Atelier Meridian, Portland, Oregon

The people behind the printmaking studio have a vision to integrate and coordinate the talents of many artists and printmakers. A key goal underlying the vision is to promote the practice of printmaking by providing a studio equipped with the tools to create etchings, collagraphs, monotypes, woodcuts, and other forms of printmaking. Our vision also includes integrating the educational needs and desires of local organizations, from all walks of life, and all ages. We wish to provide a creative outlet for community members through workshops and memberships.

Jane Pagliarulo, Master Printer and Studio manager
As co-founder and Master Printer of Atelier Meridian, Jane teaches printmaking workshops in monotype, etching, woodcut and collagraph, and performs contract printing of editions and assisted monotype sessions. She received her BFA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987. A year of study at Exeter College of Art and Design led to extensive travel in Europe, working as an artist in London and Italy. From 1989 to 1996 she worked as a fine art printer at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she printed lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, and photogravures. As head Monotype printer she worked one-on-one in creative collaboration with artists who had tremendously varied conceptual and technical approaches. Among them were Carol Anthony, Allen Ginsberg, Edgar Heap of Birds, Robert Kelly, Emily Mason, Richard Tuttle and Emmi Whitehorse. In 1996 Jane moved to Oregon to work as an independent survey forester and an outdoor guide. She also taught printmaking as an Artist in Residence in Hood River County schools. She co-founded a printmaking workshop in the Alpinee Hut in Hood River from 2000 to 2006. She exhibits nationally and is represented in Portland by the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery and Print Arts Northwest, where she also serves as a member of the board.

Barbara Mason, education director and co-founder, is an artist/printmaker most often working in her printmaking studio in Hillsboro, Oregon. She is a member of Print Arts Northwest (PAN) and Seattle Printmakers. Barbara has been making monotypes since the early 80s, and 10 years ago included solar plate intaglio prints in her portfolio. Barbara is an arts advocate and active in the community. Serving 8 years on the board of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum, she was also a founding board member of Art in the Pearl, an outdoor community arts fair taking place on Labor Day Weekend. She has been on the board of Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the board of the Washington County Museum and the Hillsboro Arts and Cultural Council as well as the Cultural Coalition of Washington County. She is currently an artist at Waterstone Gallery, an artist owned gallery, in The Pearl District of Portland and a member of Sequoia Gallery where she has a studio in Hillsboro OR. Barbara has shown her work nationally and internationally for the last 35 years. Her works are in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Intel Corporation, Crow’s Shadow Art Institute, the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, the New York Public Library Collection, the National Museum of Kampala, Uganda, the Applied Sciences University of Amman Jordan and numerous private individuals and corporations. Barbara’s formal education is from the University of Washington, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Marylhurst University. Barbara was the recipient of the Ray Trayle Print Prize for 2016.

Daniel Jasa is our resident etching instructor at Atelier Meridian. Daniel Received an MFA from Northern Illinois University. Previously he studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art under the tutelage of Tom Prochaska, Morgan Walker, and Christy Wycoff, but much of his exploration in printmaking happened at the Art Students League of New York where he was also a Printmaking Monitor for 3 years. As a Monitor, Daniel taught printmaking fundamentals to students of all walks of life and experience levels. Upon returning to Portland in 2009, Daniel became a member of Print Arts Northwest (PAN) where he is on the Committee for Outside Exhibitions. He also participates in outreach programs for PAN such as Art in the Pearl and the 2009 Cornelius Children’s Day Celebration. He was Artist in Residence at Atelier Meridian from June 2009 to January 2010, and made numerous improvements to the shop to accommodate our etching students. He was the featured artist at our January 2009 Ink&Drink celebration, and teaches a unique sugarlift workshop. In addition, Daniel hosts our weekly etching workshop from 6-9pm every Tuesday evening. Daniel’s artwork can be seen at the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, PAN at the Washington County Museum, and PAN’s satellite gallery at Framers Resource.

