The people behind the printmaking studio have a vision to integrate and coordinate the talents of many artists and printmakers. A key goal underlying the vision is to promote the practice of printmaking by providing a studio equipped with the tools to create etchings, collagraphs, monotypes, woodcuts, and other forms of printmaking. Our vision also includes integrating the educational needs and desires of local organizations, from all walks of life, and all ages. We wish to provide a creative outlet for community members through workshops and memberships.

Barbara Mason, education director, is an artist/printmaker working in her private printmaking studio in Aloha, Oregon. She is a member of the board of Directors for Print Arts Northwest (PAN), the gallery of the Northwest Print Council. She heads the Education Committee for PAN, and is past board president for PAN. Barbara has been making monotypes since the early 80s and 5 years ago included block prints and solar plate intaglio prints in her portfolio. Barbara is an arts advocate and active in the community. She has been a resource person for the Beaverton School District since 1976. Serving 8 years on the board of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum, she was also a founding board member of Art in the Pearl, an outdoor community arts fair taking place on Labor Day Weekend. She has been on the board of Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, She is currently an artist at Waterstone Gallery, an artist owned gallery, in The Pearl District in Portland, Oregon. Barbara has shown her work nationally and internationally for the last 25 years. Her works are in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Intel Corporation, Crow’s Shadow Art Institute, the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, the New York Public Library Collection, the National Museum of Kampala, Uganda, and numerous private individuals and corporations. Barbara’s formal education is from the University of Washington, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Marylhurst University.

Jane Pagliarulo, Master Printer and Studio manager, received her BFA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987. A year of study at Exeter College of Art and Design led to extensive travel in Europe, working as an artist in London and Italy. From 1989 to 1996 she worked as a fine art printer at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she printed lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, and photogravures. As head Monotype printer she worked one-on-one in creative collaboration with artists who had tremendously varied conceptual and technical approaches. Among them were Carol Anthony, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Heap of Birds, Robert Kelly, Emily Mason, Richard Tuttle and Emmi Whitehorse. In 1996 Jane moved to Oregon to work as an independent survey forester and an outdoor guide. She also taught printmaking as an Artist in Residence in Hood River County schools. She co-founded a printmaking workshop in the Alpinee Hut in Hood River from 2000 to 2006. As Master Printer of Atelier Meridian, Jane teaches printmaking workshops in monotype, etching, woodcut and collagraph, and performs contract printing of editions and assisted monotype sessions. She exhibits nationally and is represented in Portland by the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery and Print Arts Northwest, where she also serves as a member of the board.

Peter Blood is an active member of the west coast business and arts community as an entrepreneur, energy portfolio manager, collector and amateur photographer and art practitioner. Peter has been the Secretary for the Print Arts Northwest board for the past two and a half years. In 2004, Peter completed the Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts’ program The Art of Leadership (http://www.nwbca.org/) which is led by well known art development consultant George Thorn. Peter is actively pursuing entrepreneurial and leadership development opportunities in the arts and culture arena in the Portland area and Northwest region. Peter understands the challenges facing arts and cultural organizations as they deal with the economic, political, and artistic realities of today and is actively integrating businesses and arts organizations together to grow and integrate both sectors. Peter’s formal education is a BBA-Finance from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Houston.

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