TEACHERS

Maria Anasazi holds a BFA in Graphic Design from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MA from the Creative Arts Department of San Francisco State University, California. She also received a certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, from JFK School of Psychology, in Orinda, California, where she studied psychology for 3 years. Maria has had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Arlington Arts Place, VA, and Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, MD. Her work has also been featured in many group exhibitions among them South/Center Florida, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., School 33, and Maryland Art Place in Baltimore.

Maria Barbosa is a mixed media artist who was born in Brazil and lives in Maryland. Barbosa's work explores issues of communication, misunderstandings, and the ways language and signs liberate or pigeonhole individuals. Her installations and artist's books are exhibited nationally and internationally. She teaches at the Smithsonian Associates Program, participates in the Artist in Education Program from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute from the Maryland Department of Education, the Professional Development for Teachers program and the Kennedy Center Arts Integration Summer Institute for D.C. Public Schools.

Carol Barton is a book artist, curator, and teacher who has published several editions and has organized both local and national shows of artists' books. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She served as curator for the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition Science and the Artist's Book.  She has taught at elementary, high school, and university levels, as well as conducted adult workshops at art centers across the United States. She is on the faculty at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she teaches courses in bookbinding and book structures. She has had residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil. Her pop-ups were featured in National Geographic Magazine’s July, 2005, article Zip Code 20812: It’s Only A Paper Moon. Her most recent book, The Pocket Paper Engineer, is an artist’s how-to book on paper engineering.

Jake Bensonis a resident of Takoma Park, MD and has provided fine custom bookbinding and rare book conservation services for clients for over a decade. He has been engaged in researching the Book Arts of the Islamic world for many years. Jake is a co-founder of the Society of Marbling, www.marbling.org, which is the only organization in the world devoted to the preservation and promotion of this ancient art.

Kyle Bravo currently lives and works in the upper 9th Ward of New Orleans. Along with his wife, Jenny LeBlanc, he runs Hot Iron Press – a letterpress and silkscreen printshop and hub for support and promotion of grassroots arts activities in New Orleans. Through the press he organizes the New Orleans Bookfair – an annual celebration of independent publishing and alternative media. Additionally, Kyle teaches art through various non-profit organizations throughout New Orleans to underprivileged and disadvantaged kids. While evacuated from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Kyle taught printmaking and design at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Kyle’s work has been shown in a multitude of exhibitions both nationally and internationally from New Orleans to New York to Tokyo and is in permanent collections ranging from the ABC No Rio zine library in New York to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.  

Kathy Caraccio is a collage artist and master printer.  In 1977, Kathy started the K. Caraccio Printing Studio in NYC.  She has collaborated with and editioned for over two hundred artists, such as Louise Nevelson, Robert Kipniss, Emma Amos, Sol LeWitt, Malcolm Morley and Jackie Battenfield.  She has taught printmaking at Columbia University, the National Academy of Fine Art, NYU, Pratt Institute, FIT, the Lower East Side Printshop, Parsons and Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work is in the collection of The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Portland Art Museum, The Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Fine Arts Museum of California, the 42nd St. Library, and The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.  She is a member of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios.  Kathy has had one-person shows in the USA, Japan, Korea, and Puerto Rico.

Charles Cohan has held teaching positions as Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently Associate Professor and Printmaking Program Chair at the University of Hawaii. Recent teaching projects have taken him to Hard Ground Printmakers in Cape Town, South Africa, the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, the Fundacion Ludwig in Havana, Cuba, Whanganui Polytech in New Zealand, and the Pilchuck Glass School.

Sas Colby is an artist and teacher with more than thirty years of experience. Her mixed media art encompasses one of a kind books, paintings and constructions. Her dynamic classes are group events orchestrated as inquiries into the nature of art. Sas lives in Berkeley, CA, and spends her summers in Taos, NM, where she leads an annual art retreat.

Kerri L. Cushman is a sculptural book artist and avid papermaker with an affinity for letterpress. She holds an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College in Chicago. Known for her artist books, she has exhibited her exquisitely crafted works internationally. Reformulating everyday objects, her narrative works––layered by surprise and sprinkled with humor––continually challenge the book arts realm. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Longwood University in Virginia.

