Virginia A. Myers (8 May 1927 – 7 December 2015) was an American artist, professor, and inventor. She was born in Greencastle,

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, and grew up with her parents and younger sister mostly in Cleveland, Ohio, where her father taught at various colleges and schools. She studied at

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and the

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, and received her B.A. in drawing and painting in 1949. Then, in 1951 she went on to earn an M.F.A. in Painting from The California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. Myers completed post-graduate work at the

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(Urbana) and in 1955 came to the University of Iowa to study printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. From 1961-1962, Myers studied in Paris at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter under a Fulbright Scholarship. In 1962 Myers became a University of Iowa faculty member, where she taught printmaking in the School of Art and Art History. Myers taught intaglio printmaking and foil imaging, made possible by her invention of the Iowa Foil Printer, which makes use of the commercial foil stamping process. After the invention of the press, she worked in conjunction with community members and students to improve and document the printmaking process of foil stamping using the Iowa Foil Press, and they collectively produced a book, ''Foil Imaging...A New Art Form'', in 2001. She presented in more than 100 one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and participated in more than 150 juried exhibitions and traveling shows nationally and internationally. Her work is included in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts,

; the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; and the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, among others.

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University of Iowa page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Virginia A. 1927 births 2015 deaths People from Iowa University of Iowa faculty American printmakers Modern printmakers Women inventors People from Greencastle, Indiana Atelier 17 alumni George Washington University alumni Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni California College of the Arts alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni