Our Town Self-Portraits

Our Town: Nashville is an ongoing art project put on by Isle of Printing that gathers members of a communities, gives them the tools to create a self-portrait with rudimentary shapes and then each print is laser cut into a woodblock and made into a print. Check this handy process illustration to get the exact low down. There's a great Nashville Public Radio piece on how it all started and why it exists.

After you're familiar with the concept, dive headfirst into the actual portrait collections. There are some phenomenal interpretations to be seen.