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Mike Sweeney - Artist
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Paper Artist creating traditional prints on handwoven paper. Inquiries welcome through website contact form.

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Mike Sweeney - Artist @mikesweeney-artist.bsky.social · Oct 27
Hare apparent.
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
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A print on handwoven paper from approximately 2020 - titled: a brief history of little tin gods.

#printsky #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #literacy #printmking #contemporaryart
"a brief history of little tin gods" (circa 2020) is a print on handwoven paper depicting (in red ink) a man in a suit walking away layered over a landscape with house and water tower (also in red ink) layered over a colonial house with a stone wall (in brown ink). the handwoven paper is predominantly green and an irregular rhombus shape.
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Digitally altered detail of print on handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Digitally altered detail of print on handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Handwoven paper rabbit in progress. Studio view by Mike Sweeney, Artist, Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.

#contemporaryart ##wovenpaper #iapma #visualart ##paperartcollector
Handwoven paper rabbit ears in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Handwoven paper rabbit in progress - sudip view from MikeSweeney,Artist. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
Handwoven paper rabbit ears in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025. Handwoven paper rabbit head in progress. Mikesweeneyartist.com all rights reserved, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail view of reproduction photo of handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist - overlaid with the text, " there is harm that comes from coding linguistics, not to be messed with"
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pleased to have my print "table," in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts, literature, and social commentary, no. 18.

Stone Canoe showcases "established and emerging artists and writers with ties to upstate New York..."

www.ymcacny.org/stone-canoe-...

#wovenpaper #printmaking #drypoint #printsky
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Sharpen your awareness of the difference between want and need.

#civicliteracy #literacy #visualliteracy.
Photo of wall mounted pencil sharpeners with the overlaid text, " the call for charitable donations to make up for republican majority's government budget stance all occurs as congress ignores the expense of knocking down a federal building for a big, beautiful, empirical ballroom " and the text, "get back to work for US"
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Detail view of Mike Sweeney's handwoven paper -with a variety of found colors - overlaid digitally with the text, "people forget the value of not sharing a common language, the value of learning each other's meanings and patiently bridging divides"

#literacy #visualliteracy ##civicliteracy
Detail view of Mike Sweeney's handwoven paper -with a variety of found colors - overlaid digitally with the text, "people forget the value of not sharing a common language, the value of learning each other's meanings and patiently bridging divides" #literacy #visualliteracy ##civicliteracy
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hare apparent.
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Detail photo of a print on handwoven paper with the digitally overlaid text, "It's common dissent." The print by Mike Sweeney, Artist has been darkened and reduced in color saturation. All rights reserved.
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Digitally altered image of handwoven and printed paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
Handwoven paper with the phrase "categorical purity is a convenience"
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Digitally altered image of handwoven and printed paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025.

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
Digitally manipulated detail from a print with the words, "If we consider the entirety of each profession, Art does far more things than Government." - and also the words, "for less money"
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Close-up photograph of handwoven paper overlaid with yellow text saying, " soft colonialism, boot straps, and extreme wealth aspirations"
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
handwoven paper overlaid with yellow text that says, "peace, it matters more how you make it than how you declare it"
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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detail of American flag in yellow flag with the words "representative democracy"
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A print I have been slowly building for awhile dealing with the problems of spectacle in public life. I think it has some more layers of printing and weaving to reach a more complete state of undoneness.

#printmaking #contemporaryart #contemporaryprintmaking #wovenpaper #printsky
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The problem: politics is a game of competition rather than public good. Blue suits are not a team color. Blue suits are on both sides of the aisle. But aisles are just for walking to your seat and getting to work for those you represent.

#civicliteracy #congress #civicresponsibility #politics
October 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#congress #civicresponsibility #politics
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
Handwoven paper, primarily brown, blue, and white overlaid with a description of satire and its similarity to thorough dictionaries: "among the things that happen in satire is the literal or concrete use of a conventional image in a way that undermines the credibility of that image - not simply showing it as it is, but also in the other ways it can be understood at the same time a thorough dictionary has the same goals"
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy
handwritten question on stitched linoleum, " what borders will the billionaire rocket men be stopped at as immigrants?"
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Thanks to Janine at UPPERCASE Magazine for including a detail from a stencil-lettered sheet of my handwoven paper in issue 67.

uppercasemagazine.com

#wovenpaper #stencil #contemporaryprintmaking #contemporarypaperart #contemporaryart #iapma #printsky
Cover photo of Uppercase Magazine Issue 67, an issue focused on stencils. A photo of Uppercase Magazine Issue 67 opened to page 74 which includes at the bottom a photo and blurb about stenciling on handwoven paper in the artwork of Mike Sweeney, mikesweeneyartist.com.
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Returning to the print shop this week and finding unexpected combinations as a start point.

#printsky #printmaking #wovenpaper #paperart #iapma
October 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025. Digitally overlaid with the phrase:
"no reason to
run anyone
down, lots
of ways to
make enough
room, to have
enough comfort,
at no one in
particular's
expense"

#literacy #visualliteracy #civicliteracy #contemporaryart #printsky
Handwoven paper by Mike Sweeney, Artist, all rights reserved, 2025. Digitally overlaid with the phrase: "no reason to run anyone down, lots of ways to make enough room, to have enough comfort, at no one in particular's expense"
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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For what it is worth, how I think about image, process, and material in art. I think this approach would serve most professions well.

#contemporaryart #contemporaryprint ##contemporarycollage #visualliteracy #literacy #iapma #wovenpaper
September 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I also have wondered at the reception of complex expression.

#contemporaryart #contemporaryprint ##contemporarycollage #visualliteracy #literacy #iapma #wovenpaper
September 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM