2025 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition

Jade Hoyer and Stephanie Hunder were awarded this prestigious Fellowship early in 2025 and have been hard at work since. This exhibition will celebrate their artistic accomplishments and put a wrap on their fellowship year.

In addition to the exhibition, on Saturday, March 14 Highpoint will be hosting a conversation with Jade and Stephanie that will be moderated by Vanessa Reubendale conversation will dig deep into the ideas and processes that Jade and Stephanie explored and employed in the creation of their fellowship work, more details here.

In addition to the fruitful creativity Jade and Stephanie have enjoyed, accomplished artist and educator Stephanie Syjuco visited Minneapolis in September and met separately with the fellows to view and discuss their work. For Hunder, the visit was “highly inspiring”. She added: “She (Stephanie Syjuco) seems to question how documentation of the world affects our perception of it. Her inquiry seems closely related to some of my own interrogations so it was exciting to see her approach.”

Regarding her work for the exhibition, Hunder said this: “I created a large, five-panel piece that examines our complex relationship with the land. I began with impressions of vegetation via collagraph printmaking – a tangible record of leaves and plant materials run through the press capturing their complex shapes and delicate surface textures. Layered atop these are hand-drawn maps of the Namekagon watershed, screenprinted onto the panels, obscuring and revealing the collagraph in varying degrees, creating an interplay between geography, and material presence. Adding another dimension to the piece, are NMDS charts. As a method for visualizing complex data, NMDS charts introduce a contemporary lens through which to interpret the landscape. Finally, geometric and abstract ideas about surfaces, such as non-Euclidean tiling, add a suggestion of dimensional depth. These may sound like wide ranging ideas, but they are all about how we perceive and comprehend our surroundings. One of the things I love about printmaking is how the artist can draw together such disparate layers into a new sense of cohesion.”

Jade offered this: “It’s a gift for us as artists to have the opportunity to closely inspect and to revise our ideas. My work over the past few months has been informed, delightfully, by the opportunity to have input from our visits with Stephanie Syjuco, and being able to participate in the artistic community at the Highpoint, especially its community critiques organized by Edson Rosas.

Conceptually, my ideas are playing with Filipino American healthcare archives, especially images from nursing programs at the turn of the 20th century. I have found that the project has evolved into a reflection not so much on archive per se, but on the translation of archive imagery and messaging across time, distance, and storytellers. This is particularly interesting for me as a mixed-race, Filipina-American. Motifs like stamps and postcards have emerged in my work. I have played with this idea using paper weaving, silkscreen, portraiture, and risography.

From a technical standpoint, I have enjoyed getting into lithography at the Highpoint! I am immeasurably grateful to Judy Baumann and other staff at the Highpoint for their generosity and sharing their expertise, especially Katie St. John.

I am excited for how these threads have come together in my artistic practice, creating metaphorical and unanticipated storylines!”

While their exhibition is on view and right before their public event in Highpoint galleries, artist Judy Pfaff will visit Minneapolis to meet with Jade and Stephanie individually. She will walk through the exhibition with each of them and converse about their work.