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Sam Means

Sam Means is an Emmy-award winning Daily Show writer (who moonlights as an illustrator for The New Yorker) who cut his teeth writing for The Onion and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. His new book, The Practical Guide to Racism, is a Colbertian satire on stereotyping, complete with countless racial epithets, an incomparably offensive glossary, and tongue-in-cheek diagrams.

Dennis McNett

Dennis McNett was born in 1972 and grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. He moved to New York in 2001 (3 weeks before September 11th) and has lived there since. He has been carving the hell out of surly block prints for over 16 years. All of his encouragement as a young kid came from his blind grandfather, who told him over and over again that his drawings were good. Like a billion other teenaged kids, later influences came from the raw high-energy images pouring out of the 80's skateboard scene. Dennis has been fortunate enough to have designed board graphics for Anti-Hero skateboards and collaborate with Cannonball Press. He works from his Brooklyn studio that over looks the smoggy Brooklyn Queens Expressway. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, where he teaches as a visiting instructor at the graduate and undergraduate level. He has also taught at Parsons, Rutgers and the Lower Eastside Print shop.
http://www.howlingprint.com

Andrew Raftery

Andrew Stein Raftery is a printmaker specializing in narrative engravings of contemporary American life. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, and is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the New York Public Library. In 2003, Raftery received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and is a 2008 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is represented by Mary Ryan Gallery in New York, where his exhibition, Open House: Five Engraved Scenes is on view from October 16th through November 26th. In his position as Associate Professor of Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, he is currently working as consulting curator for The Brilliant Line: The Journey of the Early Modern Engraver, scheduled for fall 2009.
http://www.maryryangallery.com/

Brian Shure

Brian Shure received a BA from Antioch College. He is represented by Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York and Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence, RI. In addition to painting and making his own prints, he apprenticed with Ernest DeSoto and worked as a professional lithographer for 15 years, published and printed editions for several years under the Smalltree Press imprint, and was a master printer and coordinator of the China Woodblock program at Crown Point Press from 1987 to 1994. He has taught as a visiting artist at Brown and Cornell Universities, has given workshops in the U.S., Japan, and Mexico, and is currently an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Coordinator for the Printmaking Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Kelly Lynn Jones

Kelly Lynn Jones lives and works in San Francisco. She has shown all across the US as well as in the UK. She is working on her graduate studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Kelly also runs the online store, Little Paper Planes.
http://www.kellylynnjones.com
http://www.littlepaperplanes.com

Nancy Palmeri

Nancy Palmeri is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has received several international honors for her prints, including a fellowship at the Frans Masereel Graphic Arts Center in Kasterlee, Belgium and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship to live and work in Genoa, Italy. She has presented and exhibited her work numerous times at the Southern Graphics Council Conference and has lectured and demonstrated her printmaking techniques at colleges and universities including: Washington University, St. Louis, Pratt Institute of Art, Louisiana State University, Cornell University, University of Kansas, and Boston University. Palmeri has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and her prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, The Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium, The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, The Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NY, the Instituto per la Cultura e l'arte, Catania, Italy, the UCLA Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, The New York Public Library, The University of Miami, and the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan.

Paul Bonelli

Paul Bonelli is a New Jersey native, currently residing in the shore area. He earned an MFA in printmaking from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995, and the woodcut print has been his primary means of expression for the past 18 years. He exhibits his work frequently in solo and group exhibitions and his work is included in several important print collections. He teaches part time at two New Jersey colleges and maintains a studio in Ocean Grove, NJ.
http://www.paulbonelli.com

Clara Sims

Clara Sims is an artist and designer living and working in Seattle, WA. Currently, she is a designer at POP Multimedia, where projects include design for Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft and Target. Clara is an MFA graduate of graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received her degree in June of 2007. Her work was recently exhibited in the Seattle-Tehran Poster Show, and she has an upcoming solo exhibition in early December.
http://www.iamnotcarla.com

Dylan Fareed

Dylan is an artist and programmer living in Brooklyn, NY. He runs Artlog, an online/offline arts resource, and I Am Still Alive, an art and design practice.
http://www.iamstillalive.net
http://www.artlog.com

Allison Roberts

Allison Sloan Roberts is a 2009 MFA degree candidate in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. She was born and raised in New York.
http://www.allisonsloanroberts.com

Kara Dunne

Kara Dunne, a born Vermonter and since then traveler, earned her BFA in 2005 from Alfred University in Printmaking and Glass. She is a cross-disciplinary artist and her work has evolved into a hybrid of visual and performance art. While she creates performance pieces within the public space meant for audience interaction, she also continues to create images that will engage the viewer in a similar manner. Currently, she is working on her Masters in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and is in her second year.
http://www.karadunne.com

Steve Cagan

Steve Cagan is a photographer, writer and social activist. He has taught photography, American history and English at the university level. His photography and writing have been widely exhibited and published on three continents. His writing has focused, among other themes, on issues facing socially conscious photographers.
For over twenty-five years, Steve has extensively photographed in Latin America documenting aspects of daily life of working people in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba and Colombia. (This in addition to major photo projects about work and workers in Ohio). His book, This Promised Land, El Salvador (Rutgers, 1991), written with his wife Beth Cagan, won a "Book of the Year" award from the Association for Humanist Sociology in 1991.
Among Steve's other awards are: two Fulbright Fellowships; an Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; several Fellowships from the Arts Councils of Ohio and New Jersey; Teacher of the Year (1991), Rutgers University.
http://www.stevecagan.com http://www.stevecagan.blogspot.com http://www.pbase.com/stevecagan

Claire Nereim

Claire Nereim is an artist and designer living and working in San Francisco. Born in 1981 in Chicago, she studied visual art at Oberlin College and design at California College of the Arts. In her work she explores systems of communication as they pertain to the invention of memory.
http://www.clairenereim.com

Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan was born in 1973 in Erie. PA. He received a BS in Marine Biology from Wake Forest University and an MFA in Printmaking/Drawing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at The University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. He has exhibited with Trudi Gallery in Los Angeles and Bas Fisher in Miami.

Wayne Pate