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| Nancy
Azara |
| Rubbings and Tracings as Memoir |
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| Nancy Azara is a sculptor and collage artist whose work has been widely reviewed in such publications as the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum and Sculpture Magazine and has exhibited in the US and Europe. She has traveled extensively and was an artist-in-residence in Kerala, India. She is the recipient of the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship and most recently a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy. She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, (Red Wheel/Weiser). |
| nancyazara.com/ |
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 Spine, Paint, Oil Stick and Mylar on Paper, by Nancy Azara |
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| Melissa
Jay Craig |
| Sculptural Paper: Unusual 3D
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Melissa Jay
Craig’s handmade
paper book works, sculptures
and installation works are exhibited
internationally. She is
also a curator and an award-winning
teacher, who has given numerous
classes and workshops at schools
and art centers around the United
States. She was associated with
the Columbia College Chicago
Center for Book and Paper Arts
for fifteen years since its beginning.
Melissa has been awarded numerous
grants and residencies, including
several residencies at the Ragdale
Foundation, recent full fellowships
at Mary Anderson Center, the Vermont
Studio Center, Catwalk, Jentel, and
I-Park and she was the 2009 National
Endowment for the Arts resident in
papermaking at Women’s Studio
Workshop. She recently became the
proud owner of an early David Reina
hollander beater made of bronze. |
| Melissa
Jay Craig's website |
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Life, kozo, abaca, flax, oak , by Melissa Jay Craig |
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| Tatania
Ginsberg |
| Paper + Dye: Japanese Papermaking and Natural Colors |
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| Tatiana
Ginsberg, artist, dyer,
and papermaker studied at the
University of Iowa Center for
the Book before spending two
years in Japan on a Fulbright
research grant investigating
traditional naturally dyed Japanese
papers. Studying at one of the
oldest dye studios in Kyoto,
she learned the art of dyeing
paper in brilliant colors for
temple festivals, sutra copying,
and other uses. Currently she
teaches as a visiting artist
at Mount Holyoke College. Her
own work integrates traditional
skills with contemporary techniques,
and is exhibited nationally and
internationally.
Tatiana Ginsberg,
artist, dyer, and papermaker
studied at the University
of Iowa Center for the Book before
spending two years in Japan on
a Fulbright research grant investigating
traditional naturally dyed Japanese
papers. Studying at one of the
oldest dye studios in Kyoto,
she learned the art of dyeing
paper in brilliant colors for
temple festivals, sutra copying,
and other uses. Currently she
teaches as a visiting artist
at Mount Holyoke College. Her
own work integrates traditional
skills with contemporary techniques,
and is exhibited nationally and
internationally. |
| http://mysite.verizon.net/tginsberg/ |
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| Laureen
Griffin |
| Fabric
Printing with Dye |
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| Laureen
Griffin has an MFA from
Cranbrook and a BFA from Syracuse
University. She has received
numerous grants and awards for
her work as an artist and teacher,
including two from The Leeway
Foundation, the Pennsylvania
Council for the Arts, five County
Arts Fund awards, and University
of Pennsylvania Community Artists
Residencies. Her work has been
shown at the Da Vinci Art Alliance,
40th St. Airspace, Philly Fringe
and Highwire Gallery in Philadelphia. |
| laureengriffin.com/ |
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| Teréz
Iacovino |
| Paper From Plants: WSW Style |
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| Teréz Iacovino is one of WSW's staff hand papermakers. Terez has a BFA from Syracuse University where she studied both printmaking and papermaking. Terez first came to WSW as an intern. She is now our AmeriCorps volunteer working in the hand papermaking department managing our ArtFarm where our papermaking fibers are grown. |
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| Tatana
Kellner |
| Cross Pollination:
Trace Monoprints, Paper Lithography
and Encaustic, Cross
Pollination:Papermaking and Encaustic |
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| Tatana
Kellner is WSW’s
Artistic Director. A graduate
of Toledo Museum School and Rochester
Institute of Technology, Tana
has a deep understanding of printmaking
and papermaking processes. She
has received numerous grants
including two NYFA Fellowships,
a Pollack/Krasner Individual
artist grant, and a Ruth Chenven
Foundation grant. She has been
an artist-in-residence at MacDowell,
Yaddo, Millay, Ragdale, Visual
Studies Workshop, Banff, Blue
Mountain Center and Jentel. She
exhibits her work nationally,
most recently a show of trace
monoprints and encaustic at Kean
University in New Jersey. Currently
she is working on a series of
cast handmade paper loaves of
bread. |
| www.tatanakellner.com |
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 Fears and Dreams trace monoprint on handmade paper by Tatana Kellner |
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| Ann
Lovett |
| The
Photographer's Artists' Book |
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| Ann
Lovett is a photographer and book
artist, and a Professor of Art
at the State University of New
York at New Paltz. She has been
the recipient of numerous grants,
including a New York Foundation
for the Arts Artist Fellowship
in Photography and a New York State
Council on the Arts Individual
Artists grant in Artists’ Books.
