National Non-Toxic Printmaking Invitational

Katherine Harman Harding

Making art is what I do to recognize, reorganize, and to make my particular order out of daily disorder. Making art is a solitary endeavor, but while doing it I reflect on places and times shared, during the movement through a day and a year.

The “place” in these four monoprints is Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine. I went to this place to learn the non-toxic technique used in these prints. It is also a place that holds my first memory of aroma – the warm piney and salty smell of my first remembered family vacation at age 3. Courtship, family vacations with my own children, retreat from the crowded quotidian of daily life here in Indiana have all occurred for me in Maine. It is a place that soothes as it excites.

I earned a BFA at the Herron School of Art 17 years after completing a degree in economics from the University of Connecticut. Professional memberships include the MidAmerica Print Council, Surface Design Association and Indiana Women Artists.