Susan Abrams is a photographer and a papermaker.  Her work melds these two media producing unique organic images with a three-dimensional quality. Abrams has showed her work extensively and has recently had solo shows at Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia, the Humanities Gallery in Brooklyn, and the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George.  She was a Wind Challenge Exhibition winner and mounted a solo installation at Fleisher Art Memorial in 2007.

Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Philadelphia Museum of Art and was exhibited in PMA's 2007 Contemporary Art on Paper and 2005 The Silver Garden.

In 2003, Abrams was awarded First Prize in the 19th annual international Photo Review photography competition. In 2005 she won Fourth Place in the same competition and First Prize for photography in Art of the State in Harrisburg, PA.

Abrams has published an article, Hand Papermaking for Photography in the Dec/Jan '04 issue of Camera Arts Magazine.

A native of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Emilie Froh is a recent graduate of the Visual Studies Program at UPenn. She now lives and works in Philadelphia. Utilizing various printmaking techniques, Emilie explores the power of narrative through bookmaking.

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Born in Lafayette, Louisianna, Lauren Abshire moved to Philadelphia in 2006 to pursue her master’s degree at Tyler School of Art. Concentrating in printmaking and sculpture, she recently exhibited her MFA Thesis, “You Are Here” at Temple Gallery in Old City Philadelphia.

Linda Dubin Garfield is an award-winning printmaker and mixed media artist who creates original art inspired by nature, informed by memory, using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging. She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture.

Thomas Parker Williams lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Since 1990 he has been exhibiting in Philadelphia and in various group exhibitions in New York and around the United States. His work is in a number of private collections and can be seen at Matthew Izzo in Philadelphia.

Bobbie Adams works abstractly, interweaving layers of transparent ink.  She combines the use of printmaking, drawing, and papermaking.   

Adams has been affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Department for over ten years where she is shop assistant. 

She is represented in the collections of the Newark Museum of Art, the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, the Free Library of Philadelphia Print Collection, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Department.  She is a member of Philagrafika, the Print Center, Inliquid, Women’s Studio Workshop, and a founding member of the regional Guild of Papermakers.

The artist received an art education at the Art Students League, Pratt Graphics and the New School. Her work has been in various shows, is in private collections and is currently in a traveling International Miniart Exhibit that is currently touring England.

Maria G. Pisano (Memory Press) is a book artist, printmaker and papermaker. In 2007 she had a one person exhibit "Maria Pisano: Books and Prints" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, curated the exhibit Book Artists' Response to Death and Memory, and her book Vita Defuncta, traveled with the GBW 100th anniversary exhibit

Cynthia Back is the recipient of grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation; and has received fellowships to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ltd., Co. Mayo Ireland, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, The Cill Rialaig Project, Co Kerry, Ireland, and The MacDowell Colony. Her work is in collections including The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey, The Free Library of Philadelphia, and the The New York Historical Society. Ms. Back received her B.F.A. at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and St. Martins' School of Art in London, England.

Johanna works predominantly in color photography mixing traditional methods with new digital technology. She is the recipient of several awards including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend. Her work will be
featured in this year’s Wind Challenge Series at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia and
her video installation, Living Space, is now on view through the 2008 season at Eastern State Penitentiary.

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Laurie is a freelance commercial photographer. The past several years she has expanded her portfolio of non silver photography, producing gum bichromate landscapes and nudes in water. Her work can be seen exhibited in NYC, California and Philadelphia. She currently is a teaching assistant and CE faculty at UArts.

Laura C. Kelley’s photographic wanderings combine a journalist’s urge to report with a theatre artist’s passion to explore the world of a story. Her work has been seen in juried exhibitions at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Perkins Center for the Arts and Haverford Township Free Library, as well as at Open Portfolio 2007.

Lucy Russo is a collage artist whose images are often translated to gicleé prints. Lucy is a Pittsburgh native transplanted to Philadelphia,where she has been showing her work for the past five years. She is also an art educator at the Woodmere Art Museum.

Sophie Sanders grew up in New York City, the only child of a classical collaborative pianist, Samuel Sanders, and a visual artist, Rhoda Ross. She graduated with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She received her Masters of Arts in Printmaking from the Slade School of Art, University College London, England and is currently a PhD student in Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Sanders has exhibited nationally and internationally in London, Scotland, Japan, and many regions of the United States including Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York. In 2006, she had her first solo museum exhibition at the African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, where she showed over forty paintings and textiles in an exhibition entitled, "Dust Off Your Feet and Keep On Dancing." This November 2008, Sanders is showing at Vivant Art Collection in Old City, Philadelphia and Es Oro Polymedia Projects in Jersey City, NJ.

Niki has been a photographer in New York for thirty years. Her portraits embrace aspects of family dynamics, illness and healing, the beauty of aging. After the death of her father, mother and husband, she began and continues photographing the light, the land and the divinity of nature. Niki’s work has been exhibited worldwide and received numerous awards and honors.

Meg Kennedy is a book artist and calligrapher who teaches and makes hand-bound volumes and artists’ books that incorporate lettering, illustration, and relief prints. Her work has been included in exhibits by the Guild of Book Workers, the Maryland Federation of Art, the Columbia College of Book Arts, and the Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society.

