ARTtalk: Bill Lagattuta
Join us at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 5:30 PM in the TCVA Lecture Hall for a captivating ARTtalk with Bill Lagattuta.
As a renowned master printer, Lagattuta brings decades of expertise and creativity to the world of printmaking. Discover the stories behind his artistry, gain insights into his process, and explore the transformative power of collaboration in the arts.
This inspiring event is free and open to the public. Don’t miss it!
About the artist
After graduating with a BA from Appalachian State University in 1973 and his MFA from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1975, Bill Lagattuta completed his master printer certificate training at the University of New Mexico’s Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque in 1979. Tamarind Institute offers the only formal education program in the world for collaborative printmaking; they specialize in the fine art printing technique of lithography. From Tamarind, Lagattuta went on to work in a number of well-known print shops including Vermillion Editions (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Sette/Segura Publishers (Tempe, Arizona), and Peregrine Press (Dallas, Texas) before returning to worked as the Master Printer and Shop Manager at Tamarind in1988 until he retired in 2015. Lagattuta collaborated on more than 600 editions completed during his 27-year tenure at Tamarind. Through the fine art of creative collaboration, Lagatutta afforded visiting artists the opportunity to work under his tutelage to learn lithography and assisted them in translating their diverse aesthetic sensibilities (rarely inherently print-focused) into the lithographic medium.Â
