12 Facts About Ken Kerslake

In 1958, Ken Kerslake was hired by the University of Florida to develop a printmaking program for its art department.

Ken Kerslake went on to have a 38-year teaching career at the University of Florida.

Ken Kerslake was a founding member of the American Print Alliance and was active in the Southern Graphics Council, serving as that body's president from 1990 to 1992.

Ken Kerslake started drawing as a small child and began to consider fine art as a career in high school.

Ken Kerslake enjoyed his first teaching experiences as a graduate assistant to Chesney.

Soon, after receiving his master's degree in 1958, Ken Kerslake accepted a faculty position with the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The artist's first foray into the medium of lithography was in the spring of 1964, when Kerslake based some lithographs on paintings that he had created in response to the November 22,1963 assassination of President Kennedy.

Once again working in the intaglio medium, Ken Kerslake expanded his repertoire of techniques to include photo etching and embossing.

In 1982, Ken Kerslake began a series of profiles of an old man with a bald head and a Roman nose with which he confronted human mortality.

In 1990, Ken Kerslake became interested in vitreography when he was invited as an artist-in-residence to create in the technique at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

Ken Kerslake's work has been collected by numerous public institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Library of Congress, the National Gallery, Washington, DC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ken Kerslake's honors included a lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Printmaking Education from the Southern Graphics Council in 2004.