Faculty

Meredith Broberg uses drawing, printmaking and photography as a means to investigate the natural world and the ways we are interconnected within it. She received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley, focusing first on monotypes, then veering into installation and photography. since then, Meredith has received several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Costa Rica, and a scholarship to Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado. Her current work often takes the form of artists' books.

Liz Chalfin is founder and director of Zea Mays Printmaking and the studio's resident artist. Liz has been involved in printmaking for the past 25 years. Liz teaches workshops at Zea Mays Printmaking and takes the message of safer printmaking on the road to venues across the region. She received a B.A. (1980) and M.F.A. (1985) in printmaking. Liz taught printmaking at Whittier College, California for nine years and converted the traditional studio there into a safer facility. In addition to college teaching, Liz worked as a teaching artist and educator at several national museums. Her prints and artist's books are exhibited nationally and are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe, including the Smith College Museum of Art, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Boston Public Library, The Portland Museum of Art. Liz is a member of the Boston Printmakers, The Monotype Guild of New England and the Southern Graphics Council.

Brian D. Cohen is a printmaker and founder of Bridge Press, publisher of limited edition artist's books, in Westminster Station, Vermont. He received a master's degree in painting from The University of Washington in Seattle. Brian's visual books and etchings are held by numerous prestigious collections in the United States, Canada and Europe including Harvard University, Smith College, Wellesley College, Yale University, Stanford University, The Portland Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the United States Ambassador's residence in Egypt. He is the illustrator of the popular book Reading the Forested Landscape and The Granite Mountain by author Tom Wessels (The Countryman Press, 1997 and 2001). Brian has taught drawing, painting, printmaking and art history at The Putney School since 1985, and was the founding director of the Putney School Summer Programs. He is the artistic director of the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, Vermont.

Nancy Diessner is an associate professor and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Chester College of New England, where she developed a low-toxicity printmaking studio focusing on intaglio processes. She received her BA in painting, printmaking, and drawing from Bennington College and her MFA in painting and sculpture from Hunter College in New York City. Her artist’s books and photopolymer intaglio prints are in several collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Reed College, and various private collections.

Anita S. Hunt has been making prints for more than 20 years. She studied printmaking and painting at Antioch College in Ohio and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout New England and in many national juried exhibits. Recent exhibits include: the Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, the 2003 and 2005 Boston Printmaker’s North American Print Biennials, the International Miniature Print Biennial hosted by the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the Silvermine National Print Biennial, the Minnesota National Print Biennial, SAGA’s National Print Exhibition and the Delta National Small Print Exhibition. Her award winning work is held in many private collections and in the permanent collections of the Smith College Museum of Art and Arkansas State University. Anita is a member of the Boston Printmakers and the Past President and Exhibitions Chairperson of the Monotype Guild of New England.

Sheryl Jaffe has been exploring fibers for hand papermaking for sculpture, installations and handmade books for over 10 years. She holds a Master's Degree from UMass and has studied fibers in Japan, Guatemala, New York, and New England.   She has taught paper and book arts in New England and Haiti, she exhibits her unique books, sculpture and installations throughout the Northeast.   She makes handmade paper clothing, folios, wallets, and books.    

Susan Jaworski-Stranc is a trained printmaker who specializes in reduction linoleum prints. She’s a member of the Boston Printmakers and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She maintains a printmaking studio at the Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, Massachusetts where she teaches and works on expanding her portfolio of color prints. www.appleciderpress.net

Louise Kohrman is an artist and printmaker. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and currently lives in Shelburne Falls, MA.   She received her MFA in Printmaking from The Rhode Island School of Design, her BA in studio art at Smith College and has completed a printmaking and book arts program in Italy through the University of Georgia. Louise interned at Zea Mays Printmaking as a studio assistant and worked as a printer at Wingate Studio in New Hampshire. She has taught various printmaking classes and workshops at RISD, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CT), The Printed Page (RI), and Zea Mays Printmaking (MA). Her work has been exhibited nationally, including group exhibitions at the New Bedford Art Museum (MA), The Lancaster Art Museum (PA), The RISD Art Museum (RI), The International Print Center New York, and Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA.

Barry Moser is represented in numerous collections, museums, and libraries in the United States and abroad, including The National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Library of Congress, The National Library of Australia, The London College of Printing, The Pierpont   Morgan Library, The Vatican Library, Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, The Israel Museum, and Princeton University to name a few. Mr. Moser has exhibited internationally in both one-man and group exhibits. He is a member of the Society of Printers, Boston; an Associate of the National Academy of Design elected in 1982 and made full Academician in 1994; and has been awarded the Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts (1999) and Massachusetts College of Art (Boston), and the Doctor of Humanities degree by Anna Maria College, Paxton, Massachusetts (2001). In addition to being an illustrator, he is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He is currently Professor in Residence at Smith College where he also serves as Printer to the College. The books Moser has illustrated and/or designed forms a list of over 300 titles including the Arion Press Moby-Dick and the University of California Press The Divine Comedy of Dante.   We encourage you to look at his work online at www.moser-pennyroyal.com.

