Digital
Atelier® is a printmaking studio for the 21st century
with locations near Boston, Massachusetts; Boulder, Colorado;
and Seattle, Washington. Combining traditional studio and media
techniques with digital imaging, artists Dorothy
Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin
Schminke produce original fine art and variant editions
using the latest computer equipment, imaging hardware and software.
Although they each use the computer as a tool, their work and
media choices are as varied as their backgrounds. It includes
one of a kind paintings, collages, image transfers, monotypes
and prints on surfaces as diverse as plywood, silk, rusty metal
and handmade substrates.
In
addition to the permanent location of the Digital Atelier in
the artists studios, it also exists as a traveling educational
forum to illustrate and evangelize the potential of digital tools
for artists. A Digital Atelier Event features artists-in-residence
in museums, galleries, printmaking studios, universities and
conferences using state-of-the-art hardware, software and color
printers. At each Event the artists are able to address their
educational goals by demonstrating new art production techniques,
giving lectures and presentations to the public on the issues,
techniques and potential of digital tools, and by exhibiting
their art.
The
artists' advocacy for this hybrid medium is evident in numerous
demonstrations, presentations and workshops they have given at
venues as diverse as the College Art Association, MacWorld, and
the Smithsonian Institution. Work from the Digital Atelier studios
is widely displayed both nationally and internationally. Their
art is in more than 200 corporate and museum collections including
the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art.
The
Digital Atelier artists conduct research on emerging technologies
to share with fellow artists while providing feedback to developers
from the artist perspective. Their leadership position in this
field allows them to spotlight successful innovation in this
rapidly evolving field as they write or have been written about
in dozens of periodicals and books.
Krause, Lhotka and Schminke are founding members of the digital artists collaborative Unique
Editions™.
Digital
Atelier® is a registered trademark of Lhotka, Krause, Schminke.
All images and text Copyright (C) 2007 by Bonny Lhotka
All Rights Reserved.
Images may not be copied without permission.
In
addition to the permanent location of the Digital Atelier in
the artists studios, it also exists as a traveling educational
forum to illustrate and evangelize the potential of digital tools
for artists. A Digital Atelier Event features artists-in-residence
in museums, galleries, printmaking studios, universities and
conferences using state-of-the-art hardware, software and color
printers. At each Event the artists are able to address their
educational goals by demonstrating new art production techniques,
giving lectures and presentations to the public on the issues,
techniques and potential of digital tools, and by exhibiting
their art. 
The
artists' advocacy for this hybrid medium is evident in numerous
demonstrations, presentations and workshops they have given at
venues as diverse as the College Art Association, MacWorld, and
the Smithsonian Institution. Work from the Digital Atelier studios
is widely displayed both nationally and internationally. Their
art is in more than 200 corporate and museum collections including
the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art. 
The
Digital Atelier artists conduct research on emerging technologies
to share with fellow artists while providing feedback to developers
from the artist perspective. Their leadership position in this
field allows them to spotlight successful innovation in this
rapidly evolving field as they write or have been written about
in dozens of periodicals and books.