The Printmedia Program is delighted to announce The Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award Exhibition, celebrating the excellent work of CCA students in the field of Printmaking. 

Cameron Barnes

Lauren Bartlett

Ana Diaz Korin

Luke-Thomas Henderson

Camila Killon

Barbara Klassen

Brennan Mayr

Kirito Qi

Aris Ruff

Brenda Sanchez

Tamara Sobek

Zoe Spikerman

Khushi Thakkar

We invite the CCA community and friends of Print throughout the Bay Area to join us on September 4, 2024 at 5 PM. 

This group of artists has grounded themselves in our rapidly changing world with a deep commitment to the craft of Print. At CCA and beyond, they have faced many challenges and exciting changes: the move of our campus and the process of making RayKo studios our home, migrating across global borders to study art in San Francisco, the aftershocks of the COVID-19 global pandemic and finding their political voice in a world of unjust wars. This exhibition documents the tumultuous feelings of the last several years and places of comfort that we’ve found. Students are using print, papermaking, and book arts as methods of storytelling and memory, observing the everyday, and a mode of critical address that confronts power and injustice. In their hands -- and echoing through the deep history of our practice -- Printmedia is a tool for witnessing and responding to our complex times.

This exhibition also welcomes Ana Diaz Korin, our 2024 Hamaguchi Graduate Scholar in the Master of Fine Arts Program, and Luke-Thomas Henderson, winner of our 2024 undergrad entrance portfolio award. Diaz Korin specializes in copperplate etching as part of their multidisciplinary practice that includes printmedia, ceramics, and drawing. Henderson joins us from Hawaii, where he studied with master printers Hiroki Morinoue and Charles Cohan, both alumni of CCAC’s Printmaking Program. 

-Printmedia Program Lead and Hamaguchi Curator, Anthea Black

About the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmedia Scholarship Award

The purpose of the Hamaguchi Scholarship Award and Award Exhibition is to foster excellence and dedication in the study and practice of Printmedia. The award is open to all majors whose work is engaged in the practice of printmaking and print media. Award recipients receive a scholarship of $5,000 and participate in an exhibition. 

About Yozo Hamaguchi

In 1995 Yozo Hamaguchi and his wife, Minami Keiko generously endowed a fund at CCA (then CCAC) for the purpose of granting annual awards to outstanding students in printmedia. Each an artist of international reputation, the Hamaguchis were born in Japan and lived in France for most of the years since the 1930s, arriving in San Francisco in 1982. After Mr. Hamaguchi retired in 1993, he gave his exquisite American-French Tool etching press to the Printmedia Program. Mr. Hamaguchi was a renowned master of color mezzotint printing, a form of intaglio printing that has been practiced by few since its invention in 1609. A few years after retiring the Hamaguchis returned to Japan, where Mr. Hamaguchi died December 25, 2000, at the age of 91.

About our 2023 Hamaguchi Guest Juror Betsy Davids

Betsy Davids brought letterpress to the CCA(C) Printmaking curriculum in 1972. After 42 years teaching book art, writing, and literature, she is now Professor Emerita. Her Rebis Press, in partnership with James Petrillo, is widely recognized as innovative in the early history of the artist book. She has received a lifetime achievement award from the College Book Art Association, a Treasures award from the San Francisco Center for the Book, and an Oscar Lewis award from the Book Club of California. Her current work involves engraving on palm leaves, a traditional bookmaking practice from South and Southeast Asia, where she researched for ten years, and she is co-curator of Turning Over An Old Leaf: Contemporary Palm Leaf Work In South And Southeast Asia with Mary Austin at San Francisco Center for the Book. 

About our 2024 Hamaguchi Guest Juror Drew Cameron of Combat Paper 

Hand papermaker Drew Francis Cameron renders military uniforms into paper. Through workshops and events, he facilitates the pulping process, offering material and space for people to make their own sheets of paper. A former sergeant in the United States Army Field Artillery and an Iraq War veteran, Cameron has traveled with his unusual studio and technique for seventeen years; teaching and working in creative spaces from coast to coast as the principal artist of Combat Paper. Throughout the years of the most recent American wars, Cameron and his cohort have developed a modality for artistic response through paper, print and book, often creating works from within the ranks of those actively and formerly in the US military. Cameron’s work has been exhibited internationally. His books and print editions are in numerous public collections and libraries throughout the country including the Library of Congress. Cameron maintains his paper studio and resides in Iowa City, Iowa, a UNESCO city of literature.

We wish to thank our guest jurors in 2023: Professors Mikae Hara, Emerita Betsy Davids, and Anthea Black, and in 2024: Professors Mikae Hara, Luz Marina Ruiz, and Visiting Artist Drew Cameron of Combat Paper. Thank you to Meri Brin, Print Studio Manager and Ingrid Wells, Assistant Director Fine Arts for their support of the Hamaguchi programming.

Press Images

Tamara Jazmín Sobek

Nonino, 2022

Artist’s book: screen print on stonehenge paper

Barbara Klassen

Mother, 2023

Woodblock on paper

Zoe Spikerman

Form Without Limit, 2023

Handmade paper, thread

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