INTERNATIONALPRINTPROJECT

PRINT ARTS NORTHWESTOPUS 39 GALLERY

PORTLANDNICOSIA
PRINTEXHIBITION
2008
NICOSIACYPRUS
DECEMBER2008
Dear Visitor, This exhibition in Nicosia is the fourth in our cross cultural “International Print
Project”. The project started very simply as an email from printmaker Barbara
Given the opportunity to add something to this event, I would like to express my thanks to the “International Print Project” and Print Mason, Director of Print Arts Northwest in Portland, Oregon, USA, to a printmaking
Arts Northwest for choosing my gallery to host this cultural exchange and exhibition, hoping many other institutions and galleries Internet friend, Dr Arafat Al-Naim in Amman, Jordan. Prints have now traveled
may follow in this example. This is a wonderful opportunity for all artists to show their work globally and make it possible to across the ocean to and from Jordan and to and from Cyprus. It was my great
communicate through art. pleasure to handle the work personally for both exhibitions in our gallery in
Portland. I feel a real connection to artists I have never met but whose work I
The gallery aims to promote quality art through its exhibitions. It does not specialize in any specific style/movement of art hosting admire and through our work we are truly the same. We are using the same
various mediums, whether it be ceramics, painting, jewellery, sculpture, installations and photography, thus providing the viewer processes, the same paper, the same ink, and sometimes even similar imagery.
with the opportunity to appreciate different approaches to art. Some of the artists exhibited are very young and unknown, as the Printmaking is language we understand, allowing us to talk to each other even
gallery feels “obliged” to help/encourage these newcomers. Opus 39 is unafraid to “take a chance” as well as dare. It believes though we might not speak the same verbal language.
“selling” is not its sole purpose, “educating” is just as important (often exhibitions are visited by school groups of all ages). Lectures
are sometimes held concerning the exhibited subject. As an educational venue the exhibitions were a huge success. In Portland we
printed out maps of the Middle East and the Mediterranean encouraging visitors
We live in difficult times for humanity and it seems that the arts are the only resource of pleasure and hope accessible to all. It is and members alike to get a sense of the geographical locations of both Jordan
amazing to me how through art all boundaries “disappear” - whether it be religion, race or language. and Cyprus. We also brought in books about the culture and history of both
countries and enjoyed food catered by restaurants that specialized in Middle
Special thanks to our supporters and sponsors, the American Embassy in Cyprus. Eastern and Greek food. The work from Cyprus traveled to a gallery in Vancouver,
Washington so was exhibited twice while in the USA. Oregon probably seems
Of course, a special note of thanks to Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Mason who through good networking, effort and coordination as mysterious and far away to the citizens of Nicosia as the Mediterranean
made this possible for all. What a concept! Travelling Art... Technology has made it easy for imagery and information to travel across does to most of us, yet we have this strong connection. We are more alike than
the world, but exhibitions and venues such as these “connect”. we realize and the language of ink added to paper by artists is a universal one.

Maro Marangos Barbara Mason

Director Executive Director
Opus 39 Gallery Print Arts Northwest
Nicosia, Cyprus Portland, Oregon, USA
 international print project
portland - nicosia print exhibition 2008
original fine art printmaking exhibition and exchange
10 december 2008 - 15 january 2009
nicosia . cyprus
sue allen

Sue has been designing and screenprinting for many lived in the foothills of Mount Hood since 1981, A recent project- “Around Mount Hood: 12 Months
years. The cards and original limited-edition where she enjoys nature in all her seasons and can - 12 Directions”, was awarded a grant from the
screenprints that she makes are distinctive and be creative and productive. Clackamas County Cultural Coalition and the Oregon
colorful, inspired by tradition, nature and imagination. Cultural Trust. The inaugural exhibition was at the
She grew up in Queens, New York and spent Artistic directions range from nature and organic Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum in
many happy childhood summers at camp in New order to some abstraction and geometry and veers Government Camp in 2006 - 2007, and it has been
Hampshire. Since receiving a Bachelor of repeatedly toward the Japanese aesthetic and on exhibit around Oregon since.
Architecture degree from The Cooper Union in New beauty. Recent studies in the book arts has led to
York City, printmaking has been her main focus and a new passion, one that brings her back to a design Her work is shown in many shops and galleries in
livelihood. After working in New York City and Stowe, and construction format. Her work is distinguished, Oregon and beyond, and she exhibits extensively
Vermont, she moved to Oregon in 1975, and has refined, elegant and unusual. and has won many awards.
[email protected] autumn equinox, screenprint
mt hood june, screenprint winter wonderland, screenprint shoji winter, screenprint
dennis cady

Dennis Cady was born Portland, Oregon, November The Brooklyn Museum Art School (with Reuben
10, 1944. Tam) State University of New York, Empire State
College Pratt Graphics Art Center
Education
Portland State University (with Robert Colescott)
highland view, woodcut
approaching storm, woodcut
patricia cheyne

Ms. Patricia Cheyne is a Professor at Pacific Patricia has an extensive exhibit record. She has The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and memories, and even secrets have been the
University teaching drawing, design, papermaking, shown her work nationally and internationally. She the College Art Association. inspiration for my new prints containing both text
art education, and printmaking. Patricia received a has had many one-person shows. She has also and image. With all these sources, my work focuses
B.F.A. from the University of Hartford, a M.A.L.S. presented papers at the Denver Art Museum, Pacific Patricia says in her artist statement, “I am also less on realistic representation and more on
from Wesleyan University, and a M.F.A. from the University, and the College Art Association, and has influenced by my immediate visual experiences-- expressive images. In my art I hope to capture the
University of Colorado. The areas of concentration curated many ongoing exhibitions in the Forest such as the forests and valleys of the Pacific motion and force alive in both the source of
of her studies were drawing, printmaking, art history, Grove and Portland, Oregon communities. She is a Northwest, subjective states such as the cuts and inspiration and the process of artistic creation.
art education, and women studies. She has taught member of the Print Arts Northwest, LosAngelus scars of the emotional life. But most recently, I have
at all levels of education from pre-school through Printmakers Association, Handpapermaking been making artwork investigating the states of mind My art is a mix of landscapes, soulscapes, and
university. Association, National Art Education Association, that all humans create for themselves. Thoughts, mythscapes.
interior landscape, monotype
elizabeth dove

Elizabeth Dove is a printmaker and photographer expanded in media to include earthworks, site Elizabeth has conducted extensive research into Contemporary Printmaker” and “Non-toxic Intaglio
currently residing in Missoula, Montana, where specific sculpture and installation. Elizabeth's main non-toxic printmaking processes, taught dozens of Printmaking”, and the British journal “Printmaking
she teaches in the Art Department at the University interests are investigating the passage of time, workshops at colleges and universities, received Today”. Elizabeth received her BFA from the
of Montana. Her work continues to be based in subjective scientific methods, and how one's funding to study the integration of digital technology Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, and
traditional printmaking practices (concerns with body can register and can communicate history and traditional printmaking practices, and has her MFA from Vermont College.
repetition, imprinting, and the matrix) but has and memories. published her research in the books “The
www.elizabethdove.com
nature, nuture, sense, experience, etching
tallmadge doyle

Born in New York City, Tallmadge Doyle resides in Selected Solo Exhibitions - University of Hawaii at Hilo Permanent Collection 2005 Los Angeles Print Society 18th National -
Eugene, Oregon where she has lived and worked 2008 Augen Gallery, Celestial Menagerie, Portland, - Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Armory Art Center, Pasadena - Juror’s Award
since 1989. She received her BFA in drawing from OR Art Museum, OR 2005 Works on Paper from Seattle Print Arts -
the Cleveland Art Institute and her MFA in printmaking 2007 Eugene Downtown Public Library, Eugene, - University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union Permanent Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
from the University of Oregon where she taught OR Collection 2005 Imprinted-Contemporary Printmaking -
Printmaking as an Adjunct Professor 1997 - 2004. 2006 Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA - Oregon State University College of Agriculture El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
2005 Augen Gallery, Mysterium Cosmographicum, Science, Corvallis , OR 2005 Ink And Clay 31 - Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly
Her work is included in numerous public and private Portland, OR - The Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio Pomona,CA
collections including the Seattle Portable Works 2004 Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR - University of Alaska, Anchorage, Print Collection 2005 North American Print Biennial - Boston
Collection, Portland Art Museum’s Gilkey Print 2003 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Collection, and Chicago’s Loyola University Print 2003 Newport Visual Arts Gallery, Newport, OR Recent Juried Exhibitions 2004 New Prints 2004 - International Print Center,
Collection. 2002 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 2007 Loyola National Works on Paper - Crown New York, NY
2002 John and Betty Gray Gallery, NWPC, Portland, Center Gallery, Chicago, IL Purchase Award 2004 Loyola University of Chicago Print Biennial -
She is represented by the Davidson Gallery in Seattle OR 2007 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest Crown Center Gallery
and the Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery as College of Art, Atrium Gallery, Portland, OR 2004 Janet Turner 5th National Exhibition - Turner
well as in Portland at the Augen Gallery and the Public Collections 2007 Art About Agriculture - Oregon State University, Print Museum, Cal Chico
Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. - Loyola University Permanent Collection, Chicago, Corvallis, OR Purchase Award 2004 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition
IL 2006 35th Brand Library Printmaking Exhibition, - University of Hawaii, Hilo
Education - University of Amman Applied Sciences Collection, Glendale, CA 2004 4th Minnesota Print Biennial - Wiesman Art
- Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking 1993, University Amman Jordan 2006 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest Museum, Minneapolis, MN Purchase Award
of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon - City of Seattle Portable Works Collection College of Art, Portland, OR
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing 1979, Cleveland - Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, 2006 Seeing God - Dadian Gallery, Henry Luce
Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Duluth Center for the Arts & Religion, Washington DC
tallmadgedoyle.com
evolving angles, monoprint
ellen emerson

