Open Portfolio Event 2007 - Participating Philagrafika Member Artists
Bobbie Adams
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, BA Studio Arts, cum laude, Elizabeth Anderson
Award for Achievement in Studio Arts. Her work is represented in the collections of
the Newark Museum, Women's Studio Workship and the Print Collection of the Free
Library of Philadelphia
Julia Blaukopf
Julia Blaukopf has photographed throughout Europe, Africa and the U.S. Most recently,
she traveled to Ghana to photograph Women in Progress, an organization that empowers
women through sustainable business. She has been honored with the First Person Arts
Fellowship, a Center for Emerging Arts Fellowship, and The Camera Club of New York
Resident Artist Award.
Ellie Brown
Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art.
She received her B.F.A. in photography in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Photography from
San Jose State University in 2002. Ellie has received numerous awards including:
a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo
competition in Bethesda, MD, a featured artist from women in photography international,
the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s International Photography Competition.
Ellie debuted her Lover’s Book in Philadelphia in September and spoke about it at the
regional Society for Photographic Education conference in November 2006.
Stephanie Bursese
Stephanie Bursese is fascinated with the exact distance between You and I. Using
photography, printmaking, and textiles as her medium she chips away at the
vulnerability of interpersonal relationships. Bursese approaches her work
from the inside, and by planting herself in the audience, she toys with the
effect control and expectations have on public and private spaces.
Fran Crum
Fran Crum earned her BFA from Rutgers University and is currently studying printmaking at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She creates
woodcuts, lithographs, intaglio and mono prints.
Mikel Elam
Mikel Elam is primarily a painter with a very specific interest in using the
figure and face as a way of conveying ideas about gender, identity, race and art
history. He has shown his work in the 2003 Florence Biennale, Nerlino Gallery in
Soho (NYC) and Gallery 5 in Santa Monica, CA.
Lisa Hamilton
Lisa Hamilton teaches printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she is
also the print shop manager. She works in various printmaking techniques and three-dimensionally
with paper, print and ceramics. M.Ed. Tyler School of Art, B.F.A. University of the Arts, certificate
in printmaking, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Mitch Lyons
Mitch Lyons holds a BFA in Graphics from the University of the Arts, and an MFA in Ceramics
from the Tyler School of Art. Lyons developed a technique of printing with clay in 1968. His
work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the
Noyes Museum of Art.
Kathleen Metaxas
Kathleen Metaxas’s focus on print and paper has facilitated an exploration in techniques, color and tactile
effects. Metaxas works with non-toxic printmaking techniques and continually explores new ways of creating
interest and depth in her work without the use of acids and resists. Metaxas draws inspiration from nature,
organic forms of all types, the human figure and condition.
Richard Metz
Richard Metz received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and a MFA from the Maine
College of Art, and currently teaches art at Abington Sr. High School. He is a
politically active artist working in a variety of mediums including printmaking,
paintings on trees, installation work, sculpture, performances and collaborative
work. He seeks to inspire wildness and fun with his art.
Justin Myer Staller
Justin Myer Staller is an artist and printer. He studied traditional printmaking at Penn
State University before completing an MFA in Contemporary Non-toxic Printmaking at Rochester
Institute of Technology. Justin is currently a member of Space 1026, a Philadelphia based
artist collective that has shown nationally and internationally. In the past year he co-founded
another collective in Western Massachusetts, Tiny Media Empire, with his wife, artist Linda
Suzanne Price, and illustrator Dan Danger.
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