"[2] In 1993, Pam Paulson, who had previously worked at Crown Point Press, began conducting workshops in intaglio printmaking and producing editions with local artists from an 800 square-foot studio in Emeryville, California.
Their first publications were Chris Brown's "Train Series" prints; these quickly sold out, providing capital for the business to begin extending invitations to artists from outside the Bay Area, starting with Radcliffe Bailey.
[1] In 2018, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announced that it would become the sole East Coast repository for prints by African American artists from Paulson Fontaine Press.
[7] In 1999, Mary Lee and Louisiana Bendolph, quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, were invited to the press where they printed and published editions of color aquatints with spit bite and softground etching.
[5][8] In 2018, curator Carrie Lederer organized the exhibition "Personal to Political: Celebrating the African-American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press" at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.