Elizabeth Walden is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work explores her relationship with her fat, female body, as shaped by contemporary American culture and art history. The artwork she makes exists along a continuum between representation and abstraction, using a variety of painting, printmaking and experimental mixed-media techniques. Elisabeth has taught printmaking to artists of all ages at the University of New Haven and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, where she was the Education Coordinator. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including a solo show at Brown University. She received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied printmaking with a passionate focus on etching.

Gabriel Liston Gabriel Liston paints in a tiny backyard greenhouse and on location. He works from site panels and notebook drawings. He was raised in Western Colorado and in 1995 moved to Oregon with his family to finish his degree at PNCA. He paints as a first-person, true-facts-only, yarn-spinner on the intersection of water history and domestic life. He is represented in Portland by the Froelick Gallery and Plus Gallery in Denver. Pictures of his pictures are at lastwater.net.

Sherry Jankiewicz is an artist most known for her use of bold color within dynamic compositions that technically combine printmaking and painting approaches. Her work references themes within neurology, psychology, physics, and the spirit that depict poetic expressions of the mind’s ability or inability to perceive and adapt to the notion of change. Sherry taught art in the public school setting for 13 years before leaving to pursue her own art and continues to adapt to new perspectives of living while investigating the infinite potential that exists for each of us. Sherry has an MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and has exhibited recently in Portland, Seattle, and Bethesda, Maryland.

Palmarin Merges is an artist whose work draws from the desire to become more sustainable by re-using materials close at hand and by adapting restriction as a generative force for creation. Working primarily in mixed media, printmaking, and painting, common materials formed from the fabric of her daily life are processed then transformed into new work. Raised in Hawaii and California and spending considerable time in Japan, she incorporates the rich visual languages of her experiences with the inspiration of the natural beauty of her adopted home state of Oregon.

Jonathan Barcan is a Portland based mixed media artist and printmaker that exhibits nationally and internationally. Noteworthy exhibitions include the Florence Biennial, Florence, Italy, and the Today Museum Printmaking Center, Beijing, China. Noteworthy residencies completed include the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Zea Mays Printmaking, North Hampton, and Tech Shop SF, San Francisco. Barcan is active in the local arts community as a participant, educator, curator, and volunteer. He has taught at numerous Arts institutions around the San Francisco Bay area, including San Francisco State University, Kala Art Institute, and California College of the Arts. Barcan sat on the Steering Committee for the 2014 Southern Graphics International Conference, San Francisco, as the Exhibitions Committee Chair, and was also on the Board of Directors as the Exhibitions and Residency Director for the California Society of Printmakers from 2014-17.

Erika K Johnson-Wolf BFA, MAT
Erika is a professional artist and certified k-12 teacher with over 10 years of experience sharing her knowledge with people of all ages and abilities. Her true passion and focus is creating therapeutic, empowering art workshops for all ages. Erika enjoys working in various mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage. She enjoys creating mixed media art because she can draw upon all of these areas, experiment, and work intuitively.

Bryn Harding
Bryn’s first etching instructor told him "you’ve got printer’s ink in blood.” Ever since, Bryn has been making and showing art and teaching print. He earned an MFA in Print Media from PNCA, and has shown prints, drawing and paintings in solo and group shows in Portland and Nationally. Bryn is a knowledgeable and talented printmaker who sees collaboration, teaching and knowledge-sharing as an important part of his artistic practice. See some of his work at www.brynhardingart.com

Cameron York
Cameron York was born and raised in sunny Southern California. She got her BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University and her MFA from the University of Iowa. Intaglio is her true love, though she greatly enjoys any kind of printmaking. Her prints are full of bright colors countered with darker undertones. She uses symbolism in her work as an attempt to connect with her audience and help them explore ideas that are polarizing at times.

Laura Master is a printmaker and book artist living in beautiful Portland, Oregon. She has taught workshops for EM Space Book Arts Center and at her own studio. She also enjoys creating hand-carved linoleum and wood block prints that she incorporates into the design of her letterpress prints to create her work. She is the owner and operator of a small art studio called PlatemarkX located in SE Portland.