Ingrid Michaelson - San Francisco, CA 2010

I am a screen printer and designer born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I moved 300 miles away from home only to realize that I am, in fact, still in Pennsylvania. This gives me a lot of practice correctly spelling "Pennsylvania". Now I make my home in No Rules Pittsburgh with my husband and our dog. While most kids were out stealing concert posters from clubs, I was busy swiping circus posters from telephone poles. Propaganda art and absurd random associations fascinate and influence me. I am lucky enough to work from the fantastic community print studio Artists Image Resource. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.