Ian J. Welch
@ianjwelch.bsky.social
Artist. Printmaker. Educator. Activist/Advocate. College art professor turned elementary school art teacher working in the rural South.
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Taught a successful and sold out printmaking workshop at the Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage this afternoon!
June 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Taught a successful and sold out printmaking workshop at the Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage this afternoon!
Sometimes you just need to follow your cat’s lead and disassociate.
June 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Sometimes you just need to follow your cat’s lead and disassociate.
Spent last weekend attending ArtFields in Lake City where my piece “…Unless” is featured at the TRAXvac. In addition to the show I also taught a Gelli-plate printmaking make-and-take workshop for the ArtMakers program through ArtFields where I worked with over 100 kids over a couple of hours!
May 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Spent last weekend attending ArtFields in Lake City where my piece “…Unless” is featured at the TRAXvac. In addition to the show I also taught a Gelli-plate printmaking make-and-take workshop for the ArtMakers program through ArtFields where I worked with over 100 kids over a couple of hours!
Slaps and tags around Miami’s Wynwood District, including a few of my own.
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Slaps and tags around Miami’s Wynwood District, including a few of my own.
Spent yesterday walking around Wynwood in Miami, looking for inspiration and hope.
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Spent yesterday walking around Wynwood in Miami, looking for inspiration and hope.
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Bringing back our Free the Books campaign to help printers use their skills to fight book bans (& now library defunding). Taking pre-orders for this reprint. More details about getting involved are here:
https://www.starshaped.com/free-the-books
#letterpress
https://www.starshaped.com/free-the-books
#letterpress
April 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bringing back our Free the Books campaign to help printers use their skills to fight book bans (& now library defunding). Taking pre-orders for this reprint. More details about getting involved are here:
https://www.starshaped.com/free-the-books
#letterpress
https://www.starshaped.com/free-the-books
#letterpress
New sticker slap drawing.
April 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New sticker slap drawing.
Taught a watercolor workshop today at The Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage in Ridgeland. I’m proud to collaborate with them as an instructor as well as serve on their Advisory Board.
March 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Taught a watercolor workshop today at The Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage in Ridgeland. I’m proud to collaborate with them as an instructor as well as serve on their Advisory Board.
I’ve started a unit with my 6th graders on making their own DIY sticker slaps, so I felt obliged to make my own. The prompt is about building a collection of images around a theme, so mine was about finding hope in spite of negativity because (gestures broadly).
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve started a unit with my 6th graders on making their own DIY sticker slaps, so I felt obliged to make my own. The prompt is about building a collection of images around a theme, so mine was about finding hope in spite of negativity because (gestures broadly).
Excited to begin restoring this little press I acquired from Martin Lang at Columbia University. A lot of surface rust, but the drum and rollers turn, and I’m confident I can get a bed fabricated soon. This press will hopefully be my traveling press I can take out to teach workshops.
March 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Excited to begin restoring this little press I acquired from Martin Lang at Columbia University. A lot of surface rust, but the drum and rollers turn, and I’m confident I can get a bed fabricated soon. This press will hopefully be my traveling press I can take out to teach workshops.
I don’t want to feel hopeless. I don’t want to feel angry all the time. I want to believe in people. I want to believe in radical change.
How do fellow teachers keep their heads up at times like this? My kids need me to be who I am, but I feel myself slipping.
How do fellow teachers keep their heads up at times like this? My kids need me to be who I am, but I feel myself slipping.
February 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I don’t want to feel hopeless. I don’t want to feel angry all the time. I want to believe in people. I want to believe in radical change.
How do fellow teachers keep their heads up at times like this? My kids need me to be who I am, but I feel myself slipping.
How do fellow teachers keep their heads up at times like this? My kids need me to be who I am, but I feel myself slipping.
Between throwing my back out last week, getting the flu and the collapse of the government, I’m kinda over things at this point.
February 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Between throwing my back out last week, getting the flu and the collapse of the government, I’m kinda over things at this point.
I love buying physical media, partly because when you own it, YOU OWN IT.
Ask me how I feel when I have to move said physical media in about three months, but still…
Ask me how I feel when I have to move said physical media in about three months, but still…
It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
February 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I love buying physical media, partly because when you own it, YOU OWN IT.
Ask me how I feel when I have to move said physical media in about three months, but still…
Ask me how I feel when I have to move said physical media in about three months, but still…
Another 20ish minute sketch with a limited palette of controlled burns. Been thinking a lot about the state of our government in comparison to how these spaces are being pruned back and how the folks in charge of these burns are losing their jobs.
February 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Another 20ish minute sketch with a limited palette of controlled burns. Been thinking a lot about the state of our government in comparison to how these spaces are being pruned back and how the folks in charge of these burns are losing their jobs.
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A guide to new activists as we move forward. We have more power and possibilities than we realize.
A guide to new activists as we move forward. We have more power and possibilities than we realize.
A Short and Incomplete Guide For New Activists
or: how to get started by getting started
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February 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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A guide to new activists as we move forward. We have more power and possibilities than we realize.
A guide to new activists as we move forward. We have more power and possibilities than we realize.
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Controlled burns outside of Bluffton, SC.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Controlled burns outside of Bluffton, SC.
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it may not always feel like it, but this was true yesterday, today, and it will be tomorrow. we are going to each do our parts, and we will win. we will build a government that is representative of and responsive to the needs of regular working people, not billionaires.
February 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
it may not always feel like it, but this was true yesterday, today, and it will be tomorrow. we are going to each do our parts, and we will win. we will build a government that is representative of and responsive to the needs of regular working people, not billionaires.
Thank you Black Creek Arts in Hartsville, SC for hosting my solo exhibition “Land Rites” and the wonderful reception last night. It was a night of good conversations, new friendships and discussions of finding hope in dark times.
February 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thank you Black Creek Arts in Hartsville, SC for hosting my solo exhibition “Land Rites” and the wonderful reception last night. It was a night of good conversations, new friendships and discussions of finding hope in dark times.
20 minute lunch sketch of something else burning besides our democracy.
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
20 minute lunch sketch of something else burning besides our democracy.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reflecting on some images I snapped yesterday driving back from Lake City.
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reflecting on some images I snapped yesterday driving back from Lake City.