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Crafting a Consequential Narrative

Duane Slick

Duane Slick visited Island Press in the fall of 2019 as the Arthur and Sheila Prensky visiting artist. He created a multi-layered collagraph, Crafting a Consequential Narrative that includes the artist’s signature leitmotif: a coyote head. Slick’s imagery is rooted in his Woodlands identity—specifically, Meskwaki/Ho-Chunk.

The edition of 16 was completed in September 2020, seven months into the global pandemic coupled with much social and political strain. The title Crafting a Consequential Narrative refers to the uncontrollability of our current situations.

About the artist

Painter Duane Slick’s acrylic paintings blend the subjects of oral and visual Native American traditions with a focus on trickster strategies and modernist/post-modernist painting histories.

Artist tracing shadow of red rose on wall
Artist Duane Slick and master printer Tom Reed looking at materials for printing
Broad shot of the print shop with people working
Artist Duane Slick working on print
Students showing finished "helper print"
Print with white coyote head on black background
Broad view of artist working in the print shop at Island Press
Artist working on print
Students working on artist project at the press
Little sculpture made from aluminum foil
View of print shop with visitors meeting artist
Artist Duane Slick signs the finished print

Duane Slick tracing the shadow of a rose onto a piece of paper.

Artist Duane Slick and master printer Tom Reed look at plates and discuss materials for the “helper print.”

BFA student Zoe Morris shows the finished “helper print.”

The helper print!

Students Amy Chen, Taylor Fulton, Jordan Lee, and Janessa Johnson ink plates at the press for the artist’s “helper print.”

Duane made an aluminum foil sculpture during lunch one day.

Curators from the Saint Louis Art Museum visit the Island Press shop to see Duane’s project in progress.

Duane signs the B.A.T. print.

Editions from this project

Print of two coyote heads surrounded by gray painterly marks and red, green, and black shapes