Melissa Harshman, Professor of Art and Area Chair for Printmaking and Book Arts, will have work in an upcoming exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University.

Time Like the Present presents selected works by printmakers who acknowledge, through their work, an inescapable historical narrative in the processes of traditional printmaking. Some engage with this history, either working to subvert it by emphasizing materiality, physicality, and tactility via process-driven experimentation. Others resist nostalgia or sentimentality through subject matter that occupies a contemporary perspective that is sometimes critical and sometimes engaged with a speculative future. Many of these artists also make work that brings printmaking into sculptural space, blending it with other media and modes of art making to expand the traditional boundaries of presentation.

Curated by Sarah Higgins, Time Like the Present will be on view from June 2 through July 29.

Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts area at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. In early 2018 Harshman received a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, during which she spent the month of January at the Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency. Additional upcoming exhibitions include Home Tour at the Albany Museum of Art and Me, You, and a Few of My Friends at Georgetown College.