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Hugh Merrill was an American artist, recognized internationally in the contemporary printmaking community. He has written articles on the redefinition of art, printmaking, and education and has taught and lectured on printmaking at over 75 universities, colleges, and schools worldwide. Biography Born in 1949, Hugh Merrill was raised in Washington, D.C. and Alabama. His grandfather, Hugh Davis Merrill, was a state judge and Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. His father worked with the Democratic Party, advising Kennedy, Humphrey and Johnson on agricultural issues. Merrill began his artistic career in 1969 at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Within his first year, Merrill flunked out and ended up in Washington D.C., working in the offices of Alabama senator John Sparkman. The following year he returned to MICA, where he discovered printmaking, specifically etching, a medium that would become his primary means of expression for the next four decades. Despite continued academic difficulties, Merrill completed his undergraduate work and was accepted to Yale School of Art. There, he studied with John Cage, Gabor Pederti, William Bailey, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Al Held and others, all of whom would have a profound impact on his thinking and work. After receiving his MFA from Yale in 1975, Merrill taught at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) before being hired to teach printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) in 1976, where he has been teaching since. In the 1970s, Hugh Merrill began working on etchings of the urban environment, which he termed “real-estatescapes,” a phrase meant to represent the dominance of society over nature. In the 1980s Merrill focused on sequential etching suites, such as Lucky Dragon, exhibited at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1985, and Rosa Luxemburg, exhibited at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. As noted by Nelson-Atkins print curator George L. McKenna, these prints "[dealt] imaginatively with the confrontation between man-made construction and natural landscape," through drawing, etching, printing, and reworking of the etching plates. During the 1990s, Hugh Merrill became concerned that his prints and studio work were not having the direct impact on society that he had been striving for and began to look at the writings of Lucy Lippard, Suzanne Lacy, Suzi Gablic and the work of Tim Rollins and K.O.S. He returned from a trip to Poland, photographing and doing drawings in Kraków and Auschwitz, determined to balance his studio vision with community arts actions. In 1996, Merrill worked with the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art as a visiting artist for the Christian Boltanski exhibition, So Far. He and Boltanski collaborated on the citywide community artwork Our City Ourselves. With the help of designer Bruce McIntosh, Merrill created a tabloid publication insert in the Sunday Kansas City Star inviting the public to bring their family photographs and personal archives to the museum where they could pin them to the walls. In conjunction with the exhibit, Merrill also created Portrait of Self, an arts and educational archive of drawing, writing, photography, and other art forms to help young people discuss the many influences on their sense of sense. Since its creation, Merrill has gone on to use Portrait of Self in community arts projects in Dana Beach, Florida; Sydney, Australia; Dublin, Ireland, as well as Colorado Springs, CO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and a number of other cities nationwide. Building on these experiences, Merrill helped transform Chameleon Theatre, a small not-for-profit whose mission was to create dramatic plays about youth experience, into the broader Chameleon Arts and Youth Development agency that utilizes theater, Hip Hop, visual arts, and dance to transform the lives of homeless and at-risk youth. In 2005, he was invited to produce a community arts action for the Impact Conference in Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland. The project, Pools of Belief, consisted of graphics of children's swimming pools laid out in a public square and filled with images of mousetraps shaped like boats. Trailing from the traps were narrow sheets of paper with the text “I believe in the New York Stock Exchange” and other statements. The public was asked to participate by writing their own answers to the phrase “I believe in ________” on a narrow sheet of paper, which they then attached to the work. Pools of Belief has gone on to be exhibited at the Dalarnas Museum for the Falun Print Triennial in Falun, Sweden and other museums around the world. Most recently Merrill has worked with Staci Pratt, director of the Office of Homeless Liaison, Kansas City, KS Public Schools to facilitate a number of community arts projects, including Faces of the Homeless. Faces was a collaboration with Patrick Moonasar and Matt Hilger which produced a series of posters of homeless children showing not their need but their value. The posters have been exhibited nationally including the 2008 conference for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth in Washington, D.C. In addition, Hugh Merrill has been invited on Kansas City Medical Missions trips to the Philippines, Guatemala and Cuba, and has worked with Soulfari to build an orphanage in Kenya. He serves on the board of United Inner City Service and is on the steering committee of Inkubator Press at the Arts Incubator. Hugh Merrill has been a speaker at numerous conferences, including the College Art Association and The Southern Graphics Council, of which he was president in the early 1990s. In 1991, he served as a conference co-chair for The Southern Graphics Council conference at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has been awarded a number of grants, including a regional National Endowment for the Arts grant, Mellon Foundation, a Yaddo Fellowship, and the Teaching Excellent in Printmaking Award at The Southern Graphics Council conference in 2007. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and his work has been collected by major museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harvard Art Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, among others. In 2008 he was invited by the Nelson-Atkins Museum to curate the print exhibition, Print Lovers at Thirty, in recognition of the Nelson Print Society and the contribution of George L. McKenna, long time print curator for the museum. Hugh Merrill began writing for publication in 2011, producing two books of poetry, a book of short story recollections, and books on art, printmaking and social practice. He has written Divergent Consistencies: 40 Years of Studio and Community Artwork, Shared Visions: Thoughts and Experiences in Social Arts Practice, and Preaching to the Choir: Thoughts on Contemporary Printmaking. His debut book of poetry, Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler.... Discover the Hugh Merrill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hugh Merrill books.
