Rentas Sempadan - School of the Arts, USM

Emission Portfolio Participants
Myrtle Clark Bremer (UK), Myrtle Clark Bremer is an artist living in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions.
Sarah Edmonds (USA), Sarah Edmonds received an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University in
2003 and a BFA from Kutztown University in 1999. In addition to her formal education, Sarah has pursued
art experiences and exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and throughout the
U.S. Edmonds is currently teaching visual culture and foundations courses at Kutztown University.
Kate Ferrucci (USA), Kate Ferrucci received her undergraduate degree in printmaking from the
University of Notre Dame and her MFA in Graphic Design from Indiana University. In 2002 she founded
People to People Press. Ferrucci is the author, designer and producer of two books "Limestone Lives: Voices
from the Indiana Stone Belt", and "Soundings: Collected Stories from Bloomington's Music Community."
She currently lives and works in Rome, Italy.
Jill Allen (USA), born 1971 in Neenah, WI, received a BFA from the University of Illinois in
Champaign/Urbana, IL, and an MFA from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Allen was an
Artist in Residence at the Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts in Asheville, NC and has shown her work in
many exhibitions across the country.,. Allen's work has been featured in the Ceramic Glaze Handbook by
Mark Burleson, as well as in Handbuilt Tableware by Kathy Triplett.
Melissa Gill (USA), Melissa Gill studied art at University of Arizona for her BFA degree in Printmaking.
Attended graduate studies at Purdue University and Indiana University, Bloomington and received MA and
MFA in Printmaking respectively. She is a member of MAPC, Southern Graphics Council, and College Art
Association. Her art involves many media including printmaking, drawing, painting, photography, bookmaking,
installation, and video. She has exhibited her works in solo art show as well as group exhibitions
both in the states and internationally. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Rockport College,
Illinois.
Lou Joseph (USA), born in 1975 in Youngstown, Ohio. Now he lives and works in Durham, North
Carolina, USA. Received his BFA degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA, and an
MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He has shown his work in many exhibitions in the
USA and abroad including Italy, England, Ireland, Poland and Germany.
Bill Hosterman (USA), is an Assistant Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University in Allendale,
Michigan, where he has taught printmaking, drawing and foundations since 1999. He has degrees in printmaking
from The Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University. During the summer of 1993, Bill
apprenticed at the K. Caraccio Printmaking Studio and Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, both in
New York City. In 1995, Bill went to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship to study printmaking.
Saeko Furukata (France), Born and brought up in Tokyo, studied BA visual communication (mainly
illustration) at Kent Institute of Art and Design in England.She's always interested in childhood thoughts
and memories. Her univers is constructed by little girl and her toys in twisted wonderland.Working as an
illustrator for children's books and some magazine.Recently she is designing toys, also sometimes updating
her web-site with degital finished works. She has resumed etching in Paris.