Calvin Custen has been working in the arts for over 30 years. His work and teaching has been mostly in the Washington metropolitan area. He has taught printmaking and various photomechanical print processes at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Baltimore County and College Park campuses. He has also taught computer-assisted printmaking and artist books at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Georgetown University. Calvin has been a part of the Maryland Printmakers off and on since 1989 when they were first started. The majority of his work has been in printmaking and artist books and he has shown his work in various venues around the United States from Madison, Wisconsin, to Charlotte North Carolina. His one man show “Catharsis and The American Myth” has been shown in many places up and down the eastern seaboard and Madison. He continues to work in various ways with the print processes both in his teaching of computer-assisted printmaking and in his artist books. For more info and back ground on Calvin Custen go to http://napolitano.georgetown.edu/custen/gallery.

Jodi Dee was born and raised Bridgehampton, New York. She attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she graduated with a fine arts degree in printmaking and book arts. She studied with a bookbinder in East Hampton, New York, for ten years before starting her own business, Bridgehampton Bindery. She spent a year in Los Angeles prior to moving to Silver Spring in November of 2004. To see examples of her work please go to her web site:www.bridgehamptonbindery.com.

Mike Denker has been printing with letterpress since he was 13. Mike earned his BA in printmaking from Antioch College in 1970. A builder by profession, Mike prints in a shop in his back yard surrounded by a large collection of 19th century wood type, that he likes to use in his printing work. Mike is currently president of the Chesapeake chapter of the American Printing History Association.

Anthony Dihle is the founder and proprietor of Dirty Pictures Posters &c, a silkscreen shop he started on an air hockey table in his living room. Dirty Pictures produces a variety of ephemera including but not limited to art prints, t-shirts, and rock posters for local and internationally known bands. He earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Anthony lives in Washington DC and works as a printmaker and graphic designer. 

Margot Ecke is a professor of book arts and printmaking at the University of Georgia in Athens. As a letterpress printer, binder, and book artist, she publishes work under the imprint of Blue Tarp Editions. Her artwork reflects an ongoing investigation of book concepts: the relationship between language and meaning, the role of readership, and the space between public and private sentiment. Many of her artists’ books are visual diagrams of traditional reading patterns. She received an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and completed the full-time programs at the North Bennet Street School for bookbinding and the Tamarind Institute for lithography. She has taught at Wells College, Women’s Studio Workshop, the North Bennet Street School, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Calvin Edwards worked as an apparel engineer/computer manager with Madame Alexander Doll for 4 seasons. Afterwards, he worked for ten years as an educator in New York starting out as a tutor in programming.  Then, he worked as an Adjunct Instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York for seven years teaching the basics of computer graphics. He then spent the last two years teaching Photography, and 3d graphics at The Churchill School for Learning disabilities. He is currently teaching ‘video game making’ at the Friendship Charter School in Washington DC, for the Urban Video Game Academy.  He continues to hold a lifelong interest in photography.

Moira Egan’s poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, The Atlanta Review, Boulevard, The Laurel Review, Literal Latte, Passages North, Poems & Plays, Poet Lore, Rattapallax, Smartish Pace, and West Branch, among many others. Her first book of poems, Cleave (WWPH, 2004) was nominated for the National Book Award. Poems are also featured in the anthologies, Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics, forthcoming in 2005. Her work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Liani Foster earned his BFA form Howard University in Graphic Design. He has been employed as an Artist in Residence Educational Arts Collaborator/Art Consultant since 1991 in both private and public sectors. Liani’s works in mixed media digital textile collage, using traditional and non-traditional painting/photography techniques. Liani participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions; among them a retrospective solo exhibit at Bowie State University in January 2005.

Brad Freeman is a book artist, photographer and printer with much experience using Photoshop as an artmaking and pre-press tool. He has facilitated the production of numerous artist books since 1985, while working at the Visual Studies Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic and Nexus Press. He is the founder of JAB - the Journal of Artists' Books.

