Art professor Jade Hoyer ’07 named 2025 McKnight Printmaking Fellow
Hoyer is assistant professor of art at Carleton.
Jade Hoyer ’07, assistant professor of art, has been named a 2025 McKnight Printmaking Fellow at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking.
Hoyer is an artist who plays in printmaking, papermaking, and installation, using the institutionalized language of the print to inspect societal questions, particularly those connected to privilege and multiracial identity. Her work has been recognized by organizations including the Windgate Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Hoyer’s artwork is part of collections including the Museum at Texas Tech University’s Artist Printmaker Research Collection; the Association of Pinoy Printmakers, Philippines; and the Museu da Gravura de Curitiba, Brazil. She is based in Northfield, Minnesota and is a big fan of the color teal.
I am recently relocated to Minnesota from Denver, CO. (I attended college in southern Minnesota, and lived for some time in Minneapolis, and my partner has family in Minnesota: we were really excited to come back to this state.) This transition has given me a lot to think about creatively: what it means to call a place home, what it means to be a transplant to a location, the charged language we employ connected to human migration, and what it means to find community as an artist. I’m in a privileged position to have some space and time to be able to consider these ideas, and I’m grateful and excited to be able to engage in this at the Highpoint. The McKnight feels like a dream fellowship, to have access to such facilities, expertise, and community for a prolonged period. I am most looking forward to connecting with other printmakers through the Fellowship, to develop my work in the company of an artistic community devoted to printmaking.
My current research interests explore the history of health programs, especially nursing training programs, that were set up in the Philippines by the United States at the start of the 20th century. This programming has lead to the establishment of labor pathways that exist today between the two countries. As a Filipina-American whose mother is a nurse, I am interested in unpacking this aspect of my family story in its greater context, and potentially expressing what I learn through my creative engagement at the Highpoint and as a McKnight Fellow.
—Jade Hoyer