Campus Directory
Catherine Ruggie Saunders
| Title: | Professor/Art Gallery Dir |
| Office: | Visual Arts Center |
| Phone: | 773-298-3087 |
| Email: | saunders@sxu.edu |
| Department: | Art & Design |
Biography
Cathie Ruggie Saunders teaches courses in printmaking, drawing, artists' books, children's book illustration and the capstone Art and Design Senior Seminar thesis course. She is the director of the ³Ô¹ÏÁÔÆæ Gallery and the Visual Arts Center (VAC) student gallery. Her own artistic practice focuses upon the production of hand-printed, illustrated and bound limited edition artists' books under the imprint of The Hosanna Press. In 2013, she co-authored "For the Love of Letterpress, A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students," published by Bloomsbury of London and selected as a text in several letterpress curriculum across the country. A revised and expanded second edition was released in August 2019.
Education
MFA in Art
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976)