Jenny Freestone has previously taught printmaking at George Washington University and Union Printmakers Atelier.  She currently works in her Takoma Park studio in the following printmaking media:  etching, drypoint, monotype, stone lithography, solar plate etching and photogravure.  Jenny exhibits widely both nationally and internationally, and her work is in many private and public institutions including the Library of Congress, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Brian Garner teaches printmaking at University of Maryland College Park, Towson University and MICA. He received his BFA from MICA and is a graduate of the Tamarind Master Printer's Program. He was collaborative printer at Goya-Girl Press in Baltimore from 1997 - 2002. Currently, he maintains his own printmaking studio in Baltimore where he collaborates with artists on various projects.

Isabelle Geiger Isabelle Geiger resides in Baltimore and is a free lance collaborative printer and artist. She was Studio Director and Collaborative Printer at Goya-Girl Press from 1997-2004, working with national and international artists. She has been showing her work continuously at various venues for the last ten years. Her media of choice is printmaking and mixed media.

Carol Brown Goldberg graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in 1976, winning the "Eugene M Wiesz" memorial award. In Washington, she has had solo exhibitions at Osuna Gallery, Troyer-Fitzpatrick-Lassman Gallery, Anton Gallery, and the Cosmos Club. Her work is found in many collections (including Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach in Florida, the New England Contemporary Art Museum, and the Francis Loeb Art Center in Vassar College). In 1990 and 1991, she produced a lecture series on science, art, and physics, and won the "Amana" award for her video 'Concertina'. Goldberg's short story was included in "Writing from the Heart" by Nance Slonum Aronie, Hyperion Press in 2000. She currently teaches drawing and painting at the American University and is represented by Osuna Gallery.

Susan Goldman Susan Goldman received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, Tempe, and her BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1981. From 1991 through 2000 she was Special Projects Coordinator and Master Printer at Pyramid Atlantic. Goldman is a printmaking faculty member at George Mason University. She was President of Maryland Printmakers, Inc. She is Founder and Co-Curator since 1993 of the interdisciplinary community arts project, The Art of Work, The Work of Art, TM.

Takuji Hamanaka is an artist/teacher, and freelance printer. He was an apprentice at the Adachi Woodblock Printing studio in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked as a printer at various studios in both Japan and the U.S., and has been working out of his studio in Brooklyn since 1995. Hamanaka also teaches at Manhattan Graphics Center and the Center for Book Arts in New York. For more information, visit http://www.takujihamanaka.com.

Richard Hellman earned his B.F.A.and M.F.A. from Syracuse University and Northern Illinois University, respectively. His prints have been included in many international, and national juried exhibitions and have won numerous awards. Several prints and his research on using Photoshop as a tool for screenprinting will be featured in a new book entitled Waterbased Screenprinting: From Technique to Technology, by Roni Henning, to be published in Spring 2006.

Ellen Hill (MFA, University of North Carolina) is a painter and printmaker whose artworks have been shown throughout the U.S. Her works are in public and private collections including the U.S. State Department; the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities; the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University; and KPMG-LLP. She has served as a resident printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. An exhibition of her pulp paintings can be seen in the Atrium Gallery of the McLean Project for the Arts this December.

Andrea Hull, the new Associate Papermaker, came to papermaking from a historical and highly practical use of paper, receiving her Masters in Library and Information Studies from UCLA. During her Masters study, specializing in Archives and Informatics, she worked at the California Center for the Book in Los Angeles, and, during its inaugural year, at the California Rare Book School based out of UCLA. Besides the paper and book arts, Andrea enjoys all aspects of the fiber arts, having her own spinning wheel at home and trying to get all her friends to start spinning as well.

Roland Hoover’s interest in letterpress began in 1958 while working at a graphic design studio. He is one of a handful letterpress specialists in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Hoover was the Director of Publications at the Brookings Institution from 1966 to 1984 and University Printer at Yale from 1984 to 1994. He is the proprietor of the Pembroke Press in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eve Ingalls is a sculptor who works in handmade paper. She is one of three artists representing the United States at the Holland Paper Biennial 2006 held at the Coda Museum and the Museum Rijswijk in the Netherlands. In 2003 she was in a two-person exhibition at the Schokland Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands. In April 2006, she had a one-person sculpture exhibition in New York City. She has taught at The Silvermine School of Art, Trinity College, Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and The Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She has a BFA and a MFA from the Yale University School of Art.

