Kenneth Kerslake - The Distinguished Printmaker

Artist and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. Founder of the Printmaking Program, School of Art & Art History, University of Florida. Born: Mount Vernon, New York, 1930. Attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and holds BFA. and MFA. degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign.

In the past forty plus years Kerslake's works have been included in many competitive, invitational, and solo print exhibitions. and in 1996 The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville presented a major retrospective exhibition of his work.

Works by Kerslake are included in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum; The Library of Congress and the National Collection, Washington, DC; Yale University Art Gallery; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA.; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Krannert Gallery of Art, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.; The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL.; Johnson Wax Collection, Racine, WI.; the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL and the Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.

Kerslake has been invited to serve as artist in residence and lecturer at many universities and art centers throughout the US including the University of Alaska,; the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois; the University of Texas-Austin. He has juried the Honolulu Printmakers Annual Exhibition, the Pacific States National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Southern Graphics Council Traveling Show, Works on Paper, University of Texas-Tyler and Hollywood International Juried Print Exhibition, Hollywood, FL.

He has taught workshops and classes at Penland School, Penland, NC., Arrowmont Schools of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, Frogman's Print & Paper Workshops. Vermillion, SD. and University of Georgia's Summer Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy.

He is a past President of the Southern Graphics Council and edited the SGC Newsletter "Graphic Impressions" for five years. SGC is an organization of approximately 800+ members. He currently serves as Volunteer Coordinator for the American Print Alliance website.

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