PEARS

Printmaking Education and Research Studio

9th Annual Summer Printmaking Workshop

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Biographies

Michelle Martin
Master Printmaker

 Michelle Martin is an Associate Professor of  Printmaking at the University of Tulsa in  Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she teaches all printmaking  media at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She  received her B.F.A. in 1993 from Texas Tech   University in Lubbock, Texas, and she went on to  earn her M.F.A. in Printmaking at the Ohio State  University in 1996. An active artist working in all print  media and drawing, her work has been shown in over  90 national and international exhibitions since 1995,  including venues in Iceland, Italy and England. She  has won numerous awards, including an Oklahoma Artist of Excellence Award in 2003 and the 2007 Print Prize in the Bradley Print and Drawing Exhibition. Her work is in several private, public and university collections, including the Kohler Library (Madison, Wisconsin), Muscarelle Museum of Art (The College of William and Mary), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Rutgers Center for the Innovative Paper, the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University and the Southern Graphics Council.

Kent Kapplinger
PEARS Director

 Kent Kapplinger, Associate Professor of Visual Arts,  has been on the faculty of North Dakota State  University since 1992. Previously, he taught at  Minnesota State Universities in Mankato and  Moorhead. He has received fellowships from the North  Dakota Council on the Arts, Woodstock School of Art,  New York and Vinalhaven Press, Maine.

 Kapplinger founded the Printmaking, Education and  Research Studio (PEARS) in 1998 and continues  today as its director and master printer. He also co-directs the NDSU Art Bank art rental program and serves on several professional organizations including the Plains Art Museum Hannaher’s Inc. Print Studio advisory committee, Mid American Print Council associate board member, and president of the North Dakota Art Gallery Association.

His artwork has been shown in over 100 individual and group exhibitions. He is represented in more than 20 public and corporate collections, including The Print Consortium in Kansas City, Lutheran Brotherhood in Minneapolis and the U.S. Art in Embassy Program in Washington, D.C

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