Jeanne Jaffe is the recipient of fellowship grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic/NEA, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation.  Her work is represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and has been reviewed extensively, including in Art in America, The New York Times, and Sculpture Magazine. She is Professor of Sculpture and Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of the Arts.

Yukie Kobayashi was born in Yokohama and is the Associate Papermaker at Pyramid Atlantic. She is an artist member at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art in Philadelphia and has an MFA in Sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation Works on Paper and her work has been exhibited internationally.

Kumi Korf, MFA in printmaking, Cornell University, an artist whose work uses a wide range of media and techniques, studied architecture in her native Japan and has practiced architectural design in Ithaca, NY. She teaches sculptural book workshops and exhibits widely. Her artist book work and intaglio prints are included in many museums and library collections nationally and internationally.

Tracy Krumm’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums, including the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland; the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; the Odder Museum in Denmark; the Museum of Art and Design in New York; the Denver Art Museum; the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA; The Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM; the Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco, CA; Lemmons Contemporary in New York, NY; Linda Durham Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM; Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO; and Cervini Haas in Scottsdale, AZ.  She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art + Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.  She has been awarded residencies by Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, MD, the Museum of International Folk Artin Santa Fe, NM and the State of New York at ArtPark.  She completed her BFA with High Distinction at the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1987 and received her MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College in 1995.  Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Metalsmith, Sculpture, and American Craft magazines and resides in many private and corporate collections including Bloomingdale’s, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of New Mexico, the Clorox Corporation and Ford Motor Company.

Hedi Kyle , a recently retired book conservator, continues to instruct students in the field of book arts in the USA, Canada and Europe. Her one-of-a-kind book constructions are shown internationally and are in numerous collections. She is a co-founder of Paper and Book Intensive (PBI) and has given workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Switzerland for the past 20 years. Among the most influential artists in the world of contemporary bookmaking, Hedi Kyle has developed new book structures and forms which have been adopted by publishers and printers of fine art books as well as by individual artists creating unique or multiple bookworks.

Jenny LeBlanc Sculptor, printmaker, performance artist, and educator Jenny LeBlanc hails from New Orleans. She has recently returned to her city after a yearlong stint in Denton, Texas, where she taught sculpture and drawing at the University of North Texas while her hometown dried out a bit. A graduate from the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Jenny received a BFA in sculpture from Louisiana State University, and a MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Jenny has most recently been teaching sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and book arts to her rowdy but lovable pupils in New Orleans elementary schools. When she is not teaching, Jenny helps to run Hot Iron Press, a letterpress and silkscreen studio founded in 2002, along with her husband, artist Kyle Bravo. The pair has been busy this past year rebuilding their flood ravaged studio and their artwork with the valued support of The Alliance of Artists Communities, the James Irvine Foundation, Kala Art Institute, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Jenny also coordinates and curates Babylon Lexicon, the annual exhibition of artists’ books that opens in conjunction with, and constitutes the fine art leg of, the New Orleans Bookfair. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and also in Canada, Italy, and Japan.

Jesse LeDoux has been working over seven years as an art director and designer for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records and founding member of Patent Pending Design, LeDoux created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists as The Shins, Iron and Wine, and Hot Hot Heat before launching his own illustration/design firm LeDouxville in 2004. With work in the permanent collection at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, his art has been exhibited nationwide and abroad.

Val Lucas is a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She works primarily in printmaking, painting, and bookmaking. She has become interested in letterpress printing, and hopes to interest others in this process. Her affiliation with Pyramid Atlantic began as an intern in Spring 2005. Currently, Val is the letterpress and binding assistant at Pyramid Atlantic’s studios.

Chris Manson has an MFA in printmaking from The State University College of New York from New Paultz. He worked for fifteen years a commercial illustrator and has devoted the last ten years to letterpress. He is the proprietor of the Crooked Crow Press in Rockville, Maryland.

