As a shop worker for the legendary New York printmaker Joe Wilfer and midwest bookmaster Walter Hamady, Ruth Lingen learned both her trade and the pleasure of collaborating with living artists. In the years since, she herself has become somewhat of a legend, collaborating with nearly 50 of the world's greatest artists—on prints (some for Pace editions, some on her own) and very special limited edition artist books. She has worked with Jim Dine, Robert Ryman, Mary Heilmann, Kiki Smith, Chuck Close and Claes Oldenberg, Bob Holman, Robert Creeley, Jessica Stockholder and Jeremy Sigler, Donald Traever, Al Held and John Chamberlain, to name a few. Lingen's work can be found in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty, and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as in more than 20 libraries, from the New York Public Library to the Harvard University Library.
Clare Altman recently graduated from Smith College, with a studio arts major and book arts concentration. Her favorite studio practices include composing metal type & printing on the Vandercooks. Clare is the currently the studio book arts assistant.
Nina Dine is a Tamarind trained master printer and loves the technical challenges and quirks of lithography. She has gathered extensive knowledge of the collaborative print process in a professional workshop setting after working in print shops around the world including New York City, Walla Walla, WA, Madison, WI, and Berlin. She is also the master mixologist at the studio!