Artist Jenny Schmid will give a lecture to the LSU School of Art at the Printelligence Conference on Friday, October 9 at 5 p.m. in 103 Julian T. White Hall Auditorium.

About the Artist 

Jenny Schmid grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she runs bikini press international and is a professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Art. She first learned intaglio printmaking at age 16 through a Smithsonian workshop and worked as an assistant in fine art lithography workshops in Seattle and San Francisco, starting at age 18. She has spent significant time in the Czech Republic, and Slovakia on a Fulbright Fellowship, learning traditional print processes. Schmid has collaborated with poets, musicians, programmers, librarians, and a bioethicist to realize projects that range from print folios to large scale live animation projection commissions. Her work is influenced by and incorporates work from the print archives she frequents, and she looks across history to make sense of and respond to current social, political, and environmental issues, most recently reproductive rights, and bodily autonomy. 

She is a 2019 recipient of the McKnight Fellowship at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Her 2020 linocut folio, “Pandemic/Pandemonium” featured by The Print Center in Philadelphia and Davidson Galleries, Seattle was purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, University of Minnesota Library Special Collections and Seattle University. More at https://www.lsu.edu/mapc-printelligence/featured-guests.php 

About Exhibition

On view in The Gallery at Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex, Mid America Print Conference Outstanding Printmaker Jenny’ Schmid will present her recent work, including works from Disembodied Reembodied. This portfolio resources the history of images of disembodied female anatomy in the extensive collections of the Wangensteen Historical Library to uncover contemporary experiences of women’s interactions with reproductive health and current political conversations surrounding their/our access to health care. 

This exhibition is hosted in conjunction with the 2026 Mid America Print Conference.