Books by Hugh Merrill

Noted printmaker, activist and educator Hugh Merrill presents this volume on theories and activities for teaching Foundation at a university level in the arts. The journal presents assignments, discussions, directives, grading rubrics, and correlations to the greater art world and is accessible to both students and teachers. Full color photographs of students in studio, student work and more are included.

Hugh Merrill, internationally renowned printmaker and forerunner in the social practice art movement, writes this memoir focused on his formative years where he grew up in a high-profile, politically connected, wealthy white family in the deep Jim Crow South.

Hugh Merrill, internationally renowned printmaker and forerunner in the social practice art movement, writes and illustrates in full-color this memoir focused on his formative years where he grew up in a high-profile, politically connected, wealthy white family in the deep Jim Crow South.

Hugh Merrill explores his family connection to the Jim Crow south and connection to the legal lynching of Edgar Caldwell. Vivid illustrations accompanied with text make this an important social zine.

Dog Alley is a hybrid, full-color book of poems and paintings by the renowned artist Hugh Merrill. The poems are an intimate look at memory, aging, loss, privilege and sexuality all wrapped up in the potent and visceral language of emotion that only Merrill can achieve.