Portfolios: Richard Peterson

Richard Peterson is noted for his innovative approach to combining digital and traditional printmaking techniques. He graduated with a BFA in painting/printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute, where he fell in love with lithography while working with William McKim. He taught painting, drawing, and lithography for 16 years at Ventura College, and in 1998 moved his wife and three daughters to Visalia, California, to take a full-time professorship at College of the Sequoias (COS), where he founded the lithography program. He retired from COS in May 2018, after 36 total years of teaching drawing and lithography.  He is proud to call himself a lithographer.