Emily Martin started as a painter/sculptor working with personal or anecdotal imagery. She has found that books, particularly sculptural book forms provide her with the proper arena for her intentions. With book forms, she involves the viewer with combinations of words and images and can present multiple scenes or views in a single work. The complexity in working with books allows her to have the materials, the forms, the content all working together. She often uses a theme and variation approach in her work. An idea may first develop in one medium and then appear in different visual and written forms. Emily Martin has been a working artist since the late 70’s, she earned an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Iowa in 1979. Since then she has been producing narrative paintings, sculpture and books. Her earlier books were one of a kind sculptural books, she began producing limited edition books in the late 80's, using images from her paintings and drawings. In 1996, Emily Martin began the Naughty Dog Press, producing books using text either alone or in combination with visual imagery. She uses a variety of printing methods with her books, inkjet printing, letterpress, Xerox, color Xerox and offset. Her books are in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Britain, London; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida and others. Emily teaches at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and in workshops around the country. She lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. The Naughty Dog Press is named after her dog and studio companion, Gomez.

Kerry McAleer-Keeler earned her MFA, The George Washington University; BA Mount Holyoke College. Her work is in the collections of the National Museumof Women In the Arts, Corcoran College of Art and Design Library,The Corcoran Museum of Art, The George Washington University, St. Mary'sCollege, MD and the Southern Graphics Council Archives. Her work has beenselected for individual, group, and juried exhibitions throughout the United Statesand her studio is part of the LibertyTown Arts Workshop in Fredericksburg, VA. She has previously taught for George Washington University and the University of Mary Washington.

Despina Meimaroglou was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied at Maidstone College of Art, Kent, England. She resides in Athens, Greece. Her works span from video, photography, painting, installation works and artist books. She has been invited to numerous group exhibitions all over the world, including France, Czech Republic, and in the US in Boston,Washington DC and Chicago, as well as many significant exhibitions in Greece. Her recent one women exhibitions include "The Clear Valley Incident", Columbia College Chicago, 2003; "Thy Neighbor", Despina Meimaroglou from the Potalakas Collection, The Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete, 2002; and various exhibitions at the AD Gallery, Athens, Greece.(1991,1994,1997). Ms. Meimaroglou is one of Greece's most distinguished artists.

Frederick Mershimer received a BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University, and developed his printmaking through studies at the Parsons School of Design, the Pratt Graphic Center and the Manhattan Graphic Center. His mezzotints are in many private and public collections, including the Corcoran Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Library of Congress.

Paul Moxon, a graduate of The University of Alabama MFA in the Book Arts program, is a fine press printer and book designer. He has taught workshops on letterpress and Vandercook Maintenance at universities, art colleges and book arts centers across the U.S. He maintains the Vandercook resource website and blog http:vandercookpress.info. His letterpress work is included in several public and private collections. Examples can be seen on his website fameorshame.com.

Johanna Mueller holds a bachelors of Fine Arts from the Metropolitan State College of Denver.  Her work has been shown across the country, as well as in Europe, and is featured in numerous private and academic collections.  She is a member of the Wood Engravers Network and has attended numerous workshops to further the extent of her knowledge in the medium. 

Jake Muirhead earned his MFA in printmaking from George Mason University and is currently Associate Printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic. He is a painter, printmaker and photographer who refers to memory of sight to create his richly drawn etchings. Jake has exhibited his etchings in numerous national and international print shows such as The Parkside National Small Print Exhibition in Wisconsin, The Guanlan International Prints Biennale in China, The Silvermine Arts Guild National Print Exhibition in Connecticut, The Washington Printmakers Gallery National Small Works Show in DC and The Ellipse Art Center International Hand Pulled Print Exhibition in Virginia.  He recently won awards at Purdue University’s annual “60 Square Inches” International Print Exhibition, Artlink’s 26th National Print Exhibition, The Western New York Artists Group 2nd annual National Small Works Exhibition, StoneMetal Press International Hand Pulled Print Biennial and The Loyola National Works on Paper Exhibition.He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with his wife Ginna, and their six-year-old son Andrew (himself a prolific young artist).

Manuel Navarrete was born in Peru, where he completed BFA and Graduate studies in Printmaking at the Pontific Catholic University of Lima. He immigrated to the United States in the early nineties and continued his studies in fine arts and digital media at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in the city of Washington DC where he presently resides. Currently on the Adjunct Faculties of both the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and the Catholic University of America,  Mr. Navarrete is the Lead Arts Program Teacher at Centronia learning center, where he also teaches children and young adults in the Columbia Heights community, all in our nation’s Capital. Manuel also teaches seminars on digital media applications for fine art printmaking projects at George Mason University and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His recent exhibitions include group portfolio shows at Gallery K, the Library of Congress, District Fine Arts gallery and the Corcoran Museum of Art, and Kathleen Ewing Gallery in the District of Columbia.

