Dasha Shishkin Lecture

Dasha Shishkin is a Russian artist who works in acrylic, gouache, pastel, conté crayon, graphite, and ink, and produces prints by etching. She studied at the Parsons School of Design, where she produced her first set of prints from 2001 to 2002, The 400 Series, nine etchings so named for the number of minutes she allowed herself to prepare each drawing. One of her drawings from this period was used for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s 2005 debut album cover.[2] Shishkin earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2006, and lives in New York City.[4]