Environmental Printmaking: Professor Susan Groce, Pioneer of Safer Printmaking in the USA - Jackson's Art Blog

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American artist, art professor and researcher Susan Groce is one of the pioneers of environmentally safer printmaking in the United States. After spending time at Edinburgh Printmakers at the birth of the non-toxic printmaking movement, Susan returned to the United States over a decade ago to lead the University of Maine’s Department of Art’s transition into safer printmaking processes. Internationally known for her large-scale drawings and prints of labyrinthian spaces and organic forms, Susan’s work reflects her deep involvement with themes of sustainability and the impacts of human activity on the environment. Here Susan shares with us her invaluable insight into safer printmaking processes and materials, and her thoughts on the growth of the movement and education. Sophie: When did your interest in the environmental ethics of printmaking begin? Susan: In the late Seventies, after graduating from the University of Michigan, I worked under Frank Cassara (White Ground inventor) to mix traditional etching grounds. The thinking was that by knowing what toxic materials these grounds contained, we could handle them appropriately with the right safety equipment. By the late Eighties, I felt increasingly in conflict between the hazardous (health and environment) materials I was using and the environmental themes of