John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada
The Lilley Museum of Art is located on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.
MessageAbra Ancliffe engages printmaking and drawing to explore the fixity & frailty of language alongside how knowledge is written, printed, compiled, read, stored, ordered, dispersed and accessed. The history, process and physicality of printing, publishing and book-making become conflated with the acts of reading, writing, astronomy, geology, collecting and archiving. In 2009, she started the Personal Libraries Library, a specially-curated lending library in Portland, Oregon that recreates & reconsiders the personal libraries of notable artists, scientists, writers & thinkers. Ancliffe received her BA in English Literature from Lewis & Clark College, her BFA in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art and her MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking at PNCA.
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