Board Members
KAMLA KAKARIA (she/her) is a first-generation American from East Indian descent and spent my formative years between the East coast in the US and New Delhi. She holds a BFA in painting and an MFA in printmaking. She works in printmaking as well as encaustic and installation.
KERSTIN GRAUDINS (she/they) has taught printmaking classes at Pratt for eleven years. She studied printmaking at the University of Washington and New York University.
AMBER CHIOZZA (she/her) studied Illustration at School of Visual Arts in New York, followed by her MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She's lived and worked in Seattle for 10 years now, teaching and working throughout the art field as an art handler. Her work is inspired by botanical elements and insect diversity, highlighting lesser known facts about both for viewers to discover and enjoy.
EILEEN JIMENEZ (she/they)
“As an indigenous leader, community member, and as an artist, everything I do and create is influenced by my many intersecting identities and lived experiences. I create the art, the structures, the programming and the educational experiences I wish my community and I would have seen and had access to as a girl from the 'hood. My leadership is grounded in community and specifically, I believe it is my role to continue to show up, disrupt the dominant narrative, and gain access to institutional resources to share them with my community. My family’s stories, values, theories and practices keep me feeling whole throughout this process and I find support in my community through community care.”
DIANE DAVIS (she/her) began printmaking as a college student in the 1970s and later earned a BFA from the University of Washington. She prints at BallardWorks and Pratt in Seattle. Diane has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and recently retired from a 25 year management career with the City of Seattle. She is interested in improving access to and participation in printmaking as a tool for personal and political expression and community building.
SCOTT MÉXCAL (he/him/él) is a socially engaged practice artist combining work as a public artist, painter, and youth mentor. Scott holds a BFA from Northwest College of Art and Design and is an MFA candidate at Prescott College.
Scott leads and facilitates youth art programs through Urban Artworks, Coyote Central, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and Gage Academy of Art. His work is an exploration of personal identity in the context of broader Latinx/Chicanx narratives. The work touches on ideas of displacement, migration, exclusion, ancestor work, and language, and draws from his personal family history and experience working with youth who are navigating immigration and/or incarceration.
TATIANA GARMENDIA (she/her) was born in Cuba at the height of the Cold War and remembers playing in abandoned missile trenches as a girl. Printmaking’s populist origins have always sparked her interest. She earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Florida International University, and an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. While in grad school she discovered a signed Paul Klee serigraph pressed between the pages of a thrift store book and she began tucking her own prints into random library and thrift store books. A practice she continues to this day. She’s taught relief, intaglio, and silkscreen at Seattle Central College since 1993.
ELIJAH MARTEL (they/he) is an award-winning zinester, storyteller, and Fulbright recipient. Elijah studied printmaking at North Seattle College and is a proud graduate of their AFA program.
PATRICK CONNELLY (he/him) managed to squeak out a BFA in Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee back in 2007. It was there that his interest was sparked in the hands on nature of experimental film, and he pursued this passion by working as a projectionist, and making direct animation scratch films.
Since then he’s used the medium of printmaking to explore the visual themes in film. His goal is to continue examining the relationship between filmmaking and printmaking by blending the two mediums.
DARA FRANCES SOLLIDAY (she/they), originally from Montana, spent her formative years in the American South, studying architecture at Tulane University in Louisiana and fine art at East Carolina University in North Carolina.
Her encaustic and installation work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States, including the Museum of Northwest Art; Bellevue Arts Museum; Hockaday Museum of Art; ECU Gray Gallery and Emerge Gallery in North Carolina; and in Seattle at SAM Gallery, CoCA, Linda Hodges Gallery, NW Encaustic, Good Arts, Kate Alkarni Gallery, City Hall and ShunPike. Her work is included in corporate and private collections internationally.
She can also be found typing away at Pratt Fine Arts Center, teaching in their printmaking studio, and at ‘57 Biscayne Artist Studios in Pioneer Square, Seattle.
