North Pole Studio’s Printmaking Residency at Mullowney Printing Company

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Future Mythologies presents the culminating body of work of a printmaking residency between 5 artists from North Pole Studio and the master printers at Mullowney Printing Company. From January through June of 2025, North Pole Studio artists Eva Adneral, Aaron Cunningham, Annie Rose Macer, Dan Tran, and Scott Tullock spent six months exploring distinct printmaking methods: monoprinting, etching/drypoint, linocut, screenprint, and letterpress. This residency expanded access to both tools and ideas, and prioritized discovery through making with an emphasis on reflection and critique that fostered a collective exchange.

Artists experimented with each print method without a fixed outcome in mind, allowing the process to guide their understanding and outcome. Reflection and group dialogue after each round of printing opened up new approaches and interpretations, creating a ripple effect of shared ideas. The works emerging from this process showcase personal narratives that speak both to individual identities and collective imaginations.

These prints speak a new symbolic language - reimagining folklore, identity, and storytelling through ink and impression. What emerges is not just technical accomplishment, but the forging of myth: layered, expressive works that look both backward and forward.

Featured Artists

  • Eva Adneral

    “Block printing feels like a technique that you can have a relationship with. In my art, I need to have a relationship with the tools that I’m using—to get to know how my paints work, how my brushes work—like they’re alive. Block printing has that uncontrollable element, but also a relationship between the ink and the block, you and the block, how you put the ink on the block and the brayer, and it’s something that you get to know.”

  • Aaron Cunningham

    “I liked the etching, especially. The etching is so detailed, which goes with my art that also has a lot of detail. This allowed me to express the level of detail I want in my art.”

  • Annie Rose Macer

    “Throughout the residency, I’ve explored more detail work and design. It has made me want to do more printing and more artwork. Inspiration just comes in, or I start drawing and get inspired.”

  • Dan Tran

    “Mullowney Print Studio feels good. Not sad, but happy. There are special tools there - be careful. This is a special opportunity - be wise.”

  • Scott Tullock

    “We did copper plate printing and monoprinting on the offset press. I liked using the offset press the best.” “I have a really good photo memory. It helps me with the storytelling of some of my artwork.”