November 04, 2020 Emily Hoisington Meet the artists of the 2020 MCAD Faculty Biennial “Notice how your eye travels from one thing to the next. Let your drawing follow your eye.” With these instructions, friends and strangers rode the Green Line and sketched continuous line drawings. I translated the drawings into prints. Some drawings enclosed intriguing shapes that I printed as darker or lighter than the shapes around them. Other lines became scratches and indents into the printing matrix which printed black or white depending on the inking technique. All the drawings became more abstract as my eye attempted to follow a line created by someone else. These prints parallel the individual and yet communal experience of using public transportation. We’re all riding the same line, but we’re all going somewhere else and noticing something different along the way. The making of the drawings and prints creates a moment of attention to our surroundings, but then the trace is transformed until only an aftertaste of observation remains. I invite viewers to explore urban ecosystems through observation and imagination. Asking the question, “What is it like to be human in this place and in this community?” I capture the sensory experience of the natural and built environment using drawing, printmaking, and other media. About Emily Hoisington Emily Hoisington earned her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, received the MCAD collegiate fellowship at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Jerome Emerging Printmaker's Residency at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in 2008, and was Artist in Residence at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in 2016. She received a 2018 Neighborhood Honor Roll Award for the painting and organizing of a community street mural and wayfinding project at Aldine pedestrian bridge in St. Paul. Her work is included in public and private collections and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Hoisington teaches at Saint Paul College and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.