About The Artist:
Dorothy Gillespie
Dorothy Gillespie (September 1920–30 September 2012) was an American artist and sculptor that was best known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptural pieces. Her works are featured across Radford University in Virginia, the Lincoln Center in New York, and at Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Gillespie was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1920, and from her youth she showed an affinity for art. Although her parents did not sanction...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.