Phil Sanders is a collaborative master printer, author, educator, and artist. Sanders has worked in many of the most influential print workshops in the US serving as the master printer and studio director of Universal Limited Art Editions where he printed for printed for many of the most important international artists of the past 50 years including Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, James Siena, Terry Winters, and Kiki Smith among many others. Sanders served as the COO of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Director/Master Printer of its program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City where he was tasked with restarting the storied and historic institution following the passing of Robert Blackburn. Sanders recently authored Prints and Their Makers, published by Princeton Architectural Press (2020), a seminal text on contemporary printmaking and is currently working on the catalog of William Kentridge’s prints published by David Krut, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sanders has taught at Penland School of Craft, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and Frans Masereel Centrum, lectured extensively internationally, and trained collaborative printers in New York City, Johannesburg, and Orlando. Sanders’ own artwork is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Yale University Art Gallery, and the US Library of Congress among others. Sanders received a BFA from the University of Florida and a printer training certificate from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Sanders is proficient in all major printmaking media, and has pioneered new techniques for chine collé, watercolor monotype, lithography, and intaglio processes. Sanders founded PS Marlowe, a printer & publisher of fine art prints and consultant for artists and arts businesses in 2009, based in Asheville, North Carolina.
phil@psmarlowe.com
