July 31 – September 12, 2026
2025-2026 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency Exhibition
Highpoint Center for Printmaking
In Person Viewing:
912 West Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Online Viewing:
https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/calendar/2026/jeromeexhbition
Please join HIghpoint in celebrating the 2025–2026 Jerome Early Career Printmakers during their culminating exhibition and congratulating them on their artistic accomplishments. In the exhbition which opens on July 31, Gabi Estrada, Dalton Carlson, and Edson Rosas will present an engaging collection of prints, objects, and assembled environments created during their year-long Residency funded with support from the Jerome Foundation.
Edson Rosas‘ residency project, which he describes as “a love letter to printmaking”, explores his family’s history with immigration law and the ways those experiences have shaped his life and artistic practice. He says “My art was already touching on the impact of family separations, and with the recent events in Minnesota, I needed to pause and rethink my work. The art evolved, expressing my feelings and those of others, resulting in distinct moods across the work”.
Processing through screenprinting, lithography, relief, intaglio, and installation, Rosas examines themes of family separation, belonging, and community care. Developed during a period of significant tumult and reflection, the work traces a range of emotional registers while inviting conversation about immigration, resilience, and collective support.
Through reduction relief prints, papel picado (paper perforation), and installation, Gabi Estrada investigates the connections between food and printmaking as acts of labor, care, and cultural preservation. Considering food as a vehicle for memory, community, and cultural continuity, Estrada’s work explores how the preparation and sharing of both food and prints can foster connection. They add “I have been thinking about how food, beyond being solely sustenance for our physical survival, sustains our histories, communities, and spirits. How food is a binder that brings people together, an avenue for cultural endurance, or a portal that transports us back to another time and place, blurring timelines together and reconnecting us with loved ones.” They underscore the labor that is inherent in both making food and creating prints and how each artform can result in offerings that can be shared.” While food is momentary, Gabi has been investigating the ability of print to “preserve”. Gabi hopes that their work evokes from viewers feelings similar to those experienced when sitting down for a meal with loved ones.
Dalton Carlson‘s prints celebrate the skill, labor, and artistry of workers in the food industry by recontextualizing these individuals within the art-historical canon. Through portraiture inspired by historical painting traditions, Carlson draws attention to workers whose expertise and contributions often go unrecognized. As the artist explains, “These people are often looked over and not thought about within society, so I wanted to create work to focus on their abilities.”
Using complex multi-plate intaglio techniques, Carlson’s printmaking process mirrors the precision, dedication, and craftsmanship required in these professions. The exhibition also features large-scale prints made directly from the tools of this labor: well-worn, retired cutting boards. These works transform the physical traces of use into abstract images that reveal and record the repetitive gestures, strength, and skill embedded within everyday work.
