DeAnn L. Prosia

[1] As a printmaker, Prosia utilizes only line work, in the form of cross-hatching, in her etchings to create the structure, tone, texture, and contrast of her highly detailed cityscapes.

Line etching is an intalgio printmaking process where acid is used to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal place to create a design.

On the fourth day, she ordered her first printing press from Blick, set it up in her Chicago studio apartment, and got to work creating etchings.

[2] In the mid-1990s, Prosia left Chicago and spent a year and a half in Erlanger, KY. From there she moved to Monroe, CT, where she became a member of the Silvermine Art Guild and the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)[3] in New York City.

Some of her most notable accomplishments included securing a member show at The Gallery at The Met Store at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and establishing the annual national juried print exhibition, Mini Gems, in 2022.

[2] Prosia draws her influences from the printmakers of the early 1900s such as John Taylor Arms (1887–1953), Martin Lewis (1881–1962), Ernest D. Roth (13) (1879–1953), and Samuel Chamberlain (1895–1975).