Nate Crosser is a mixed media artist and conceptual printmaker located in Kansas City. While he earned his B.A. in Economics and his J.D. in Commerical Law from the University of Kansas, Nate's passion for printmaking drives him. Specializing in 1-of-1 Japandi-style block print compositions with ink on handmade paper, Nate's style is informed by Zen, Bauhaus, and Folk-Art design aesthetics. To Nate, each hand carved printing block is totemic, a physical embodiment of memory, and a perpetual opportunity for spontaneous fermentation of new work. This is why he focuses on hand-carved relief printing blocks. With knives and chisels he carves blocks into symbols. These symbols, such as a red torii gate, or plastic vampire teeth, or bison, create different narratives, aethetics, and meanings unique for each piece. Nate has dubbed this approach as composable design. Crosser studied wood block printmaking at Mokuhanga Innovation Lab in the ancient papermaking village of Echizen, Japan. His work falls best into the Sosaku-hanga school of "creative printmaking," based on his respect of Zen design aesthetics, his training in traditional wood block printmaking and his zeal for creating handmade washi paper.