Bridget O'Malley is co-proprietor with Amanda Degener of Cave Paper. The Cave specializes in the production of high quality handmade and dyed flax papers. Bridget has an extensive background in handmade paper, fine art printmaking, and book design. She received an MA/MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa, and completed a five year apprienticeship in papermaking at the UICB Paper Facilities with Tim Barrett. She has taught workshops in papermaking, printmaking and book binding around the country. One of her greatest joys is spending a day in the studio and making a mess with black walnut dye and indigo.

Martha Oatway is a Maryland-based printmaker.  She earned her BA from the University of Maine had has taken numerous professional courses as the Art Institute of Boston; Maine Photography Workshop; Friends of Photography; Connecticut GraphicArts Center; and Pyramid Atlantic.  She has exhibited in solo and group shows locally and nationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Bates College Museum of Art; Lewiston, Maine, Booz Allen Hamilton; Reston, VA, Embassy Suites; Washington, DC, Capital One: McLean, VA, Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Washington, DC, Science and Technology Policy Institute; Washington, DC, Edell, Shapiro, & Findlay; Rockville, MD, Gold/Smith Gallery; Collodi, Italy, Volk Packaging Co; Biddeford, Maine, Guy Gannett Communications; Portland, Maine, Robert M. MacNamara Foundation; Westport, Maine

Margaret Paris is a photographer and writer who lives in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area. With eighteen solo shows and several hundred juried, and invitational ones, she has exhibited photo media extensively for thirty years in the Washington area and nationally in East Coast states and in California. Her last solo show was at Rockville Arts place in September, 2003 She has a BFA and MFA in Studio Arts from UNC, Greensboro and an MA in Humanities from Georgetown University. She taught at Duke Ellington School of the Arts from 1974 to 2003 and from 1986 to the present teaches as an adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, both in Washington, DC.

Maria G. Pisano runs MGP Studio Arts Gallery and publishes her books under the Memory Press imprint. Her works are included in the Library of Congress, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, and the University of Alberta. She has published a number of articles in Tabaellae Ansatae and Dog Eared Magazine. Her work is featured in the book Making Memory Books by Hand by Kristina Feliciano. She has taught at Rutgers University, the Center for Book Arts in NY, Oklahoma Arts Institute, and many other venues. This summer, she curated "The Elements: Creative Energy" at the Hunterdon Museum of Art.

Steve Pittelkow's interest in marbled designs stems from a longtime desire to personalize his own books with distinctive papers and cloth. He especially enjoys teaching and revealing the secrets for successful marbling. Over the years, he has experimented with a wide variety of paints and papers in a quest for materials that allow students a rich and satisfying marbling experience. Steve's papers appear in museum collections and are used by binders and book artists nationally and internationally. When he is not marbling or teaching, Steve spends his days, nights and weekends at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minnepaolis where he is the Adult Programs Coordinator.

Ken Polinskie was born in Astoria, New York and attended the High School of Art & Design, The Art Students League and The School Of Visual Arts. His art on paper is deceptive, disarming the viewer through the use of `lo' subjects as metaphor, while asking serious questions about the nature of the human condition. In recent years, Ken Polinskie earned acclaim for his obsession with "dogs" and other seemingly innocuous creatures in his ironic and humorous ink brush paintings. Earlier in his career Polinskie was known for his still life watercolors and revolutionary "paper pulp paintings" where he was among the very first to articulate representational imagery using paper pulp and raw color pigment. He has remained committed to the use of handmade paper as a medium for nearly 30 years and was a founding board member of Dieu Donne Papermill in New York City. Throughout the 1980's Polinskie was represented by Fischbach Gallery in New York City and he has exhibited his work at Hirschl and Adler Modern, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C. Polinskie's work has been reviewed in ARTnews, Art and Auction, Art Forum, the New York Times and Newsday.

