MEET OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DANA ZED
President
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Dana is a multidisciplinary Bay Area artist. After nearly 4 decades of a large glass sculpture career, Dana discovered printmaking through Charlie Chavez at Laney and Aaron Coleman at Anderson Ranch.
As a printmaker Dana creates etchings. She works traditionally starting from the copper plate. The work often depicts birds in anthropomorphized situations subtly commenting on our society. Other times the work presents situations, places, objects or endless pattern intended to help the mind wander, perhaps to higher places.
Zed views the process of making an etching as a conversation. Often the plate responds differently than expected. Therefore, responding to what has happened becomes the plan. Robert Motherwell said he painted by correction, so does Dana
Even after all that confusion, the rubric for what makes a good etching is still very applicable. Dana appreciates this about the media. There is a level of craftsmanship and accountability which is a challenge she is constantly interested in. For more see www.danazed.com.
KAREN BADEN THAPA
Historia
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Karen Baden Thapa was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in the SF Bay Area where she makes fine art prints in her Lafayette studio. Her artwork highlights the ocean, the intertidal zone and the animals that live there. She loves the more painterly process of making monotypes and monoprints . She speaks French and loves art so she spent a year at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris studying art history. She came home to California and ended up at U.C. Berkeley where she got a B.A. in the Practice of Art . During this time period she discovered the joy of drawing on a litho stone. Eventually, she learned to etch on copper plates and began to print using several different methods including monotypes, monoprints, and collographs.
RICH FOWLER
Secretary
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Rich Fowler is a printmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of his current work involves linocut printing techniques and the use of color and patterning. He’s drawn to the tactile process of hand carving linoleum as well as the anticipation of peeling the paper off the inked block to see the resulting print. His artwork, often known by his studio name Boarding All Rows, can be found in private collections around the US and abroad. Rich teaches and writes about linocut online, does public block printing demonstrations from time to time, and has been a member of the California Society of Printmakers since 2014. His printmaking work can be found at BoardingAllRows.com.
GENESIS TORRES (GNTRS)
Treasurer
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Genesis Torres (GNTRS), upbringing in New York, between the intersections of urban decay and social engagement shaped his conception of the living environment as a conceptual canvas of space. Based in the Pacific Coast, GNTRS, is an abstract artist accompanied by Giraffe, contemporary art curator, and creative economy advocate to support community vitality. Currently, he is the owner of GNTRS VAULT, located inside the Board of Trade Building in Portland, Or. He has served the Board of Directors of the California Society of Printmakers since 2024. He dedicates time to his role as an art educator, and in his spare moments, he utilizes his skills to serve as a facilitator, panelist, and creative explorer. He received his B.F.A in Studio Art, and while attending California State University, Sacramento, among many other accomplishments, he was an Instructional Student Assistant and Project Developer for the Sacramento State Public Art Map. Learn more about his work at gntrs.com.
KELLY AUTUMN
Membership
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Kelly Autumn is a Northern California Bay Area visual artist. She is a multidisciplinary printmaker with a natural curiosity for combining traditional print methods with an experimental mixed media approach. Her creative art practice embraces the joys and challenges of working with reclaimed and found materials whenever possible. Much of her contemporary work often explores botany and playful themes related to struggle. She has exhibited her work in various galleries throughout the Bay Area as an emerging artist. Kelly holds a BA in Fashion & Textiles Design from San Francisco State University and an AA degree in Studio Art with emphasis in Printmaking from Diablo Valley College under the guided mentorship of Toru Sugita. Since 2020, she has been an Artist in Residence with the Sonoma Community Center, where she teaches beginning printmaking workshops to youth and adults. Kelly also works as a Teaching Artist with the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and other educational programs throughout Northern California. She is passionate about sharing her love of print with kids and adults of all ages.
KRISTINA NOBLEMAN
Historian
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Kristina Nobleman is a multidisciplinary artist who works with textiles, ink and paper. Improvisation is an important part of her practice and forms the basis for large-scale monotype prints, collage, and sculptural paper pieces exploring the aesthetic and sensory possibilities that fiber has to offer. She has exhibited in museums and galleries in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is held in the collections of The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the De Young Museum/Legion of Honor, San Francisco as well as The Ritz-Carlton Santa Barbara, Stanly Ranch Napa, The Fairmont Orchid Hawaii and private collections nationally.
KEVIN HARRIS
Exhibitions
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Kevin Harris is a textile designer, watercolorist, and printmaker working in editions and layered, one-of-a-kind print collections. His contemporary screenprints often focus on semi-transparent, overlapping shapes and color layers. Watercolor washes, dye bathes, paper cutouts, as well as photography and graphic imagery are often built into the resulting print designs. Much of his work is pattern based, employing florals, geometric designs and Shibori dying.
