Ron Pokrasso

Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting artist, printmaker and educator for more than 40 years. He received his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1975 and has had over 50 solo exhibitions and more than 150 group shows. His work is in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad and is represented by numerous galleries nationwide as well as being featured in several books. For 11 years Pokrasso owned and directed Graphics Workshop (gifted to The College of Santa Fe in 1993). He is an originator of the printmaking event “Monothon” and has been an ardent supporter of arts programs for youth. His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops as well as Artist Residencies in the U.S., Scotland, Ireland and Italy. In 2000 Ron Pokrasso received the Mayor’s Recognition Award For Visual Arts citing his artistic and educational contribution to the city of Santa Fe. In his teaching Pokrasso’s passion for creating always comes across and is known to be instrumental in helping to push students to break barriers. Ron Pokrasso lives in Santa Fe, NM with his wife Mary Ann Shaening. You can learn more about Ron, his art and teaching venues by visiting his website.

I am an Artist, Master Printer and Art Educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I use various printmaking techniques in my work: Monotype, ImagOn and Solarplate photopolymer plate-making, and chine colle. I also combine these processes with collage, drawing, digital photo imagery, assemblage and acrylic painting. I do instruction in all of these techniques as well as in Photoshop for the purpose of platemaking and digital collage imagery. In my own work as well in my teaching I use the following Speedball/Akua products: The entire line of Akua intaglio inks and modifiers, Akua liquid pigments and additives, Akua Pin Press, Akua wiping fabric and all sizes of Speedball soft rubber brayers. I teach workshops as well as work privately with artists, “Pamper and Production” in my Galisteo Street Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as conducting programs in numerous venues across the USA and in Italy, Ireland and Mexico. A full list of previous workshop venues is available on my website.