When you pick up your program at a WFSO concert this season, the cover is more than an image — it’s a piece of original fine art made by a printmaker from our own community. This year, we partnered with MSU Texas Printmaking on a project called Printed Rhythms,, and the results are something we’re proud to be a part of.
How Printed Rhythms Came to Life
Printed Rhythms is a collection of original prints by 12 regional printmakers, all with connections to Midwestern State University here in Wichita Falls. MSU Texas Printmaking and the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra came together in early 2026 to invite these artists to create work inspired by the music featured during the 2026-27 concert season titled Music Moves.
Fourteen portfolios were produced in this edition. The WFSO holds edition 13 of 14, and it includes artists at every stage of their careers: current MSU students, MSU alumni, and even an MSU professor.
We selected five of those prints to use as program covers across our concert season. Here’s a look at the artists behind them and the work they created.
The Covers
Concert 1 – Rhapsody in Blue
Izzy Izaguirre | MSU Alumni, Corpus Christi, Texas
Izzy’s print does something immediately transportive. The moody purples and blues, the art deco patterning — it puts you squarely in the 1920s before you’ve even found your seat.
That felt exactly right for an opening night built around Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a piece that is inseparable from that era and all the energy and sophistication that came with it. It’s a reminder that Rhapsody in Blue didn’t just capture a moment in time — it defined one, and Izzy’s print carries that same energy. See more of Izzy’s art here.
Experience Rhapsody in Blue on November 14, 2026.
Concert 2 – Holiday Harmony
Catherine Prose | MSU Professor, Wichita Falls, Texas
Our holiday concert has always been about more than Christmas. It’s about the sounds and music that fill us with nostalgia during a time of year when so many people—regardless of background or religious affiliation—find themselves longing for warmth, comfort, and the people they love. Catherine’s print captures that feeling beautifully. Hand-carved on wood, with a stunning circular composition and a color palette that feels anything but traditional, it manages to feel both timeless and fresh. We were drawn to it immediately. See more of Catherine’s art here.
Experience Holiday Harmony on December 12, 2026.
Concert 3 – Currents of Sound
Shawn Ramos | MSU Alumni, Wichita Falls, Texas
Shawn’s print does something clever: the swan imagery is a nod to France, the birthplace of Georges Bizet, one of the composers featured on this program. The movement of the water through the piece gives a beautiful visual sense of what concertgoers will experience at this performance. Music flows. It carries you somewhere. This print does the same thing.
Shawn is an MSU alum who now teaches art at Memorial High School.
Experience Currents of Sound on January 23, 2027.
Concert 4 – Unfinished Symphony
D’Sani Buie | MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas
This one made us smile the second we saw it. D’Sani’s piece is full of playfulness and imagination. The color choices are spectacular, and the dancing music note figures feel joyful in a way that’s hard to fake, but also signal something deeper.
Those figures remind us that the music heard in a concert hall is immensely personal, made at the hands of real musicians. That’s exactly what we’re highlighting at this concert with the spotlight on WFSO soloists, and this print captures the feeling we want you to have when leaving after the final note.
Experience Unfinished Symphony on March 6, 2027.
Concert 5 – Beethoven: Fire & Grace
Rylee Hammond | MSU Alumni, Wichita Falls, Texas
Piano keys coming alive off the instrument, roses, fierce color – this is a print that doesn’t hold back, and neither does the concert it represents.
Beethoven: Fire & Grace features guest pianist and 2025 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Aristo Sham, and Rylee’s work captures precisely what an evening of Beethoven feels like: beauty and intensity, together, in the same room. It’s a striking image for what promises to be a stunning season finale for the WFSO.
Experience Beethoven: Fire & Grace on April 17, 2027.
The Full Portfolio
While five prints made it onto our program covers this season, the complete Printed Rhythms portfolio includes work from all 12 participating artists in addition to the above: Lint Aguero (MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas), Bailey Biggs (MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas), Krysten Farrier (MSU Alumni, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Rachel Horne (MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas), Andi Newberry (MSU Alumni, Visiting Professor, Co-Organizer, Longmont, Colorado), Hailey Padilha (MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas), and Caitlyn Roberts (MSU Student, Wichita Falls, Texas)
Each of these artists contributed original prints to the exchange. Seeing the full range of work across the portfolio makes clear just how thoughtfully each artist interpreted the brief. No two prints look alike, which says a lot about the breadth of perspective and voice within the MSU printmaking community.
Why This Collaboration Matters
We love finding ways to connect the orchestra to the broader creative life and arts community of Wichita Falls, and this project did exactly that. Printmaking and orchestral music have more in common than you might think! Both require precision, patience, and a willingness to work through a process before the final result emerges. There’s something fitting about art made by hand going alongside music performed under the hands of WFSO musicians.
Working with artists who are connected to MSU — students, graduates, and faculty — also means these covers represent something entirely local. This isn’t stock imagery, a design template, or AI-generated artwork. These are people who live and work in our community, who were handed a prompt and made something original and personal from it.
We’re grateful to MSU Texas Printmaking for bringing Printed Rhythms to life, and to all 12 artists in the portfolio for the care they put into their work. We’re proud to share five of those prints with our audiences this season, and we hope you’ll take a moment to really look at the cover at each concert before the music starts.
