About Devon Stackonis

Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Devon Stackonis is a visual artist and printmaker specializing in mezzotint and intaglio techniques who often employs model making and paper miniatures in her process. Stackonis’ work is rooted in her ancestral labor history and inhabitation of the Pennsylvania Coal Region. Through printmaking and artist book forms, she addresses the environmental, socioeconomic, psychological and physiological impacts of coal mining and extractive industry. The inhabitants and the landscape never truly recovered from this industrial past, and she finds this to be compelling grounds for her creative practice.

Stackonis received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and worked as Assistant in Printmaking at Bucknell University from 2018-2020. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. In her final year of the graduate program, she worked as Curatorial Assistant at Tandem Press.Her work is held in the National Library and Archives of Québec, the Artists’ Book Collection at the Kohler Art Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Special Collections at the University of Washington, University of Florida and Bucknell University. In 2024 she was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to continue her work in Poland, study the Silesian Coal Basin, and create a series of mezzotints with mentorship from Professor Christopher Nowicki at the Academy of Fine Art in Wrocław.

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