BETSY MIRAGLIA

PAPERMAKER | PRINTMAKER

ABOUT THE ARTIST

BETSY MIRAGLIA

Paper Artist


After graduating from Moore College of Art and Design in 1966 with a BFA in Graphic Design, I entered the art world in Philadelphia in the areas of package design, corporate logo and promotional design, and worked with magazine layout and design for Ranger Rick, a locally published animal and nature magazine for children.

 

After 10 years working in the city and freelancing on my own, I decided to return to fine art and my love of printmaking. I worked mainly with linocuts and collagraphs for twelve years and was represented in five tri-state area galleries.

 

My fascination with color, texture, and pattern has always been my driving force and has allowed me to express and create with techniques that continue to challenge me.

 

Today, I am a professional papermaker who continues to enjoy color, texture, and pattern combining it now with my collagraph printmaking techniques on my own handmade papers.

 

My artwork continues to be exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally.


  • SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2016 - Paper / Print / Collage" - Willow Valley Communities Gallery - Lancaster PA

    2015 - “Paper / Print / Collage"   Waverly Gallery, Waverly Heights, Gladwyne, PA

    2013 - “Paper / Print / Collage"

    Fireside Gallery, Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA

    2007 - Princeton University, Women & Gender Studies Gallery, Princeton, NJ

    2007 - Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ

    1998 - Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

    1997  -“Recent Works,” Artforms Gallery Manayunk, Phila., PA

    1995 - Café Procopio, Wayne, PA

  • JURIED EXHIBITIONS

    2015

    Main Line Art Center, Professional Artist Member’s Exhibition, Haverford, PA


    2014

    Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) 2014 Congress,


    Members’ Exhibition “The Nexus of Craft and Fine Art in Papermaking”, Fabriano, Italy


    2012

    Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, National Collage Society 28th Annual, Collegeville, PA


    2010

    Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, “Paper Runway” with Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Atlanta, GA

    Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, “Paper Runway”, with Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Atlanta, GA


    Traveling Exhibitions

    Galeria La Sala, Santiago, Chile, “Paper Runway” with Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Atlanta, GA 


    2009

    James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 

    Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA


    2008

    Georgia Tech/Robert C. Williams Paper Museum’s Neely Library, Friends of Dard Hunter Conference Juried Exhibition “Paper Runway”, Atlanta, GA


    Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA,  “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA


    Worcester Center for Craft, Worcester, MA, “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA


    Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center, Casper, WY, “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 


    Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, “Pulp Function” with Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA


    2007 - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, “Pulp Function", curator, Lloyd Herman (Traveling Exhibition)


    1991 - “In Our Circle”, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA


    1987 - Woodmere Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

  • INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

    2014 - “FiberNext,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington , DE


    2013 - Main Line Art Center, Professional Artists’ Exhibition, Haverford, PA


    2012 - Featherstone Center for the Arts, “The Art of Handmade Paper”, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

    Main Line Art Center, Professional Artists’ Exhibition, Haverford, PA


    2011 - Cerulean Arts Gallery, “Is It Time?” Philadelphia, PA


    2010  - “Paper Awareness”  Guild of Papermakers, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ


    2008 - “Paper Awareness”  Guild of Papermakers, Cheltenham,Art Center, Cheltenham, PA


    2007 - Brandywine Realty Trust, Art on the Avenue, Main Line Art Center, three-person show, Radnor, PA

    Nassau Club, solo show, Princeton, NJ

    “Living With Art,” Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

    Plastics Club, American Color Print Society Members Show, Philadelphia, PA


    2005 - Lamia Ink! At Art Forum JARFO, “Together – Again,” Kyoto, Japan


    2004 - “Eudamonia,” Ten Southern New Jersey Women Artists,

    Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Milleville, PA

    “Paper Awareness,” Guild of Papermakers, Phila., PA

    “Paperwork:Pulp As Medium,” College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

    1998 - “Book Arts & Computer Imaging,” Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA

