INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES:



KATY DEMENT
All of Katy DeMent’s works are created out of handmade papers she has made from locally gathered materials. Her 2-D imagery includes cast paper quilts,  paper clothing and heirloom collage, and her 3-D work is more functional including waxed paper wall sconces and lampshades that balance on lamps made of old tools that she welds and wires herself.




TERRI DILLING
Terri Dilling is a painter and printmaker and also a founding board member of Atlanta Printmakers Studio. She received her BFA from Georgia State University and has also studied in England, Spain, and Italy, and was selected for a Caversham Printmaking residency in South Aftrica. Terri's primary printmaking mediums are monotype, screenprint and cyanotype. Her work can be seen at www.terridilling.com.


MARGOT ECKE
Margot Ecke received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and her B.F.A. from Cornell University. She received the Professional Printing Certificate from the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico and completed her training by earning her Certificate in Bookbinding at the North Bennett Street School in Boston. She has taught workshops at the Women’s Studio Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, The Wells Summer Institute, the Ink Shop, and at the North Bennett Street School.


CONSTANCE FALCONER
Constance Falconer makes limited edition prints of intaglio etchings, using various techniques such as drypoint, hard and soft grounds, aquatint, lift-ground and solarplates. She holds a BFA in Art Education from Georgia State University, an MA in Art History from Emory University, and has completed all MFA coursework in printmaking at Georgia State University. She prints limited editions for other professional artists, teaches workshops, exhibits her art and travels extensively.




KATHY GARROU
Kathy Garrou is a freelance designer and printmaker with a B.F.A. from East Carolina University with a major in design and minor in printmaking. She is one of the founding board member of Atlanta Printmakers Studio where she currently coordinates the Education program as well as teaches etching. Kathy has concentrated on intaglio and monotype over the past five years. She prints limited editions for other professional artists, teaches classes/workshops, exhibits her art and continues to explore new printmaking techniques.




RICH GERE
Rich Gere is a Professor of Printmaking at SCAD-Atlanta. His specialties include lithography, relief, letterpress and monoprint.
J GILMAN
J Gilman is an experienced and accomplished designer and screen printer with a degree from Georgia State in graphic design, and 7 years screen printing. 5 Years ago J and Ed Jewell formed  Danger Press, a commercial screen printing shop with corporate clients such as Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN, MTV and Delta Airlines, and clothing lines such as Esperanza, Black Black Label, and 25.org.  www.dangerpress.com.




JERUSHIA GRAHAM
Jerushia Graham is a freelance arts instructor, printmaker & fiber artist. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Georgia as well as designed and taught arts programming for the African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Living Loft Museum at the Spiral Q Puppet Theater, The Spelman College Fine Art Museum, and The Dream Community in Taiwan. Her work can be viewed at www.artbyjerushia.com.




JOEY HANNAFORD
Joey Hannaford, an internationally award-winning calligrapher and designer, enjoyes creating monoprints, multi-media collage, screenprints, letterpress typographic compositions and broadsides which seek to incorporate her love of symbols as graphic expression with drawing, artwork and textural images that create layered, complex and sensuous color compositions. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of West Georgia.



SARAH HINDMARCH
Sara Hindmarch works full time in the museum business, but whatever time she has left goes to bookbinding, hackbooking and photography. "Hackbooking" is her own bit of jargon for the craft of guerilla bookbinding using found objects and fine papers.




JESS HINSHAW
Jess Hinshaw is currently an MFA candidate at Georgia State with a focus in printmaking.  He shows extensively here in Atlanta, as well as showing in Ireland and the Netherlands.  His work deals with media manipulation and the increasingly blurred line between advertising and reality.


ED JEWELL
Ed Jewell, a  gradutate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Business is an accomplished screen printer who formed Danger Press, a commercial screen printing shop 5 years ago with J Gilman. Ed screenprints everyday and his corporate clients include Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN, MTV and Delta Airlines, and clothing lines such as Esperanza, Black Black Label, and 25.org.  www.dangerpress.com.




JASON KOFKE
Jason Kofke is a painter and printmaker with an M.F.A. in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design. His work addresses how culture comes to understand science and history through outdated media and moribund technologies. He has concentrated on intaglio, letterpress, photogravure, and book arts for the past three years. He has held a studio and exhibited in Savannah, New York City, and Atlanta. His work can be viewed at http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=2966




STEPHANIE SMITH
Stephanie Smith is an accomplished printmaker who earned her M.F.A. from the University of Georgia. She is the founding president of Atlanta Printmakers Studio and is a full-time Professor at the University of West Georgia. Her work has been in numerous group and solo exhibitions and was recently selected as one of 6 printmakers to represent the United States in the 1st MAAPS International Printmaking Exhibition which traveled in Canada, South Korea, and China. In 2003, Smith was awarded a KBFUS Cultural Exchange Grant to travel and study in Europe, where she spent a month at the Frans Masereel Centerum in Belgium Through her private press, Fools Press, Smith publishes limited edition artist books and linoleum prints.




JOE TSAMBIRAS
Joe Tsambiras is artist and printmaker specializing in etching and polyester plate lithography. He received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and a MFA with a focus on printmaking from Georgia State University. He currently teaches at the Art Institute of Atlanta and the University of West Georgia and exhibits his work nationally and internationally.




MARIE WEAVER
Marie Weaver is a printmaker, mixed media artist and graphic designer. She has taught at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Creative Circus in Atlanta, and workshops at Spannocchia in Tuscany. Her primary medium is woodblock printmaking. More information is available at www.marieweaver.com.