Tatana Kellner
Born1950 (1950)
NationalityCzech born American
Known forphotographer and book artist
PartnerAnn Kalmbach
Websitetatanakellner.com

Tatana "Tana" Kellner (born 1950) is an American artist.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors,[1] she was born in Czechoslovakia and came to Toledo, Ohio with her family in 1969. Kellner received a BA from the University of Toledo in 1972 and a MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982.[2] In 1974, she was one of the founders of the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York[3] with fellow artists Ann Kalmbach, Barbara Leoff Burge, and Anita Wetzel.[4] She has served as artistic director for the workshop's residency program.[5] She produces limited-edition artist's books, as well as installation art and photography.[6]

Kellner has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Empire State Crafts Alliance. She has received the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation Award and has been awarded residencies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, the Artpark in Lewiston, New York and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[2][7]

Her work is included in the collections of the Tate Library in London, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library.[2] Her work is also in the collection of the New York Public Library,[8] and the library of National Museum of Women in the Arts.[9]

She frequently collaborates with her life partner Ann Kalmbach[10] as Kakeart. In 2017 her collaborative book with , The Golden Rule, was a Special Merit Honoree at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts MCBA Prize.[11] Kellner has been named a "Papermaking Champion" by the North American Hand Papermakers[12]

References

  1. ^ Margolis, Judith (October 2004). "The Painted Word: Jewish Women's Book Art". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues. 8 (8): 251–267. doi:10.1353/NSH.2004.0073. S2CID 161853084.
  2. ^ a b c Tatana Kellner - Embarrassing Facts - Confronting History and Repairing the World (PDF). Kean University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2017.
  3. ^ Lind, Norah Hardin (Spring 2008). "In Memory: An Examination of Tatana Kellner's Paired Artist's Books, Fifty Years of Silence". Journal of Artist's Books (23): 22–29.
  4. ^ "Tatana Kellner". Women's Studio Workshop. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Tatana Kellner". Craft in America. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  6. ^ Flanagan, Sharyn (14 September 2016). "Tatana Kellner to be honored at 9th annual Women's Studio Workshop gala". Hudson Valley One. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Tatana Kellner". MacDowell. Archived from the original on 24 July 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Fifty years of silence by Tatana Kellner". New York Public Library (Transcript of audio guide). Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Search results for: Tatana Kellner". LRC Online Catalog. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Balderdash Trimmed, by Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner". Jaffe Center for Book Arts. 22 June 2020. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023 – via Vimeo.
  11. ^ "Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner, 'The Golden Rule'". The MCBA Prize. 13 June 2017. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  12. ^ Kennedy, Ann Marie. "Tatana Kellner, Papermaking Champion". North American Hand Papermakers. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
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