As a young girl, Kathy Caraccio practiced sewing, dressmaking, knitting and crochet. Her artistic focus shifted to printmaking and works on paper in the ‘60s, and her first collage was a design for a bed quilt constructed from recycled experiments in color etching. As a master printer, Kathy started to recycle un-signable proofs (with the artist’s permission), and turn them into collages. Inspired by Matisse’s hand-painted paper images, Kurt Schwitters’ recycled refuse collages, and Picasso’s use of found objects and non archival papers, the Quilt Series was born in 1972. [Bio: Artist and master printer Kathy Caraccio trained in color etching, Japanese water-based woodblock printing, and paper-making in New York and Japan, and apprenticed for four years at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. She has taught at NYU, Columbia University, Parsons/The New School, and Pratt Institute, among others, and is represented in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Caraccio has editioned for artists including Romare Bearden, Sol LeWitt, and Louise Nevelson.