Nathan Meltz, a senior lecturer in the Department of the Arts in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently awarded an Honorable Mention for his entry in the Four Rivers Print Biennial, a national juried exhibition.

Watership Down 2 is a 23-by-37-inch screenprint of two mechanical rabbits climbing a hill of discarded machine parts toward windmill tree flowers in an alternate-colored universal forest.

“This print edition is from a body of work exploring the collapse of the Anthropocene,” Meltz said. “It imagines a world that may be worse for some and better for others. Sometimes destruction can be beautiful and the end of the world may lead to expressive, psychedelic rebirth.”

The juror, Mark Pascale, a lithographer, is the Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Four Rivers Print Biennial, sponsored by Southern Illinois Printworks at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is open to all forms of printmaking, including book arts, digital, experimental, and sculptural works.