Betsey Garand is a New Hampshire native, raised on a small, self-sufficient family farm in the Monadnock region. She received her B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. in printmaking from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Her work is included in numerous public collections including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, the Art Museum of Estonia, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in Japan, and the Sado Woodcut Print Village Museum on Sado Island, Japan. Awards and honors include a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and fellowships at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and MacDowell. Exhibitions include a solo exhibition Findings at Dadapost Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Artist's books were in the travelling exhibitions “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books” I and II. Cannonball Press included a linocut in their portfolio of prints entitled Mockery, a tribute to the printmaker Richard Mock. A collaboration with the Mexican poet Juan Armando Rojas resulted in a series of prints illustrating the poetry book Ceremonial of Wind. She has been on the faculty of the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University and Chautauqua School of Art; as well as a visiting artist at Parsons School of Design, American University in Corciano, Italy, the University of Vermont and The Art Institute of Boston Lesley University. Garand is currently senior resident artist, head of the printmaking studio at Amherst College in the Department of Art and the History of Art.
Betsey Garand
Studios
Putnam
Betsey Garand worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…