Dan Welden

Printmaker, painter, teacher, and author Dan Welden earned his bachelors and masters in art education from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York in 1964 and 1967. He then earned a graduate degree in fine arts from the Academie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich, Germany in 1971. During the 1970s, he originated Solarplate, a safer, less toxic, and greener printmaking method. He has taught printmaking at colleges including SUNY Stony Brook, Central Connecticut State University, and Suffolk County Community College, as well as at a summer program in Florence, Italy. He is the director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. Welden has collaborated with artists including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Dan Flavin, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfonso Ossario, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Jim Dine, Kiki Smith, Robert Motherwell. Today his work is in collections including Portland Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and San Francisco Academy of Art University.