Susan Goldman is an internationally recognized artist and master printer who owns and operates Lily Press, in Rockville, MD.
Goldman recently produced and directed “Midwest Matrix”, an hour-long documentary on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest. The program was built from interviews Midwestern artist/teachers with international reputations and their students. It included studio footage, personal photographs, and an animated “tree” detailing the lineage of the fine art print in America, post-World War II. The film premiered December 2, 2012 to a packed house at the prestigious University of Iowa, in Iowa City, during its printmaking symposium, Midwest Matrix.
Goldman is a 2012 grant recipient from the International Fine Print Dealers Association for her work with “Midwest Matrix”, as well as a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12, to complete as producer and director “Midwest Matrix”. She was a Resident Artist at Handprint Workshop International. In 2009, Goldman was Visiting Artist at: SAM Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Iowa, Iowa City, and University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was 2008 recipient of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Special Projects Grant. She was coordinator for the 2005 Southern Graphics Council International Conference “Power in Print”, held in Washington, DC.
Her most recent collaborative print projects include artists: Wendy Ross, William Wiley, Enrique Chagoya, Ellen Hill, Karen Kunc, Bertrand Mao, Bill Dunlap, Mindy Weisel, Renee Stout, Linn Meyers, Miriam Morsel Nathan, Brece Honeycutt, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Gross and Jo Baer. She is founder and co-curator since 1993 of the interdisciplinary community arts project, The Art of Work, The Work of Art ©, at the Art Center/South Florida in Miami, Florida. From 1990 - 2000 she was Pyramid Atlantic’s Special Projects Coordinator, Master Printer, and Book Arts Fair Coordinator. Susan Goldman received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, Tempe, and her BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1981.