As Superstorm Sandy barreled toward the East Coast in late October, it became more urgent for Paula Panczenko, the executive director of Tandem Press, to get to New York. So she jumped on a plane before the start of the 2012 International Fine Print Dealers? Association Print Fair, an important event in the art world ? and the most significant sales venue of the year for the artwork that?s created by UW-Madison?s Tandem Press….Sales for Tandem at that show, Panczenko said, were ?very good.?
The tale illustrates Tandem?s entrepreneurial spirit and the broad reach that Tandem Press, founded 25 years ago, now has across the country. More than 300 university students and 63 early-career and well-established artists have worked at the fine art press, whose very name ? Tandem ? is about the collaboration between artists and master printers.