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Devon Stackonis

@devonstackonis.bsky.social
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Printmaker and Book Artist Currently based in Wrocław University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA US Fulbright Poland 2024/2025 www.devonstackonis.com

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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
David Lynch at PACE Berlin. Very cool to see so many of his drawings and paintings in person. I know mostly his prints from Tandem Press. Great show and excuse for a Berlin visit.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
FLOOD WATCH is an edition of 40. Created in response to witnessing significant regional flooding in Lower Silesia, Poland, and acknowledging the drastic increase in global flood activity due to climate change. Etching, mezzotint, drypoint, spit bite, and anastatic printing on deadstock Zerkall. 2026
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CODEX X International Book Art Fair and Symposium in Oakland, California. It was so great to be there with my work, and the best assistant, my mom! #codex2026 #bookart #printmaking #mezzotint
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
First time seeing aurora borealis, definitely didn't expect it to be visible over my place in Wrocław! Great way to end the weekend, post printmaking conference at ASP, and a skiing day with fellow art doctoral students at Czarna Góra.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Honored to be one of the Akadamia Sztuk Pięknych Doctoral School representatives today at the meeting of all Wrocław Doctoral Schools held at Ratusz (Wrocław Town Hall). Here's my 2025 mezzotint triptych on display. Great event!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I haven't been sharing much, but have been plenty busy in first semester of doctoral school! Developing plates for an accordion book project about the Odra River here in Wrocław. I'll be taking this project to CODEX in just over a month! Who will I see there? #bookart #etching #mezzotint #process
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thank you!!!!!
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Wonderful piece from @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social “In the political arena, first-generation Americans and racial minorities are celebrated under certain terms and conditions, but if they violate them, their status can just as quickly be used to stigmatize them as alien and un-American.”
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Opinion | I know exactly what the vicious racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani are meant to do
In the hands of right-wing nationalists, attacks on multiculturalism are a pretext for an attack on citizenship.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Delighted to share that I have been accepted into the Doctoral School at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych we Wrocławiu (ASP) where I will pursue my practice-based PhD over 3 years within the Printmaking and Book Art areas. All things considered, I am thrilled to stay in Poland. Excited for this next chapter.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Here’s a few images from my exhibition reception „Czas pod Ciśnieniem / Time under Pressure” at Galeria Miejska Pracownia. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible! #fulbrightpoland #mezzotint #printmaker #time #pressure
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Two small interior mezzos to round out this first water tower series. Taken from the Gliwice Sobieskiego water tower, a gorgeous gothic revival structure from 1918. #mezzotint #spiralstairs #interior
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
You, Me, and the Moon (part II) Across a Great Distance and Increasingly Dire Circumstances. Follow up piece to a past print from 2020, You, Me, and the Moon. Revisiting a theme with new imagery. So great to finally see all three plates of this triptych printed on one sheet! #mezzotint #printmaking
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Toner aquatint demo day with ASP experimental drawing studio students. Such a great group.. and quite pleased with results of our collaborative print! Fun morning
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Tam, Gdzie, Miękko / On Dwelling and Yearning on view at the Concrete Gallery at ASP! Works by Shannon Ferguson and Ivy Manska (visiting Wrocław on exchange from UTK! 😁) gorgeous lithos, etchings and relief prints. It’s great they are here this month!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have to try this paper! Charbonnel 55985 is my favorite
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Labor of love!! (Or just a glutton for punishment) 😅
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🙏🙏🙏🙏 thanks!!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Side panel mezzotint plate.. one more to complete this triptych! Can’t wait to see all three printed together on one sheet. #printmaking #mezzotint #intaglio #watertower #polska
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony - Muzeum Fortyfikacji i Nietoperzy, German WWII underground bunker system / military defense line, and now, Europe’s largest protected bat sanctuary! Very interesting place to explore.. so much mining technology employed during wartime construction of bunkers like these.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Weekend in Bremen to visit my friend Jen. Very cool city. Haven’t been to Germany since last summer, despite being so close now. Got some really excellent park sits in, and a little sketch session!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Recreating water tower structures from archive images of the industrial plants they used to serve in Śląskie (Silesia) a postindustrial region I have been focusing on during my time in Poland. Based on Huta Zabrze at the former Zabrze steelworks, and Chorzów at the Zakłady Azotowe nitrogen plant.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It is finally spring in Poland 🌸
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
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Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Also met the cat of Užupis, some phenomenal figurative sculptures and spent time with an excellent guy. Too many photos to choose four, but these are a few of my favorites. I am the first Stackonis (Stockunas) in 4 generations to return to Lithuania! It meant so much to visit 🇱🇹
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Very lucky to meet artists I’ve long admired from this side of the world, Roman Sustov and Nastassia Pazniak My printmaking heart is so full! 🖤🖤🖤
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Rasų (Rasos) Cemetery is the oldest in Vilnius, and is very beautiful (especially with these blue flowers coming up everywhere). Many famous Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian writers and cultural figures are buried here. I’ve never experienced a cemetery like this before. #rasų #cemetery #vilnius
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A load of Lithuania content incoming…. Incredible first visit to Vilnius, including a tour of the printmaking department of the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts! Gorgeous presses from the Netherlands and some older Soviet equipment. It was great to meet professor Rimvydas Kepežinskas and see the studios
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Szymanowicz Krzysztof LINORYTY exhibition opening at ASP.. My relief printmaking brain is shattered looking at these. Krzysztof is a visiting artist from Lublin, Poland. Very surreal works. #aspwro #linocut #relief #printmaking #detail
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
First proof of this new mezzotint plate! There’s a few things I may brighten up, but I’m pleased with how it printed overall. This is the center panel, so the side plates are in the works 😉 #printmaking #mezzotint #aspwro #fulbrightpoland #printmaker #moon
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It’s spring in Poland! Visited Wieża Ciśnień Na Grobli today and Hydropolis museum at the site of the former waterworks. I would love to get permission to see the interior of this tower. It has the largest castiron spiral staircase in Europe and very ornate fly wheels, currently closed to the public
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Great to know!! My first time trying it. Wish I would have sooner!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Results are in! Hahnemühle # 10105729 300 gram soft and smooth copperplate paper performed best out of the 5 that I tested with mezzotint. This paper gave the clarity and subtle tonal transitions I was looking for in the darks, like I am able to achieve with Zerkall copperplate. Soaked 20+ mins.
