THE PRINTER’S PATH

Chair: Remling Valpuri

Panel: Brandon Gunn, Anne Slattery and Candice Malyn Corgan

 

The Printer’s Path is a panel discussion to illuminate the professional paths that printers may take, along with the route of working as a collaborative printer. The panelists will present examples of how their training and skills prepared them for various professional challenges in workshops, in education, in collaborations, in curating, and in maintaining a business.

 

ABOUT REMLING VALPURI

b. 1980 Rovaniemi

2007, MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

2009, TMP (Tamarind Master Printer), ABQ, NM

 

After graduating from Tamarind, Valpuri Remling went back to Helsinki, Finland and started working at the Academy as a technician for the printmaking department and as a collaborative printer at Helsinki Litho, a traditional stone lithography workshop started by two other Tamarind-trained printers. She quickly took over teaching lithography and other planographic mediums at the Academy and simultaneously helped develop Helsinki Litho towards the active professional shop it remains to the date. In 2015 she started as the new Master Printer at Tamarind Institute.

 

ABOUT THE PANEL

Brandon Gunn is the Education Director at Tamarind Institute. Anne Slattery is the Curator at Tamarind Institute. Candice Malyn Corgan is an MFA Candidate at Syracuse University and former apprentice printer at Tamarind Institute.