𝑭𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔
2025
Installation of Concrete, Glass, Dirt, Dandelion, Clover, Goldenrod, Alfalfa
Five months later, I’m finally posting images from my MFA thesis exhibition at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. The shift from graduate school into life after has been both exhausting and disorienting. I’m still finding my footing in and outside of academia, still learning how to sustain a studio practice, but I’m excited to keep building on this work.
My thesis centered on Philadelphia’s abandoned lots; spaces marked by cracked sidewalks, native ecology, salvaged debris, and the remnants of urban systems left behind. Through print matrices and poetic interventions, I sought to reframe these traces of neglect, transforming signs of fracture and loss into gestures of renewal.
SNEAK PEAK
Friday!
Paper Trails: Rae Helms and Peixuan Ouyang
May 1 – May 31, 2026
Reception: First Friday, May 1, 6–9 PM
Hours: Sat–Sun, 2–6 PM
This May, Grizzly Grizzly presents Paper Trails, a two-person exhibition by Rae Helms and Peixuan Ouyang. The show brings together glass, found materials, prints, and moving image to look at grief, loss, and the disorientation of arriving somewhere that does not quite feel like your own. These works are made of fragments of places and objects, altered records, and impressions that point to how people are shaped by movement and how places are shaped in return. Both artists attempt to trace the voids and intangibility of holding a place that is constantly shifting.
Hear from our member, Rae Helms! @printmakerrae
I first discovered SGCI as an undergraduate student, thanks to my mentor Eileen Macdonald and my experience working at the Janet Turner Printmaking Museum. Being involved with SGCI throughout both my undergraduate and graduate studies has greatly demystified the art world for me. It has connected me with printmakers I admire and influenced how I view my art practice as part of a larger, supportive community!
Receiving the graduate student fellowship from SGCI was an incredibly encouraging experience for me. It not only affirmed my path as an artist, but also provided me with an opportunity to connect more with the community that has supported me from the start!
Image list:
1-2: In Memory of, 2025, Soft Sculpture, Spite bite Aquatint on Muslin
3: Asphalt, Parking Lot, Rain Garden (exhibition installation), 2025
4: In the living room peeling skins (close-up), 2025, Reclaimed found wooden beam from a collapsed West Philadelphia home.
@printmakerrae (they/them), Adjunct Professor - Printmaking, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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Come see our table at the Riso Expo! It’s at the Rotunda in West Philly. @printmakerrae and I will be tabling until 6pm! Also, follow our page @falsealarmpress
Some big demos for me recently - photopolymer etching, chine-colle, and an ball ground aluminum plate lithograph inspired by a morning dove that is nesting in my window
Check out what our Serigraphy and Lithography intro students have been up to in Rae Helms’ class! @printmakerrae
For the Philly Posters assignment, students designed two-layer reduction screenprints using drawing fluid and screen filler to creating works that celebrate Philadelphia or advocate for causes they care about affecting the city.
Some big changes lately!
In May, I graduated with my MFA in Printmaking. I’ve spent my last few weeks printing old etchings on my favorite press at Tyler School of Art. I’m endlessly grateful for the time I’ve spent here and for the supportive art community I’ve grown into, the space to experiment, and the chance to find my way in making.
Thank you to all my friends, my encouraging mentors, and my partner, who never stops supporting my passions.
(Photo credit @ribread___ )
