October 17, 18 & 19, 2025 - Daily 10am - 6pm - Mineral Point, Spring Green/Dodgeville, Baraboo
Jill Metcoff
Jill Metcoff

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analog photography, mixed media

From Wisconsin prairies to serene Bhutanese mountains, these are captured on film and become archival silver gelatin prints in my “wet” darkroom. I have worked with film and antique and traditional cameras for decades, producing these handmade black and white prints.
I am captivated by the use of fire in prairie restoration, fusing art about fire with my interest in prairie restoration in a recent book FIRELINES (University of New Mexico Press).
Combining art with themes of land management over decades, I photographed, for example, The Aldo Leopold Shack and its environs, Sandhill cranes and their moment of intersection with the human world, and the natural and built worlds in a defunct 7,000 acre ammunition plant. Not least is the presence of Wisconsin humor featuring wacky taxidermy.
Nowadays I find that I can say more about my inner experience by creating narrative collages which include multiple photographs and other media. During the pandemic I began to work with my collection of found wood, creating large scultptures.

I look forward to demonstrating in my on-site “wet” darkroom how black and white pictures grow from film into prints.

Jill Metcoff Location
Jill Metcoff
E7410 Troy Village Rd
Spring Green, WI 53588
(608) 370-4954
studio@jillnetcoff.com
www.jillmetcoff.com