Platemark: prints and the printmaking ecosystem
Aug 25, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 14 segments
Celebrate a milestone with Platemark as we record our first-ever live episode at the 30th anniversary of the McNay Print Fair. Host Ann Shafer is joined by master printer James Stroud (Center Street…
James StroudGuestAnn ShaferHostHay- Hayter started this crazy print shop in Paris in 1927 called Atelier 17 which had an incredible effect a- across Europe but also across America, uh, during the war.
He turned 80.
He turned 80 that year I was there, yeah.
Had a big party.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was sent there.
Uh, I studied, you know, art at college and the printmaking professor at Holy Cross College in Worcester was a massier at the Atelier for seven years from like '70 to '77 before he came to Holy Cross to teach.
And so he was the one who suggested that I go work with Hayter.

Hayter.And it was, uh, I t- I often tell people I feel like I grew up in Paris.

I mean, I was, I was brought up in a very sheltered suburban life s- growing up and, and that was my first trip abroad, and it was absolutely spectacular year.
Hay- Hayter started this crazy print shop in Paris in 1927 called Atelier 17 which had an incredible effect a- across Europe but also across America, uh, during the war.
He turned 80.
He turned 80 that year I was there, yeah.
Had a big party.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was sent there.
Uh, I studied, you know, art at college and the printmaking professor at Holy Cross College in Worcester was a massier at the Atelier for seven years from like '70 to '77 before he came to Holy Cross to teach.
And so he was the one who suggested that I go work with Hayter.

Hayter.And it was, uh, I t- I often tell people I feel like I grew up in Paris.

I mean, I was, I was brought up in a very sheltered suburban life s- growing up and, and that was my first trip abroad, and it was absolutely spectacular year.
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