Gretchen Schermerhorn is a printmaker, papermaker, and textile artist, and is the executive director of Southern Graphics Council International, one of the largest membership organizations dedicated to the art of printmaking. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, and since then, has completed artist residencies at The Women’s Studio Workshop in New York, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern Ireland, California State University and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Florida. Her prints, installations, and works on paper works have been exhibited around the country and internationally, and her work is part of the Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Anne Arundel Community College’s print collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. She has received individual artist awards from both the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. She has taught workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Snow Farm-New England Craft, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, and the University of North Texas and is currently part of the teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins University and MICA, where she teaches Printmaking and Book Arts.