Ana Bianchi is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay area (USA) in her home studio in Walnut Creek. Her approach to color is AnaLovesColor and she identifies as a printmaking phoenix–in that, whenever she returns to printmaking in her art, it is with fire and intensity. Her colorful, detailed and line-loving work is created with a variety of printmaking techniques, including: etching, aquatint, drypoint, chine-colle, xylography, linocut, rubber stamps and monoprint. In addition, Ana creates mixed media works on paper and canvas, and she works with digital tools and photography.

Ruben Castillo is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri (USA). His approach to color is minimal and monochromatic, and his approach to printmaking is slow and meditative. His intimate, quiet and sensitive work is created with intaglio-based methods such as etching and engraving. Ruben also creates work in the mediums of drawing, video and installation, and his research has a focus on queerness and the ordinary. Currently Ruben is working on a portfolio of etchings titled, “One Week in Spring”.

Matthew T. McLaughlin is an artist living and working outside of Washington, D.C., (USA). His approach to color is instinctual and his approach to printmaking is meditative. His reflective, environmental and abstract work is created with screenprint and monoprint printmaking techniques along with spray paint, colored pencils, paint pen and graphite. Matthew’s current work pushes how he thinks around color and texture as it relates to mapping and meditative practices focusing on landscape imagery.

Liz Ferrill is an artist living and working in Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Her approach to color is relative and her approach to printmaking is additive. Her work focuses on shape, the depiction of light and shadow, and exploration of mundane spaces through the use of pochoir printing methods and Rubylith screen printing techniques. Liz also makes monochromatic ink wash drawings that she is translating into Rubylith screen prints. She is also exploring screenprinting and pochoir through printing onto window screens. 

Sarah Smelser is an artist living and working in Bloomington, Illinois (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive, and she has an old-school approach to printmaking. Her abstract, elegant and contradictory work is created with trace monotype methods along with T.L.C. Currently Sarah is working on a suite of works titled Morning Walk.