Rosemarie Bernardi is an American printmaker, educator, and visual artist. She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan but moved to New England for its space, beauty, and its proximity to New York, Mass MoCa, and other art centers. Currently professor of art and chair of the Art Department at Keene State College, NH, she has previously held tenured positions at the University of Arizona and the University of Delaware. She holds a M.F.A. degree with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Cincinnati and a B.F.A. from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame. At Keene State she teaches drawing, printmaking, design, and Sophomore Studio Seminar. She also works with students curating and hanging exhibits at the Carroll House Art Gallery. Her former students teach and exhibit their artwork across the world. Her love of printmaking stems from its historical relationships to illustration, information technologies (books), circuitous methodologies, and layering. Feminist writings, psychology, and literature inspire her work. Her current artworks explore ideas about personal transformations and destructions in mixed media, printmaking, and drawing. Professor Bernardi has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 200 solo and group exhibitions. Her artwork is included in the many public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Nelson Atkins Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Roswell Museum and Art Center Residency, and five MacDowell Fellowships. In 2005, she received a Frans Masereel Centrum Printmaking Residency in Kasterlee, Belgium and a John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Award. In 2011, she was an invited artist in residence for Dalarna Province in Sweden, exhibiting her work and participating in a Printmaking Residency in Orsa. She has been a visiting artist and lecturer at many schools including Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Nebraska, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cal Arts, and Hendrix College.
Rosemarie Bernardi
Studios
Putnam
Rosemarie Bernardi 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…