Rodney Hamon

Printer Rodney Hamon worked at Tamarind for 16 years before retiring in 2015. As Tamarind's education director, Hamon guided more than 300 students through advanced lithographic techniques, from test washes to photo plates. Hamon completed his undergraduate work at Chico State University in 1979, received his Tamarind Master Printer Certificate in 1987, and then went on to complete his MFA (Printmaking, 1992) at the University of New Mexico. Before joining Tamarind in 1999, he taught printmaking at the University of New Mexico and worked at Origins Press, Western Graphics, Watson Paper Company and Houston Fine Arts Press.