Background
She was born in Greencastle, Indiana, and grew up with her parents and younger sister mostly in Cleveland, Ohio, where her father taught at various colleges and schools.
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Virginia Myers
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She studied at George Washington University and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, District of Columbia, and received her Bachelor of Arts in drawing and painting in 1949. Myers completed post-graduate work at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and in 1955 came to the University of Iowa to study printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky.
Career
Then, in 1951 she went on to earn an Master of Fine Arts in Painting from The California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. 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 teaches printmaking in the School of Art and Art History.
Myers teaches 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 has presented in more than 100 one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and has 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, Washington, District of Columbia The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. And the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, among others
