On Sept 13, 2025 @dustinloveland_ completed their two-week Print+New Media residency with us!
Dustin Loveland (he/they) is a non-binary printmaker-turned-dressmaker born in Los Angeles, CA, and raised in rural northeast Missouri. Loveland explores queer ancestry, fashion as a tool for placemaking, and crafting arrangements that formally embody a raison de vivre—a gratitude for life’s unpredictability and the meaningful connections between people, their environments, and the things they create. Growing up queer in an art and fashion desert with strained familial relationships, he turned to watching online software tutorials and screen-printing colorful t-shirts. The experience of designing digitally, transferring those images to print, and then wearing them allowed him to recognize print and fashion as ways to connect with others. Loveland earned his BFA in Printmaking and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2014 and has since worked across 3D scanning, architecture, and sewing industries. His work has been featured in fashion runways such as the 2019 Local Fashion Link and Kansas City Fashion Week (Spring/Summer ‘23). Recent exhibitions include Miss/They Camaraderie 2024 at Charlotte Street Gallery (MO) and the Printmakers Guild of NY 2024 Showcase (NY). Loveland was awarded the 50 4th Street Studio Residency by Collar Works x Chashama in Troy, NY. Currently, he lives and works in Upstate New York, where he co-runs a monthly studio critique group.
“During my time at the residency, I developed a new body of work that combined laser cut risographs and dye sublimated satin pieces. Using a roll of archival adhesive, I assembled these laser cut elements like one would when piecing a quilt. I experimented with different grids, cut outs, and colors. As the series progressed, I pushed beyond flat compositions to create ways to give the work more dimensionality.”
If you missed Dustin’s artist talk, make sure you check it out and others on the iea YouTube channel here!
Dustin testing out different compositions of laser cut satin polyester fabric pieces.
Working with laser cut RISO print pieces.
Dustin and Brig at heat press with dye sublimated satin fabric.
Epilogue laser cutter- part of Expanded Media’s facilities.
Detail shot of 2D/3D sublimated work in progress.
Bird’s eye view of 3D sublimated work in progress.