Etai Rogers-Fett

Etai Rogers-Fett a printmaker and book artist weaving together archival research, oral history, folktales, and speculative imagining in order to visually explore Yiddish cultural transmission. Etai is interested in the ways that cultural knowledge is shared through mentorship and collaborative practices, as well as moments of rupture and subsequent efforts at reconnection within these lineages. He understands acts of transformative repetition as the connective marrow between the Yiddishist, cultural dimensions of his work and the technical side of craft traditions like printmaking and book binding. Etai is an incoming MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has an academic background in Studio Art, History and Jewish Studies from the University of the District of Columbia and Johns Hopkins University.