Education 2008 Monothon PDX, Print Arts Northwest Gallery, 2003 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, 1990 Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose,
- BFA with Honors, Graphic Design, 1973, Portland, Oregon Weiden & Kennedy, Portland, Oregon California
Rhode Island School of Design 2008 Northwest Visions in Printmaking, Seattle 2002 City of Gresham Juried Art Exhibit, Juror: 1990 Works on Paper ‘90, Koret Gallery, Albert L.
Convention Center, Seattle, Washington Margo Jacobsen, City Hall Visual Arts Center, Schultz, Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto,
Related Experience 2008 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Gresham, Oregon California
Graphic Designer with a broad range of experience Portland Convention Center, Portland, Oregon 2001 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural 1989 Altered Dreams: The Compelling Figure,
including museum graphics, signage, identity 2008 Contemporay Prints, Pacific Northwest College Sensibilities, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Student Union Gallery, San Francisco State
programs, book and publication design. of Art Library, Portland, Oregon Daegu, South Korea University, San Francisco, California
2007 15 Printmakers, Print Arts Northwest Gallery, 2001 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Littman 1989 New Members’ Show, Valentines, Summer in
Solo Exhibitions Portland, Oregon and White Galleries, Portland State University, the City, Impressions: New Prints from the
2005 Ellen Emerson: New Monotypes, Janovec 2006 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Portland, Oregon Graphic Arts Workshop, The Graphic Arts
Gallery, Portland, Oregon Sensibilities III, Kyungpook National University 2000 Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival, Portland, Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 Ellen Emerson: Monotypes and Collage, Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, Portland, Oregon Oregon
Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon 2006 Going to Korea, Janovec Gallery, Portland, OR 1999 Bush Barn Art Center, Juried Group Show,
1990 Ellen Emerson: New Monoprints, Mitchell Earth 2005 The Art of Surviving, YWCA Gallery and Salem, Oregon
Sciences Building, Stanford University, The Elizabeth Building, Portland, Oregon 1999 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Omni
Palo Alto, California 2004 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Sensibilities II, Littman Gallery, Portland State 1991 Avenue of the Arts: Monotype/Monoprint
Group Exhibitions University, Portland, Oregon Exhibition, Juror: Nathan Oliviera, Belmont,
2008 Prints from Guenda - Oaxcan Women Artists, 2003 Waking Dream, Women Tree Gallery, Portland, California
Josepha Kate Gallery, Portland, Oregon Oregon 1990 Ford Aerospace Corporation, San Jose, CA
[email protected]
postage due, lithograph games for a rainy day, lithograph not made in china, lithograph little puzzle, lithograph
sheryl funkhouser

Education 2006 Printmaking Currents, National Juried 1996 Doll Gardner Gallery 1983 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
1967-68 California College of the Arts, Oakland, Exhibition, PNCA 1996 Museo da Gravura, Museo de Curitaibo, (exhibit & lecture)
California, USA 2006 12 x 16 Gallery, 12 etchings, Portland, OR Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1981 “Four Oregon Artists”, Portland Center for
1968-71 BFA Painting, Pacific Northwest College 2005 Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR 1995 Oregon Historical Society, PAN exhibit Visual Arts
of the Arts, USA 2005 Honoring Ray Trayle, Mt. Hood College, 1994 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA 1980 The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,
Gresham, OR 1993 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR Lake Oswego, OR
Collections 2004 Pacific Prints 2004, Palo Alto, California 1992 20 Oregon Printmakers, Corvallis Arts Center 1979 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
- Gilkey Collection, Portland Art Museum 2003 Ray Trayle Print Prize & exhibition, PAM & PAN 1991 Northwest Print Council, Portland Art Museum 1978 Original Editions Graphic Competition
- State of Oregon 2002 Canon Beach Gallery 1989 10th Anniversary Invitational, Blackfish Gallery, Traveling Exhibit, U of Oregon
- Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon 2001 Northwest Printmakers, Davidson Gallery, Portland, OR 1975 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Center
- University of Oregon Libraries Seattle WA 1988 Inkling Exhibition, Littman Gallery, Portland 1974 Twenty Fourth Avenue Gallery, Portland, OR
- Museo de Gravura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil 1999 Blackfish Gallery Founders Exhibit State University
- Beijing, PRC 1998 Prints Across the Pacific, China National 1988 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
Academy, PRC 1987 Coos Bay Art Museum
Selected Exhibitions 1997 Postcards from the Edge, Oregon College 1986 Northwest Print Council Exchange, Beijing, PRC
2007 Print Arts Northwest of Art & Craft 1985 Western States Print Invitational, Gordon
2007 Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham WA 1996 Margo Jacobsen Gallery Gilkey, Curator
aphordite and athena, etching, chine colle
paul gentry

Paul Gentry is a printmaker, painter, and mixed

media artist who is also an owner/partner of the 
River Gallery in Independence, Oregon. He has
specialized in wood engraving since 2001,
concentrating mostly on depicting the rural landscape
around where he lives. Mr. Gentry has exhibited in
shows throughout the United States, most recently in
Washington DC at National Small Works  where he
was awarded a purchase prize. 

He is represented in Portland, Oregon by Print Arts

Northwest Gallery and the Portland Art Museum
Rental/Sales Gallery and in Seattle, Washington by
Fine Impressions Gallery. He currently lives and
works as a full-time artist in Independence, Oregon.
watering place, wood engraving in the pasture, wood engraving
beneath the bridge, wood engraving willamette country, wood engraving
margaret e. graham