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dear nonVegan #PARENTS, Are you doing (what should be) the bare minimum as per mitigating the ecological crisis barreling towards us? PLEASE 🙏🏻 take 5 minutes to consider this important call to action: 🆘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdSJ...
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#ForNature by Greta Thunberg
YouTube video by UNDESA Social
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Small mezzotint test plate to print several kinds of Hahnemühle copperplate printing paper. I’ve been burning through my reserves of Zerkall (the best mezzotint paper imo) but since the mill flooded in 2021 and there is no more.. it’s time to find a new go to printing paper. I’ll share my results!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Double feature tonight - Lisa Maria Baier exhibition opening! Lisa uses Al to generate images inspired by postwar testimonies and inherited stories, considering the historical relationship between Poland and Germany. She then transfers them to paper with anastatic printing. #printmaking #animation
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Mikael Kihlman exhibition at Oficyna Graficzna Tyszkiewicz - almost entirely drypoints inspired by Wrocław from 1990 on. So incredible to see these in person! #printmaking #drypoint #intaglio #wrocław
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
ASP Printmaking department retreat in Luboradów this weekend. It was a great experience, and I’m happy to have come along. Faculty presentations, interesting conversations, and yes, wódka. Also, check this wood fire ceramic kiln out!!!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🤠🤠🤠
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
First time to Amsterdam. Such a great weekend trip with Claire. Biig Piig concert Saturday night at MelkWeg, Rembrandt house, canal tour, and some excellent meals. Could easily spend a week here.. will return sooner than later!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
It’s a beautiful place.. I feel very lucky to get to know it so well this year.
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Fulbright Poland mid-year meeting in Gdańsk. Finally made it to the Muzeum II Wojny Światowej here (WWII museum). It was expansive and incredibly thorough, and would take at least 8 hours to engage with all exhibitions. Great to reunite with my cohort who are based in cities across Poland. #gdańsk
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Began scraping this week on the new plate, center panel for a mezzotint triptych I’ve been planning for a while. I use Nu-Kote typewriter carbon paper for the transfer. Works great. #mezzotint #printmaking #process #copper #intaglio
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Anita S. Hunt @batworthy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
today’s version: diorama in a hatbox, with an etching, monotypes, suminagashi and birch bark… #printmaking #printmaker #diorama #photography #monotype #intaglio
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Really excellent print exhibition up at Wrocław ASP of visiting artists Paulina Buźniak and Nastazja Ciupa from Warsaw ASP. Buźniak’s 12 structural lithographs printed from same stone, and Ciupa’s lithographic portrait series on manipulated canvas. #printmaking #aspwro #lithography #polska
Lithograph by Paulina BuźniakLithograph series by Nastazja Ciupa
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’ve been wondering the same. I have multiple hard drives of photo / video back up. And cloud space.. feels a little excessive. And yet, I can’t part with any of it. I am just trying to categorize and store things as neatly as possible..
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Pair of white-tailed eagles in a tree by the ponds of Żmigrod, crane sighting and swans (not pictured). It was a great weekend spent mostly outdoors. I needed that. #gobirds #whitetailedeagle #polska #ptakipolski
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation!!!!
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It was great! Love the old German mills..
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Devon Stackonis @devonstackonis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdrój, one of the oldest preserved traditional paper mills in Europe (erected in 16th century). It was badly flooded in 1998, but has been revitalized as a museum and still produces beautiful hand made paper! Happened upon it after day of skiing at Zieleniec. #papermaking
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Robert Kloss @robertkloss.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Reminder! You can preorder Meghan Lamb’s (fucking incredible) new book. First printing is a limited run of 100, half sold out already. pukepink.bigcartel.com/product/megh...
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Meghan Lamb “Mirror Translation” book PREORDER
From Blamage Books ***THIS IS A PREORDER*** Will ship 3/15/2025 A new short story collection from Meghan Lamb, author of Coward, and Failure to...
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