Fanny Retsek was named the ICA Print Center Director and Master Printer in 2007. She received her MFA in printmaking from San Jose State University (SJSU) where she was twice awarded the Kenneth and Mary Auvil Printmaking Scholarship and Graduate Assistantship. While at SJSU, she was the assistant to the Master Printer of the university's Washington Square Press. In 2003 Fanny co-founded Magpie Studios, a private printmaking facility previously located in downtown San Jose that offered workshops, one-on-one instruction and editioning. Fanny's prints are included in numerous private and institutional collections and are exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally.

Above: Fanny Retsek and Assistant Michael Oechsli print Artist-in-Residence Ema Harris-Sintamarian's etching The Last Mavericks of the Lost Ark.