"My creative methods mainly reflect my constant as well as a much needed and welcomed discipline." As a Professional Artist, Margaret actively exhibits Creative Arts area and stayed a second year to
attempt to integrate temporal existence with that of her artwork in the States and abroad. She is an create a Printmaking studio and curriculum. It is
inner experience and transition. The conceptual Margaret Graham was born and raised in upstate active member of the Northwest Print Council and said to be one of the first printmaking studios of its
aspect centers on the never-ending, natural cycles NY and completed her undergraduate work at is represented by the Pan Gallery in Portland Oregon. kind in Saudi Arabia.
of life and growth. As new experiences unfold, this Nazareth College of Rochester. It is at Nazareth
center expands with further introspection. Everyday, that she discovered printmaking. This quickly After four years of teaching fine art in Oregon, "I feel it is important to share my creative abilities
life offers me new information, feelings and became a passion and continues to be her main Margaret taught at one of the first colleges for and time with the global community in which we
realizations to work with. artistic vehicle to this day. Margaret completed women's higher education, in Jeddah, Saudi live. It gives me great pleasure and I think that if
her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Arabia. In the 2004-2006 school years, she chose everyone shared his or her creative abilities
To combine these different levels of awareness and a teaching fellowship at the University of Oregon to travel to Jeddah for the opportunity to help and perceptions, this world would be a very
create my own visual interpretations is a challenge in 2000. establish a strong Foundations program in the different place."
grahamcrkr.tripod.com
icon 1, woodblock
bernard r. kliks
Memberships - “Deck the Walls ”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘07) - Chehalem Winery Annual Summer Art Show (Aug - Carolyn Dewey, artist
- Watercolor Society of Oregon (Life Member) - “8X8 s on the 8th”- Petite Critique Group Show - ‘05) - Dr. Richard Shepherd
- Petite Critique Group (8 artists) Art Home Company (Sept 8, ‘07) - Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auction (May ‘05) - Peggy and Terry Crawford
- Print Arts Northwest (PAN) - Board Member - “Deck The Walls”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘06) - Kows for Kids - “In the Moood” (Jun ‘02) - On - Carol and Byron Ferris
(2003-4) - Artist Member (since Nov ‘05) - Albina Community Bank (NW 10th & Glisan) (Jul permanent display at the Schnitzer Auditorium (in - Patty and John Bentley, and other Private collections
- Portland Art Museum Contemporary Art Council ‘06) collaboration with Susan McKinnon)
- New Artist Member Show at Print Arts NW (PAN) Personal
Art Education (Jul ‘06) Collections Of - Retired Interventional Cardiologist, Pacific Heart
- Watercolor Workshops/Classes: Harry Widman, - Fife Restaurant (NE 44th & Fremont) (Dec ‘05-Jan - Applied Sciences University in Aman, Jordan (in Association (‘76-’99)
Rene Rickabaugh, Carol Riley, Michael Schlicting, ’06) association with PAN) - Fellow of American College of Cardiology
Susan McKinnon, Mike Svob, Pat Lambrecht, Pat - Brooklyn to Sellwood Art Walk (Nov ‘05) - Vavrosky, MacColl, & Olson, Attys (Portland, OR) - BA - Willamette University; Salem, OR (‘63)
San Soucie and Margot Voorhies Thompson - Solo Monotype Print Show - Art Home Company - Kathy Calcagno, Private Client Services, Wells - BS/MD - University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN
- Printmaking: Monotype: Tom Prochaska, PNCA (Nov ‘05) Fargo Bank (Portland, OR) (‘67)
(3 terms), William Park, Ron Pokrasso / Solar Plate: - PNCA Alumni Open Hanging Salon - Landscapes - Wrenn Ferguson, UBS Financial Services (Portland, - Internal Medicine Residency - Presbyterian Med.
Dan Weldon & Barbara Mason (Nov ‘03) OR) Ctr.; Denver, CO (‘67-’71)
- PNCA Student Monotype Show (Oct ‘03) - Emanuel Hospital-Day surgery (Portland, OR) - Cardiology Fellowship - University of Utah;
Juried Shows - Art on Alberta - Galaxy Bakery (Apr ‘00) - Good Samaritan Hospital-Administrative Offices Salt Lake City, UT (‘71-’73)
- Watercolor Society of Oregon (Fall ‘95 and Spring - Petite Critique Group Shows - 6 artists (Apr ‘96 (Portland, OR) - Served in the USAF at Clark Air Base, The Phillipines
‘96 Shows) and Aug ‘97) - Gary Eichman, CEO Oregon Transfer Co. (Portland, (‘73-’76) Rank: Lt. Colonel
- Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auctions (‘06, ‘07, OR) - Medals: Meritorious Service Medal (USAF),
‘08) Invitational - Claudia Brown, Publisher, Portrait of Portland Order of Million Elephants with White Parasol (Laos)
- “Art in the Heart” in Lake Oswego (Feb ‘07) (Portland, OR)
Exhibitions - Lake Oswego Chronicle Visual Arts Show (Jun ‘06) - Drs. R. Bastian and Barbara Wagner
- “Natural States” - Two Person Show (with Cathe - CAP Auction (May ‘06) - Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Trelstad
Gill) - PAN (Jun ‘08) - “Prints in the Pearl” - fundraiser for PAN ( Sep ‘05) - Drs. Robert Florek and Kathy Grewe
 untitled 1, monotype

untitled 71, monotype untitled 15, monotype

marilyn maricle woman with diver and dancers, monotype

Color and shape have had a powerful influence on theater and study the art of many religions and - Landscapes symbolize places people journey to
me. They are a strong force in ritual, give meaning cultures, I am informed as an artist. My work includes for meditation and spiritual refreshment.
to religious ceremony and symbolic form to dreams. figures, architecture, landscapes and language.
In endless combinations, colors and shapes have - Words and characters from other languages are
appeared on the costumes of dolls, puppets, - Human and animal figures appear in an clues to content. Figures sometimes form words
storytellers, actors, dancers, priests and shamans. atmosphere of intense color, hard-edged shapes from American Sign Language with their hands to
Tapestries, scrolls, quilts, murals and mosaics have and free-flowing energetic lines to express music emphasize the expressive power of gesture.
recorded events and expressed emotions. Complex and dance.
and intricate works are meditative both for the maker I want my work to be a place where one lingers and
and the viewer. - Elements of architecture in the world, in the theater moves about slowly. I invite the viewer into a place
and in places of worship define and enclose of light, color and energy where I try to speak about
As I travel, watch dance, listen to music, experience spaces within which interactions and events occur. human experience.
woman with birds, monotype
 woman with bottle, monotype woman and heron, monotype