Lynn Peterfreund has been working as a painter, printmaker and art educator since receiving her MFA in 1980 from Pratt Institute. Her work reflects her interests in both representational and abstract art. Her most recent bodies of work are monotypes and monoprints that employ a vocabulary of forms based on years of working from observation of nature, still life and the figure. The prints emphasize color, composition and personal interpretations of forms and the landscape. Lynn has taught at a variety of institutions over the past thirty years. Her work is included in hundreds of private and corporate collections. Her mural work can be seen in hospitals, schools, bookstores, museums, and homes in western Massachusetts and beyond.

Peter Pettengill is a master printer with over twenty years of experience in the field of intaglio printmaking. He trained and worked at Crown Point Press in California, from 1978 - 1985. He went on to establish Wingate Studio in New Hampshire where he continues to print and publish etchings by contemporary artists. Wingate has produced prints by Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, John Cage and many others, including "local" artists Gregory Gillespie, John Gibson and Richard Ryan. He has served as adjunct printmaking instructor at Smith College and acted as master printer for print workshops at Smith, Hartford Art School, and Boston University. http://www.wingatestudio.com

Linda Suzanne Price received her BFA in 2004 from Tyler School of Art, concentrating her studies in traditional and digital photography techniques. She expanded her digital imaging skills working as an Editorial Assistant for the Photo Review, a Philadelphia-based fine art journal. Since then she has done freelance photo retouching and designed promotional materials for artists, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. Her photography, created using both traditional cameras and direct scans, explores the interplay between personal and familial history, and the role of objects in contextualizing memory and experience.  She is currently working with her husband, the printmaker Justin Staller, to establish Tiny Media Empire, an artist collective and printing press based in Orange, MA.

Stan Sherer is an independent fine art/documentary photographer based in Northampton. He was the news photographer for the University of Massachusetts from 1985 – 2003 and has also been associated with Time Magazine, the Associated Press, and United Press International. In 1994, Sherer was a Fulbright Scholar in Albania, and has received fellowships and grants from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, he has updated and restored his exhibition “Founding Farms” for a statewide tour as part of the Foundation’s 30th anniversary series of programs. Sherer is also the author of four books of photographs, including “Long Life to Your Children! A Portrait of High Albania.” Sherer is currently teaching digital imaging courses at the University of Massachusetts. Selected exhibitions include: Zea Mays Printmaking, 2005; Heritage State Park, Holyoke, MA, 2005; Academy of Arts, Tirana, Albania, 2002; Sotheby’s, New York, 2002 (benefit exhibition & auction); Historic Northampton, Northampton, MA 2001; State House, Boston, MA 2001 (group exhibition); Pivot Gallery, Florence, MA; Lehman College Art Gallery, New York City; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA; Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT: OK Harris Works of Art, New York City; Exhibits USA National touring exhibition of “On the Land, Three Centuries of American Farmlife;” Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT; Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, 1991; Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, MA; Commonwealth Museum, Boston, MA.

Joyce Silverstone studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She was a traveling Scholar and showed her work in NYC and Boston, collected by MIT and the De Cordova Museum. Joyce has been exploring ways of blending printing and painting for 30 years. She has taught image development and printing at Guild Studio School and Snowfarm in Williamsburg, MA. Joyce is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and teaches creative process to students of meditation and self awareness.

Carol Wax , author of The Mezzotint: History and Technique, is an internationally recognized artist whose award-winning prints are in numerous museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Museum of American Art, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the honors she has received are: two Artist Fellowships and a Concordia Career Advancement grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts; The Louise Nevelson Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. In addition to mezzotint workshops presented throughout the country, she has been on the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and The State University of New York at New Paltz.

Diane Worth is a printmaker with over twenty years of experience and a special interest in collagraphs. She studied art at Mass Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tokugenji Press. Her work is influenced by her travels in Japan and Indonesia and her love of textiles. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art and the De Cordova Museum as well as private collections.

Mark Zunino is a Printmaker/Painter who teachs drawing, painting and printmaking at the Loomis Caffe School in Windsor, CT.  Mark was the Technical Assistant for the Smith College Studio Art Department for five years. He received his BFA from the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School, where he served on the adjunct faculty teaching Printmaking and drawing for two years, and his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts. Mark has exhibited his prints and paintings in many national exhibitions and is currently represented by Sherry French Gallery in New York City and Wm. Baczek Fine Arts Gallery in Northampton MA. Mark is an innovator in his field and has presented printmaking demonstrations at the Southern Graphics Council, Tamarind Institute of Lithography, and Hartford Art School.