Photo by Chris Meyer Brewer (left) and Pozzatti

Pozzatti, a major contributor to the development and recognition of modern printmaking in this country, joined IU Bloomington’s fine arts faculty in 1956 and ran the small printmaking program on his own, teaching etching and woodcut.

Housed in Mitchell Hall, the original facilities consisted of only one intaglio press and two broken-down lithography proof presses. A Ford Foundation grant to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop allowed Pozzatti to add lithography to the curriculum. He oversaw the growth of the program with the addition of two other faculty members and retired as an IU Distinguished Professor in 1991.

His work is housed in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Toronto Museum of Art and Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

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• Introduction

• Childhood in Colorado

• University of Colorado education • Military experience • Printmaking • Printmaking renaissance • Professor Pozzatti's artistic voice and vision • Teaching at Indiana University • Community of artists at IU

• Natural surroundings • Teacher-student relationship • Importance of travel

• Artistic expression of political beliefs • Echo Press

• Home studio

• Creative process • Productivity • Mixed media • Lifetime achievement awards

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Pozzatti is one of six emeriti exhibiting in this year’s Bloomington Biennial 2005: Faculty Artists from IU’s Hope School of Fine Arts, opening Friday, March 25, at the IU Art Museum and running through May 8. Jerald Jacquard, Budd Stalnaker, John Goodheart and Joan Sterrenburg round out the emeriti exhibitors whose work will be displayed along with 30 current IUB faculty artists.
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