Graphicstudio

Graphicstudio is an art studio and print workshop at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, established in 1968 by Donald Saff.^[1][2][3]

The studio was closed from 1976 through 1981 for financial reasons.^[4]

With the Contemporary Art Museum and the Public Art Program form the Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts at the University of South Florida^[1] and the support of then president Cecil Mackey, Saff modeled Graphicstudio after the Pratt Graphics Center, Tamarind Press, and Gemini G.E.L. The studio produced its earliest work in 1969.^{[citation needed]}

The National Gallery of Art houses the Graphicstudio archive.^[4][5]

Artists

Philip Pearlstein^[3] was the first artist to participate at Graphicstudio.^{[citation needed]} James Rosenquist^[1][6][3] started with Graphicstudio in 1971.^[7] Richard Anuszkiewicz,^[8] Adja Yunkers, Robert Rauschenberg,^[7] and Jim Dine were also involved with Graphicstudio in the 1970s.^[3] Other artists associated with Graphicstudio over the years include Edward Ruscha,^[9] Chuck Close,^[10] Robert Mapplethorpe, Miriam Schapiro, Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Graves, Allan McCollum, Christian Marclay,^[1] Theo Wujcik,^[2] and Vik Muniz.

Further reading

• Saff, Donald J. “Graphicstudio, U. S. F.” Art Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, 1974, pp. 10–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/775861. Accessed 18 Nov. 2020.