Her work has been widely exhibited,
in venues including the Museum
of Arts and Design, New York; the
National Museum of Women in the
Arts, the New York Public Library,
Friends of Photography, Monique
Goldstrom Gallery, New York, and
Dorsky Gallery, New York. |
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| Kyla
Rafert |
| Screenprinting 101: The basics and beyond! |
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| Kyla
Rafert was once an
intern at WSW. Since then she
has risen in ranks. Kyla holds
a BFA in Printmaking from the
Rhode Island School of Design
an MFA in Printmaking from the
University of Delaware and an
MFA in Graphics from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison. She has
attended residencies at the Vermont
Studio Center, the Virginia Center
for Creative Arts, and the New
York Mills Regional Art Cultural
Center. She has also participated
in numerous juried exhibitions
nationally. Most recently these
include the Washington Printmakers
Gallery National Small Works
Exhibition, the 22nd
Annual International Exhibition,
at Meadows Gallery at the University
of Texas, and the 81st Annual
International Competition: Printmaking,
at the Print Center in Philadelphia. |
| kyla-zoe.com/ |
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 Jenny
Metcalf, Screenprint, By Kyla Rafert |
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| Emily
Martin |
| Sculptural and Movable Books |
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| Emily
Martin began making
artists books in the late 70's
when she was working on her MFA
in painting from the University
of Iowa. In 1995, she began the
Naughty Dog Press, producing
books using text either alone
or in combination with visual
imagery. Her books are in public
and private collections throughout
the United States and internationally,
including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York; The Tate Gallery,
London; The Museum of Contemporary
Art of Chicago; The Victoria
and Albert Museum, London; The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
and others. Emily teaches at
the University of Iowa Center
for the Book and in workshops
around the country. |
| www.emilymartin.com |
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Handmade artists' books by Emily Martin |
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| Laura
Moriarty |
| Cross
Pollination: Papermaking
and Encaustic |
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| Laura
Moriarty's work has been the subject
of twelve solo exhibitions since
1992, including most recently,
'Upheaval', a large-scale sculptural
painting at Artspace, New Haven
(2009), and 'Ice Flowers', a show
of works on paper at Women’s
Studio Workshop (2009). Laura’s
work has been featured in numerous
group exhibitions throughout the
US, Canada and Europe, including
Ecotones and Transition Zones at
the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
(2009), Hyper-Nature at Spaces
in Cleveland (2008), Natural Selection
at Albany International Airport
(2007), and Radius: Emerging Artists
from Connecticut and Southeast
New York at The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum and Ridgefield Guild
of Artists (2005). Laura has been
artist-in-residence at the NOCCA
Institute in New Orleans (2008),
Women’s Studio Workshop (2007 & 2008),
Collaborative Concepts in Beacon
(2004-5), the Frans Masereel Center
in Belgium (2004 & 2000), Oberpfälzer
Künstlerhaus in Germany (1999),
Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts (1998), and the Ucross Foundation
in Wyoming (1996). In 2007, Laura
was awarded her second grant from
the Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
and in 2009, she was selected to
take part in MARK 09, a professional
practice program for visual artists
administered by the New York Foundation
for the Arts. Laura maintains a
studio in Rosendale, New York and
is currently Director of Exhibitions
and Workshops at R&F Handmade
Paints. |
| lauramoriarty.com |
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 Cleavage, encaustic on panel. by Laura Moriarty |
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| Roxanne
Faber Savage |
| New Directions in Monoprint |
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| Roxanne Faber Savage is a dedicated printmaker, educator, and Master Teaching Artist on the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Teaching Artist Roster. She has received several awards for her unique paper litho works, and in 2008 she was featured in 3 solo shows and numerous juried and invitational exhibits throughout the Northeast. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute and her M.S. Ed from Queens College. |
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 Crow's
Cage, monoprint with mixed media, By Roxanne Faber Savage |
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| Gretchen
Schermerhorn |
| From
Paper to Print |
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Gretchen
Schermerhorn is a printmaker and
hand papermaker, and her work often
combines the two media. Thematically,
her work often explores the relationships
between humans, science, politics
and/or psychology.
Gretchen is currently the Director
of the Papermill and Artistic Collaborations
at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in
Silver Spring, Maryland. She received
her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona
State University in 2004. She has
completed artist residencies at Columbia
College Center for Book and Paper,
Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern
Ireland, California State University,
and Women's Studio Workshop. Her
prints, books and paper works have
been exhibited nationally and internationally
in such places as Northern Ireland,
New York, Boston and Washington DC.
