Atelier Meridian, Portland, Oregon

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.

Jane Pagliarulo

Jane Pagliarulo, Master Printer and Studio manager
As co-founder and 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 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. 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.

Barbara Mason, education director and co-founder, is an artist/printmaker most often 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.

Carolyne D. Landon, Instructor
Since moving to Portland in 2009 Carolyne is a full time member and instructor (The Figure in Print) at Atelier Meridian. She is scheduled to conduct a workshop, The Anatomy of Trees at Sitka in May.
Carolyne has an MFA-Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. Her teaching experience includes working as an associate professor of art at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, and as adjunct faculty at The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Her work has been exhibited at The Philips Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as exhibited internationally. The Nature Conservancy has published her work as a photographer and nature writer and her illustrations have been published in The Smithsonian Magazine. She has worked as a courtroom artist for The Washington Post and NBC-TV News. She looks forward to helping to further develop the workshop curriculum at the Atelier, particularly her work with “The Figure In Print”.

Jenn Lawrence is excited to be joining the staff and members of Atelier Meridian, teaching workshops and private lessons in letterpress and the book arts. She has worked in various capacities with the form of the book and the printed word for nearly ten years, and recently received her Masters from Portland State University's publishing program. At PSU, she managed the marketing group and was a designer for the writing program's trade book publisher, Ooligan Press, and also led workshops and demonstrations at the letterpress facilities within the printmaking department. Some of Jenn's previous jobs have included working for Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers in Seattle, cataloguing and organization of private book collections, and with the the Multnomah County Library's special collections at the John Wilson Room. Her clients for book design and marketing include Future Tense Books and Moonshadow House Publications, as well as numerous individual projects involving graphic design and letterpress for business cards, wedding invites, and broadsides. Ms. Lawrence is a member of The Guild of Bookworkers, and has participated in numerous gallery and nationally juried shows with several of her pieces held in private collections. Jenn currently works for Ampersand, a small bookstore in NE Portland (ampersandvintage.com), and accepts design and letterpress commissions through her business, the Undressed Press.

Daniel Jasa is our resident etching instructor at Atelier Meridian. He studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art under the tutelage of Tom Prochaska, Morgan Walker, and Christy Wycoff, but much of his exploration in printmaking happened at the Art Students League of New York where he was also a Printmaking Monitor for 3 years. As a Monitor, Daniel taught printmaking fundamentals to students of all walks of life and experience levels. Upon returning to Portland in 2009, Daniel became a member of Print Arts Northwest (PAN) where he is on the Committee for Outside Exhibitions. He also participates in outreach programs for PAN such as Art in the Pearl and the 2009 Cornelius Children’s Day Celebration. He was Artist in Residence at Atelier Meridian from June 2009 to January 2010, and made numerous improvements to the shop to accommodate our etching students. He was the featured artist at our January 2009 Ink&Drink celebration, and teaches a unique sugarlift workshop. In addition, Daniel hosts our weekly etching workshop from 6-9pm every Tuesday evening. Daniel’s artwork can be seen at the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, PAN at the Washington County Museum, and PAN’s satellite gallery at Framers Resource.

Gabriel Liston is a painter of Western America living in Oregon. His BFA is from Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work is represented by New American Art Union of Portland and Plus Gallery in Denver. Pictures of his pictures are at lastwater.net.

Palmarin Merges comfortably compounds imagery, text, and color to create pictures that read like well-written wallpaper. She is a mixed media artist with Printmaking at the heart of her work. She incorporates hand embroidery, painting and screenprinting in as many pieces as possible! Palmarin is known for leading workshops on rambling try-anything-or-die-trying adventures through the material cabinets and bins. Come to grill her on embossement and embroidery and the low rumbling waves that shake the crust of the Pacific Rim centuries from their point of origin.

Palmarin Merges arrived in Portland, OR from Hawaii via California. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999. She has been teaching Direct Draw Screenprinting, Relief & Collagraph at MAC since 2006, along with the occasional Beginning Etching to her schedule. In addition to her classes at MAC, she also teaches a photo-screenprinting workshop at Atelier Meridian.
Palmarin has been a member of Blackfish Gallery since August 2007 and a member of Elysium Artists since 2008.

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.