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Anita Jung, Associate Professor of Printmaking at University of Iowa and fellow PressPlayPrint blog member sends this report and request regarding the current flood situation:

Well, Iowa City is not so nice these days. We are currently at 30.8 feet (4am Sat) and projected to crest at 33 feet, eleven feet above flood stage, this Tuesday. It is five feet higher than any known previous flood, ahhh the mixed blessing of living in interesting times. My studio is in North Hall (those windows are my studio), I also included a picture of our museum and print studio (the corner window is my office). The water will take along time to recede and then the clean-up will be extensive. I hope we will be ready for classes in late August.

I cannot begin to express how proud I am of my graduate students. They put in a heroic effort to save and remove not only things from their studios but the things of their colleagues who were out of town as well as things from the classrooms and archives. They also helped with the visual media collection in Art History. Many of us have taken turns sandbagging and working at the main library too. The past few days have been exhausting. It is an honor to work with these people. I made the decision to not to attempt to save presses, the potential of bodily injury seemed too eminent and too great of a risk at the time. I anticipate two feet of water throughout the print studios and suffice to say that lithography might be completely submerged.

I am now asking for your help. Many of my graduate students had extensive studio plans for the summer and I would like to offer them the opportunity to achieve these goals. If you are able to offer them space in your print shop and if your college can provide a dorm room that would be ideal. If not a place to work and a sofa to sleep on would suffice. Also, please let me know what your shop is capable of in regard to letterpress, photogravure, litho, intaglio, screen, etc. I know this is a lot to ask and I understand if it is not possible. Thank you for your thoughts and well wishes.

Anita Jung
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
anita-jung@uiowa.edu

Hear ye, hear ye!!

Do you use text in your art? Well, I have a venue for you! I am curating a one-night exhibition called TXT / ART - Text in Art. This exhibit is in conjunction with the Omaha Lit Fest. The Lit Fest is in it's 3rd year and it keeps getting bigger and better all the time! It is a weekend celebrating literature with many interesting panels, presentations, discussions and, of course, art. For more information about it, please visit the following link - http://www.omahalitfest.com/.

Are you interested? Want to have your work seen in the happening city of Omaha? Here's what you need to do:

- Please contact Wanda Ewing at wandabread@hotmail.com if you would like to participate. Mailing information will be given to you after that time.

- Exhibition date is Friday, September 19th at the W.Dale Clark Library located in downtown Omaha.

- Work for the exhibit must be received by Monday, September 15th. Artists are responsible for shipping to and from Omaha.

- There is no size restriction. You may sell your work as well with  30% going to the Lit Fest

That's the skinny.  If you have any questions, please email me any time.  I hope to see your work in the show!

This week, Studio 360 features a story about the arts in Omaha and includes an interview with artist and Press Print Play blogger Wanda Ewing at her studio.

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