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This fall, KCAI welcomes Anthony Corraro as a visiting lecturer in our Foundation program. Corraro brings a deeply meditative and process-based approach to artmaking, one that challenges traditional ideas of permanence, material, and labor.

Rather than printing with ink, Corraro works with dyed dust. Using the CMYK screenprinting method (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), he pushes carefully prepared colored dust through suspended screens onto a board. The particles must be just the right size, not too large to clog the screen, not too fine to disappear.

Each print is built layer by layer, image by image, using bitmapped photos captured by Corraro.

The resulting works are fragile and temporary. Even the slightest movement (a breeze, a sneeze, a bump) can scatter the entire image. That vulnerability is the point. For Corraro, dust is both a material and a metaphor: an accumulation of place, labor, and fleeting presence.

Corraro’s unique process, shaped by time spent as a custodian, a student at Wichita State University, and a resident artist at the Lawrence Arts Center, continues to evolve. KCAI is excited to have this experience intersect with first year Foundation students.

Learn more about his practice and philosophy in this recent feature from KMUW Wichita 89.1