woman with dog and dancer, monotype on the go no. 1, monotype woman with dog and jay, monotype
barbara mason
Barbara Mason is an artist/printmaker working in She currently serves on the board of the Washington Museum, the National Museum of Kampala Uganda,
her own printmaking studio in Aloha, 15 miles west County Arts, Heritage and Humanities Collation, the Applied Sciences University of Amman, Jordan,
of Portland, Oregon. A lifelong artist, she began which distributes money from the Oregon Cultural the Jordon Schnitzer Collection, the American Print
studying printmaking in the early 80's and was Trust to nonprofits in Washington County, OR. She Alliance Memorial Collection and numerous private
immediately enamored with the medium. Barbara is on the board of “The Right Brain Initiative”, a individuals and corporations.
made viscosity monotypes almost exclusively for coalition of cultural organizations that are bringing
20 years until she discovered Solarplate etching. She art, music and drama back to local schools on a Education
has been an enthusiast of this process since 2001 weekly basis. - University of Washington
and has taught the process in workshops since 2002. - Oregon College of Arts and Crafts
Barbara spends many hours each year as a volunteer - Portland State University
Barbara is an arts advocate and active in the teaching printmaking in local schools for Print Arts - Pacific Northwest College of Art
community. She has been a resource person for Northwest. She also teaches classes at Atelier - Marylhurst University
the Beaverton School District since 1976. Serving Meridian. Her enthusiasm for printmaking is
8 years on the board of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey translated into wonderful works by students ages Printmaking workshops from: Lise Drost, Kim Fink,
Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum, 8-80 who thought they couldn't draw and therefore Myrna Burk, Jim Hibbard, Christy Wycoff, Tom
she was also a founding board member of the 12 couldn't make art. They were mistaken, Barbara is Porchaska, Brian Shannon, Non Toxic Printmaking
year old Art in the Pearl, an outdoor community arts sure anyone can make art and everyone should be with Raymon Murilla and Dan Welden and traditional
fair taking place on Labor Day Weekend. She has doing so. water-soluble woodblock with Graham Scholes,
been on the board of Crow's Shadow Institute of Art David Bull and Richard Steiner
on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is a past President Barbara’s has shown her work nationally and
of the Board of Print Arts Northwest the gallery and internationally for the last 25 years, her works are in Gallery Representation
studio of the Northwest Print Council. She is the the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Intel - Waterstone Gallery, Portland, Oregon
currently the education chair at Print Arts Northwest. Corporation, Crow’s Shadow Art Institute, the - Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon
deceptive, solarplate etching
She is past director and an active artist of Waterstone Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, the - Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Gallery, an artist owned gallery, in Portland, OR. New York Public Library Collection, the Halle Ford - Cholke Fine Art, Rockford, IL
[email protected]
persistence, solarplate etching undaunted, solarplate etching potential, solarplate etching
chi meredith

