Professor Emerita
Printmaking

Hester Stinnett

Professor Emerita Hester Stinnett retired in December 2023 after four decades of educating students in the practice of printmaking and playing a pivotal role as interim dean of Tyler when the institution needed a steady and visionary leader. Her dedication, leadership, and commitment have left an enduring legacy.

An accomplished artist, Stinnett's studio practice seeks to utilize the various tools and processes of printmaking as a direct means of drawing rather than primarily as techniques for reproduction. Process and concept go hand-in-hand and are dependent upon one another in her work. Her images are made, as it were, through the press rather than before the press. They embody an ongoing challenge and balance of chance and control inspired by John Cage’s steadfast use of indeterminancy as a creative strategy in musical composition. Their internal structures reveal our attempts to tether ideas, obligations and decisions in a world of transition and flux.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is collected in numerous private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center. In 2004, she was awarded a Pennsylvania Council Artist Fellowship for Works on Paper. She was an artist in residence at the Fabric Workshop in 2003 and has presented printmaking workshops at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. 

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University 
BFA, Hartford Art School, University Hartford
 
Selected Awards and Residencies
Artist’s Print Residency
Brandywine Graphics Workshop

Philadelphia Print Collaborative Portfolio Artist (2003)
The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Artist in Residence
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

Selected Work
Johnson, L. M.  & Stinnett, H. (1987). Water-based Inks: A Screenprinting Manual for Studio and 
     Classroom. Philadelphia, PA: University of the Arts Press.

 

Image credit: Temple University Photography / Joseph V. Labolito