CHARLES SPITZACK was born in 1987 in Minnesota and raised in the Twin Cities. He received a BFA with a focus in Print Arts and Drawing from Cornish College of the Arts in 2010, and teaches woodblock printmaking across the PNW to youth and adults.
Spitzack is known for his bold, energetic, Mokuhanga-inspired woodblock prints of the human figure, animals, landscapes, urban scenes, and more. Drawing inspiration from daily life and his work as a carpenter, his art can be viewed as a response to the human condition, often focusing on communal aspirations, equality, labor rights, the plight of the working class, and other contemporary issues. His work has been shown extensively in the Pacific Northwest and internationally, and he is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle, WA.
JANE RICHLOVSKY is a printmaker and mixed-media artist. Her work is inspired by decorative pattern, geometry, and the ubiquitous but invisible technologies of image reproduction.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US and reside in private and public collections worldwide. Jane's art has also been featured in the New York Times, FiberArts, Seattle Times, and numerous other media outlets. She has been awarded grants by the George Sugarman Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, King County Arts Commission, and Artist Trust.
Jane taught for eleven years in the theatre design MFA program at the University of Washington, and at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Cornish College of the Arts, Gage Academy, Kirkland Arts Center, and Seattle Center Academy.
She is the founder of '57 Biscayne Artist Studios, a founding partner of the Good Arts Building, and a frequent guest speaker on cultural space, real estate, and the myth of the unstable artist.
Advisory Board
ROMSON REGARDE BUSTILLO is a teaching artist at Seattle Art Museum and print instructor at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Locally, his work is represented in the collections of the City of Seattle, the City of Tacoma, the City of Portland (RACC), Washington State Art Commission, ArtColl Trust, ACRS, UW and the Wing Luke Asian Museum
NIKKI JABBORA-BARBER is a Seattle-based printmaker and teaching artist, was born in Bellingham, WA to an Anglo-Swedish father and Lebanese mother. She focuses on the way people communicate feelings, culture cues, and emotional safety through botanical symbols and depictions of flora and fauna. Nikki balances making and selling her hand-pulled fine art prints; photographing works on paper for Davidson Galleries; and teaching community art classes
EVA ISAKSEN is originally from Norway. She has an MFA from Montana State University, an original board member, and is a working artist.
JITE AGBRO is a nontraditional printmaker from Seattle who also works as a designer. She studied printmaking at Cornish College of the Arts and California Collage of Arts and holds an M.S. in Design and Engineering from the University of Washington.
CLAIRE JAUREGUI is the artist and printer behind Orange Twist, a line of eco-friendly, screenprinted goods and co-organizer of Screenprinting Work Parties. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BHA in art, creative writing, and gender studies in 2002.
NICHOLE EPSY (she/her) is a painter, printmaker, and bookmaker. As an 2021 artist-in-residence for the Seattle Print Arts/Editions Black & Indigenous People’s Residency, she has created works aimed at blending the grace and dignity of the black femme figure, nature, and letterpress texts. Follow her on Instagram @colejoyprints.
SUKHIE PATEL is a printmaker, educator, and sole proprietrix of Saparia Press. She loves handset type, wood engraving, collographs and wood cuts. Sukhie is a letterpress teacher and is passionate about public art and literacy education, especially in marginalized communities. She believes printing--with its roots in labour and industry-- should always be an accessible tool of the people.
LYNDA HARWOOD SWENSON (she/her) is an artist and educator in Seattle. She worked as the Art Studio Programs Assistant Manager for the Seattle Art Museum for 11 years. She is interested in how art fosters ideas that work to broaden and expand community. She works in a variety of print mediums including etching, relief, and monoprint.
KEN MATSUDAIRA (he/him) is the curator of the M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery at Seattle Central College. He has an MA in Cultural Studies from UW Bothell, and believes that art is a fundamental element of social change. He has served on the board of SPA since 2018.
ANDREA MARCOS (she/they) is a queer community-taught linocut printmaker, educator, graphics maker, Aries-youngest-child, dedicated to collective liberation and radical imagination.