Education Selected collections

1976 BFA: Printmaking and Painting, Oregon State - Bank of Detroit
University, Corvallis, Oregon - College of Oceanographic and Atmospheric
1972 Secondary Teaching Credential, College of Sciences, Oregon State University
Notre Dame, Belmont, California - The Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection,
1971 MS: Materials Sciences, Stanford University, Portland Art Museum
California - IBM Corporation
1967 BA: Physics, Lawrence University, Appleton, - Mt. Hood Community College
Wisconsin - Oregon State University Foundation
- Oregon State University Art about Agriculture
Gallery Affiliations Permanent Collection
- Opus6ix, Eugene, Oregon - Family Services Unit, Portland, Oregon
- PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon - University of El Paso
- Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon - XEROX Corporation, Chicago
- Portland Art Museum Rental Gallery, Portland,
Oregon Exhibitions
Solo, juried, group and invitational exhibitions
Professional affiliations worldwide
- Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon
sea ice 3, lithograph
sea ice 1, lithograph sea ice 2, lithograph
danuta muszy ska
Danuta Muszy ska is a native of Poland, where she 2003 3rd Prize, The Little Prints Show National Juried 2008, 2007, 2006 Cascade Print Exchange, West 2004 Five Artists Invitational Show, (print), Art
graduated from the State College of Fine Arts and Exhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery, Gallery Oregon State University, Corvallis OR Association of Harrisburg Invitational Exhibition,
then received her M.A. degree from the Academy Fort Lauderdale, FL 2008 Naestved International Exhibition of Harrisburg, PA
of Fine Arts in Pozna . For many years, her primary 2002/2003 Honors Center Award and Exhibition, Contemporary Mini Prints, Arts and Culture 2004 The Print Show, Gallery 402, New York, NY
media were painting drawing and photography. In Art Department, University of Maine, Orono, ME Center, Naestved, Denmark 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Bangor Annual Open
1998 she moved to Maine, where she discovered 2002 1st Prize in Prints and Graphics, (print), 2008 International Print Project, Applied Science Juried Show (prints), BAS, Bangor, ME
her new passion: printmaking. In 1999-2004 she 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association University, Amman, Jordan (awards)
was studying non-toxic printmaking techniques with of Harrisburg, PA 2007, 2006 International Digital Miniprint Exhibition, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Annual Student Art
Elizabeth Dove and Susan Groce; bookmaking with 2001 Honorable Mention: New England Exhibition, Lieu de diffusion BRAVO-Est, Ottawa, Exhibition, (prints), University of Maine, Orono,
Siri Beckman; and art of metal working with Heiki (prints), Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, Canada ME (awards)
Seppa. Her works have been featured in more than MA 2007, 2006, 5th & 4th Print Zero Studios Print 2004, 2002, 2001 Annual Open Juried Maine Art
80 exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Canada, as 2001/2002 Dean’s Exhibition Award, awarded by Exchange Show, (prints), Waterville Area Art Society, ME
well as in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Jordan, and Faculty Department of Art, University of Maine, 2007 20th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, (awards)
in Northern Ireland. Orono, ME University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 2004, 2003 Southern Graphic Council Annual
2001 Stebbins/Schildknecht Art Fund, Haystack 2006 Deck the Walls, Print Arts Northwest Group Conferences Exchange Portfolios (Boston,
Awards Experience Award, by Department of Art, Show, Portland, OR MA, New Brunswick, NJ)
2008 1st Prize, 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU, UMaine, Orono, ME 2006 New Prints - New Artist Group Show, Print Arts 2004 National Juried 4th Annual Small Works
Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville, AL Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR Exhibition, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis,
2004 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Selected Exhibitions 2000-2008 2006, 2004, 2001 Annual National Small Print MD
Achievement in Printmaking, by Art 2008 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU, Hammond Exhibition, (prints), Creede Arts Council, 2003 Cool brass, solo exhibition, Thomson Honors
Department, University of Maine Hall Gallery, Jacksonville AL (award) Creede, CO Center, (prints), University of Maine, Orono,
2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Awards in Hand-Pulled 2008 2nd International Miniature Print Exhibition, 2006, 2004, 2000 Biennial International Miniature ME
Print and Mixed Media: Annual Juried Show, The Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada Print Exhibition, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2003 Next Generation III Juried Exhibition, Center
BAS, Bangor, ME; 2008, 2007 Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange, Eastern 2006 Americas 2000, Paper Works Competition, for Maine Contemporary Art, (prints), Rockport,
2004, 2002, 2001 Awards in Other Media, (prints) Oregon University, La Grande, OR (print), Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND ME
Annual Open Juried Maine Art Show, 2008 International Print Project Nicosia, Cyprus- 2005 Prints USA 2005, Springfield Fine Art Museum, 2003, 2001 Realism 13th & 15th National
Waterville Art Society, ME Portland, OR, PAN Gallery, Portland, OR Springfield, MO Competition, (print), Parkersburg, WV
[email protected]
2003 The Little Prints Show National Juried 2001 New England Exhibition, (prints), Cape Cod
Exhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery, Art Association, Barnstable, MA (honorable
Fort Lauderdale, FL (award) mention)
2003 From Bangor to Baxter, (prints), Maine Art 2001 Works on Paper, (print), San Jacinto College
Commission, Augusta, ME South, Houston, TX
2002 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, (print), 2001 Words & Images, University of Southern Maine,
Art Association of Harrisburg, PA Portland, ME
2002 15th Annual McNeese National Works on 2000 My New Vocabulary, (prints and drawings),
Paper Exhibition, (print), Lake Charles, LA solo exhibition, University of Maine, Orono,
2002 8th Annual National Juried Show at Prallsville ME
Mills, (print), Lambertsville, NJ 2000 Bangor to Bangor, Bangor Heritage Center,
2002 LaGrange National XXII Biennial, (print), (print), Northern Ireland
Chattahooche Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, 2000 20th Annual Print Exhibition, (print),
GA Fort Wayne, IN
2002, 2001 All Media Invitational, (prints), Period
Gallery, Omaha, NE
2001 Dry Autumn Martini with e.e., (prints,
photographs and collages), solo exhibition in
Café Nouveau, Bangor, ME
2001 Wanted Alive, or My Secret Conversations
with Albrecht, (prints), solo exhibition at
Borders, Bangor, ME
2001 14th National Juried Art Exhibition, (prints),
South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, GA
2001 14th Annual Northern National Art Competition,
(print), Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander,
WI
phoenix II, etching
walt padgett

Walt Padgett was born in North Carolina, grew up Over the many years of teaching a wide range of In 2004, Padgett was selected to teach Oregon a Pacific Rim artist, inspired by the landscapes and
in Atlanta, Georgia, studied architecture at Clemson art disciplines he continued to produce his own community college students from all over the cultures of both sides of the Pacific Ocean. In
University, then pursued fine arts studies at Florida work in sculpture, painting, and increasingly, State, for a term in London, England, through the September of 2008, he was awarded the Takanabe
State University, earning Bachelors and Masters focused his attention on printmaking. In 1983, he International Studies Consortium of Community Town Mayor’s Prize for a woodblock print exhibited
of Fine Arts degrees in the field of sculpture. He took a two year leave of absence to pursue studies Colleges. During extended travel abroad he also at the Takanabe Museum (Japan), in a traveling
taught art for a junior high school in Florida, and in Japanese woodblock printmaking, including painted watercolors in Scotland, France, and Italy, exhibition of prints from the prestigious Kyoto
at Florida A & M University before moving to the study and travel in Japan. A pivotal point in and collected imagery for future prints.  In 2008 he International Woodprint Association’s permanent
west coast. In 1971 he was hired onto the opening his career during this time was an adventurous traveled with his family to the Southern region of collection of prints from around the world. Museums,
faculty of the new institution Rogue Community two-month bicycle trip across Japan, documenting the United States, and to Hawaii, and is planning universities and colleges, institutions, corporations,
College, in Southern Oregon, where he was the the famous Tokaido highway, and the associated a painting campaign to Italy in 2009, to further his and private collectors have acquired Padgett’s
department head for eleven years, and taught full- prints of Hiroshige and Sekino. Padgett continues artwork. work, both nationally and internationally. His work
time for over thirty years, developing the Art to this day to produce prints inspired by this   is becoming increasingly recognized for its’ quality
Department as it grew in both Josephine and travel, augmented by further research and travel Padgett’s oil and watercolor paintings, sculptures, of vision, and versatility in both style and skill.
Jackson Counties. in Japan. and prints have received many awards; he is truly
yellowstone bison, woodcut
jo siddens

