Plasticene Creatures & Outgrowth Boxes
These creatures represent the Plasticene Epoch, a period of time currently unfolding as plastic refuse evolves into new life forms in inundated oceans.
Underwater FantaSea – Images
Margaret Craig's work part of i.d.e.a. Museum's Underwater FantaSea exhibition - images.
Projected Evolutions (Duende Art Project, Houston, TX)
Nature uses the plastic so prevalent in the environment to evolve new life forms. This installation displays a variety of bio-flora emerging from the walls and lights of The Duende Art Project in Houston, TX.
SGC International Conference 2015
Margaret Craig and Southwest School of Art (SSA) colleagues Nicole Geary and Dinah Coakley attended the 2015 Southern Graphics Council Conference (Sphere SGCI) in Knoxville Tennessee (March 18-21, 2015).
Vinyl / Media cutting for Aid in Platemaking
Notes on using an electronic cutting machine in printmaking - from an SGCI conference demonstration.
Great Trash Reef (Blue Star)
The Great Trash Reef synthesizes waste materials and salvage into alternative life forms. Gyre currents in the world's oceans accumulate trash into islands. Their predominant component is plastic, which breaks down into smaller neurostatic bits, or nurdles.
Burning Bones
These pieces were completed at a residency at Burning Bones press in Houston, Texas. They are a continuation on my meditation of the destruction and pollution of our oceans and the sea life evolving from the problem. Look for oil slicks, and driftwood and plastic bits, and even an etched selfie as I am tossed in the mix.…
Berlin Plastic Art
An extension of my Berlin residency - alternative life forms evolved from plastic and recyclables.
PASA Temporary Exhibits
Margaret Craig’s work has been chosen for inclusion in Public Art San Antonio’s Temporary Exhibits and is on view in City Hall in the Municipal Plaza C Room.
Venice Printmaking Studio
Just back from the Venice Printmaking Studio in Murano. I worked on a new body of prints, and took in the Venice Biennale.
Creating Etching decals for Ceramics (using Akua water-based etching Transparent Base)
A technique for printing decals on ceramics, inspired by the Chinese.
Update: Improvement on Xerox or Laser Transfer – water dissolving paper!
Every so often an improvement to a technique comes along thanks to one of my students. In this case, artist Bob Cook was in my mixed media class and we were learning the traditional xerox transfer method. We were gluing the xerox image face down to a support and then painfully dissolving off the backing paper.…