Carla Shapiro was born in NYC, grew up in NJ and received her BFA from Syracuse University. She has been teaching for 25 years and currently teaches graduate school at Pratt Institute. As an artist, Shapiro had received many honors and awards including 2 New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowships and a Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic Workshops. Her work has been shown at galleries and museums throughout the country. Her next solo show will be at The BCB gallery in Hudson, NY.

Rebecca Brame is a printmaker working with woodcuts. Her bold prints depict a personal history and mythology that is influenced by her experience growing up in Mexico City. She left Mexico to study printmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she currently lives and works.

I've been writing since February 10, 1989, according to my first diary entry written in purple ink. Since then, I've kept a journal
recording all my thoughts and feelings in the form of free verse, poetry, short stories and letters. Now is the time to share these words

Miriam Singer received her BA from Brandeis University in 2000, and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2004 she has exhibited at Gallery Siano, Inliquid at The Painted Bride, Art in City Hall, Topstitch, Gallery at Minnow, and The Padlock Gallery. Singer currently uses a combination of printmaking and drawing media to create her unique works on paper. 

A Tyler school grad, Caire’s work has been exhibited at the Woodmere Museums’ Triennial Photography Show. She is a PEW finalist and has earned many fellowships. Caire was the featured artist in Camera Arts Magazine in October 2002 and her solo show, “Plastic Genome Project” was highlighted by the New Yorker Magazine.

Geek Boy Press is all about my fun, geeky creations based on various bits of pop-culture influencing me to create comics, t-shirts and other assorted types of art.

Patricia M. Smith is a book artist and printmaker living in Philadelphia. Her work is internationally exhibited and included in several special collections libraries. She is an Associate Professor in the Printmaking Department, The University of the Arts and a board member of the Philadelphia Center for the Book.

Erin E. Castellan is a painter, printmaker and knitwear designer. She creates one-of-a-kind prints using multiple processes including monotype, hand-embroidery and fabric chine collé.

Although I use a variety of printmaking methods, my monoprints best communicate my interpretation of our world. The painterly depictions of the human figure are unrestricted by the medium or tool. To me it is an appropriate method for describing the figure’s form and character. By describing the form of the figure, I attempt to describe and expose the apparent as well as disguised feelings and attitude of the model. In this way the observer’s perceptions of those feelings and attitudes will reveal their own. Strength, vulnerability, pride, uncertainty—we all experience the conflicts within the soul. Those struggles are what I strive to communicate through my monoprints.

A recovering painter, Fay Stanford worked in monoprint and intaglio before seriously turning her life over to woodcut last year. She has been making art for fifty years and has raised four artists including a writer and a Hawaiian band. She is married to a filmmaker.

Sandra C. Davis was born in 1960 near Philadelphia. In the 1980s she discovered photography as a way to express her vision. She recently received her MFA and teaches alternative processes at several universities in the tri-state area. Her award-winning images are exhibited nationwide and in public, corporate and private collections.

Dawn Weseman is a graduate of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her work has been shown in juried exhibits and shows throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a part of many private collections. She has been a Bucks County Resident for over 40 years.

Nicole Eiland moved from Switzerland to the United States in 2004 where she received a BFA in Printmaking/Book Arts. “I am fascinated by the power and phenomena of nature.” Her works explore the wonder of nature and humanity’s place with it. Her goal is to translate her discoveries through her artwork.

I was raised in South Africa. From the combination of mixed ethnicities together with the British and Dutch colonial impact and our distance from other continents grew an extraordinary sensorial mix which influenced me.  Currently a resident of Philadelphia, I exhibit and teach workshops regionally and nationally.

My photographs have always been socially conscious although more recently I’ve introduced humor by means of juxtaposition. Having a love of travel and being an avid people watcher, I am drawn to take photos of people or places that seem to tell a story or that could play a role in a later digital assemblage. I shoot journalistic photos of people, usually working class and children in natural lighting. Usually I travel to developing countries to experience more culture while supporting a struggling economy, but as the old saying goes, money alone can’t make you happy. Some of the warmest and endearing people I’ve ever met were very poor. I admire their emotional strength, their sense of pride and self.  I wish more could be done about the great disparities of wealth in the world but unfortunately it’s an uphill battle, as the wealthy like to stay wealthy. Hopefully after seeing my work people will think to respect one another regardless of class or ethnicity.

James Engelbart, born and raised in Minneapolis, graduated from the University of Minnesota where he studied Classics, Architecture and Printmaking. While living there he worked at St. Sebastian Press, a local letterpress and bent neon signs for a living. He received his MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently works for The Free Library of Philadelphia.

A transplant from Michigan’s suburban Detroit area, Eric McDade moved to Philadelphia in 1996 and received his MFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1999.  Since then, he’s continued to exhibit his work locally and internationally at such venues as Basekamp, Space 1026 and the Berliner Kunstsalon. 

Barbara Zietchick has studied printmaking at the School of visual Arts in New York, Manhattan Graphics, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Rutgers University and Bucks County Community College. Her work has been shown in many juried events in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and is in many collections including: the Newark Public Library, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the New Jersey Historical Society. She never tires of the joy of the many facets of the art of printmaking.