National Non-Toxic Printmaking Invitational

David Jay Reed

Toxic Printmaking at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 and is currently a Lecturer there.

Born Yokosuka, Japan, in 1950, David Jay Reed traveled extensively as a child between the USA, Australia and Japan. He received an Associate in Arts Degree from Contra Costa College, California, in 1969, and worked as a political cartoonist. He received an Associate of Design from the Western Australian Institute of Technology 1972 and worked as a graphic designer until 1975. He then joined the Art Gallery of Western Australia as an education officer and took up photography, turning semi-professional 1980. He completed both a Diploma of Printmaking from the WA School of Art and Design and a Graduate Diploma in Education from Curtin University in 1990. He was a full time Lecturer in Design for the WA School of Art and Design. Then, in Tokyo, Japan, he taught English and exhibited his art.

He participated in a Master Workshop in Non-Toxic Printmaking at Fairview College with Professor Keith Howard. After lecturing in Computer Science for colleges in Australia, he moved to Rochester, New York, in 2000 to enter the Rochester Institute of Technology and earn an MFA.