2025 | Community Perspectives Tour with Kevin Haas

Join Printmaking Professor Kevin Haas for a tour of select works in the current exhibitions

Friday, January 31, 2025, 12:00–1:00pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

Join Professor Kevin Haas for a printmaker’s perspective on select works in the current exhibitions, especially the series of screenprints by artist Ed Ruscha titled News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues (see Stews in the museum’s permanent collection database). Haas will also offer an overview of printmaking and print publishing, and open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged.

About | Kevin Haas is a contemporary artist who works in printmaking, drawing, and design. He is known for his prints in muted colors and coarse halftones, fragmented text phrases, and large print installations. Haas’s ongoing work explores themes of creative effort and permanence amid uncertainty and anxiety. Haas has exhibited extensively around the United States and Canada and his work has also been recognized through participation in prestigious artist residencies. Since 2000 he has taught courses on printmaking, design, and book arts at Washington State University, where he coordinates the printmaking studios and the Bookforms Library. Visit kevinhaas.comto learn more about Kevin Haas and his work. Work by Haas is also featured in the current exhibition, Your Collection: Faculty Remix, on view January 14 through June 28, 2025.

Image | Kevin Haas, Detail of “Flammable Document (Fathomless Vacuousness),” 2024

Common Reading Series invite individuals from our campus and wider community to speak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhibitions, charting connections among art, personal experience, and different disciplines.