2008 Professor of Art Emeritus, Art Department, 2007 IAPMA Members Exhibition, Wadham College, - Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland;
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa Oxford University, Oxford, UK - University of Castilla la Mancha, Kuenca, Spain;
1989 Guest Professor, Guangxi Arts College, 2006 Invitational Group Exhibition, Joenju Arts - Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil;
Nanning, Guangxi, Peoples Republic of China Center, Joenju, Korea - Shaanxi University, Xian, China;
1977-2008 Over twenty international juried exhibitions - Museum of Paper History, Joenju, Korea
Exhibitions
2008 National Juried Print Exhibition, Forge Art Collections (selected)
Center, Kansas - Biennial Documentation Center, Cabo Frio, Brazil;
book of ancient chants, etching
wendy thon

Wendy Thon studied etching at the Ruth Leaf Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C. Medical Center and the Library of Congress. Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, WA and
Workshop from 1975-1979 after completing a BFA the Central Print Council Invitational, Wanganui,
in painting and sculpture at the University of Michigan. Thon has work in a number of collections including Her work has also been represented in scores of New Zealand.
the Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection at invitational, juried and group exhibitions including:
She has lectured and taught workshops around the the Portland Art Museum, Oregon state, the the Queens Museum, NY, the Bellevue Art Museum, Thon has had solo exhibitions from Ghent, Belgium
US and Canada including Pacific Lutheran University, Queensborough College, New York state, Washington WA, Pratt Graphics, NY, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, to St. Louis, MO to Ashland, OR. She is represented
Washington state, Montana State University, and the State University, the University of Washington Spain, WPW Invitational, Kobe, Japan, the Sixth by the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA.
www.liaharrisgallery.com
gabrina canyon, etching
andrew totman

My work is essentially, figurative, telling stories of reality is contrived as I become a story teller with Education - International Della Graphica, Venice, Italy
the human condition of vulnerability, frailty, success images. Rather as a director controls a movie. - M.F.A. Wichita State University, Kansas, 1986 - - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
and failure. The characters that inhabit my art work Often the final title of the image is deliberately Major: Printmaking - Minor: Drawing, Painting - College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Australia
are a part of my personal experience and reflect on specific or particular in directing the audience - B.A. University of San Diego, California, 1983 - - Daniel Smith Ink, Seattle, Washington, USA
the universal themes of tragedy and comedy, disaster response through moralistic prescription. Major: Printmaking - Alaska Artist in Schools, Alaska, USA
and good future, strength and weakness. The - Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, California,
drawings are intentionally childlike, simplistic and This first inspiration stage is very quick the print Professional experience USA
honest, deliberately chosen to foil a more complex process is much slower, requiring much greater 1996-Present Printmaking Lecturer National Art - La Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
and darker layer beneath. This is anchored by the planning and meticulous care. This is quite noticeable School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia - Centro Internationale Della Grafica, Venice, Italy
multi-plate colored etchings which build up color in the triptych Act 1, 2, and 3 which depict an old 2002-Present Printmaking Lecturer Sydney Gallery
through textures and surfaces of the print medium. fashioned “Puppet” theater in which the jester School, Northern Sydney Institute, Australia Commissions
performs tricks with juggling balls, hoop and crystal 1991-1995 Lecturer of Art Artsreach Program of - Sydney Children Hospital, Randwick, NSW,
Much of iconography comes from my inner world ball. The colors in these images are vibrant; glowing UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles, Australia
derived from childhood memories and thoughts. with the intensity of a stained glass window, both California, USA - Gemini Print Workshop, Los Angeles, California
These images are playful fun and innocent yet the imagery and title carries the conviction and surety 1988-1989 Artistic Coordinator Artists in Residence - Center of the Performing Arts, Anchorage, Alaska
reveal an underlying sense of disquiet or threat… of a church sermon and can be explained by a Program, Foundation Beychevelle d’Art - 1992 Academy Award Recipients, Los Angeles,
rather like a child who is scared of monsters under strong religious background. Being inspired by Contemporain, Bordeaux, France California
the bed. childhood memories of sitting in church being 1987-1991 Assistant Professor of Art University of - Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon, USA
fascinated by colorful alters or much like the thrill Alaska, Head of Printmaking Department/ - Christofle, Paris, France
I start with an idea that is just for me, a memory of opening a Christmas gift. You have done it Director-University Art Gallery, Anchorage,
or event and that begins as a small drawing that I before but it is different every time. This image was Alaska, USA Solo Exhibitions
might add simple related words which may later also recreated in mural form for the Physiotherapy 2007 Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China
become part of the title. These may provide a brief Ward of Sydney Children’s Hospital 2002 (10 x 30 Visiting Artist - Workshops/Lecturer 2006 PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
glimpse of or insight into the story. This make-believe feet each). - Wichita State University, Kansas, USA 2005 Ground floor Gallery, Sydney, Australia
[email protected]
2004 Toby’s, San Francisco, California, USA Galleries
2003 Bellas Artes Maracaibo, Venezuela - Two-Lines Gallery, Beijing, China
2004 Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, - Kokoro Fine Arts, Paris, France
California, USA - Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT,
2001 Firestation Print Workshop, Armadale, Australia
Victoria, Australia - Australia Centre for Australian Printmaking,
1999 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakvile, California, Melbourne, Australia
USA - Gallery Aterier Gressvik, Oslo, Norway
1997 Olsen/Carr Gallery Sydney, Australia - Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon, USA
1994 Pence Gallery, Davis, California, USA - Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California,
1993 Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, California USA