Steve Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and subsequently earned his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. He is currently a full time artist and has conducted several workshops with the Art League in Alexandria, VA, Hampton University Museum, Portsmouth Courthouse Museum, Chrysler Museum, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, National Gallery of the Bahamas, Ann Arbor Art Association, Michigan State University, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Steve has shown in both solo and group exhibitions and was the "Best of Show" winner of the New Waves 2001 and 2004 National Juried exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach, VA, as well as the 1999 Certificate of Merit recipient for Outstanding Artist from the Mayor of New Orleans. Steve is represented by Eyekons Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI, www.eyekons.com.

Benjamin R. Rinehart specializes in multimedia images with a strong focus on printmaking and book constructions. His socially charged work is part of public and private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Over the past fourteen years he has taught children and adults drawing, painting, printmaking, book arts and web design. Ben received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Herron School of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University. He currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches in New York at Fordham University, Long Island University, FIT, the Center for Book Arts and Manhattan Graphics Center. He has also taught at various institutions around the country like Pyramid Atlantic, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Brookfield Craft Center and San Francisco Center for the Book. For examples of his work and teaching schedule visit www.benrinehart.com.

Linda Rollins has studied book binding and restoration in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Florida since 1993. She owned and operated Capella Book Arts, a full service bindery in Ft. Lauderdale for eight years before moving to Silver Spring in 2002. The bindery's new home is here at Pyramid Atlantic.

Susan Rostow is an artist/educator and the formulator of Rostow & Jung Akua Water-based Inks. Her prints are in numerous public and private collections including the Library of Congress. She received a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant in printmaking and has taught numerous workshops worldwide. For more info on her and Akua Inks please visit her website www.waterbasedinks.com

Michelle Samour has been working with handmade paper/pulp for over 25 years. She has received grants to research papermaking in Japan and France. Her recent awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award Winner in Crafts, and a Society of Arts and Crafts New England Artist Grant. She actively exhibits her work and has been featured in Fiberarts magazine and Hand Papermaking magazine. She is currently an Associate Faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she teaches papermaking.

Kris Sanford - Originally from the suburbs of Detroit, Kris Sanford currently lives in Tempe, Arizona. She earned her MFA in photography from Arizona State University where she served as art editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. She is the current Resident Artist in Photography at Phoenix Center for Arts and teaches at Glendale Community College. In addition to exhibiting her work nationally, she is a member of eye lounge contemporary art space, an artist run collective in downtown Phoenix. Specializing in alternative processes and handmade books, her art explores personal relationships. More information can be found at www.krissanford.com.

Beth Schaible received a B.F.A. with a concentration in Graphic Design from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2006. Her work has been shown in DC, MD, VA, PA, and WV. Beth currently works as a freelance designer and serves as the Letterpress Associate at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD.

Gretchen Schermerhorn is the Resident Papermaker and Outreach Coordinator at Pyramid Atlantic. She received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2004, with a specialization in Printmaking and Papermaking. She has completed artist residencies at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper and California State University. She has taught various classes including Papermaking, 2D Design, Mixed-Media, Printmaking and Drawing. Her prints, books and paper works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in such places as New York, Boston, Santa Fe, and Phoenix. Her work is in public and permanent collections including the San Francisco Public Library and Amity Art Foundation. Her current body of work consists of a body of printed paper garments and deals with ideas of socialization versus biology. Other issues that her work explores include political and social themes such as human and animal rights, sexuality, and environmental abuse.

Ellouise Schoettler is a professional storyteller and visual artist. She blends memory, history, family, folklore, and myth in programs for adult and young audiences. Recent performances include Speakeasydc, Washington, DC, Strathmore Arts Center, Bethesda, MD, Lehigh Valley Storytelling Festival, Bethlehem, PA, Rogue  Festival, Fresno, CA and The Levine Museum of the South, Charlotte, NC. In October 2007, Schoettler was awarded a Creative Projects Award by  the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD for a new Spoken Word work.

Edie Semler received her BFA and Masters of Ed. in Toronto, Canada. She has taught art in both public and private schools. Currently residing in Washington, DC, she maintains a home studio, paints in oils and water media, incorporating photography and collage in her work. She is enthusiastic about book arts, her most recently acquired avenue of artistic expression.

