Diana Joanne Eicher, received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawaii, and her BA in Painting from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Diana studied painting in Italian at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Venice, Italy and plate lithography at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Diana balances her life as an artist for over thirty-five years with her career as Director of the Printmaking and Papermaking Studios at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Diana works in printmaking, handmade paper, papercutting, and installation work. Diana oversees the studios at MCAD with facilities in books, intaglio, letterpress, lithography, papermaking, photogravure, screenprinting, and woodcut. Previously, Eicher was the Studio & Visual Arts Coordinator at the University of Minnesota where she was in charge of public art in the student unions and managed a studio with framing, screenprinting, photography, ceramics and printmaking. She also taught courses at The Studio, University of Minnesota, Coffman Memorial Union. She was the Manager of the Paul Whitney Larson Art Gallery at the St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota. Eicher has taught children, parents and children together, teens, art educators, and adults at the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, The Ox-Bow School of Art: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Textile Center of Minnesota, and the University of Hawaii. Diana is also a representative and teaching artist for Speedball Art Products and Akua Printmaking Inks. Eicher has taught courses in all areas of printmaking including:  Experimental Relief, Introduction to Printmaking, Handmade Paper/Woodcut, Monoprinting, Screenprinting, Blockprinting, among other courses. A portfolio collaboration organized by Eicher was  accepted for the permanent collection of the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, and was donated to the Domestic Abuse Project, and Tubman, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Bridges to Safety at the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota. Diana had a solo show of her work,“To Shanghai: Recent Work by Diana Eicher” at Donghua University in Shanghai, China that included 70 works of art. Eicher has presented 12 papers, lectures, and exhibitions at local art organizations and national conferences since 1998, and has exhibited her work in over 100 group and solo exhibitions since 1987. Eicher created a mobile printing unit created at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design as a way to share printmaking with people in surrounding communities. Diana had a retrospective of her work “Time Travels: An Exhibition of Artwork from Across the Years,” in May 2024 at Boreal Art Loft, in St. Paul Minnesota. Diana is a teaching artist who enjoys sharing her knowledge of printmaking with adults, teens and children at classes throughout the Twin Cities metro area. Please look for her classes at the public libraries and Wet Paint, in St. Paul, MN. Diana is also available for private art tutoring. CV as a PDF.