A Collaboration of Ohs

From my presentation:

“While at the Press at Colorado College, I helped design and print many projects. I laid wood and metal type, mixed ink and printed posters. This work included the broadside of Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘Infirm’ via Brooks Permissions and a poster for the new cross-curricular minor at Colorado College.

This is a collaborative broadside I worked on with my aunt and sister in the months leading up to my graduation . While I had done some independent work previous to the broadside, this was the first project I embarked on after having developed as a printer through my job.

My sister is Anela Ming-Yue Oh, a multidisciplinary artist with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She uses materials that have a life of their own such as clay, paper, and fiber to feed her studio practice and create environments full of hope.

Our collaboration started while she was the West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donne, a leading non-profit institution, which serves established and emerging artists through the process of collaborative hand papermaking. 

As we were both interested in utilizing the unique resources available to us at our institutions, we wanted explore what our collective art practice might look like. Since our work examines our heritage and positionality as mixed-Malaysian Chinese Americans we wanted to create something that would embody that same multiplicity in perspective...”