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Luther Davis is a Master Printer and the Director of the Powerhouse Arts Printshop.  Luther also teaches printmaking at Parsons School of Design. He was the co-founder of Forth Estate, a fine art publisher focused on producing limited editions with emerging artists, and from 1999-2016 he was the Director and Master Printer of Axelle Editions, a fine art print atelier specializing in screen printing that produced over 300 editions a year with more than 100 artists, including Matthew Barney, Sanford Biggers, David Byrne, John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Leslie Dill, Jim Dine, Richard Estes, Frank Gehry, Leon Golub, Arturo Herrera, Gary Hume, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Ryan McGinness, Takashi Murakami, Dana Schutz, Richard Serra, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spiro, Swoon, Richard Tuttle, Kara Walker, and more.

Nathan Meltz uses art to comment on the infiltration of technology into every facet of life, from politics and food, to family and war. His solo exhibitions include Southern Illinois University’s Vergette Gallery, GRIDSPACE (NYC), the University of Florida – Jacksonville’s Andrew Brest Gallery, and Noise Gallery (OH). Group exhibitions include the International Print Center New York, the Trois-Rivières International Printmaking Biennial, Canada, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janiero, Brazil. He has received juror awards from the Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition, the Political Impressions exhibition at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the International Miniature Print Exhibition at Manhattan Graphics, the Printworks Award from Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA, and the Prix de Print award from Art in Print Magazine. Meltz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and is the founder of the Screenprint Biennial.

Christina Weyl received her BA from Georgetown University (2005) and completed her masters and doctorate in Art History at Rutgers University (2012, 2015). Her new book, The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York, follows eight women, who worked at the avant-garde printmaking workshop Atelier 17 in New York between 1940 and 1955. The book reveals how Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists’ engagement with modernist styles, providing a forum for extraordinary achievements that shaped postwar sculpture, fiber art, neo-Dadaism, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Her research has been supported by the Metropolitan Museum, Getty Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and other institutional grants. She has published in Art in Print, Print Quarterly, The Women’s Art Journal and Archives of American Art Journal and contributed to several anthologies and exhibition catalogues. From 2014-2018, she served as Co-President of the Association of Print Scholars, a non-profit professional organization she co-founded in 2014. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked for a gallery representing the publications of the Los Angeles–based artists’ workshop Gemini G.E.L.

Althea Murphy-Price works primarily in the mediums lithography, screen printing and sculpture. She has been recognized for her nonconventional approach to the traditions of print. Murphy-Price has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout North America and abroad. Solo and small group exhibits include the Tennessee Arts Commission (Nashville, TN), The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), The Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), The Arnoff Center for the Arts (Cincinnati, OH), The Print Center, (Philadelphia, PA;, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago IL), The Artist’s Collective (Houston, TX) and California College of the Arts, (Oakland, CA). International exhibited cities include Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; and Tidaholm, Sweden, Venice, Italy; and Santander, Spain. Murphy-Price’s work has been included in the publications of Art Papers Magazine, CAA Reviews, Contemporary Impressions Journal, Art in Print, MAPC Journal, and the UK publication Printmaking Today and text books, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process., and Printmakers Today. Additionally she has held residencies at the Frank Llyod Wright School, University of Hawaii, Hilo, The Vermont Studio Center, The Venice Printmaking Studio, and the Scuola Internationale di Graphica. She has lectured at multiple institutions including Vanderbilt University, Wellesley College, Boston University, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Murphy-Price received a B.A. from Spelman College, an M.A. from Purdue University and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Born in San Jose, CA and living in Knoxville, Tennessee, Murphy-Price teaches printmaking as Associate Profess of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.