Cerese Vaden

Interests

Teaching

Printmaking, watercolor, mixed media, Assemblage, collage, Artists book, drawing

Research

Creativity, motivation, feminism, anthropocene, climate change, play

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Vaden, C. (2010). Printmakers Today. Schiffer Publishing.
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  Editor:Jeffery B. Snyder

Presentations

• Vaden, C., & Ritchie, M. (2019, October). In the Shadow of Thomas, Georgia and Albert. Panel presentation and discussion. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah: Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance.
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  I co-chaired a panel for the biennial Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance (RMPA) conference in SLC, Ut at University of Utah.Panel Details: "Living in the Shadow of Thomas, Georgia and Albert" In this panel “West” refers to a geographic region and associated cultures in the western United States. “Western Art” references art produced by artists living in the West and art produced by artists about the West.  “Western art” comes with baggage and many serious artists avoid being identified as makers of such.  Yet, those of us living in the West are western artists in the broadest sense and many, if not most of us, speak to issues specific to contemporary life in the western United States.  We are influenced, often deeply, by place, culture and the social and political issues of our communities. This panel is an attempt to own our identities as western artists.  It asks both audience-attenders and presenters to consider their art lineage from western artists.  What artists working in the West or making art about the West have influenced their work?  How do they engage western issues in their work and continue this visual dialogue?  Has the role of making art about and in the West changed? The hour-long panel will be fast-paced. We will open the panel with participant-attenders taking a few moments to consider and list their western artistic influences.  The panel will proceed with each of the panelists showing a few images of their work and several artists they have identified who have western art influences. Presented artists will be selected through an open call.  We seek to keep panelist presentations to 12 minutes each, then move to moderator generated connections with the final 15 minutes open for conversation and discussion between the panelists and the participant-attenders. Cerese Vaden and Mark Ritchie will moderate the panel.
• Vaden, C. (2018, Oct). United by Prints, Undivided by Mountains Panel Presentation. Panel Presentation and Day long Social Event. University of Wyoming , Laramie, WY: Mid American Printmaking Conference and University of Wyoming.
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  I curated an invitational exhibition and chaired a Panel both titled, “United by Prints, Undivided by Mountains.” The exhibition and panel were both held at the National Mid American Print Council (MAPC ) Biennial Conference titled, “Go West: The Collaborative Turn”, at University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY, October 3-6, 2018. The Mid America Print Council is an educational organization whose goal it is to promote awareness and appreciation of the art of making original prints, books, hand-made paper, and drawings. It is the largest national printmaking organization in the United States holding biennial conferences that present panels, speakers, exhibitions and demonstrations addressing issues that relate to artists working in all printmaking media, book arts and paper arts.As founding board member of the recently established Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance (RMPA, legally recognized in 2016) I was asked by MAPC Conference Organizer, Professor Mark Ritchie to both curate an exhibition of RMPA members work, and organize a panel introducing  RMPA to MAPC on a full Saturday dedicated to bringing the two printmaking bodies together. A unique opportunity to promote RMPA I began organizing in Dec 2017. The exhibition involves 22 printmakers from the 11 RMPA states, and the panel represents the interest of the entire RMPA body. This project increases my national profile and standing in the printmaking world and thereby increases the visibility of the printmaking program at the University of Arizona.
• Vaden, C. (2012, Spring). Cerese Vaden: Mixed Media Print. Print Printed Printing II. Highlands New Mexico University, Las Vegas, NM.
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  Individual Presenter
• Vaden, C. (2012, Summer). Inside the Box: Cerese Vaden Frogman's Lecture. Frogman's Workshop Faculty Lecture Series. Frogman's Print Workshops, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Sd.
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• Vaden, C. (2011, Fall). Cerese Vaden Artist Presentation. Visiting Artist for University of South Dakota. University of South Dakota, Vermillion South Dakota.
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  Keynote Speaker
• Vaden, C. (2010, Spring). Insular Identity. Visiting Artists Lecture. Idaho State University, Studetn Union Building, Pocatello, ID.
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• Vaden, C. (2009, Spring). Ignorant of My Ignorance. Visiting Artisit Lecture. University of Minnesota, Morris, MN.
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• Vaden, C. (2009, Summer). Jentel Presents. Sheridan, Wyoming Public Lecture Series. Sheridan, Wyoming.
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• Vaden, C. (2008, Fall). Bird Prints. Mid American Print Council Conference. University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND.
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• Vaden, C. (2008, Spring). Insular Passages in Process. Insular Passages Exhibition. University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY.
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• Vaden, C. (2008, Spring). Passages Defined. Insular Passages Exhibition. Della Brown Taylor Gallery, West Virginia State University.
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• Vaden, C. (2006, March 2006). Inside the Box. Invited Artist/Workshop Instructor/Presenter. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
• Vaden, C. (2006, March 2006). Matrix, Crayon, Book. Workshop/ Presentation. Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX.
• Vaden, C. (2006, Nov 2006). Insular Musing. Visiting Artist Presentation/ Lecture about my Creative Research. Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA.
• Vaden, C. (2005, March 2005). A Visit Home. Presentation and Lecture of Personal Research and Work. Brigham Young University, Idaho, Rexburg, ID.
• Vaden, C. (2005, Nov 2005). Disjointed. Lecture Presenting Current Research. Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ.
• Vaden, C. (2005, Oct 2005). Matrix to Multiple. Printmaking Workshop and Lecture. Sonoran Desert Museum Art Institute, Oro Valley, AZ.
• Vaden, C. (2004, Jan 2004). Would I Whisper Why?. Student Union University of New Mexico, Gallup. University of New Mexico, Gallup, Gallup, NM.
• Vaden, C. (2004, Oct 2004). Identities Reclaimed. Lecture. Murray State University, Murray, KY.