    Marion Gallery, Group Show / Artforms Gallery Manayunk, Marion, MA

    Artforms Gallery Manayunk, Membership Exhibitions, Phila., PA 1996-1998

    Arts Festival, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA – Guest Speaker

    Academy of Notre Dame de Namur Art Invitational, Villanova, PA  1983-1992,


    1996 - Pulp Formation,” Moore College of Art and Design, Phila., PA – Curator


    “Miriam Schapiro and Us,” Artforms Gallery Manayunk, Phila., PA

    “Recent Works,” Artforms Gallery Manayunk, solo show, Phila., PA

    “Woman Works ’97,” Women’s Resource Center, Wayne, PA

    Long Beach Islands Art Foundation, group show, Loveladies, NJ

    Moore on Second Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, three person show, Philadelphia, PA

    1995 - "Woman Works ’95,” Women’s Resource Center, Wayne, PA

    “Paper Awareness III,”Guild of Papermakers, Artforms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA

    Café Procopio, solo show, Wayne, PA


    1994 - “Paper Awareness II,” Guild of Papermakers,

    West Chester University, West Chester, PA

    “Diversity in Paper,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    “Face to Face: Portraits and Self Portraits by Moore Alumnae,” Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA


    1993 - “Paper Awareness I,” Guild of Papermakers,

    Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

    “Woman Works ’93,” Women’s Resource Center, Wayne, PA


    1992 - “Plus 6,” Catherine Starr Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

    Pennswood Gallery, three person show, Bala Cynwyd, PA


    1991 - “Woman Works ’91,” Women’s Resource Center, Wayne, PA

    Artful Entities Gallery, three person show, Marblehead, MA

    “Art at the Armory,” Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

    Penn State Ogontz Campus, three person show, Abington, PA

    South Jersey Art Show, Arthritis Foundation, Cherry Hill, NJ


    1990  -“Art at the Armory,” Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

    Streichler Gallery, group show, Englewood, NJ

    “Handmade Paper: An Artist’s Medium,” Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

    1989 - Alumnae Exhibition, Moore College of Art and Design,

    Arts and Commerce Gallery at the Chamber, Philadelphia, PA

    Suburban Hospital Invitational, Norristown, PA

    Immaculata College Art Show, Immaculata, PA

     

    1988 - Suburban Hospital Invitational, Norristown, PA

    Immaculata College Art Show, Immaculata, PA

    Historic Yellow Springs Invitational, Yellow Springs, PA


    1987 - Historic Yellow Springs Invitational, Yellow Springs, PA

  • COMMISSIONS

    Insurance Company of North America, 1980-1981

    Riley Law Associates Ltd. 1989

    Elizabeth Studios / The Art Source – residential

    Numerous private commissions

  • WORKSHOPS

    2015 - Women’s Studio Workshop, “Encaustic Collagraph from Print to Painting” with Elise Wagner, Kingston, NY


    2014 - International Association of Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA), Fabriano, Italy

    Large sheet formation, Watermarking, Deep embossing, with Tiberi Sandro, Fabriano, Italy


    2013 - Peter’s Valley School of Craft, Joomchi & Beyond with Jiyoung Chung, Layton, NJ 

    Creating from Passion Workshop, Libbie and Alan Soffer, mixed media, Newtown Square, PA


    2012 - Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY “Encaustic and Sculptural Artist’s Book” Catherine Nash


    2009 - Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY “Pulp Beyond the Squeeze Bottle,” Shannon Brock


    2005 - Awagami Paper Factory, 3-day Shibori papermaking workshop, Tokushima, Japan


    2002 - Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY “Paper Structures,” Karen Stahlecker


    2000 - Paper and Book Intensive, Saugatuck, MI


    1999 - Paper & Book Intensive, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME


    1998 - Seastone Papers, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

    “Unusual Eastern and Western Handmade Paper” Instructors: Richard Flavin and Amanda Degener


