RAISED IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, Marilyn Propp is an artist/educator whose paintings, drawings, and large- scale relief prints on handmade paper have been exhibited in museums, and commercial and university galleries throughout the US and in Mexico. Recent exhibits include Pulped Under Pressure (currently traveling throughout the U.S.); a two-person show, Into the Deep: Fragments and Reflections, at the Kenosha Public Museum; and Distance, at the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in NYC. A solo exhibit is scheduled at the Racine Art Museum’s Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI in 2019.

She attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Provincetown Workshop, and San Francisco Art Institute’s pre-MFA program, and received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Residencies/Visiting Artist positions include Jentel, Wyoming; Cill Rialaig, Ireland; Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico; and universities in the Midwest and Southeast.

Propp has received numerous grants and awards, including the Racine Art Museum Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award and an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant. Her work is included in institutional and private collections nationally and internationally including the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Loyola University; Columbia College Chicago; and is currently adjunct faculty at Carthage College, and has been a panelist/lecturer throughout the country. Her curatorial project Materiality and the Layered (eye) was exhibited at the Evanston Art Center in 2016, and included a panel discussion and a lecture on the history of collage, entitled Collage as Social, Political, and Personal Expression.

In 1990 she and David Jones founded Anchor Graphics, Chicago. She relocated in 2016 to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she co-founded the Center for Collaborative Research. CCR’s Press on Wheels takes printmaking and papermaking into the community throughout the Midwest region.

Her current work, Notes from the Sea, reflects the clash/coexistence between the industrial and the natural worlds, where industrial debris, machine parts, and marine life are entangled or morph into one another.

Website: https://www.proppjonesstudio.com/

Link to 2018 color catalog: http://www.blurb.com/b/8861837

David Jones is Co-Founder and former Director of Anchor Graphics, Chicago, and recently co-founded the Center for Collaborative Research, Kenosha. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he moved to the Midwest to pursue studies in photography and printmaking. He attended the Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville; Banff Centre for the Arts; the Vancouver School of Art; and received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MA from the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago. He has taught printmaking at the Chicago Art Institute, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Columbia College Chicago, and served on the Advisory Board of the Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis. He was recently President Ex Officio of Southern Graphics Council International, and was Interim Director of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC.

Artist-in-Residencies include Press Papier, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada; Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland; the Roger Brown Residency Program; and Sabiedriska Organizacija, Riga, Latvia. His many Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer positions include Guanlan, Shenzhen, China; UW-Milwaukee;

Indiana University; Southern Illinois University; Cranbrook; SUNY Buffalo; Savannah College of Art and Design; State College of Florida, Bradenton; and Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.

Exhibitions include Illinois Wesleyan University; Columbia University School of the Arts, NYC; Galeria AP, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico; Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA; State College of Florida, Bradenton; Printworks, Chicago; Flatfile, Chicago; Louisiana Tech University; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. He recently exhibited in the two-person show Into the Deep: Fragments and Reflections at the Kenosha Public Museum, and his work is in private collections throughout the United States.

Publications include: California Society of Printmakers, One Hundred Years 1913-2013, essay (San Francisco, 2013); The Almost Metal Collective, catalog essay, A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago; Selections from the PrintZero Studios, Exchange #8, catalog essay, Chicago, 2012; Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, and Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960-1990.

He continues to explore the junctures between photography, digital image manipulation, and traditional printmaking processes.

https://www.proppjonesstudio.com/ https://www.thecenterforcollaborativeresearch.org/