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Little Women
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The Great Gatsby
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Dracula
Bram StokerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...
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Teach Me
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The Honeymoon Homicide
J. R. Mathis & Susan MathisEnjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...
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Whiskey Girl
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Bewitching a Highlander
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The Four Loves
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The Target
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A Green Kind of Witch
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His Girl Next Door
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Noxious
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Law of Attraction
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel HawthorneAn Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...
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Inception of Gold
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Tempting the King
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Christmas in Sweetbriar Cove
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Alpha
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Just Me
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The Next Girl
Carla KovachIF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THE NEXT GIRL... You thought he’d come to save you. You were wrong. ‘ Absolutely the best thriller I’ve read this year! ’ Goodreads Rev...
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The Art of War
Sun TzuAn Apple Books Classic edition. It’s believed that Sun Tzu wrote this Chinese military primer during the 5th century BChundreds of years before the Bible. The book’s 13 chapters ex...
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Good Guy
Kate MeaderHe's a Special Forces veteran making his pro hockey debut. She's a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She's also his best friend's widow . . . Fa...
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The Icing on the Cake
Linda SeedShe’s a baker without a kitchen. He’s got a double oven to spare. It’s a recipe for success, until his mother starts stirring up trouble … Cassie Jordan has a sweet dream to open a...
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Hot Off the Press
Lexy Timms"This is what really happened… reported by a free press, for a free people…" Wes Shaw leads a secret double life. As the secret owner of a billion dollar newspap...
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Man In The Water
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Teased by Fire
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Becoming Lady Dalton
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Dream Psychology
Sigmund FreudAn Apple Books Classic edition. Written by the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s 1899 book is the definitive text on learning to interpret dreams. Freud’s groundbr...
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Awaken Me
Jenna JacobHe was more than a ghost haunting my dreams…he was real. By day, I’m Julianna Garrett …a prim, proper accountant. By night, I’m tormented by dreams of an alpha, ambereyed Adonis wh...
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Finding Cinderella
Colleen Hoover#1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...
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All Fired Up
Kathryn ShayCaptain Jarek Zenko, a war veteran and firefighter, meets Lacey Roth at a bar one night. They don’t share their real identities, even when they retreat to a hotel. When they meet t...
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Peace on Earth
Maia RossCrime never takes a holiday. Why should Irma? Irma Abercrombie is an energetic retiree with a shadowy past, a mean right hook, and a profound love of Christmas. Surrounded by seaso...
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My Paper Heart
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Masters of Restraint
Ines JohnsonMy new boss is good at giving orders. But his latest demand is NSFW. Especially when his two business partners want in on our deal. My new boss My boss’s boss Their investor &#...
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Think and Grow Rich
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Get Lucky
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenAn Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessio...
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Pretty Little Lies
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Hard Love
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The Stoic Mind
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Enemies With Benefits
Roxie NoirI don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to...
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Nothing to Hide
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
Ben LeightonThis ebook contains golden nuggets on how to motivate, inspire and improve your current situation. It encompasses the holistic view of self improvement from mental& emotion...
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School of Potential
W.J. MayUSA Today Bestselling author, W.J. May brings you a continuation of the international bestselling series, The Chronicles of Kerrigan! Come back and enjoy the famous characters, or ...
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Silenced Girls
Roger Stelljes“ Wow wow wow!  Grips you in a choke hold and  does not let go … Oozes suspense and  bonechilling twists and turns .  Astonishing … One of those...
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Assisting the Bosshole
Kristin MacQueenNo hot water? Check Missed the train? Check Broke my heel? Check Dropped my coffee? Check My first day of my new job can’t possibly go worse, right? Wrong. When I meet Parker Scott...
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His Own Heaven
Jennie KewWinner of the 2021 Passionate Plume Award for BDSM Romance Finalist in the 2021 Stiletto Contest for Contemporary Romance He taught her to trust, she taught him to love. Lucy Bar...
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Eternal
W.J. MayShe will fight for what is hers. When the king is murdered, Katerina, his only daughter, must flee for her life. She finds herself on a strange and dangerous path. Alone for the fi...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. It’s Christmas Eve in Victorian England. While some families don’t know where their next meal will come from, Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his large hom...
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The Three Little Pigs
Mark LeskyClassic fairy tales, legends and folk stories in short version without violence retold with lovely illustrations in simple language. Perfect for reading aloud to small chi...