In this five-part mini-series, Ann Shafer talks to five artists who were selected to be included in an exhibition called 5X5, that was part of Print Austin's winter festival this year in 2024. The juror of the show is Mysczka Lewis, who is a curator at Tandem Press. Next up is Teresa Cole, an artist and printmaker from New Orleans. She has taught at Tulane University for nearly thirty years.
Teresa’s interest in the humanness of pattern has been a throughline in her work and she incorporates different cultures’ methods of patternmaking and storytelling in beautiful installations. In our conversation, we talk about orizome (a Japanese method of folding and dyeing paper), commissioning printed fabric for saris in India, printing on aluminum mesh, and Tulane’s tuition-free master’s program.