Selected Exhibitions Fellowships/Grants

2007 Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, - Partners of the Americas, NYC, New York, USA
ACT, Australia - United States Information Agency, Washington DC
2006 Works on Paper Margin Art Gallery, Beijing, - Fred Meyers Corporation, Seattle, Washington,
China USA
2005 The Capitals Project Gallery of Contemporary - Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage,
Art, Seoul, Korea Alaska, USA
2004 Exchange Exhibition Hong Ik University, - National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC
Seoul, Korea - National Association for the Visual Arts, Sydney,
2003 Scratch Pull Grind & Press Mosman Art Australia
Gallery, NSW
2002 Camberwell College of Art, London, England
likeness, etching
renée a. ugrin

Renée's work is inspired by the natural world and Education Public Collections Selected Group Exhibits
a strong relationship with the garden. Wonderful - Portland State University, Bachelor of Science - Oregon Arts Commission, Limited Edition 1991 - Black Fish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2004
rints, drawings, and paintings. 1989, Drawing and Printmaking, Art History Major - Visual Chronicle of Portland, Regional Arts and - Print Arts Northwest, Monotype Exhibit, Portland,
- Drawing and Painting with Dean Richard (1914- Culture Council OR, 2003
“I grew up on a windy rural Oregon hilltop, 1984) Royal Academies of London and Paris - Percent for the Arts, City of Portland, Oregon - 20 Oregon Printmakers Maveet Gallery, Shalishan,
surrounded by orchards and farms. I gained a great - Alliance Francaise, Paris, France - Wells Fargo Bank Oregon
appreciation for Nature's grand cyclical play; the - Sacred Heart Academy, Albany, New York - Northwest Print Council, 10th Anniversary Exhibit,
seasons. In summer there are peaceful walks, Selected Solo Exhibitions Oregon, Art Institute, Portland, Oregon
grassy fields and shady lawns. But Winter brought Affiliations 1998 Carnegie Center, Oregon City, Oregon
cold and confinement with visits from asthma, this 1985-Present Northwest Print Council 1991 University Friends Meeting Center, Seattle,
resulted in days in bed with my drawings, stories 1985-Present Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Washington
and books with Great Art. This created a deep Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA 1986 Multnomah Art Center Gallery, Portland,
appreciation for the arts which continues today-- 1998-Present Arts Action Alliance Oregon
sometimes as a 'life raft' still.” 1985-1990 Inkling Studio, Portland, Oregon
[email protected]
grace, reductive woodcut
nicosia - portland print project
5-30 March 2008
CYPRUS AT PRINT ARTS NORTHWEST, PORTLAND, OREGON
In late December 2007, works of eight distinguished Cypriot printmakers was shipped off to Portland, Oregon, to take part in the
first exchange of its kind between Cyprus and the USA. Coming from various generations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic and
philosophical conceptions, illustrating a range of techniques and subject fields, a beautiful exhibit was set up at the Print Arts
Northwest Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

telemachos kanthos . rhea bailey . christos christou . stella lantsia . efklides papadopoulos .
evgenia vasiloudi . evripides zantides . aspasia papadema
Opus 39 Gallery
21 kimonos street . strovolos . nicosia . cyprus . tel/fax +357 22 424 983 [email protected]

Print Arts Northwest elena marangosdesign

416 NW 12th avenue . portland . oregon 97209 . usa . tel +001 503 525 9259 printartsnw.org christos avraamidesphotography
portland - nicosia print project
The “Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an initiative and engravings by twenty seven distinguished reconsidering of values, which is one of the
of the ongoing “International Print Project” launched American and Cypriot artists from different challenges we all have to face. Such international
in 2007 by Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Mason generations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic and projects reflect the impulse for outreach, promote
in collaboration with International Art Institutes, philosophical conceptions, illustrating a range of cultural understanding and continue to engage
Associations, Galleries and Artists from all over the techniques and subject fields. Through developed new generation of emergent printmakers with these
world to celebrate global culture and widen inter- personal vocabularies and use of different creative values.
cultural dialogue while demonstrating the richness approaches in their artistic works they present their
of printmaking medium. national identity. The selected works of Renée We wish to thank Print Arts Northwest, Barbara
Ugrin, Dennis Cady, Sheryl Funkhouser, Danuta Mason, Maro Marangos Director of Opus 39 Gallery,
The ambitious International Original Fine Art Print Muszy ska, Walt Padgett, Elizabeth Dove, Chi and Artists for co-operation and support without
Exhibition and Exchange of work between Cyprus Meredith, Andrew Totman, Wendy Thon, Tallmadge which this exhibition could not have been presented.
and USA aims to enhance, support, promote, and Doyle, Margaret Graham, Sue Allen, Paul Gentry,
present the new tendencies in the art of engraving Ellen Emerson, Patricia Cheyne, Bernard Kliks, Dr Arafat Al-Naim
and to place printmaking within the wider context Marilyn Maricle, Barbara Mason, Jo Siddens, PHD, MFA, BFA in Graphic Arts & Printmaking,
of contemporary art. Telemachos Kanthos, Rhea Bailey, Christos MST in Art Teaching
Christou, Evgenia Vasiloudi, Efklides Papadopoulos,
Through centuries, Original Fine Art Prints have Stella Lantsia, Evripides Zantides and Aspasia
had a noble, distinguished, and often infamous Papadema explores the breadth and vitality of
history as they informed. They have a prominent contemporary printmaking.
and influential place in art world and they are
capable of creating links of their own between It is in the unification of this creativity that
different cultures and people. “International Print Project”, Print Arts Northwest
and OPUS 39 Gallery with the support of the
“Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an exhibition American Embassy in Nicosia see the opportunity catalogue sponsor
and exchange consists of the fine art print works for an active dialogue between countries and