Heather Kahn-Pyatt is an artist living and working in Boulder, Colorado (USA). Her approach to color is both formal and intuitive, and her approach to printmaking is iterative. Her textural and evolving work is created with serigraphy, xylography, linocut, monotype, and monoprint printmaking techniques, Her other ways of working include hand drawings, painting, and pochoir. Currently, Heather is working on continuing to develop work based on a handful of themes that she has been exploring for the past couple of years, hopefully creating both larger, unique prints as well as editions.

Cathie Crawford is an artist living and working in Peoria, Illinois (USA). Her work is a confluence of luminous colors built with reduction woodcut and pochoir methods of printmaking. Visual qualities of Cathie’s abstract works include split-fount rolls and imagery of water. Cathie also makes monoprints. She is currently creating a non-objective reduction woodcut, 24 x 36 inch bleed print.

Michael Krueger is an artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas (USA). His approach to color is two fold; as a means toward depiction and as a direct route to mood enhancing. His approach to printmaking encompasses fostering an unbridled imagination within the margins of a process or technique. Michael’s work embodies an insistence on drawing, a generous and open sharing of his inner life and representational subject matter. He uses a variety of print processes in combination with a slippery use of digital technologies. His work has also manifested as animations, ceramics, paintings and collages.

Karen Kunc is an artist living and working in Lincoln, Nebraska (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive, nuanced and intense, and her approach to printmaking is traditional with contemporary innovations. Karen’s nature-based and lyrical abstraction work is created with color reduction woodcut printmaking techniques and she also makes artists books. Currently she is working on a new series of large woodcuts with metaphoric imagery, as well as a new series of small-scale etchings for a book project that is still in the incubation stage.

Liz Ferrill is an artist living and working in Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Her approach to color is relative and her approach to printmaking is additive. Her work focuses on shape, the depiction of light and shadow, and exploration of mundane spaces through the use of pochoir printing methods and Rubylith screen printing techniques. Liz also makes monochromatic ink wash drawings that she is translating into Rubylith screen prints. She is also exploring screenprinting and pochoir through printing onto window screens.