About

Ivy Manska is a printmaker and illustrator from southeast Michigan. She is currently an MFA candidate at the university of Tennessee Knoxville studying printmaking. She received a BFA in illustration with a minor in fine arts at the College for creative studies. her work explores how cultural, environmental, and ancestral influences—both vast and subtle—shape notions of escapism, longing, and a deep reverence for the unfamiliar.

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group shows-

“following the pattern”, Gallery 1010, knoxville, tn 2025

“delta national small prints exhibition”, Bradbury Art museum, arkansas state university, jonesboro, ar, 2025

“sixty square inches xxi” purdue galleries, purdue university, west lafayette, in

“imPrinted”, 2nd annual utk print club showcase, gallery 1010 knoxville, tn 2024

“Germination”, a first-year graduate show, UTK Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN 2024

“harrowing Hall”, washtenaw farm council grounds, ann arbor, mi 2023

“an exhibit of black and white”, Plymouth community arts council, plymouth, mi 2023

“welcome to the show” by Mark arminski, Lily’s seafood, royal oak, mi 2021

“How to kill your houseplants”, K.o. Studio gallery, hamtramck, mi, 2021

“the funktion”, Tangent gallery, Detroit, MI 2019

“good do up art collective” tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI 2018

College for creative studies student exhibition, taubman center, detroit, mi 2017, 2018, 2019

bibliography-

“the dreadfuls special”, rotland press 2021

“Unconventional banana zine 2.0”, equal exchange, online zine, 2020

“plague review digest”, rotland press, 2020

“ivy manska prints and sketches”, self-published print zine, 2018