Senior Hannah Roehr Received Top International Fellowship at Recent Southern Graphics Council Conference Meeting
Hannah Roehr was presented the prestigious 2024 Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Fellowship during the April 6, 2024 SGCI Awards Ceremony held in Providence, Rhode Island. Hanna's proposal to mount an international hand-pulled print exchange program with a theme focusing on “Overlapping Identities” was selected from a pool of strong applications vying for the top prize. Printmaking is a field known for exchanging prints through editioning process, sharing ideas and techniques through collaboration (a concept of Cross Pollination). Hannah's proposal to SGCI reflects her passion for this aspect of printmaking.
Hannah, a senior Studio Art in Printmaking major from Grand Prairie, Texas, has been a highly visible member of the printmaking area since she entered the program as a transfer student. Participant in a national print exchange project titled What at Time to Be Alive, a project organized by Andi Newberry, an MFA candidate in printmaking at University of Colorado-Boulder, that came together during COVID, Hannah proposed and then arranged this portfolio for the exhibition of her set of prints from the exchange in the Landmark Gallery during the summer of 2021.
While at Texas Tech, Hannah has gone the extra mile to expand and improve her craft. During summer 2023 she participated in two print workshops at the Frogman's Print Workship at the University of Iowa, one in stone lithography with Tom Christison and one in photolithography with Elizabeth Jean-Younce. She also participated in a monotype workshop that summer at the Charles Adams Studio Project Print Studio in Lubbock with Cathy Kayser.
She has been a member and officer of the TTU Print Club and has played an integral role in assuring that the Print Club always has a presence at the First Friday Art Trail in downtown Lubbock. Hannah has also served as a print instructor during School of Art's Pre-College Immersion Summer Program for high school students for the last three years.
Hannah graduates this May and has recently been offered and accepted a “full-ride” plus generous stipend to take graduate studies at Louisiana State University.