Jite Agbro is an artist living and working in Seattle/Ballard, Washington (USA). Her approach to color involves saturation and her approach to printmaking involves layers. Jite’s colorful, form and pattern-oriented work is created with collagraph, monotype, stamping and photo etching techniques. Currently she is working on colorful and large-scale pieces that are site-specific.

Ann Conrad Stewart is a painter and printmaker living and working in Connecticut and Maine (USA). She currently prints at The Helen Frankenthaler Cottage at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. Ann’s approach to color is explorative and her approach to printmaking involves building layered, one-of-a-kind pieces through a set of common matrices.

Nicholas Ruth is an artist living and working in Rochester, New York (USA). His approach to color is based on the premise of compelling tension, and his approach to printmaking is materially driven. Nick’s luminous and surreal work is created with monoprint techniques, along with screenprint and installation. Currently he is working on pasted wall installations and a series of intaglio prints with Mirabo Press in Buffalo, NY.

Susan Belau is an artist living and working in San Francisco, California (USA). Her approach to color is a search for a secret ingredient and her approach to printmaking is methodical. Susan’s distilled, nuanced and landscape-based work is created through etching techniques and watercolor painting. Currently Susan is working on a series of small etchings which focus on public lands, suburban streetscapes, government buildings and city squares. These works play with elements in the built environment that reflect practices of privacy, barriers and navigating shared space.

Melissa Harshman is an artist living and working in Watkinsville, Georgia (USA). Her approach to color is often intuitive, responding to events she encounters whether they be walking in the UGA State Botanical Gardens or picking out yarn for knitting projects. Her work in printmaking has lately involved working with small linoleum prints which are then combined to create larger works or wall installations. Melissa has been inspired by her garden for the last several years, creating pieces using floral imagery.

J. Leigh Garcia is an artist living and working in Kent, Ohio (USA). Her approach to color is whimsical, and her approach to printmaking is politically and socially conscious. Leigh’s identity-based work is created with screen, relief, and intaglio printmaking techniques as well as sculpture, papermaking and installation. Currently she is working on exploring her relationship to undocumented immigration and Texas history as a biracial Latina.

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.

Carrie Scanga is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine (USA). Her approach to color is embodied and associative and her approach to printmaking involves installation, works on paper and artists books. Her delicate, printed paper installations are created with intaglio methods of printmaking as well as intricate folding techniques to create special experiences. Currently, Carrie is working on “Sanctuary”–a social-practice print- and story-based installation and collaboration with writer Emily Rapp Black.

Kelda Martensen is an artist living and working in Seattle, Washington (USA). Her approach to color is decisive and quick and about creating tension and compatibility. Her printmaking work encompasses making puzzles from plywood, printing textures inherent in the plates, discovering surprises through imprecision and finding the right woodgrain. Kelda’s tactile and layered works are created mostly through woodblock and monotype printing processes, and she also works with collaged prints to create edges and motion in her compositions.

Midwest Pressed is the collaborative artist duo of Aaron Wilson and Tim Dooley, who live and work in Cedar Falls, Iowa (USA). Their approach to color is tastelessly compelling and their approach to printmaking is a combination of punk rock and magic. Tim and Aaron’s merging of high and low aesthetics are created with generative screen-printing processes and other layered graphic media. Currently they are working on printed interactive sonic installations.

Nicole Pietrantoni is an artist living and working in Walla Walla, Washington (USA). Her intuitive approach to color involves CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) halftone printing process and she takes an experimental and expansive approach to printmaking. Nicole’s colorful folded paper installations explore how humans relate to nature through using inkjet printing, CMYK and silkscreen processes and bookbinding, along with photography, text and ongoing collaborations with poets. Currently she is working on a new series of work for a solo show at Platform Arts in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2021.

Karen Lederer is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and her approach to printmaking is experimental and painterly. Karen’s still-lifes, made with monoprinting techniques, emphasize the role of curation, artistic influence, consumerism, point-of-view and aesthetics in our daily life.

Leslie Diuguid is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Her approach to color is scientific and her approach to printmaking is perceptually adaptive. Leslie’s considerately detail-oriented work is created with screenprint printmaking techniques. Currently she is working on a new printshop buildout for Du-Good Press, her publishing studio and the first and only Black female owned fine art printshop in New York City.

Jessie Van der Laan is an artist living and working in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA). Her approach to color involves transparent layers and her approach to printmaking is “everything in variation!”. Jessie’s layered, textured and transparent work is created with monotype, relief and screenprint printmaking techniques along with drawing, watercolor, colored pencil and fiber-based materials. Currently she is working on a series reflecting on the experience of motherhood, layering figurative elements with real and constructed landscapes.

Marilee Salvator is an artist living and working in Bowling Green, Kentucky (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and her approach to printmaking experimental. Marilee’s highly layered, abstract and biology-inspired work is created with a mix of printmaking process including etching, relief, screen-print and monotype. Currently she is juggling a few different projects including a large-scale, modular print installation and several more modest sized traditional pieces that incorporate collaged prints.