Kathy Caraccio
(b. 1947, New York, NY)
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Kathy Caraccio is a Master Printer, Artist, Curator, Professor, and Collector with over 40+ years of experience. She has collaborated with hundreds of artists from all over the world, nurturing a large and caring community around her studio.
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For Kathy, the act of collecting has served as much as a form of memory making and storytelling as it has a teaching and research tool. She hopes this website will be a resource for the printmaking community and other lovers of art alike.
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About
Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, Caraccio received her BFA from Herbert Lehman College. She trained in several areas of expertise including:​ Hanga (Japanese water-based woodblock printing) with Sensei Toshi Yoshida (Nagano – Japan, 1984), Papermaking with Zarina Hashmi (NYC, 1979), Viscosity printing with Arun Bose and Krishna Reddy (NYC, 1970-73), and Etching and color printing with Maria Samosa (El Museo del Barrio, NYC, 1972-73).
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​​As an exhibiting artist herself, Kathy stays excited about making art and meeting aesthetic challenges. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Library of Congress, Portland Art Museum, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, the Fine Arts Museum of California, the New York Public Library, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the International Quilt Museum, among others. Kathy had solo shows in the USA, Japan, Korea, and Puerto Rico.
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Kathy is a member of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, Society of American Graphic Artists, Manhattan Graphics Center, and the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studios (RAPS).
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See more of Kathy's prints here.
The Collection
Kathy started collecting prints while still in college. Very early in her career, Kathy apprenticed for four years as a master printer at Robert Blackburn’s The Printmaking Workshop, Inc. The experience working with Blackburn's collection and witnessing Bob Blackburn's approach to community making and mutual support decisively influenced the making of K. Caraccio's collection.
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The collection has over 7000 artworks as of 2025 and consists of prints and handmade books covering a diverse range of techniques, subject matter, style, and time periods. It expresses and is a result of both Kathy's collaborations throughout the decades with artists, as well as her personal taste and appreciation for handprinted works.
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Among the artists Kathy has editioned with and featured in her collection are Emma Amos, Ed Baynard, Romare Bearden, Brodsky and Utkin, Scott Campbel, Mel Bochner, Robert Blackburn, Robert Kipniss, and Louise Nevelson. She continues to collaborate with contemporary artists.
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The K.Caraccio Collection sporadically makes donations to other institutions and fundraising initiatives. The most significant donation made by the K.Caraccio Studio was to the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studios (RAPS) at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. K.Caraccio studio was among the founding members of the archive in 1982. The RAPS primary purpose was to document the collaborative activity among American printers and artists by serving as the repository of studios' artistic production and related raw matrixes. Starting in 1982, over the course of 30 years, the K.Caraccio Studio and Collection donated more than 500 prints to the RAPS.
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Among other institutions recipient of donations in the past years are the Japan Tsunami Survivors Fundraiser, the National Academy of Arts and Design, the Portland Museum, the Society of American Graphic Artists - SAGA, Newark Public Library, the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Manhattan Graphics Center (2016, 2018), the Friends Seminary (2015), Artists Talk on Art - ATOA (2018), the Woodstock Art Association (2018).