting

  • Wrap and detangling Guitar Strings 

  • Bracelet making

  • Packaging and Labeling

  • Organizing 

  •  Inventory

2014

Printmaker Josey Wright,Jamestown RI-Internship

  • Collograph, Gluing down fabric/material to a board to create an imagine

  • Relief, Lino carving inked and transferred to paper

  • Monotypes, Painting with ink on plexiglass and transferred to paper


Skills

 Printmaking

  • Press work

  • Paper prep work,measuring,tearing and cutting paper.

  • Hand and eye coordination, making sure your plate or screen are lined correcting with your paper. 

  • Color mixing

  • Troubleshooting technical problems

  • Color coordination

  • Working with chemicals


Screen-printing

  • Screen Cleaning

  • Stencil Cutting 

  • Mixing and Loading Ink

  • Screen exposure

  • Multilayer prints


Relief

  • Wood and Lino carvings

  • Multilayer prints

  • Sharpening tools


Calligraphy

  • Collecting fabric or textured materials

  • Adhering and sealing materials to a surface,the texture of the material will be printed


Lithograph

  • Mixing Chemicals 

  • Burning images onto a slab of stone

  • Layering grease materials, the chemical reaction with the grease burnt images into the stone. 

Intaglio 

  • Prepping cropper, cutting and sanding it down

  • Etching onto copper with acid

  • Hand drawing with needle tools