Colleen Blackard Art Updates Podcast

<p>Recorded during Print Austin, join Colleen Blackard and Allyson Augustine for a conversation about Blackard’s Italian-inspired monoprints at Flatbed Press in Austin, TX.</p><p>Experiencing Italy for the first time, Blackard encountered a landscape deeply marked by human presence: hillsides shaped into farmland, gardens enclosed by walls, and cities built layer upon layer across centuries. In Assisi, Roman temples converted into churches and medieval dwellings constructed from ancient stone reveal a continuity of occupation that compresses time into place. Yet amid this enduring human imprint, nature persists—vines creep across masonry, birds nest in eaves, and vegetation erod...