    1996 - Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT - “Advanced Polaroid Transfers” Instructor: Stephen Sonshine - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

    “Papermaking, Pigment Coloring” Instructor: John Babcock


    1995 - Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD - “Monotypes with a Master Printer” Instructor: Larry Hamlin

    “Polaroid Transfers” Instructors: Neil Greentree and John Wood


    1994 - Peter’s Valley, Layton, NJ “Polaroid Transfers” Instructor: Dan Geist

    “Creative Bookmaking” Instructor: Carol Barton, Rugg Road, Boston, MA “Book Arts” Instructor: Mary McCarthy


    1993 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

    “Papermaking/Bookbinding” Instructors: Dolph Smith and Susan Lightcap

    University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Numerous papermaking courses with: Cheryl Ward, Bobbie Lippman,

    Judith Ingram, Jeanne Jaffe, Linda Kamholz, Diane Pepe 1986-1993


    1992 - I.S.O.M.A.Y.A., Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, CA

    “Ritualistic Fiber Constructions and Mystical Objects” Instructor: Walter Nottingham

    “Handmade Paper” Instructor: Clinton McKenzie


    1991 - Carriage House Paper Intensive, Boston, MA

     - Instructors: Donna and Elaine Koretsky and Carol Herd - Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT

    “Moldmaking” Instructor: Barbara Allen


    1990 - Pyramid Atlantic Riverdale, MD “Large Sheet Formation” Instructor: Richard Hungerford


    1985 - Arts in Progress, Harcum College, Bryn Mawr, PA

    “Monoprinting on Handmade Paper” Instructor: Carol Moore


    1984 - Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA “Introduction to Handmade Paper” Instructor: Vivian Bergenfeld

  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    Historic RittenhouseTown, “Paper Vessels,” Philadelphia, PA


    The Wetlands Institute, “Paper Vessels,” children’s art program, Stone Harbor, NJ

  • PUBLICATIONS

    2008

    COLLAGE, ASSEMBLAGE, AND ALTERED ART by Dianne Maurer-Mathison, published by Watson-Guptill


    2006

    PAPER IN THREE DIMENSIONS by Dianne Maurer-Mathison, published by Watson-Guptill


    2005

    CRAFTS REPORT magazine, Crafts Insight: Book Arts and Paper- page 23, September 2005


    1998

    PAPER ART by Diane Maurer-Mathison, published by Watson-Guptill


    1995

    FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK FIVE, Fiberarts Magazine

  • EDUCATION, PERSONAL DATA, MEMBERSHIPS

    EDUCATION

    Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

    Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1966

    Concentration in Graphic Design


    PERSONAL DATA

    Artist Equity Board of Directors - 2019-21;

    Moore College of Art and Design Board of Managers 1992-1998;

    Board of Trustees 1996-1998

    Artforms Gallery Manayunk Board of Directors 1996-1998

    Wayne Art Center President/Board Chairman 1993

    Wayne Art Center Exhibition Committee 1991-1992

    Academy of Notre Dame de Namur Art Invitational

    Art Committee Chairman 1985-1990

    Upper Merion Cultural Center Board of Directors 1980-1982

    Moore College of Art and Design Alumnae Association Board of Directors, Exec. Comm. 1980-1982


    MEMBERSHIPS

    The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking,

    Atlanta, GA – 1998-present

    The Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc., Atlanta, GA – 1994-present

    Guild of Papermakers, Philadelphia, PA – 1990-present

    IAPMA – International Association of Hand Papermakers and

    Paper Artists – 2008-present

    American Craft Council, New York, NY -1986-present

    American Color Print Society, Philadelphia, PA – 2005-present

    Surface Design Association – 2008-present

    Artist Equity/ Phila/Tri-State (PA, NJ, DE)- 2011-present

    National Collage Society- 2011-present

    Main Line Art Center Professional Artist Membership – 2011-present

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