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Maryland Printmakers
(Archived version from September,
1999 - click here for current)
New Board of
Directors and Committee Chairs
Bernard Shleien
will be our next Vice President and Public Relations representative. He is
currently on the Continuing Education Faculty at the Maryland College of
Art and Design. He retired from the Commissioned Corp of the US Public
Health Service, worked in Israel for the Ministry of Health and ran his
own publication and consulting business. For over a decade he served as
editor of “The Health Physics and Radiological Health Handbook.” Some
years ago he decided to return again to his early fascination with art.
Shireen Holman
is the new editor of the newsletter. She will begin to take over the
position of Newsletter Editor beginning with the December issue. She and
Megan O'Brien will work together to help make a smooth transition.
For the past few years she has been concentrating on making
artist's books using handmade paper, woodcuts and screenprints. Two of her
books are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, and have been
exhibited in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as in
various exhibitions across the country. She also is represented in
Rockport Publishers' 1999 publication, "Making Memory Books by
Hand." She served
on the board of directors of Pyramid Atlantic for 7 years, and since then
has written a database application for them and has designed and maintains
their website.
Marcia Brown will
be taking over the position of 2nd Vice President as well as
heading up the exhibitions committee.
Marcia is a resident printer and the letterpress project
coordinator at Pyramid Atlantic, and adjunct faculty at the Corcoran
School of Art and Design. Her work often combines traditional or antique methods such
as handset type or cyanotypes with other print media. Currently, she is
combining her interest in books and prints by working as Assistant
Coordinator for Pyramid Atlantic's Sixth Book Arts Fair. Her work has
appeared in a solo exhibition at the Portsmouth Museum in Virginia, and in
group shows throughout the U.S.
Bridget Lambert
will begin to take over the position of Treasurer.
Bridget Lambert, Assistant Director (B.A., University of Maryland,
College Park), a professional graphic designer and artist, has been with
Pyramid for over six years. As Assistant Director of Pyramid Atlantic, she
coordinates our membership and volunteer program, assists with long-range
planning, educational programs, artist projects, and coordination of
special events, manages our computer systems, and is responsible for book
distribution.
As a
graphic designer and resident printer at Pyramid Atlantic, she
participates in presentations for art educators, teaches alternative
process printmaking workshops at Pyramid Atlantic, works with students to
incorporate the computer in the creation of artworks, and designs our
publications for programs and other activities.
Bridget has completed a two-week residency (August, 1999) in
Skopelos, Greece, where she collaborated with resident artists in digital
imaging and printmaking and completed two handmade books. Bridget has also
served as an exchange artist for the Crossing Over Consortium in Athens,
Greece, and completed an internship at the Fabric Workshop in
Philadelphia, PA. As a resident printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic, she has
assisted in production for numerous artists and uses her computer
capabilities to provide digital imaging for artists' projects. Her work
has been included in Prints Washington, 1997, and the Crossing
Over/Changing Places exhibition, both at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., and Hyper Studio at the McLean Project for the Arts, VA,
in February 1999. Her work is currently on display in Contemporary
Collaborations, The Artist and the Master Printer at the Whitman College
in Walla Walla, Washington.