The Ink Shop Printmaking Center & Olive Branch Press
330 E. State Street, Ithaca NY 14850
2nd floor of the CSMA Building
(607) 277-3884
Tuesday to Friday 12 pm - 6 pm
Saturday 12pm - 4 pm
artists@ink-shop.org

JAMIE ELLEN DAVIS BECOMES THE SIX KAHN FAMILY FELLOW AT THE INK SHOP PRINTMAKING CENTER / OLIVE BRANCH PRESS

Jamie Ellen Davis grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She attended Pratt Institute where she studied printmaking and puppetry. After graduating she worked along side Hanne Tierney, turning the story of Oscar Schlemmer's Das Triadische Ballett into a toy theatre puppet show, performing the show at the 8th Annual Great Small Works toy theater festival in Brooklyn, New York. Jamie is currently working on creating an artist book that marries principal elements from puppetry and printmaking.

	Deer girl intaglio, 6'' x 4"		Large Town (detail) drawing 7' x4'

H. Peter Kahn (1921-1997) is fondly remembered by generations of Cornell students and Ithacans as a man whose life was dedicated to art, especially the arts of fine printing and the handmade book.  A prolific typographer, illustrator and book designer as well as a painter, the German-born artist was a member of the Cornell community for forty years.  The Ink Shop Printmaking Center/Olive Branch Press, as well as making the Kahn Family Fellowship a key element of its programming, hopes further to follow in the artist's footsteps by drawing together artists and writers in collaborative projects of the kind that were so important to him. About the Kahn Fellowship, his widow, Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn says, "It is an affirmation of Peter's enthusiasm for graphic arts and his own life as a teacher." Ruth has written the book  "My Father's Dragon," a children's classic.
 

The Kahn Family Fellowship, an annual award to a promising young book and print artist, includes a year's part-time residency at The Ink Shop Printmaking Center/Olive Branch Press.  Founded in 1999 by local artist/printmakers, the center provides facilities for professional fine art printmaking, including etching and lithography presses, computer equipment, letterpress equipment and other processes for generating fine prints and handmade books.  The center also serves as a gallery for exhibiting prints. The Ink Shop offers classes in print-making and book arts both for professionals and the general public.

For further information about donating to the Kahn Family Fellowship (checks to “The Ink Shop -- HPK Fellowship”),  for subscription information for the H. Peter Kahn Memorial Books or for The Ink Shop's schedule of workshops and exhibitions, please call 277-3884 or send an e-mail to artists@ink-shop.org .