Print Rally

October 19th, from 10 am—1 pm

MSU Homecoming!

 Print Rally and Art Market will be held at the WFMA Priddy Pavilion on Saturday, October 19th, from 10 am—1 pm during MSU Texas’s Homecoming Week. Join us for live steamroller printing, MSU Texas Art Vendor booths, Food Trucks, the opening of the Print Rally 2024 Exhibition, and more! Bring a light-colored T-shirt, and for $10, get it live screen printed with the event logo design! Spend the time before the sports games doing some art!

The following schools are participating in the event: Legacy High School, Memorial High School, Barwise Jr. High, Hirschi Middle School, City View Jr. High and High School, Christ Academy, Nocona High School, and Iowa Park High School. Over 140 students and artists, including MSU Texas students, alumni, and WFMA staff, are carving their woodblocks.

View prints from the 2023 Steamroller Event by searching steamroller in the WFMA Online Database!

About:

Print Rally is the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas’s largest community and recruitment printmaking event. Starting in Fall 2023, as a collaboration between MSU School of Art print studio, the WFMA invited local and surrounding area junior high and High School students to participate in the action. It began with outreach to art teachers, including class visits, WFMA meetings, and carving process demonstrations.

In the first year, the event was called Steamroller Event. At a steamroller event, printmakers ditch their printing presses to go outside and print using an industrial steamroller! The WFMA invited art teachers and their students from Rider High School, Wichita Falls High School, Nocona High School, Barwise Jr. High, Kirby Jr. High, and McNiel Jr. High to participate. The students were introduced to the process of relief printing using woodblocks. Participants were invited to carve wooden plates in various sizes and imagery. For most participants, this was their first experience with printmaking! Other participants included WFMA staff, MSU Alumni, and MSU Printmaking students.  

The event was held at Midwestern State University in the printmaking studio of the Fain Fine Arts department. Over 60 people stopped by to see the action! We printed both inside the studio and outside with the steamroller. A big thank you to United Rentals for providing the steamroller and WFISD and Midwestern State University Fain Fine Arts print studio for your contributions. All the artworks made at this event have become a part of the Wichita Falls Museum of Art’s Education Collection. 

For Fall 2024, the WFMA changed things due to the popularity and success of the 2023 Steamroller Event. The event is now called Print Rally and Art Market.