I taught a short non-toxic copper etching workshop at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide which was followed up by a 3-day workshop in the same subject at Adelaide College of the Arts (AC Arts). This workshop was organized by my friend, graduate school mentor/instructor and former studio partner, Sandra Starkey Simon, who now lives and works in Adelaide. The workshop was funded by a grant from the Helpmann Academy and was attended by students from AC Arts, UniSA and Adelaide Central College of Art. It was a blast. The students were amazing. You can check out pictures of the workshop here.

I also partnered again with Sandra at her studio, known as Magpie Print Studio, and taught a one-day Chine Colle workshop. Magpie is a beautiful facility located in the hills above Adelaide. It is surrounded by eucalyptus forest, and yes, koalas. In fact, there was a koala in a tree just outside the studio as we taught. It’s true. That’s him in the picture below. See more pictures here.

When the teaching was done I traveled to Melbourne for Impact7, the International Interdisciplinary Printmaking Conference. I attended 4 days of lectures, exhibitions and demonstrations. Basically all printmaking, all the time. One of the highlights for me was seeing the Australian Print Workshop. What a beautiful studio and great program! And overall a great trip! Or, as they say in South Australia, it was heaps of fun.

Name:  Gloria Huet
Website:  http://www.gloriahuet.com
Education:  BFA from SJSU in 2009, currently pursuing MFA at SJSU Reside in Fremont, CA
Making works on paper since 2004
Preferred printmaking process:  monotype
Most recent exhibition:  Three-artists group show at SJSU Art Dept. in Feb. 2011
Three words to describe my works: geometric, raw, movement
What everyone should know about printmaking:  The printmaking process involves an intimate balance between control and innovation.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be an opera singer
Cats or Dogs? cats

See more of Gloria’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Name: Sieglinde Van Damme
Website url: http://www.studiosieg.com
Education: Master In Economic Sciences, currently working on my MFA at SJSU
Reside in: San Jose, CA
Making works on paper since I discovered that video artists must go crazy if they only work on a computer!
Preferred printmaking process: photo-polymer intaglio
Most recent exhibition:  last week
Three words to describe your work: photographic, ambiguous, layered
What everyone should know about printmaking: the going is tough but the end is SO liberating!
If I wasn’t an artist, I’d be totally unhappy …
Cats or Dogs? Sigh, neither …

See more of Sieglinde’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Name: Vladimir Sepetov
Website url: Working on it!
Education: About to graduate Harker High, Class of 2011
Reside in: Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
Making works on paper since: 2010
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype and silk screen
Most recent exhibition:  AP Studio Art Exhibition 2011
Three words to describe your work: geometry, words, me
What everyone should know about printmaking: Process, process, process.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: A chef or a unicorn.
Cats or Dogs? Catz

See more of Vladimir’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30,  from 11am-4pm.

Name:
  Mary Souza
Website url: http://www.msouza.com
Education: UC Berkeley + LIFE + Print Mentors  (Judy Lozano, Robin McCloskey, Steven Holloway, Theodora Varnay Jones, Fanny Retsek)
Reside in: Cupertino
Making works on paper since: Mrs. Otterstein’s 1^st & 2^nd Grade Class – One of a kind originals signed by Mary Wold. Full bleed works such as “Dirt Truck” from the truck/train study and  “We Keep Quiet While Others Are Reading” (with accompanying essay: “We are good workers. We do are (sic) best and do not talk. We are always finding something to do. I like to draw on paper. We help each other.”)
Preferred printmaking process: monotype
Most recent exhibition:  ICA Auction and Monotype Marathon
Three words to describe your work: complex, thoughtful/spontaneous
What everyone should know about printmaking: the thrill of peeling the print from the plate + happy accidents
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: eating chocolate & procrastinating
Cats or Dogs? Cat Stevens, Grateful Dawg

See more of Mary’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30th,  from 11am-4pm.

Name: Sydell Lewis
Website url:www.sydellart.com
Education: Cooper Union Art School, ( painting major) NY, University of Michigan ( B.S. in Chemistry)
Reside in: Sunnyvale
Making works on paper since: 1980
Preferred printmaking process: acrylic monotype
Most recent exhibition: “Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery, Sausalito, CA “Abstract Painting by Selected Gallery Artists Nov-Dec. 2010
Three words to describe your work: complex, abstract, colorful
What everyone should know about printmaking: It requires thinking in reverse, and preplanning
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: a ballroom dancer
Cats or Dogs? Plants

See more of Sydell’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Name: Barbara Morris
Website url:
Education:  MFA UC Berkeley
Reside in: Forest Knolls, CA
Making works on paper since: Began with stone lithography in grad school in 1985, took up again in 2008
Preferred printmaking process: Monoprint
Most recent exhibition:  Barbara Morris Recent Work, San Geronimo Community Center August 2010
Three words to describe your work: Vibrant, personal, expressionistic
What everyone should know about printmaking: Every time you pull a print is like opening a present.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: Missing out!

See more of Barbara’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30 from 11am-4pm.

Name: Liz Maxwell
Website:http://www.lizmaxwell,com
Education: UC Berkeley 1976, followed by about 10 years evening, weekend, and summer sessions at CCAC Oakland
Reside in : Oakland
Making works on paper since: about 1980
Preferred printmaking process: monotype, mixed media
Most recent exhibition: Arts on Fire XV, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
Three words to describe your work: Color, symbolic abstraction
What everyone should know about printmaking: Try it! Nothing like it!
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: wanting to be one
Cats or Dogs? Cats!

See more of Liz Maxwell’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30 from 11am-4pm.

Name: Ann Knickerbocker
Website url: http://annknickerbocker.com
Education: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (BA in English Literature) and Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York  (Master’s in Literary Criticism)
Reside in: Oakland, California (for last three years… previously in Normandy, France, and before that, Upstate New York)
Making works on paper since: 2009; paintings on paper, canvas and wood since 1989
Preferred printmaking process: monotype
Most recent exhibition: at dot real estate in Jack London Square, Oakland, from March 2010
Three words to describe your work: abstract, color, movement
What everyone should know about printmaking: that it pairs beautifully with painting, but that the spontaneity and the surprise elements combine to grant monotypes a special, luminous quality
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: Ella Fitzgerald
Cats or Dogs? Cows…we lived next to a dairy farm for 2 years in Normandy

See more of Ann’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Name: Michael Cutlip
Website url:  http://www.michaelcutlip.com
Education: BA Studio Arts (painting)
Reside in: Berkeley CA
Making works on paper since: 1996
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype
Most recent exhibition: Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael CA / Solo Exhibition, March 2011
Three words to describe your work: Spontaneous, humorous, painterly
What everyone should know about printmaking: Try it!!
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: a Super Hero
Cats or Dogs? Dogs!!!

See more of Michael’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse on Sunday, May 1 from 11am-4pm.