Margot has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. She studied printmaking at CMU and Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University. Collections including his work: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Getty Art Center, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, The Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts-Chongqing, China, The New York Public Library, University of San Francisco, and The Ballinglen Art Museum, Ballycastle, Co. He also produces limited edition letterpress books that contain his images. Recent work has been based on the west coast of Ireland, Maine, and Maritime Canada. He often begins a series with on-site drawings and watercolors, and from these develops his color reduction woodcut prints. He taught printmaking, drawing, and book arts at the Hartford Art School/University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT from 1982 to 2020. Jo Yarrington will explain her artistic response to THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, what Twain calls a “mental kaleidoscope” and the marking of time, through the cyanotype and photogram image rendering processes that record in real-time the sun and the journey of the earth in its spinning, which best encapsulates the imprint of Twain’s work and its thingness in Yarrington’s words. She will show several incised wood blocks and examples of other prints where she responds to both historical and current issues. Margot will also describe her printmaking methods for the three prints that will be on display. In the article, he expresses both positive and negative opinions about the effects the printing press and moveable type have had on global communication. Margot will discuss her visual response to Mark Twain’s article celebrating the opening in 1900, of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. Jim Lee will also show examples of his other print work. ![]() He will touch on Twain’s involvement with the Paige Compositor, an early attempt at automated typesetting. Images shown in the lecture will trace the development of the two printed broadsides based on the quotes, printed with letterpress type and color woodcut. ![]() The other is more hopeful and involves the process of letterpress printing. One is a rather dark interpretation of the meaning of life. Jim Lee will speak about his artistic response to two Mark Twain quotes from THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER manuscripts, 1902-08, unpublished in Twain’s lifetime. Join artists Jim Lee, Margot Rocklen, and Jo Yarrington about the themes, inspiration, and techniques on view in The Evocative Mark Twain Inspires the Printmakers Network of Southern New England exhibit taking place at the Mark Twain House & Museum Mathrough January 23, 2023.
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