Tate Shaw promotes visual, sound and language artists as co-publisher of Preacher’s Biscuit Books, publications reliant on the material book as a metaphor to create meaning in the work. He works with Afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism and the Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, New York. His books have been exhibited and collected internationally.

Elzbieta Sikorska, a native of Warsaw, Poland, was trained at the Art Academy in Warsaw and has been living in the US for over 20 years.  Originally a painter and printmaker, she has focused her work on large-scale drawings for the last several years. She has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe and her works are in many public and private collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She was a recipient of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and she was also awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a creative collaboration grant at the Great River Arts Institute, VT. Presently, she is an Artist in Residence at Pyramid Atlantic, refreshing and extending her skills as a printmaker.

Esther K Smith, author of HOW TO MAKE BOOKS (Random House 2007) is the designer + editor of Purgatory Pie Press, where she and letterpress printer Dikko Faust collaborate with other artists and writers to make limited editions and artist books. They have had solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Harvard, and Smith College. Their books have been collected by many museums including  the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran,  the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker, the Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as many universities and libraries.  She is currently working on two more books for Random House.

Lynn Sures is a paper and book artist who teaches at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. Her work has been shown nationally, including recent exhibitions at at the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Gallery K in DC, and the Southwest School of Art and Craft. She co-founded the National Juried Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Show. Hand Papermaking and Fiberarts have written about her work.

Jeff Sutton is a free-lance digital artist and illustrator based in Silver Spring, MD. Jeff brings over thirty years experience in a broad spectrum of creative media, including video, digital photography and 3D illustration and animation. Earlier in his career, Jeff established and managed a Macintosh-based illustration unit in a leading design firm, where he trained the illustration staff and developed internal procedures and guidelines for digital imaging. While a partner at Public Production Group, a broadcast-level video post-production facility, Jeff produced and shot video for broadcast news, national public television segments, and industrial programming. Jeff pursued post-graduate studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and holds a BA in business management from New England College. He has shown his digital photography at several Washington, DC, locations, and is member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

Artist, poet and theorist Ward Tietz, is probably best know for his work with large three-dimensional letters and words. Working in a variety of media, from sculpture to works on paper, he has exhibited and performed his work in festivals, art centers, and museums in the United States and Europe since the late 1980s. He presently teaches in the English Department at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, where he is also Director of the Lannan Poetry Series.

Robert Tillman is an artist, curator, and educator who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned an MA and MFA in Printmaking as an Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where he also taught. Robert's professional adventures have been diverse, and include print work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring and Goya-Girl Press in Baltimore. Robert's interdisciplinary artwork has been shown throughout the U.S. and internationally, including the Tallinn Print Triennial in Estonia and the IMPACT print conference in South Africa.

Julio Valdez is a painter, printmaker, teacher and mixed installation artist whose work has been exhibited internationally since 1984. He received his first museum exhibition at the Omar Rayo Museum in Colombia in 1988. His work received prizes at the 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 national biennials at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, as well as numerous prestigious international awards, including an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City in 1997-98, the Silver Palette for Painting at the XXX International Painting Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France in 1998, the Grand Prize at the XVII E. Leon Jimenez Biennal in the Dominican Republic in 2000, among others. In 2003, he received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and held a solo exhibition at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC. In 2005, he was nominated to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and presented a solo exhibition at the Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans. In February-March, 2007 he presented a solo show at Latin American Masters Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and will be exhibiting in September at June Kelly Gallery in Soho, New York City. His work is part of many public, private and museum collections worldwide.

Claudia Vess is an artist and Alexander techniques instructor. She has studied movement arts, including the Darby Method, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Craniosacral Release, Tai Chi, and anatomy. She focuses on the basics and has taught specialized workshops for artists, lawyers, dancers, martial artists, math teachers, healf providers, exercise and yoga professionals.

Liz Wolf (MFA Queens College of the City University, N.Y., postgraduate studies in printmaking at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a Maryland printmaker and teacher. She is the founder and past president of the North Carolina Printmakers Guild, a juried group of fine art printmakers. She has shown her work widely in the South.

Matthew Young received his AFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design, where he was awarded the inaugural Handprint International Workshop Award for Most Outstanding Screenprinting Student. He subsequently began working for the Workshop, assisting on prints found in such collections as the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Library of Congress. His work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in the Washington area.