Cathy DeForest   Wings of Song    Letterpress with Original Drawings 

The following links will connect you to other businesses and organizations dedicated to exhibiting prints, selling prints, teaching printmaking, or providing printmaking resources. Links to the sites of our individual members are featured on their portfolio pages. To follow one of those, please visit the "Galleries" section of this site and find an artist you like. If the artist has a web site, it will be listed in the upper right corner of his or her portfolio.

Achenbach Graphic Arts Council (www.achenbach.org) features the most comprehensive collection of works in art on paper in the western United States. The Achenbach Graphic Arts Council is located in San Francisco and offers a print society membership which includes curatorial tours, studio visits, and other events for collectors and print enthusiasts.

American Print Alliance  (www.printalliance.org ) This is a non-profit consortium of printmakers' councils helping to bring the print arts into the 21st century.

Artshow.com (www.artshow.com) This online gallery contains several good resources for both printmakers and art enthusiasts. Click on 'juried shows' and view submission calls for juried shows across the country. Click on 'resources' and choose 'printmaking' to find an illustrated explanation of techniques, suggestions for safe non-toxic studios, information on preserving prints, and a discussion forum.

The Baren Forum for Woodblock Printmaking (www.barenforum.org) An oline site with all kinds of information about woodblock printmaking.

The Book Arts Web (www.philobiblon.com) Comprehensive resource of information on book arts in general and links to book artists, printmakers, and letterpress sites. Also has extensive reference section devoted to subjects ranging from the history and future of hand bookbinding to practical tutorials on printmaking techniques, bookmaking, figure drawing, etc.

Boston Printmakers (www.bostonprintmakers.org) Find events organized by the Boston Printmakers and read their newsletter.

Crown Point Press (www.crownpoint.com) Crown Point is a print publisher and gallery in San Francisco which features etchings and Asian woodcut original prints by contemporary artists such as Wayne Thiebaud Sol LeWitt, Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha, John Cage. They also offer summer workshops to interested printmakers. 

Crown Point Press  also has a special technical website (www.magical-secrets.com)  with lots of free technical information for printmakers, including video and plans and hard-to-find supplies for sale, interviews with artists Crown Point has worked with and bunches more.  They have their unique Magical Secrets series of books available from the site that offer comprensive technical information along with stories about how their artists have used those techniques.  

Dick Blick (www.dickblick.com) Dick Blick sells art supplies, including printmaking supplies and presses online.

Encyclopeida of Woodblock Printmaking (http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/outline.html) A compresive site of information about woodblook printing.

Guernica Gallery of Graphic Arts (www.guernicagallery.com) This print gallery focuses on prints by artists addressing the social, economic, and political issues of today.

International Print Center New York (www.ipcny.org) This is a non-profit organization devoted to exhibition and understanding of both contemporary and historical fine art prints.

Kala Institute (www.kala.org) The Kala Institute is a multicultural printmaking workshop in Berkeley, California. It features gallery space, offers workshops, professional printing work space, and a residency program.

Los Angeles Printmaking Society (www.laprintmakers.com) LAPS is a national non-profit membership organization based in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to the encouragement of printmaking. 

Middle Tennessee State University, Printmaking Area (www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/ ) This site is an absolute treasure chest of printmaking information, useful to the artist, educator, or aficionado, collector. It includes online discussions with a useful archive of discussion topics including techniques, health and safety concerns, equipment information, and more. It also features 3000 files of printmaking links to university programs and ateliers, grants, fellowships, workshops, galleries, museums, and online magazines. Sections of the site are also devoted to equipment, printmaking history, and non-toxic printmaking.

Monotype in Mazatlan (www.glenrogersart.com) Glen Rogers, long-standing CSP artist member, offers monotype workshops at her Mazatlan studio. The 5 day workshops use oil-bases techniques using a Griffin III etching press with a 37 x 52" bed. Artists will pull professional quality prints in a variety of techniques. When possible, non-toxic materials will be substituted for solvents and health issues will be stressed. Participants will receive individual attention, with Ms. Rogers guiding them in the techniques that suit their vision. Although geared toward the experienced artist, monotype is an easily accessible medium for all levels. For more information: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , 510-499-4870.

New York Society of Etchers (www.nysetchers.org) Look up current and upcoming events sponsored by the New York Society of Etchers and view prints by some of their members.htm)

Printmakers.info (www.printmakers.info) and a related site, Printmakingnews.com , are both run by printmaker Robert Viana. These sites have printmaking information, a printmaking forum, printmaking opportunities, print exchanges, and webpages for individual printmakers. 

Printmaking Today (www.cellopress.co.uk)  Publishers of a printmaking journal in the UK.  Site contains information about printmaking resources in England.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Print Center (http://www.sjica.org/printcenter/printcenter.htm) The ICA's new Print Center provides a studio in the South Bay for education, experimentation and production of artworks in a progressive printmaking environment located within one of the region's leading contemporary art venues. It offers workshops, open-access days, private instruction and studio rental, either with a master printer or on your own.  The ICA Print Center will also host an artist-in-residency program.

Skopelos Foundation for the Arts (http://www.skopart.org) The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts offers residencies, university programs and workshops for ceramists, painters, printmakers, screen-printers and sculptors from May through October.  Each person that visits the Foundation is extremely important to us and we make sure to give everyone individual attention.  Our commitment is that you not only fulfill your artistic goals but also have a taste of island living. For more information contact Jill Somer, Associate Director at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Southern Graphics Council (http://www.southerngraphics.org ) The Southern Graphics Council represents artists of original prints, drawings, books & handmade paper 

Ukiyo-e Techniques (http://learningobjects_devel.wesleyan.edu/blockprinting ) This site is intended to help students, collectors and researchers better understand the Ukiyo-e technique. Taking the Davison Art Center Collection of 18th and 19th century Japanese prints as its starting point, the site focuses on techniques utilized in prints from the collection, and is not meant to be a survey of Japanese prints or a history of Ukiyo-e.

The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA  MFA program in Book Arts/Printmaking (http://www.uartsmfaba.com ) The MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program at The University of the Arts offers advanced study in studio arts, focusing on the book as a vehicle of artistic expression and printmaking in the context of the narrative. The concept of book arts in this 2-year 60 credit course of study includes fine-press printing and illustrated texts, artists’ books, visual and verbal narratives, and works that push the idea of a book toward expressions as different as sculpture, installation, and multimedia.

World Printmakers (www.worldprintmakers.com/english/)World printmkakers is a huge site that contains a wealth of technicaland artistic infomation about printmaking, and that also representsindividual print artists.