Her work is in public and permanent
collections including the Janet Turner
Print Collection and Amity Art Foundation. |
| gretchenschermerhorn.com |
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| Carol
Struve |
| Cross
Pollination: Monoprint and Encaustic |
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| Carol
Struve is a painter and printmaker
who resides in upstate New York. Her
works have been included in regional
and national exhibitions including
solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery
in New York City and the Plains
Art Museum, Fargo, ND. Regional
group exhibitions include Van Brunt
Gallery, R & F Handmade Paints
and Steel Plant Gallery at Marist
College. She served twice
as a Minnesota State Arts Board
Fellowship panelist and has been
recipient of several grant awards
including a Studio Fellowship at
WSW in 2007. Carol has an
MFA from University of Massachusetts
Amherst. She has 17 years
of college teaching experience
and currently teaches at State
University of New York at New Paltz. |
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| Shelley
Thorstensen |
| Motivational Intaglio |
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| Shelley Thorstensen has a BFA in Experimental Studies from Syracuse University, School of Visual & Performing Arts, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She has taught at Moore College of Art, Rutgers Mason/Gross School at Art and the University of Delaware. In 2009 she had a solo show at Houghton College and is preparing for a show at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, April 2010. Her work can be seen at Dolan/Maxwell in Philadelphia or at dolan/maxwell.com. |
| www.dolanmaxwell.com/artists/thorstensen/ |
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Lake, intaglio, relief, silkscreen, chine colle and digital tools, By Shelley Thorstensen |
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| Abigail
Uhteg |
| The Printed Book |
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| Abigail Uhteg is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in printmaking and book arts. She also studied in Aix-en-Provence at the Center d'art et Culture in France. She has worked as a Conservation Technician at Columbia University, repairing books and mending papers in the special and circulating collections. She has been a resident artist at Dolphin Press in Baltimore, Museet Grafika in Sweden and at WSW. Abigail is on her way to England for advanced training in book and paper conservation. |
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 A Quivering Conscience, etching on handmade paper, by Abigail Uhteg |
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| Pamela
Wallace |
| Sculptural
Papermaking: Advanced Armatures |
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| Pamela Wallace has an MFA in Sculpture and an MFA in Blacksmithing from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. Her undergraduate degree is from Bard College. She has also studied at Penland, and the Center for Book Arts. Pamela has taught at Penland Peters Valley, Mount Holyoke and currently in the Sculpture Department at SUNY New Paltz.
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Suspended Pod Bodies (Kameradeschaf), Cast iron, bookbinding thread, by Pamela Wallace |
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| Carol
Wax |
| Mezzotint |
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| Carol Wax lectures frequently and is a visiting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the author of The
Mezzotint: History and Technique (Abrams, 1990, 1996), and her essays have appeared in international catalogs and journals. Honors received include the Louise Nevelson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant, and residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Her mezzotints are in numerous publications and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Museum of American Art. |
| stoneandpress.com/prints/Carol-Wax/ |
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The Oliver, Mezzotint, by Carol Wax |
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| Cynthia
Winika |
| Cross
Pollination: Trace Monoprints,
Paper Lithography and Encaustic ,
Cross
Pollination: Monoprint and Encaustic |
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Cynthia Winika is
a mixed media artist who shows
her work in the US and abroad.
She is a National member of A.I.R.
Gallery, NYC. Cynthia is the Encaustic
Workshop Director/teacher for R&F
Handmade Paints and has been a
visiting artist/lecturer at Yale
University, Oregon College of Arts
and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute,
Columbia College Chicago, and the
Montclair Art Museum. Her paintings
and technical advice on encaustic
are featured in: Collage for
the Soul by Paula Grasdal,
and The Art of Encaustic Painting:
Contemporary Expression in the
Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax by
Joanne Mattera.
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Turtle Skeleton, Encaustic and xerox transfer on Ganoderma Esplanatum, by Cynthia Winika |
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| Jackie
Wygant |
| Decorative
Papers for Book Arts and Collage |
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| Jackie Wygant started marbling more than 20 years ago and has trained with master marblers from around the country. Marbling led to book arts and then to teaching. She is passionate about sharing the excitement and mystery of marbling with others and has taught at the Newport Paper Arts Festival in New Port Oregon, and for the North Redwoods Book arts Guild in Arcata, CA. Currently some of her time is spent creating new marbling patterns and ‘landscape-like’ monoprints. |
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Marbled paper by Jackie Wygant |
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Piranesi,
Photogravure by Lothar Osterburg