The California Printmaker

2022 
Metamorphosis: Printing Under Pressure

Table of Contents

• For the Birds by Candace Garlock
• Rough Diamonds by Marion Wassenaar
• Conversations with my Brain: A Printmaker’s Journey by Lola Fraknoi
• Transformation During the Slow Down by Princess Simpson Rashid
• The Nature of Loss by Susanna Harris
• Opera and Me by Livia Stein
• Shifting Layers of Change by Beth Fein
• A Jurassic Medium Resurfaces by Matthew Lintott
• Svalbard in the Studio: Prints from the Climate Crisis by Megan Broughton
• Border Barriers: A Different Lockdown by Pamela Dodds
• A Necessary Transformation by Sarah Sipling
• Follow Your Heart by Robynn Smith
• Heavy Lifting by Felicia Rice

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2021 
Printing in Color

Table of Contents

• A Colorist: One That Colors or Deals with Color by Ella Valborg Sigudardottir
• Layer Upon Layer by Roy Willingham
• Color as Memory by Emily Ketteringham
• Color as an Environmental Indicator by Elizabeth Rose
• Colored Woodcuts and Egg Tempera: A Kinship  by Donna Day Westerman
• A Confluence of Color by Cathie Crawford
• The Variant Narratives of Color by Prachi Sahasrabudhe
• So Saturated, It Hurts by Myles Calvert
• The Artist’s Lunch by Liliana Esteban
• Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Illusive Color by Suzanne Klein
• New Theories in Color: RGB to RGB by Carrina Parraman
• Narrative Color by Wuon-Gean Ho
• Drawing Multi-plate Color Aquatints by Stephen McMillan
• Let the Colors Sing by Kathryn Greenwald
• Layering Color Using Viscosity by Katherine Levin-Lau

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2020 
Variations on a Theme: How Printmaking in a Series Influences the Artist and the Art

Table of Contents

• Seriality as Strategy and Technique by Jill Ho-You
• The Value of Asking “What If?” by Emily Stokes
• Push Repeat and Play by Babette Cooijmans
• Aesop’s Fables Works In Series by Dan Welden
• Evolutionary Robotics: Automatons Across Graphic Media by Nathan Meltz
• Immediately Intimate by Niamh Fahy
• State Proof Lithography as a Narrative by Peter Nickel
• Mixed Emotions—a Series to Grow and Recover by Hailey Quick
• Variations on Variations on a Theme by Jane Gregorius
• The Unfolding Narrative by Caroline Case
• Telling Yarns by Denise M. Smith
• Propelling a Series: Project Volumina by Karen Kunc
• Capturing the 4th Dimension by Toru Sugita
• The Vocabulary of Sadness by Liz Wolf

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2019 
Social Statements

Table of Contents

• Sugar Blues: Silkscreen Using Chocolate Ink on Sugar Plates by Kamil Zaleski
• Between Image and Text by Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro
• How Politics Impact Printmaking—One Central Valley Perspective by Jared Barbick
• Printmaking as a Vehicle for Social Change by Lars Johnson
• Chicano Hybridity by Tony Ortega
• Transforming Printmaking: From Self-Reform to Social Change by Yasuyo Tanaka
• Welcome to the Game: Human Trafficking in America by Sarah Serio
• Johannesburg Printmaking as Collective Practice by Roxy Kaczmarek
• Printmaking, Politics and Society in New Detroit by Eno Laget
• On Press: Making Visible an Unseen Detroit by Lynne Avadenka and Lee Marchalonis
• Activism and Aesthetics by Robin McCloskey
• The Sleep of Reason: The Woodcuts of Hans Weiditz by Brian D.Cohen
• Resignation by Marcelo Román Kopp
• Polluta, the Floating Paradise by Michelle Kuen Suet Fung

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2018 
The New Print: Marriage of Technology and Tradition

Table of Contents

• Sensing Surface; Making Sense by Randy Garber
• Under Siege: Strategies of Print, Preservation, & the Variable Copy by Jenn Law
• Technology & Touch: Intention & Serendipity in San Francisco & Reykjavík by Carrie Ann Plank and Robynn Smith
• Between the Archival & the Ephemeral; Thoughts on New Technologies in Printmaking by Masha Ryskin
• The Digitally Created Pigment Print: A Marriage of Technology & Tradition by Sydell Lewis
• Innovation in Action by Liz Chalfin and Sheldon Carroll
• Mark To Impress by Maria G Pisano
• The Versatile Screenprint: High-Tech Tools & Traditional Forms by Pantea Karimi
• Experimenting with Innovations in Printmaking, An Interview with Beth Fein
• Peter Milton: Going Farther, Going Digital by Brian D. Cohen

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2017 
Evolution of Process

Table of Contents

• Tracing the Arc of Creative Pursuit—The Advancement of the White-Line Color Woodcut by William Evaul
• Echoes from the Past by Ian Chamberlain
• Trusting the Process: Making Etching Images as Poetic Laboratories with Safer Printmaking by John Graham
• Printed Fabric: A Personal and Global Evolution of Process by Tobin W. Keller
• Rolf Nesch and I—The Evolution of the Metal Collagraph by Bill Ritchie
• Finding Crooked Creek by Marissa Angel
• Invoking Mythic Women Project, Project Directed by Barbara Furbush, Reported by Kate Mulligan
• Imprints of spaces by Marine Lefebvre
• An Unconventional Printmaking Process Using Clay by Bonnie Randall Boller
• Aquatint photo-etching with acrylic floor finish by Mike McGovern

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2016 
Collaboration

Table of Contents

• Sphere Project: A Collaboration on a Grand Scale by Frol Boundin and Mary Robinson
• Book Bombs: Narrative Prints in a Public Space by Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson
• Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here! by Cathy DeForest
• Save the Oceans by Tsvetelina Sprirdonova and Kamen Dragomirov
• Navigating Liminal Terrain by Robynn Smith
• When Printmaking Collaboratesby AV Pike
• Combining Methods: Bob Rocco & Signblast Tape Stencil Relief Printing by Sharon King 
• Close Encounter of the Collaborative Kind by Ted Orland

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2015 
Residencies: A Closer Look

Table of Contents

• CSP AIR
• Carrie Ann Plank / Paul Mullowney, Master Printer: Direct Gravure at Mullowney Printing
• Joanna Kidd / John Gruenwald, Master Printer: Stone Lithography at Gruenwald Press
• Toru Sugita / Thomas Wojak, Master Printer: Screen Printing at The W.O.R.K.S. “Pushing the Boundaries”
• Residencies Remarkable
• Residencies: Evolution of Experience by Barbara Foster
• On Residencies: Dan Welden by Susan Howe
• The Canging World-wise Face of Printmaking by Frances Valesco
• Constellation Studios: New Resideny Program by Karen Kunc
• A traditonal Workspace Alternative by Dana Harris
• 2014 Commissioned Print by Jonathan Barcan
• CSP’s First Annual Print Exchange by Betsy Barnam

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