Creative Works

• See elaboration; Prints, assemblages, books, paintings; March; I did not individually list each print, drawing and assemblage box from the many that are completed or in progress.I trust the exhibitions, exchanges and workshops listed will make evident the extent of original creations I have made.
• 5 Individual works of mine; Online Art Blog published by Arizona State University; Arizona State University; April 2017; Superstition Review; A juried arts blog magazine, Superstition Review is published twice per hear and  highlights work by artists and writers from across the United States. 
• Artist Lecture in PLAYA Presents; A 45 minute artist lecture presenting my work to the communities of Lake County in Lakeview, OR as part of PLAYA Presents. PLAYA presents is a monthy presentation of selected artists, writers, performers and scientist who are current residents at PLAYA residency. 
• Visiting Artist Lecture / Pinon Pine Press Idaho State University; Mixed Media Printmaking; A two day visiting artist stint that was a follow up to the residency I did at Pinon Pine Press in the summer of 2014. I presented work begun at Pinon Press and  finished at other residencies later in my sabbatical. This work was presented to letterpress and artist book classes at Idaho State University, hosted by book artist, Paula Jull. 
• Conference Co-Organizer: Print, Printed Printing; Printmaking; Co-organizer of the biennial Print, Printed, Printing Conference. Usually held in Las Vegas, NM. Due to covid we pivoted to an online format which had some advantages for accessibitlity, but disadvantages in interaction and time. 
• Flag book Workshop; Artist Book; Conducted a one day community artist book workshop held in Lakeview OR underwritten and invited by PLAYA artist residency.
• Ethics of Love; Intaglio; Ethics of Love, National Invitational Portfolio Exchange Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, Boise State University, Boise, ID
• Habitat; Printmedia; Habitat, National Invitational Print Portfolio Exchange and collaboration. Pairing writers and printmakers from across the US and abroad this exchange represented 12 writers and 12 printmakers. 
• Visiting Artist Lecture/ Feather River Community College; Hour long visiting Artist lecture presenting my creative research at Feather River Communiyt college in Quincy, CA
• Workshop Instructor: Summer Snow Workshop; Led a weeklong mixed media, bookmaking and print workshop at "Summer Snow", Snow College, Ephriam, UT. "Summer Snow" is a fast growing regional workshop venue bringing in instructors from across the country, and students from the greater Rocky Mountain region. It is quickly garnering a reputation for high quality art intensives in a beatiful western setting. 
• Exhibition: Narratives of the Possible; Artist Book; Narratives of the Possible, National Invitational Artist’s Book Exhibition, University of Wyoming Dept. of Art & Art History Visual Art Building's Main Gallery, Laramie, WY
• Print, Printed, Printing; Etching; Print Printed, Printing,Regional Biennial Invitational Exhibition, New Mexico Highlands University Gallery, Las Vegas, NM
• Visiting Artist Workshop and Lecture; Alternative Printmaking; Three day workshop and visiting artist lecture, critiques etc. Utah State University, Logan, UT. I shared the research I had been doing for the last two years into press-less printmaking options, in specific "gel Plate" production. This three day workshop introduced students to the materials and unique techniques in the printmaking process. 
• Print, Printed Printing Conference Presentation; Presentation; Virtual artists presentation at the biennial Print Printed Printing Conference.
• Visiting Artist Virtual Lecture; Virtual visiting Artist Lecture for the University of Wyoming. 
• Visual Elegy; Etching; Visual Elegy, National Invitational Portfolio Exhibition of prints inspired by bell hook’s Appalachian Elegy, Exhibition Venues: Tippetts and Eccles Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, UTThis is one of several ongoing exhibitions, as this portfolio exchange has been traveled and/or shown in a variety of spaces over several years. 
• Visiting Artist Lecture/workshop; Week long visiting artist at Utah State University in Logan, UT in March 2015. I gave a public lecture at the Eccles Museum of Art, condcuted one on one critiques with students and did a multi day master printing session where studens assisted in the production of an edition of one of my prints.