Graphic Arts Workshop

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Graphic Arts Workshop
Address
2565 3rd Street, #305

San Francisco
,
California
94107

United States
Information
School typeArt School
Founded1952
Sister school California Labor School
Website http://graphicartsworkshop.org/

The Graphic Arts Workshop (GAW) of San Francisco, a cooperative print studio, is located in the Dogpatch neighborhood. [1] The studio has approximately 40 members working in fine art printmaking techniques such as lithography, intaglio, serigraphs, and relief printing. [2] GAW offers affordable printmaking studio access and printmaking classes. [2]

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History

GAW was founded in 1952 by several artists from the California Labor School. [3] The founding members of GAW include: Pele De Lappe, Victor Arnautoff, Emmy Lou Packard, Byron Randall, Stanley Koppel, Louise Gilbert, Ed Hanson, Virginia Bogue, Claus Sievert, Frank Rowe, Irving Fromer, and Charles Keller. [3] [4] Many of the early printmakers at GAW were interested in left-wing leaning politics, Communism, social movements, and the labor movement and as a result they produced images of political, social, labor, and ethnic themes. [5] When the California Labor School closed in 1957, GAW inherited a lot of printmaking tools and supplies. [6] [7]

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