Signal-to-Noise Exhibition, March 6 First Friday

Date and Time

• Friday, Mar 6, 2026  6pm - 8pm

Location

Category

Arts

Details

Signal-to-Noise
Nancy Steele-Makasci, Orem, Utah
Erin Wohletz, Vermillion, South Dakota

March 6 – April 25, 2026
March 6 - First Friday opening, 6-8pm
April 3 - First Friday Gallery Walk, 6-8pm

Activities:
March 14, Saturday, 10-2, Printing Party with Nancy
March 21-22, Sat & Sun, Papermaking with Karen
April 13-17, Erin in residence at UNL, slide lecture TBD

Signal-to-Noise exhibition features the wall installations of Nancy Steele-Makasci, and the mixed-media prints of Erin Wohletz. Both artists will present their current works that use iconic references and visual interpretations for broad perceptions. Nancy has explored relief printing from woodblocks and mixed media as artist books that are presented open on the wall to make a unit. Her recent kaleidoscopic prints play with geometric block patterns in color. The community is invited to join her on Saturday March 14 to help print a large collaborative work with quilt-like permutations. Erin is a guest artist of the UNL Print Club in April, and a public presentation is TBA. Erin will exhibit dense prints created in silkscreen, collage, mezzotint, and mixed media, that compress space and a “landscape of symbols” for a disorienting and immersive viewpoint. They examine material and machine culture that bombards us with overload while today’s issues and anxieties are referenced with absurdities, humor, and feeling.

Nancy Steele-Makasci is an interdisciplinary visual artist and art educator. She makes art in a wide range of media including reproducible print media, painting, drawing, and book arts. Nancy continually encourages others to make art and to pursue their dreams of becoming artists in her position as Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Design at Utah Valley University where she has taught courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, and art education.

A native Hoosier from eastern Indiana, Nancy received an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MA in Art from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She also completed a BA in Visual Arts Education (magna cum laude) at Ball State University. During 2024, Nancy completed an artist residency at the MI-LAB in Echizen, Japan where she focused on honing her skills and knowledge of the advanced techniques of mokuhanga also known as traditional Japanese woodblock printing.
https://steelemakasci.wixsite.com/prints

Erin Wohletz is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of South Dakota. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada they received their BFA in Printmaking and Painting from the University of Nevada, Reno and their MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Erin Wohletz has participated in exhibitions across the United States including; Unfinished/ New Prints at the Print Center New York and Mid America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition at Kansas State University where they received Best in Show. Wohletz has participated in a variety of artist residencies including; Seacort Print Workshop in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Kala Art Institute in Berkley, California and the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
https://ewohletz.com/home.html

for more information contact:
karen@constellation-studios.net
402-429-8239
www.constellation-studios.net