Patricia Branstead studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she received her BFA and MFA. After apprenticing at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, she moved to New York and opened her own shop, Aereopress. She moved to Steamboat Springs in 1993 to direct Riverhouse Editions, a position she left in 1996 to pursue her own art.
Julia D’Amario, Smith College class of 1982, was a studio art major concentrating in printmaking. Her junior year abroad she trained in Paris under master printer Jölle Serve at Atelier 63 and taught etching for a semester at the Lacoste School for the Arts. She has held positions at the Printmaking Workshop, New York and The Manhattan Graphics Center, New York. Julia worked as a Master Etching Printer at Pace Editions, Inc. in New York City for seventeen years, before moving to rural California in 2006. She has been a master printer for the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology since 2002.
John Hutcheson was trained at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After briefly heading the printmaking program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he became Master Printer at several high-profile print shops, including Petersburg Press, and Tyler Graphics, which closed in 2003. Until recently, Hutcheson was the Master Printer at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, a non-profit organization founded by Tyler Graphics founder Ken Tyler in 2000 that supports printmaking activities in Singapore.
Peter Pettengill is a Master Printer with over thirty years of experience in the field of intaglio printmaking. From 1978-1985, he trained and worked at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, California. He went on to establish Wingate Studio in New Hampshire, where he continues to print and publish etchings by contemporary artists.
Maurice Sanchez was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and attended the University of New Mexico. He first encountered lithography as a high school student, and continued his studies at the undergraduate level with Clinton Adams, John Tatchl, and Raymond Jonson. At Adams’s urging, he accepted a fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, then in Los Angeles, where he trained for two years. He finished his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, and after several years of teaching and working for other presses, opened Derriere L’Etoile Studios in New York in 1976.
Dwight Pogue is the founder and director of the Smith College Print Workshop, and has taught printmaking at Smith College since 1979. Although not a professional printer as such, he has printed for a number of artists including George McNeil, Janet Fish, Jane Goldman and Steven Sorman, and has assisted with printing during all of the Smith College workshops. His work has been included in numerous national and international juried print exhibitions, and he is a former Society Member of the International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland.