THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

 Kristina Paabus

Kristina Paabus is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator, with a focus in printmaking. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paabus has exhibited work throughout the United States, Europe, and China; has participated in numerous national and international artist residencies; and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and the Southern Graphics Council International Guanlan Residency Award. Paabus lives and works in Northeast Ohio where she is Associate Professor of Reproducible Media at Oberlin College. Zygote Board Member since 2015.

Karla Hackenmiller

Karla Hackenmiller’s detailed artworks have primarily taken the form of linear etchings, drawings, lithographs, collages, collagraphs and monoprints that have been exhibited internationally as well as across the United States. She has also delivered lectures and workshops at many institutions including the University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Miami, Florida; and Anderson Ranch in Colorado. She participated in an artist residency at the Original Printmaking Base, Guanlan, Shenzhun, China; and her work can be found in the public collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; the Hawai’i State Foundation for Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, Hawai’i; the Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; among others. She has been a part of numerous invitational exchanges and has won honors and grants for her research.

Currently, she is a Professor of Printmaking and serves various administrative roles for the School of Art+Design and the College of Fine Arts at Ohio University in Athens. She has also held positions with the Mid America Print Council (MAPC); and the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI).

Koichi Yamamoto

Koichi Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking. Koichi was born in Osaka, Japan. He moved to Dayton, Wyoming at age 15. His experience in Northern Wyoming formed interest towards to natural science and art. He completed BFA in at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. After that he move to Krakow, Poland for producing lithography prints and later studied at Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia for burin copper engravings. He studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. He completed MFA at University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. He also worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark. 

Koichi’s prints explore idea of fluid dynamics. Recently he has been making kites and flying them in various locations. He has exhibited internationally. He has taught at Utah State University and University of Delaware and currently a professor at University of Tennessee in Knoxville.