About Devon Stackonis

Born in Bethlehem, PA

Devon Stackonis is a visual artist and printmaker specializing in mezzotint and intaglio processes. Stackonis’ current body of work serves as a personal reflection of the mountainous coal regions of Eastern Pennsylvania where she grew up and the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of extractive industry.

Stackonis received her BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and worked as Assistant in Printmaking at Bucknell University from 2018-2020. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. She was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship through which she will spend ten months in Wrocław, Poland beginning in September 2024, creating mezzotints and studying the Upper Silesian Coal Basin.

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Hello from Riga! I am here visiting with Latvian artist and printmaker Guntars Sietiņš and today had the pleasure of giving an artist talk at the Art Academy of Latvia. My mentor at the Academy of Wrocław helped coordinate this, and I am thril
Really happy with how this plate printed this week! Surrounded, mezzotint 14x12 cm, 2024 I will have this print and the previous mezzotint included in the Holiday Print Area Exhibition / Fair at ASP, details to come! #printmaking #mezzotint #cop
Ready to proof this plate!!!! I used modeling clay when creating the miniature for the first time, and really enjoyed rendering it on the copper plate.. Stay tuned! #printmaking #mezzotint #wieżaciśnień #intaglio #process #fulbrightpoland #clay #cop
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Triennale Grafiki Polskiej (Polish Printmaking Triennial) at Muzuem Śląskie, and STRFKR at Kinoteatr Rialto in Katowice! 🤩 #kopalniasoliwieliczka #printmaking #underground #katowice #strfkr #saltmine #grafiki #mezzotint
Finished a plate and printed a small edition! Waiting for the Water, mezzotint edition of 15. Getting so many helpful printing and plate handling tips working alongside Profesor Chris Nowicki at the Academy. Exploring some new imagery with small plat
I’ve been wanting to make a line etching since it’s been a little while, so here’s a pencil drawing of a Pointleaf Manzanita root system that I’ve been wanting to draw since photographing it on a hike in July. Feels good to br
Plate work #wieżaciśnień #watertower #mezzotinta #mezzotint #printmaking #progress #copperplate #intaglio #pressure #process #fulbrightpoland
The most autumnal weekend by the Baltic Sea. Visiting with @morg.suth in Gdańsk, and Saturday afternoon in Sopot. Tucked ourselves into cozy cafes and restaurants, explored all the side streets and amber shops, sipped the the natural Baltic brine&hel
I have only a few photos from last night, but I am so thankful to everyone who came out for the animation screening and mini print exhibition for A Heap of Atrocities Between Watchtowers! Huge thank you to @1618.jewelry for hosting my work and I as p
Sketching and getting onto a copper plate. I’ve been so taken with the old water towers here, many abandoned and in various states of repair, by railway stations, town centers, factories and industrial plants they used to serve. These towers (l
It was a perfect weekend (if you’re into museums, mines and melancholic music). Friday I linked up with a few of the other current Fulbright grantees and explored Kraków for the afternoon. That evening I saw Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds a