March 24th - March 27th, 2010
Hester Stinnett’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center. In 2004 she was awarded a Pennsylvania Council Artist Fellowship for Works on Paper. She was an Artist in Residence at the Fabric Workshop in 2003, and has presented printmaking workshops at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. With co-author Lois M. Johnson she wrote Water-based Inks: A Screenprinting Manual for Studio and Classroom published by the University of the Arts Press with grants from the NEA and Hunt Manufacturing Co. Currently she has an exhibition on view at Philadelphia International Airport.
Currently Professor of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, she has also taught at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) and Bryn Mawr College. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University.
Ira Rosen
Mr. Ira L. Rosen is President and Chief Executive Officer of Entertainment On Location, Inc. (EOL), a full-service entertainment production and consulting company based in New Jersey. He also serves as the Director of North America and Associate Director of New Business Development for the International Festivals and Events Association.
EOL specializes in the production of a broad range of special events, and in providing consulting services to festivals, corporations, chambers of commerce, downtown partnerships and many other organizations. Since the company was formed over twenty years ago, their production clients have included Macy’s Annual Events, the Pennsylvania Lottery, the National Hockey League, the City of Philadelphia and Montclair State University. Some of his consulting clients include the Pennsylvania Tourism Department, the Hawaii Tourism Authority, and the China Festivals and Events Association as well as dozens of others around the world.
Prior to starting EOL, Ira was an executive with Radio City Music Hall Productions, Inc. for over seven years and was responsible for producing many major special events including the Super Bowl Half-time Show in 1988.
Ira has spoken and written extensively on topics ranging from sponsorship to the financial and operational management of events, and has been a featured speaker at conventions for the International Festivals and Events Association, First Night International and many other associations around the world. He is also an adjunct instructor at Temple University in their School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and he administers their award-winning Event Leadership Executive Certificate program. Ira holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Montclair State University in New Jersey and is a Certified Festivals and Events Executive (CFEE). In September of 2005, he was inducted into the International Festivals and Events Association Hall of Fame, becoming one of only 60 people in the world to hold this honor.
Caitlin Perkins
Philagrafika Program Manager.
Since joining the Philagrafika staff in the fall of 2003, Caitlin Perkins has served asProgram Manager for Philagrafika’s public art projects, including coordination of project planning and implementation including the artist residencies, artwork production, and public programming. As Philagrafika Program Manager she works directly with Philagrafika 2010 Artistic Director José Roca and thecuratorial team to produce The Graphic Unconscious. In addition she has overseen the Out of Print artist projects at five historical sites, and coordinated the Independent Projects with over 78 other partner institutions across the city as part of Philagrafika 2010.
She is an artist member of the Space 1026 collective in Philadelphia, and received her undergraduate degree from The University of New Mexico, and her MFA from The University of the Arts in printmaking and book arts.
Patty Smith
Patty Smith’s prints and artist’s books are exhibited internationally and are included in special collections libraries, such as Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt, the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, the Kent Institute of Art, Kent England, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wellesley College Library, and Van Pelt –Dietrich Library, The University of Pennsylvania. She has been a curator of a number of exhibitions related to Book Arts, Printmaking, and Offset Lithography. She is represented by Gallery 1025, Paducah Kentucky and Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, LLC, Birmingham Alabama.
Ms. Smith is currently an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts, Printmaking/Book Arts Department, College of Art and Design, The University of the Arts. She was the department coordinator from 1990 to 95. She was instrumental in the establishment of the UArts’ MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program and was its director from September 2000 to December 2004. She was one of several faculty and administrators who planned and established the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at UArts, an educational facility where faculty, students, and visiting artists can make offset lithographs and artists’ books. In addition, Ms Smith has been Master Printer for noted artists on the Heidelberg Kors offset press in the Borowsky Center. Ms. Smith is a founding member of the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
Ms. Smith received her graduate degree from the Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts). She also studied Japanese woodblock at the Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo, Japan. She was an artist in residence at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy in 2005.
Mary Phelan
Mary Phelan is an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts where she served as Director of the Book Arts/Printmaking Graduate Program from 1990-1999 and continues to teach classes in letterpress, book concepts, and relief printing in the graduate and undergraduate programs. She is also affiliated with Swarthmore College where she teaches book arts.
She has curated several exhibitions on contemporary book arts and lectured on the subject at institutions and conferences including the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy and the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair.
Over the years she has regularly taught workshops for organizations such as Penland, Women’s Studio Workshop, Castle Hill and the Artist/Teacher Institute. Her books have been collected nationally and internationally and can be found at the New York Public Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.
She received her graduate degree in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lisa Hamilton
Lisa Hamilton teaches printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where she is also the Printmaking Department Shop Manager. She works in various printmaking techniques including intaglio, lithography, relief, and screen print and works three-dimensionally with paper, prints, and ceramics. Ms. Hamilton earned a Masters Degree from Tyler School of Art, a BFA degree from University of the Arts, and a Certificate of completion as a Printmaking Major at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Tony Rosati
Tony Rosati teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he is a professor and chairperson of the Printmaking Department; he concurrently teaches as an adjunct professor at The University of the Arts. His experience also includes nine years as a curatorial assistant with the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of rare books and prints, now housed at the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress. He earned an MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and a BA in Fine Arts from Rider University. Mr. Rosati has presented numerous talks and/or demonstrations on an array of printmaking history subjects and printmaking methods. His work is in many private and public collections including the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA, the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the National Gallery Of Art, Washington, DC, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Nancy Citrino
Nancy Citrino, a printmaker based in Philadelphia, began her formal training at Fleisher Art Memorial. She later received a four year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and then a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education at Temple University. She completed her Masters Degree in Art and Art Education at the University of the Arts and independent post graduate in printmaking at Temple University in Rome, Italy
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums as diverse as the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, The American Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Woodmere Museum, (all in Philadelphia, PA) and the Galleria Antica Compagina Del Paiolo, Florence, Italy. Her work is represented in private collections internationally and some public collections including: Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Price Water House, (both in Philadelphia, PA) McGraw-Hill Publishers, Columbus, OH; American Express, New York, NY.
Some institutions in which she has held printmaking workshop and talks include: The Print Center, The University of the Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (all in Philadelphia, PA) and Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL.