Susan Goldman
Producer and Director Midwest Matrix TM
Susan Goldman, is Artistic Director/Owner of Lily Press TM in Rockville, Maryland, and is Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Her most recent collaborative print projects include artists: Wendy Ross, William Wiley, Enrique Chagoya, Ellen Hill, Karen Kunc, Bertrand Mao, Bill Dunlap, Mindy Weisel, Renee Stout, Linn Meyers, Miriam Morsel Nathan, Brece Honeycutt, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Gross and Jo Baer. Goldman is currently a Resident Artist at Handprint Workshop International and has received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12, to complete as producer and director “Midwest Matrix TM, an hour-long documentary videotape/DVD on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest. She is founder and co-curator since 1993 of the interdisciplinary community arts project, The Art of Work, The Work of Art ©. Goldman is a 2009 recipient of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Creative Projects Grant.
In 2009, she was Visiting Artist at: SAM Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Iowa, Iowa City, and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Recent exhibitions include:
2011:1st Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition, University of Maryland University College; Prima Materia:Vernal Matrix, Woodcuts and Monotypes, Old Print Gallery, Washington, DC; In Unison, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY and the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC;Color Our World, Eleanor Wilson Museum, Hollins Art Museum, Roanoke, VA; Two Printmakers, Susan Goldman and Donald Depuydt, Marymount University, Arlington, VA; Gopalan Fine Art at the Rose-Hulman Institute, Terre Haute, IN; Spot Portfolio, Pyro Gallery, Indianapolis, IN;2010:Prayers for Little Souls,portfolio for the children of 5/12/2008 China Wenchuan Earthquake , Shongkong /Guangzhou, China; More Flowers, 410 GoodBuddy, Washington, DC; The Secret Garden; Revealing the Inner Sanctum, Lily Press Prints, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, Maryland; 2010 Monotype Guild of New England National Exhibition, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Fitchburg, MA; 2011/2009: New Woodcuts & Monotypes, Gopalan Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, Indiana; The International Print Exhibition, USA and Japan, Kyoto Hanga 2008, Kyoto City Museum of Arts and the Tokushima Prefectual Museum of Modern Art; 2008 International Arts Festival at Seacourt Print Workshop,Northern Ireland; Kennedy Museum of Art, Arizona State University Portfolio, Ohio University, Athens, OH. Her work most recently has been acquired by Marathon Oil, Office of Government Affairs in Washington, DC and Capital One in New Jersey.
Selected Collections include: Anchor Press, Columbia College of Art, Chicago, IL; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Cincinnati Art Museum; International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC KPMGLLP, Washington, DC; Kyoto City Museum of Arts, Kyoto, Japan; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Rutgers Archives for Brodsky Printmaking Studios at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, DC; Hilton Worldwide, Headquarters, McLean, VA.
In 2009, she was Visiting Artist at: SAM Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Iowa, Iowa City, and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Recent exhibitions include:
2011:1st Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition, University of Maryland University College; Prima Materia:Vernal Matrix, Woodcuts and Monotypes, Old Print Gallery, Washington, DC; In Unison, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY and the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC;Color Our World, Eleanor Wilson Museum, Hollins Art Museum, Roanoke, VA; Two Printmakers, Susan Goldman and Donald Depuydt, Marymount University, Arlington, VA; Gopalan Fine Art at the Rose-Hulman Institute, Terre Haute, IN; Spot Portfolio, Pyro Gallery, Indianapolis, IN;2010:Prayers for Little Souls,portfolio for the children of 5/12/2008 China Wenchuan Earthquake , Shongkong /Guangzhou, China; More Flowers, 410 GoodBuddy, Washington, DC; The Secret Garden; Revealing the Inner Sanctum, Lily Press Prints, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, Maryland; 2010 Monotype Guild of New England National Exhibition, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Fitchburg, MA; 2011/2009: New Woodcuts & Monotypes, Gopalan Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, Indiana; The International Print Exhibition, USA and Japan, Kyoto Hanga 2008, Kyoto City Museum of Arts and the Tokushima Prefectual Museum of Modern Art; 2008 International Arts Festival at Seacourt Print Workshop,Northern Ireland; Kennedy Museum of Art, Arizona State University Portfolio, Ohio University, Athens, OH. Her work most recently has been acquired by Marathon Oil, Office of Government Affairs in Washington, DC and Capital One in New Jersey.
Selected Collections include: Anchor Press, Columbia College of Art, Chicago, IL; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Cincinnati Art Museum; International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC KPMGLLP, Washington, DC; Kyoto City Museum of Arts, Kyoto, Japan; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Rutgers Archives for Brodsky Printmaking Studios at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, DC; Hilton Worldwide, Headquarters, McLean, VA.
Lana Hasou
Development Officer and Assistant Director Midwest Matrix
With a strong background in business management and a passion for the arts, Lana Hasou is establishing herself as an advocate for the arts. She received her MA in Arts Management and BA in printmaking from George Mason University. Lana is currently the development director at Lily Press in Rockville, MD. She has over nine years of management experience ranging from human resources to the development field.
Lana Hasou is actively involved in several nonprofit organizations offering her expertise in business management, development and the creative arts. She is pursuing an academic career and hopes to complete scholarly work in the future relating to the international arts markets. She is confident in her ability to provide helpful research that will prove to be important in the marketing and success of future arts related developments.
To contact Lana Hasou please email her at lana.hasou@midwestmatrix.info
Lana Hasou is actively involved in several nonprofit organizations offering her expertise in business management, development and the creative arts. She is pursuing an academic career and hopes to complete scholarly work in the future relating to the international arts markets. She is confident in her ability to provide helpful research that will prove to be important in the marketing and success of future arts related developments.
