Biography

Born in Romania, Raluca Iancu is currently in her second year in the MFA program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA). She completed her BFA inFine Arts, Printmaking, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University(Canada) in December 2011, with a double minor in Art History and Ceramics. In 2010-2011 she was an exchange student at the University of Dundee. She has held residencies at St. Michael’s Printshop in St. John’s, Newfoundland and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City.

Poster Presentation

Crossing Borders
Canada and the United States share an enormous border. We share much of one another’s culture, and the artists represented in this exchange also share a love of printmaking.

This poster illustrates the work from the “Crossing Borders” exchange portfolio between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA), and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (Canada). Aside from showing the work included in this folio, the poster explains graphically the connections between several members of the portfolio, as they have crossed paths and borders between Canada and the United States.

Open Folio

Crossing Borders
This exchange was conceived out of convenience. Instead of laziness, or superficiality, this word could and maybe should suggest efficiency, attainability and perhaps even sustainability.
This exchange was convenient because Raluca Iancu received her undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, and has since moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), to complete her MFA in their printmaking program. Koichi Yamamoto, Associate Professor at UTK, did his graduate work at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, the same school where James Boychuck-Hunter – currently an MFA candidate also in attendance at UTK – completed his undergraduate work. Ericka Walker – who received her MFA from UTK – not only attended the University of Alberta, as a visiting graduate student, but is currently an Assistant Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.