Kevin has exhibited prints and paintings in galleries, and wholesale and retail design markets throughout the United States. In addition to works on paper he designs and produces printed fabric, silk scarves, and other products which he sells to museum stores across the country. He has been an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California as well as a long standing member of the ACCI gallery also in Berkeley, California. Kevin has been a member of the CSP since 2019. He holds a BFA from Alfred University where he studied ceramics and printmaking, with a focus on lithography. His textile designs and other works can be seen at www.kevinharristextile.com.
BOB ROCCO
Journal Chair
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Bob Rocco likes to explore and teach experimental methods in printmaking. He has degrees in psychology, chemistry, medicine and art and enjoys problem solving in the visual arts. He is a founding member and president of the Printmakers at the Tannery, a 21-person printmaking co-op in Santa Cruz, and has exhibited throughout the Bay Area. He believes that inspiration and creativity arrive randomly during the process of searching for a way out of the last artistic stalemate.
KAREN GALLAGHER-IVERSON
Newsletter Editor
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Karen Gallagher-Iverson is an Oakland California based printmaker focused on expanding the accepted conventions in traditional printmaking. She curiously investigates her view of the world through image making, materials and processes while feeding a passion for innovation and scholarly exploration. Gallagher-Iverson exhibits nationally, was awarded a Kala Art Institute 2017/18 Parent Artist Award & Residency, and was the 2016 recipient of an International Encaustic Conference Attendee Grant. Her work is in the collections of the Bancroft Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State University of New York at Albany Art Museum, and other private collections. She has taught in educational programs such as Kala, the Richmond Art Center and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received her MFA with the department fellowship. In addition to volunteering on community centered public art projects, and holding a position on the California Society of Printmakers Board, Karen has decades of experience as a fine art installer, gallery preparator, studio manager and project assistant for prominent artists and galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area. Karen now focuses the majority of her time in the studio, alongside her young family.
SUSAN LEONE HOWE
Special Events
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Susan Leone Howe is a Monterey Bay Area artist working in the disciplines of printmaking and painting. Her work is included in international, private and public collections as well as the Fine Art Archives of the Library of Congress. She received her BA from San José State University with an emphasis in Painting and has continued her education in printmaking at California College of Arts and Crafts, Cabrillo College and KALA Institute. Previous careers include Architectural Model Maker, Graphic Designer and Landscape Designer. Her printmaking and painting studio, Two Hat Studio, is located in Aptos, California.
SUSAN LEONE HOWE
Residencies
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Originally from the Midwest, Kate Deak graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BFA in Visual Communication and an emphasis in illustration. She later earned her teaching credential at the University of San Diego. Currently, Kate lives and teaches art in San Jose, California and has been an educator for fourteen years. Her monoprints combine mixed media layers with dry-point etching, and chine-colle to create works on paper. Layering techniques she aims to reflect the fleeting beauty of the human and natural trace. She shows her work regularly around the Bay Area and has received grants to advance her practice as an artist and art educator. Her recent work was inspired by an artist residency she was selected to be a part of at the Skópelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece.
ISRAEL CAMPOS
Website Developer
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Israel Campos graduated with a bachelors from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011 and acquired an MFA from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison in 2015. His work is in the permanent collections of the Kohler Art Library, the UCSC Digital Art Research Center, the Zuckerman Museum of Art, and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. He has exhibited in venues across the country, including the ArtHelix Gallery in New York City, the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art in Portland. He also runs and operates Chayote Press.
DONNA BROWN
Member at Large
Donna Brown is a multidisciplinary artist who has been focused entirely on printmaking since 2014. She was trained as a scientist with a BS in microbiology, but has always been an artist. She studied under Toru Sugita at DVC and continues to explore the process at KALA as an artist in residence along with taking workshops there and elsewhere. She is captivated by exploring printmaking processes. The analytical nature of printmaking satisfies her scientific approach. She is primarily a figurative artist and uses familiar images to create a new narrative. She often uses diptychs and triptychs to convey the story. She exhibits around the Bay area and beyond.
SUMMER VENTIS
Member at Large
Summer Ventis’s work uses the printed surface to address internal and external landscapes and their intersections; the imprints we leave on each other and our surroundings and the imprints that our surroundings leave on us. She received a BA in Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions, and is held by collections including those of the Denver Art Museum and Proyecto ’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of the Colorado-based collectives Hyperlink and ARTNAUTS, and of Sacramento-based Axis Gallery. Ventis is Assistant Professor of Printmaking at California State University, Sacramento.