Faculty

Annie Bissett is a mostly self-taught artist and illustrator who works from a home-based studio in Northampton. She began making Japanese woodblock prints in 2005 after studying briefly with Japanese woodblock printer Matt Brown of New Hampshire. Her prints have been shown in a number of printmaking exhibitions including the 2009 Boston Printmakers Biennial, the 20th National Los Angeles Printmaking Society Exhibition, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop National Exhibit, and New Prints Autumn 09 at IPCNY in New York. She is represented by Cullom Gallery in Seattle, where she had her first solo show in 2008. More of Annie's work can be seen at her web site http://www.anniebissett.com or on her blog http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com where she documents the progress of her prints step by step.

Neil Brigham earned a Masters of Art in illustration from Syracuse University in 1983. Since then, he has divided his art-making time between printmaking and freelance illustration projects. His primary medium is linocut printing, but will often combine this with paint, collage and pen and ink. Brigham has been a member of the Zea Mays Printmaking Studio since 2006. In addition to showing locally, his work was selected to be a part of the Society of Illustrators 48th annual exhibition in New York City, as well as their traveling show in 2006. A sample of his illustration work can be found on the Ispot website www.neilbrigham.com.

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. Meredith teaches book arts at Hampshire College.

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, supervises the research at the studuio 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. Liz chaired a panel entitled "The Green Print Studio: A Model for the 21st Century" at the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference. 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, The Los Angeles Printmaking Society and the Southern Graphics Council. http://www.lizchalfin.com

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. http://www.ndiessner.com/

Anita S. Hunt studied art at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been an active printmaker for more than 25 years, frequently exhibiting her work in museums, university art galleries, and art centers throughout New England, at venues such as the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Wheaton College, the Danforth Museum of Art, Vermont College, the Attleboro Arts Museum, and the Newport Art Museum. Her prints and artist's books are regularly included in national and international printmaking biennials. Recent exhibits include: 72nd Midyear Exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art, New Prints 2009/Winter and 2007/Winter at IPCNY, New York, La Biennale d’estampe Internationale Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, Canada (2009, 2007), The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition (2005), The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial (2009, 2005, 2003), Parkside National Small Print Exhibition (2007, 2005, 1995), BIMPE International Print Exhibition (2008, 2006), Delta National Small Prints Exhibit (2008, 2004), International Miniature Print Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (2005), The Minnesota National Print Biennial (2004), and the Janet Turner Print Museum, among many others. Anita is a member of the Boston Printmakers and the Past President of the Monotype Guild of New England. Her work is held in dozens of private collections and in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), Smith College Museum of Art, Arkansas State University, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Boston Public Library Print Collection.

Susan Jaworski-Stranc of APPLE CIDER PRESS & PRINTS STUDIO is an established artist/printmaker, teacher and writer. She lives and works in Lowell, Massachusetts, and maintains printmaking studio #19 on the fifth floor of 122 Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, MA. Ms. Jaworski-Stranc has exhibited her handcrafted books and limited edition prints in numerous juried fine art & craft shows:2005 North American Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Paradise City Arts Festivals, Northampton, MA, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, Boston Center for the Arts/Cyclorama, Boston, MA. Also, Ms. Jaworski-Stranc’s “one of a kind” artist books have been shown at the Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY “WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: Testimony and Empathy”, at the Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA “THE NEW STORYTELLERS: One of a Kind Artists’ Books in Boston Libraries and Museums” & Oregon Book Arts Guild's Biannual Conference and Exhibit, "FOCUS ON CONTENT: BEYOND WORDS". Also, her artwork is included in the following recent juried shows: " BOOK ARTS: IMAGES & WORDS" at the Cambridge Artists' Cooperative and "THE SHAPE OF CONTENT" at Rivier College, Nashua, NH. Her work is found in many private collections and in the following Special Collection Libraries: Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Cerritos Library, Cerritos, CA; University of California, Santa Barbara; UCLA; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Catherine Kernan is co-owner, co-founder, and director of Mixit Print Studio, a professional open rental studio in Somerville, Massachusetts. Trained in multi-plate color intaglio, her recent works involve offset woodcut monoprints in combination with many other techniques. No longer a purist, she exploits any available tool or means to transfer color and form to surface. Represented by Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, Dolan Maxwell in Philadelphia and Soprafina Gallery in Boston, Catherine has been showing professionally for thirty years. Catherine is known for workshops specializing in non-toxic printmaking with waterbased materials and a wide range of techniques. Her teaching credits include: Anderson Ranch, MassArt / Art New England, MakingArtSafely, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking as well as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Wellesley College, the Rhode Island School of Design, Mass College of Art, and Pine Manor College. Her residencies include the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, Anderson Ranch, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Catherine Kernan’s work is in the collections of, among others, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Boston Public Library, Grunewald Collection, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Detroit Institute of Art, and the Fogg Art Museum.

Louise Kohrman is an artist and printmaker. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. She received an MFA in Printmaking from The Rhode Island School of Design, a collegiate teaching certificate from Brown University, a BA in studio art at Smith College and has completed a printmaking and book arts program in Italy through the University of Georgia. Louise worked as a printer at Wingate Studio in New Hampshire, working with artists such as Walton Ford, Aaron Noble, Benny Andrews, and printing the work of Louise Bourgeois, among others. She has taught various printmaking techniques, classes and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design (RI), The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CT), The Printed Page (RI), and Zea Mays Printmaking (MA). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (MA), the Portland Museum (ME), the New Bedford Art Museum (MA), The Lancaster Art Museum (PA), The RISD Art Museum (RI), The International Print Center New York (NY), the Copley Society of Art in Boston, (MA), and Gallery Hasta (India). Her work is in several corporate, private, and public collections including the Amity Art Foundation (CT), the Boston Public Library (MA), the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (MA), the Regional Center for Women in the Arts (PA), Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (NJ), the Smith College Museum of Art (MA), and the Southern Graphics Conference Collection (GA), among others. http://www.louisekohrman.com/

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.

Peter Pettengill, founder and master printer of Wingate Studio, trained and worked at Crown Point Press in San Francisco from 1979 to 1985, and brings that experience to bear on his work at the studio. Printers are taught to lavish time and attention to the working artist and to be flexible and openminded in their approach to the work. In this process a working relationship is created that fosters communication, allowing the artist the freedom to follow his or her ideas wherever they might lead and whatever the technical complexities.

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. http://www.peterfreund.com/lynn/

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.

Mark Zunino is a Printmaker/Painter who teaches 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.