Steve Britko

Steve Britko studied at Tamarind in Albuquerque as a Printer Fellow from 1973-1975 before leaving to pursue a Master’s Degree at Southern Illinois University. At Southern Illinois, he established the Wagner Workshop where artists would come to make prints with a printer and students. He then moved on to Illinois State to open Normal Editions, still operating today, and in 1977 returned to Tamarind as shop manager. Britko left Tamarind in 1980 to open his own shop, Naravisa Press, beginning in Albuquerque and later moving to Santa Fe. Britko worked with a range of artists including Richard Tuttle, Susan Rothenberg, Luis Jimenez, Paul Pletka, Rudy Fernandez, Fritz Scholder, and many more creating lithographs, woodcuts, linoleum cuts, and monoprints. [Printer's Proof]