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Platemark Episodes

Sept. 12, 2023

s3e36 printmaking ecosytem forecast with printer Phil Sanders (part o…

In s3e36, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with printer/publisher and author Phil Sanders about the state of the ecosystem. Phil has a finger in nearly every pie in the ecosystem, so after a Platemark listener wrote in to ask about breaking into the...

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Aug. 22, 2023

s3e33 one of Jim Dine's favorite printers, Ruth Lingen

In s3e33, Platemark podcast host Ann Shafer talks with Ruth Lingen, printer and owner of Line Press Limited, located in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Line Press Limited does just about everything except screenprinting. Ruth is a...

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March 14, 2023

s3e21 on starting a print publishing business with Pam Paulson, Pauls…

In Platemark s3e21, host Ann Shafer talks with Pam Paulson, founder of Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, California. After earning her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982 (she was a teaching assistant for Robert Colescott),...

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Feb. 14, 2023

s3e19 printing leads to collecting with Maryanne Ellison Simmons

In s3e19, host Ann Shafer talks with Maryanne Ellison Simmons, printer and owner of Wildwood Press in St. Louis, MO. She and her husband, baseball hall-of-famer Ted Simmons, also collect contemporary art. A large portion of the collection is now at...

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Dec. 20, 2022

s3e15 on printing for Jim Dine with printer Julia D'Amario

In s3e15, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with printer Julia D’Amario, who has been the printer at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, OR, since 2002. Formerly she printed for Pace Prints in...

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Oct. 11, 2022

s3e10 Julia Samuels, owner, Overpass Projects

In s3e10, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Ben Levy talk with Julia Samuels, master printer and owner of Overpass Projects, Pawtucket, RI.

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Aug. 16, 2022

s3e6 Bill Hall, collaborative printer

In s3e6, Platemark host Ann Shafer talks with Bill Hall, master printer (retired) at Pace Prints for nearly thirty years.

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June 21, 2022

s3e2 Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek, collaborative printe…

In s3e2, Ann Shafer and Ben Levy sit down with the three master printers at Tandem Press: Joe Freye, Jason Ruhl, and Patrick Smyczek. Find out what makes a dream team in a print shop.

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