Tatana Kellner
Tatana "Tana" Kellner (born 1950) is an American artist known for her artist's book works and as a founder of Women's Studio Workshop.
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Tatana Kellner
- Name
- Tatana Kellner
- Education
- University of Toledo, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Field
- photographer and book artist
- Born
- 1950 · Prague.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
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Tatana "Tana" Kellner (born 1950) is an American artist known for her artist's book works and as a founder of Women's Studio Workshop.
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• Name — Tatana Kellner • Education — University of Toledo, Rochester Institute of Technology • Field — photographer and book artist • Partner — Ann Kalmbach • Website — tatanakellner.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Kellner is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Toledo, Ohio with her family in 1969. Kellner received a BA from the University of Toledo in 1972 and a MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982.
Career
Career
in 1974 Kellner was one of the founders of the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York with fellow artists Ann Kalmbach, Barbara Leoff Burge, and Anita Wetzel. She has served as artistic director for the workshop's residency program. She produces limited-edition artist's books, as well as installation art and photography. Kellner has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Empire State Crafts Alliance. She has received the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation Award and has been awarded residencies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, the Artpark in Lewiston, New York and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her work is included in the collections of the Tate Library in London, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library. Her work is also in the collection of the New York Public Library, and the library of National Museum of Women in the Arts. She frequently collaborates with her life partner Ann Kalmbach as Kakeart. In 2017 her collaborative book with, The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize. Kellner has been named a "Papermaking Champion" by the North American Hand Papermakers
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q29219293: Tatana Kellner
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- “Tatana Kellner”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Margolis, Judith. The Painted Word: Jewish Women's Book Art. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues. 8. 251–267. October 2004. 10.1353/NSH.2004.0073.
- 2.Lind, Norah Hardin. In Memory: An Examination of Tatana Kellner's Paired Artist's Books, Fifty Years of Silence. Journal of Artist's Books. 23. 22–29. Spring 2008.
- 3.Tatana Kellner. Women's Studio Workshop.
- 4.Tatana Kellner. Craft in America.
- 5.Flanagan, Sharyn. Tatana Kellner to be honored at 9th annual Women's Studio Workshop gala. Hudson Valley One. 14 September 2016.
- 6.Tatana Kellner. MacDowell.
- 7.Kean University. Tatana Kellner - Embarrassing Facts - Confronting History and Repairing the World.
- 8.Fifty years of silence by Tatana Kellner. New York Public Library.
- 9.National Museum of Women in the Arts. Search results for: Tatana Kellner. LRC Online Catalog.
- 10.Jaffe Center for Book Arts. Balderdash Trimmed, by Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner. 22 June 2020.
- 11.Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner, 'The Golden Rule'. The MCBA Prize. 13 June 2017.
- 12.Kennedy, Ann Marie. Tatana Kellner, Papermaking Champion. North American Hand Papermakers.
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