Jake Burr is an artist, printmaker, and educator who has recently relocated to Philadelphia. He received his BFA in Printmaking and BA in Art Education from the University of Iowa. His work explores living under industrial capitalism while longing for connection with the human and non-human life around us. Print, of both images and the written word, has historically been used by the masses in order to educate and mobilize against various forms of hierarchy. Jake draws on this radical past, using printmaking as a tool to highlight and confront the hierarchical systems our culture has put in place to exploit humanity and the rest of the planet as well as to illustrate that we are a part of nature too. A scavenger at heart, incorporating found, discarded, and thrifted objects is an integral part of his artistic process and contributes to his critiques of consumerism and industrialization.