Instructor Dan Welden with 2008 Solar Plate Workshop participants Mercy Smullen and Linda Stinchfield.

Jennifer Anderson works in stone lithography, etching and relief printing. She has been an artist member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT, since 2001 where she also taught printmaking and served on the Board of Directors. She has a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Connecticut and was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center.
Monotype & Monoprint: Silk aquatint and Portfolio Making

Cosmogram: I/D, 2008, Mixed media

Christine Canepa is an instructor at San Jose State University, where she teaches drawing and design. She has been teaching for over ten years throughout the Bay Area and has worked with all ages and modalities of art-making practices. She received her MFA in 2005 in Pictorial Arts, and has exhibited her work locally and nationally. Her artistic practice emphasizes painting, but includes a variety of strategies and mediums. This past year she curated her first exhibit, a group show of artists working on paper, and her most recent solo exhibition was an installation at San Francisco's Right Window Gallery.
Drawing for Printers

Cruel Summer, 2007, etching, collagraph and chine collé, 30 x 22 inches

Kim William Fink is an Associate Professor of Art and Printmaking at the University of North Dakota where he founded Sequoia Press. He has had residencies at Kala Art Institute, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Vermont Studio Center and Scoula Internazional Grafica in Italy. He lectures, holds workshops and exhibits his work internationally.
Xerox Matrix Planography

Ocean Book, oil on glassine, beads, monofilament

Victoria May received her MFA from San Jose State University (SJSU). Materials and their metaphorical value are the focus of May's work and the resulting pieces include books to sculptural objects. May exhibits nationally and is represented locally by Don Soker in San Francisco.
Portfolio & Bookmaking: Introduction to bookmaking techniques through folded & sewn structures

Karl-in-the-studio , 2009, 30"h x 22" monotype,

Andy Muonio is a Lecturer at San Jose State University teaching Figure Drawing and a faculty member at the Community School of Music and Arts (Mountain View , CA) teaching Drawing and Painting. He holds a BS in Illustration and a BFA and MFA in Pictorial Art all from San Jose State University. His figurative work ranges from computer animation to large scale paintings. A skilled printer that uses his painterly figurative style to create unique monotypes.

Moon Over Mazatlan, Monotype and drypoint,
30 x 22 inches

Glen Rogers resides and works from her studio in Mazatlán, Mexico. She is a printmaker/master printer with an MFA from SJSU and holds an MA from San Francisco State University. She has completed residencies at KALA Institute in Berkeley, Villa Montalvo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, and the Frans Masereel Print Center in Belgium. Rogers exhibits her work nationally and internationally.
Monotype & Monoprint: Drypoint line, stencil, and photo transfers to complement the painterly print

Invasion Series #5, Intaglio print,
10 x 12 inches

Robynn Smith is the Art Department Chair and a Studio Art Instructor at Monterey Peninsula College. She teaches printmaking, painting, drawing and visual/color fundamentals. She has completed numerous residency fellowships including Frans Masereel Centrum, Kala Art Institute, and Villa Montalvo.
Collagraphy

Sandra Starkey Simon is an Australian printmaker with strong ties to the San Jose art community. She received her Master's Degree from San Jose State University where she also taught printmaking and was the Master Printer for Washington Square Press. Starkey Simon is currently the Director of the Magpie Studios, a printmaking facility which she co-founded with Fanny Retsek in Downtown San Jose and now is located in Adelaide, Australia. Starkey Simon regularly exhibits her prints in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Australia.
Collagraphy

Bird, 2008 mixed media, 30 x 22 inches

Livia Stein studied at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and holds a Master's Degree from San Francisco State University. She is currently Professor of Art at Dominican University, San Rafael, California and maintains a studio in Oakland. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, South America, India, and throughout the United States. Recently Stein was an Artist-in-Residence in Baroda, India, and had a residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco which included a solo exhibition of her paintings.
Monotype & Monoprint