Tatana Kellner Explained

Tatana Kellner
Nationality:Czech born American
Education:University of Toledo, Rochester Institute of Technology
Field:photographer and book artist
Partner:Ann Kalmbach

Tatana "Tana" Kellner (born 1950) is an American artist known for her artist's book works and as a founder of Women's Studio Workshop.

Early life and education

Kellner is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.[1] She was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Toledo, Ohio with her family in 1969.

Kellner received a BA from the University of Toledo in 1972 and a MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982.

Career

in 1974 Kellner was one of the founders of the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York[2] with fellow artists Ann Kalmbach, Barbara Leoff Burge, and Anita Wetzel.[3] She has served as artistic director for the workshop's residency program.[4] She produces limited-edition artist's books, as well as installation art and photography.[5]

Kellner has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Empire State Crafts Alliance. She has received the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation Award and has been awarded residencies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, the Artpark in Lewiston, New York and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[6]

Her work is included in the collections of the Tate Library in London, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library.[7] Her work is also in the collection of the New York Public Library,[8] and the library of National Museum of Women in the Arts.[9]

She frequently collaborates with her life partner Ann Kalmbach[10] as Kakeart. In 2017 her collaborative book with, The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize.[11] Kellner has been named a "Papermaking Champion" by the North American Hand Papermakers[12]

External Links

Women's Studio Workshop

Notes and References

  1. Margolis . Judith . October 2004 . The Painted Word: Jewish Women's Book Art . Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues . 8 . 8 . 251–267 . 10.1353/NSH.2004.0073. 161853084 .
  2. Lind . Norah Hardin . Spring 2008 . In Memory: An Examination of Tatana Kellner's Paired Artist's Books, Fifty Years of Silence . Journal of Artist's Books . 23 . 22–29 .
  3. Web site: Tatana Kellner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228015959/https://wsworkshop.org/artists/tatana-kellner/ . 28 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . Women's Studio Workshop.
  4. Web site: Tatana Kellner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230323075654/https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/tatana-kellner/ . 23 March 2023 . 28 February 2023 . Craft in America.
  5. Web site: Flanagan . Sharyn . 14 September 2016 . Tatana Kellner to be honored at 9th annual Women's Studio Workshop gala . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210127130133/https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2016/09/14/tatana-kellner-to-be-honored-at-9th-annual-womens-studio-workshop-gala/ . 27 January 2021 . 22 September 2023 . Hudson Valley One.
  6. Web site: Tatana Kellner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230724060907/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/tatana-kellner . 24 July 2023 . 28 February 2023 . . en.
  7. Book: Tatana Kellner - Embarrassing Facts - Confronting History and Repairing the World . . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20170408081738/https://www.kean.edu/~gallery/docs/Kellner%20P_1.pdf . 8 April 2017 . dead.
  8. Web site: Fifty years of silence by Tatana Kellner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228020008/https://www.nypl.org/events/tours/audio-guides/treasures-audio-guide/item/4100 . 28 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . . en . Transcript of audio guide.
  9. Web site: Search results for: Tatana Kellner . live . https://archive.today/20230922215022/https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/search/(Tatana%20Kellner) . 22 September 2023 . 28 February 2023 . LRC Online Catalog . National Museum of Women in the Arts.
  10. Web site: 22 June 2020 . Balderdash Trimmed, by Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228015958/https://vimeo.com/431452117 . 28 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . Jaffe Center for Book Arts . Vimeo.
  11. Web site: 13 June 2017 . Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner, 'The Golden Rule' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230603014948/https://mcbaprize.org/ann-kalmbach-tatana-kellner-the-golden-rule-2/ . 3 June 2023 . 28 February 2023 . The MCBA Prize.
  12. Web site: Kennedy . Ann Marie . Tatana Kellner, Papermaking Champion . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228020002/https://www.northamericanhandpapermakers.org/hall-of-champions/tatanakellner . 28 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . North American Hand Papermakers.

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