Artist. Printmaker. Educator. Activist/Advocate. College art professor turned elementary school art teacher working in the rural South.https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lspssg5k6c22Taught a successful and sold out printmaking workshop at the Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage this afternoon!29 Jun 2025 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lspssg5k6c22https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lsblmzr2qs2523 Jun 2025 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsblmzr2qs25https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lqp5dbw4jc24Sometimes you just need to follow your cat’s lead and disassociate.03 Jun 2025 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqp5dbw4jc24https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lovzvkpns22pNew slaps.11 May 2025 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lovzvkpns22phttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lobg42mee222Spent last weekend attending ArtFields in Lake City where my piece “…Unless” is featured at the TRAXvac. In addition to the show I also taught a Gelli-plate printmaking make-and-take workshop for the ArtMakers program through ArtFields where I worked with over 100 kids over a couple of hours!03 May 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lobg42mee222https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lnh2orhx6c24Slaps and tags around Miami’s Wynwood District, including a few of my own.23 Apr 2025 01:38 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnh2orhx6c24https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lneaj3mjnk23Spent yesterday walking around Wynwood in Miami, looking for inspiration and hope.21 Apr 2025 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lneaj3mjnk23https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lm4c5pjlnc2uNew sticker slap drawing.06 Apr 2025 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm4c5pjlnc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lkz2fxre3k23Taught a watercolor workshop today at The Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage in Ridgeland. I’m proud to collaborate with them as an instructor as well as serve on their Advisory Board.23 Mar 2025 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkz2fxre3k23https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lk7uraszys2tI’ve started a unit with my 6th graders on making their own DIY sticker slaps, so I felt obliged to make my own. The prompt is about building a collection of images around a theme, so mine was about finding hope in spite of negativity because (gestures broadly).13 Mar 2025 00:48 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk7uraszys2thttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3ljvsieybv22qExcited to begin restoring this little press I acquired from Martin Lang at Columbia University. A lot of surface rust, but the drum and rollers turn, and I’m confident I can get a bed fabricated soon. This press will hopefully be my traveling press I can take out to teach workshops.09 Mar 2025 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvsieybv22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3liuhf34gxc24I don’t want to feel hopeless. I don’t want to feel angry all the time. I want to believe in people. I want to believe in radical change. How do fellow teachers keep their heads up at times like this? My kids need me to be who I am, but I feel myself slipping.23 Feb 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3liuhf34gxc24https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lihi74q2uc2vBetween throwing my back out last week, getting the flu and the collapse of the government, I’m kinda over things at this point.18 Feb 2025 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lihi74q2uc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lierdms6xs27I love buying physical media, partly because when you own it, YOU OWN IT. Ask me how I feel when I have to move said physical media in about three months, but still… [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2025 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lierdms6xs27https://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3licfzo7aik2zAnother 20ish minute sketch with a limited palette of controlled burns. Been thinking a lot about the state of our government in comparison to how these spaces are being pruned back and how the folks in charge of these burns are losing their jobs.16 Feb 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3licfzo7aik2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3li6ukd56yk2khttps://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-short-and-incomplete-guide-for?r=fpja&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true A guide to new activists as we move forward. We have more power and possibilities than we realize.15 Feb 2025 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3li6ukd56yk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lhr5f7eeok2bControlled burns outside of Bluffton, SC.09 Feb 2025 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhr5f7eeok2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lhmt6uq3dc2cThank you Black Creek Arts in Hartsville, SC for hosting my solo exhibition “Land Rites” and the wonderful reception last night. It was a night of good conversations, new friendships and discussions of finding hope in dark times.08 Feb 2025 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhmt6uq3dc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lhhlpzeams2j20 minute lunch sketch of something else burning besides our democracy.05 Feb 2025 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhhlpzeams2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lhbp7rugms2lReflecting on some images I snapped yesterday driving back from Lake City.03 Feb 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbp7rugms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ianjwelch.bsky.social/post/3lgvv5qsqtc27I’ve started sketching with a limited palette using Posca markers during my lunch break at school. I’ve been enjoying the challenge of completing a finished drawing in 20 minutes and my students seem to enjoy watching me work.29 Jan 2025 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:6mmfof2xmwpdpwit24uz5zds/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgvv5qsqtc27