BETH
GRABOWSKI
Beth Grabowski is an artist, author and educator. She earned her MFA in printmaking from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985.
Grabowski is Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where she teaches all manner of printmaking, book arts and a
Master’s course in studio pedagogy. She
has been actively involved with SGC International, supporting the organization
in a variety of roles over the years, most recently serving as president from
2012-14.
Grabowski is co-author, with Bill Fick (Duke University), of Printmaking, a Complete Guide to Materials and Processes, (Laurence King, 2009, 2nd edition 2014). The book has been
released in two English editions (American and British), Spanish, French,
German, Polish, and Chinese. Grabowski
is the recipient of three North Carolina Arts Council awards and has been the
beneficiary of several artist residencies including those at, Sanbao Ceramics
Institute (China), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Tom Blaess Atelier
(Switzerland), and most recently at Proyecto ‘Ace (Argentina). Other
professional activities include curating an international portfolio honoring
Käthe Kollwitz, which debuted at the Kollwitz Museum-Berlin in September 2005,
and co-organizing Visualizing Human Rights conferences at UNC-Chapel Hill in
2008, 2010 and 2011 and 2012. Grabowski's work has been shown widely and is
included in numerous public and private collections, including the National
Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the Bibliotheque Nationale de
France, Paris.
