![]() ![]() ![]() The Printshop in NYC’s Lower East Side was founded by artist and educator Eleanor Magid and it’s funded by artist memberships and several donors. K.Carracio, founded by Kathy Caraccio in 1977, is one of the few exceptions, a self-funded institution, running its practice with over a hundred interns. The Pleiades Press is based at the University of Central Missouri and also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts Council. Another example is Barbara Neustadt, who founded the Pleiades Press. One example is June Wayne’s Tamarind Institute, which championed lithography and which was funded by the Ford Foundation before being funded by the University of New Mexico. Historically, women have integrated themselves into the printmaking industry through government funding, universities, and nonprofits. Most for-profit fine art printmaking studios are owned by men. Seeing them in the studio further solidified her decision to acquire the estate. Since Sahmel has been a printmaker and chromist for over 25 years, some of her inks from past jobs for Basquiat and others made it into this studio years before she acquired it. This is where the screens and color go.” Ali Sahmel is pictured here with one of Alexander Heinrici’s screens, which was for Donald Sulton. ![]() This room is what Sahmel calls, “Pegasus Print’s graveyard. It’s only been two months since Pegasus Prints opened shop, and Sahmel is already working with Nate Lowman, Lucien Smith, Ella Kruglyanskaya, and John Newsom. Heinrici was acclaimed throughout the art world for his techniques and it’s now Sahmel’s turn to push screen printing into new territories. Heincrici famously printed for Andy Warhol, Williem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Damien Hirst, Donald Baechler and many more. This silkscreen studio that Sahmel opened at the beginning of 2020, named Pegasus Prints, happens to be formerly owned by recently retired Alexander Heinrici. Please let us know if there are any others, because we couldn’t find them. Meet Ali Sahmel, one of the only women in the world who privately owns a fine art silkscreen studio. All photos courtesy of Lauren Damaskinos.Īli Sahmel’s Pegasus Prints is pushing silkscreens into new territories and creating alternative avenues for women in the art world. Ali Sahmel opened Pegasus Prints, a silkscreen studio in Brooklyn, at the beginning of 2020. ![]()
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