To contact Lana Hasou please email her at lana.hasou@midwestmatrix.info
Dennis O'Neil
Assistant Producer Midwest Matrix
Dennis O’Neil is Chair of the Fine Arts Department and a professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. He received his BA from Muskingum College in 1969 and pursued graduate studies in Printmaking at Ohio University, Athens, OH (1969–70). In 1973, O’Neil founded and remains the director of the non-profit Hand Print Workshop International (HPWI), a collaborative printmaking studio in Alexandria, VA. In 1991, he co-founded the nonprofit Russian-American printmaking workshop, Moscow Studio in Moscow, Russia, until 1996.
Grants received by O’Neil on behalf of the workshop include the National Endowment for the Arts, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Abramson Family Foundation, Soros Foundation’s Open Society, and USIA’s “Arts America Program.” O’Neil has organized national and international museum exhibitions around HPWI projects, including The View from Here at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in December 2000. His works and those of the artists with whom he collaborates have been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the recent Museum of Modern Art exhibition EYE ON EUROPE. The Library of Congress and numerous other museums collect the varied and experimental works for which his studio is known for creating. Mr. O’Neil’s work is a leading force in redefining the nature and use of contemporary screen-printing today.
For more information on Dennis O'Neil please visit www.hpwi.org
Grants received by O’Neil on behalf of the workshop include the National Endowment for the Arts, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Abramson Family Foundation, Soros Foundation’s Open Society, and USIA’s “Arts America Program.” O’Neil has organized national and international museum exhibitions around HPWI projects, including The View from Here at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in December 2000. His works and those of the artists with whom he collaborates have been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the recent Museum of Modern Art exhibition EYE ON EUROPE. The Library of Congress and numerous other museums collect the varied and experimental works for which his studio is known for creating. Mr. O’Neil’s work is a leading force in redefining the nature and use of contemporary screen-printing today.
For more information on Dennis O'Neil please visit www.hpwi.org
Erwin Thamm
Video Editor Midwest Matrix
Erwin W. Thamm is an artist who is currently a student at George Mason University. Born to a career military non-commissioned officer and his wife, Thamm traveled the world attending military sponsored schools until he settled back in the Washington D.C. area. The ethnicities he experienced filled his ideals with a balanced attitude that has served him well. Thamm became a professional photographer in 1996 while helping educate his two children with a full-time job selling auto parts. He became a member of the National Press Club in 2006. After putting his children through school he entered George Mason University in 2005 to further his education in photography.
Printmaking became his decided artist practice with its uses of alternate processes mixed within photography and drawing. Thamm has printed with Lily Press and Navigation Press, working with many prominent American artists such as William Wiley, Renee Stout and Michael Gross. He is currently the Assistant Manager of Digital Arts at GMU and is the Co-founder of the GMU Printmakers Guild. Thamm was a recent artistic contributor to Honor Flight, bringing WWII veterans to their memorial.
To contact Erwin Thamm please email him at elmoink2@comcast.net
Printmaking became his decided artist practice with its uses of alternate processes mixed within photography and drawing. Thamm has printed with Lily Press and Navigation Press, working with many prominent American artists such as William Wiley, Renee Stout and Michael Gross. He is currently the Assistant Manager of Digital Arts at GMU and is the Co-founder of the GMU Printmakers Guild. Thamm was a recent artistic contributor to Honor Flight, bringing WWII veterans to their memorial.
To contact Erwin Thamm please email him at elmoink2@comcast.net
Carrie Lingscheit
Audio Transcriber
Carrie Lingscheit originally hails from South Dakota, where her acute passion for printmaking was galvanized through involvement in several Frogman’s summer print workshops. She received her BFA from the University of South Dakota in 2006, and her MFA from Ohio University in 2010. Carrie has exhibited nationally, participated in dozens of national and international exchange portfolios, and attended numerous national print conferences. She currently lives and works in Alexandria, Virginia.
Carrie’s work can be viewed online at www.carrielingscheit.com.
Carrie’s work can be viewed online at www.carrielingscheit.com.
Kelli Schollard-Sincock
Audio Transcriber
Kelli Schollard-Sincock "Originally from Saratoga, California, Kelli is currently a D.C. Metro-area transplant living in Northern Virginia and is currently a Painting and Printmaking major at George Mason University.
Kelli has a long educational history starting back in 1983 at the Fashion Institute of Design in San Francisco studying Design & Illustration, then moving on to The California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland where she studied Film & Video, as well as, Glass. She then migrated with the rest of the music fans to Seattle, Washington in the early 90's where she completed a Metalsmithing degree at NSCC and went onto pursue her bachelors in Metals Design at The University of Washington.
It was during this time that Kelli met her now husband, Austin Sincock, and began a journey of regular moves due to his contractual work. The couple relocated to DC nearly ten years ago and now call Virginia home. Kelli is passionate about art and works continuously to increase her repertoire of artistic knowledge and skill through classes and workshops."
Kelli has a long educational history starting back in 1983 at the Fashion Institute of Design in San Francisco studying Design & Illustration, then moving on to The California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland where she studied Film & Video, as well as, Glass. She then migrated with the rest of the music fans to Seattle, Washington in the early 90's where she completed a Metalsmithing degree at NSCC and went onto pursue her bachelors in Metals Design at The University of Washington.
It was during this time that Kelli met her now husband, Austin Sincock, and began a journey of regular moves due to his contractual work. The couple relocated to DC nearly ten years ago and now call Virginia home. Kelli is passionate about art and works continuously to increase her repertoire of artistic knowledge and skill through classes and workshops."
