A new show highlights the work of WSW, which has brought more than 5,000 artists to its campus to work in printmaking, hand papermaking, letterpress printing, photography, book arts, and ceramics.
Suspender Saga, the first artists’ book produced by Women’s Studio Workshop was a lecturer at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri when a friend forwarded her a job opening at the, a collective founded in 1974 by artists Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Barbara Leoff Burge, and Anita Wetzel, now known for its artists’ books program. Zona was interested in the publishing imprint and in working with artists to produce collectible publications, so she applied.
The WSW has brought over 5,000 artists to its campus to work in printmaking, hand papermaking, letterpress printing, photography, book arts, and ceramics. The organization offers fully funded residencies and is most known for its long-standing artists’ book publication program. Many institutions like collecting artists’ books, which can have a cover and sequential pages or can be a type of sculpture or some sort of elaborately folded work.
, went to upstate New York to talk with Zona and two of WSW’s founders, Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner. Farhat learned that when they started the WSW in a rented house, they built the studios, with paper making in the attic, a dark room off the living room, and some more printing in the basement. The WSW came out of wanting to create an experience Kalmbach had had at SUNY New Paltz, where students worked with their teachers as equals.“Nobody is really buying prints for $200, but if you make a book for $30, $40, or $50, you could actually sell it and get your work out there.”
“The mission of the workshop is not only to support women artists but also to place that work in public institutions for future generations,” Kellner said. “Otherwise women’s history is erased.”
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