Episode 185 | Kathy Vajda

This is a special episode, Print Friends. It was recorded while Miranda was in residence at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. This is the second in a three-part deep dive into the Institute through the artists who teach at the university and an exploration into the ways in which technology intersects with contemporary printmaking.

This week Miranda speaks with Kathy Vajda, an artist and Clinical Professor of Art in the School of Art and Design. They talk about her practice for the last decade of painstakingly creating hand-formed sculptures of snow and ice and the process of documenting them, how her MFA in printmaking evolved into this practice, what it is like to have a practice so reliant on the weather, and how she’s been forced to adapt as our winters get warmer.