Hartford Print Workshop and Lecture: Thomas Lyon Mills
Please join the Hartford Art School's Printmaking Department in welcoming the Hartford Print Workshop artist for 2026, Thomas Lyon Mills. Tom will give an artist talk and lecture on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
Beginning March 30, all are welcome to visit the printshop in Taub Hall (V134) to see the etchings Tom will be working on, and HAS students will have a chance to participate in the printing process. Face masks are highly encouraged, due to the artist’s health condition.
About The Hartford Print Workshop:
Since its inception in 1978, the Hartford Print Workshop has been an innovative educational program in which students can observe a major visual artist creating a printed work of art, often with a master printer. The Hartford Print Workshop has hosted artists including James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Susan Rothenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Tetenbaum, and many others. The Hartford Print Workshop has been funded through the generosity of the Hartford Art School Endowment, Inc. since 1984.
About the Artist:
For more than 30 years Thomas Lyon Mills has received unique access to paint in the Italian catacombs and numerous European pagan sites. From there, beginning with his onsite work and the influence of his dreams, he returns to his studio to work on pieces often for years. He is represented by the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City.
His exhibition record includes the Allan Stone Gallery, the Luise Ross Gallery and the Drawing Center in New York City; the Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn; the Rafius Fane Gallery in Boston; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA; the Boston Athenaeum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR; and numerous venues in Europe, including the American Academy in Rome and the residence of the United States Ambassador in Italy.
He is Professor Emeritus of Drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design, and while at RISD he won the competition to be the Academic Head of RISD’s European Honors Program based in Rome, Italy. He has traveled extensively from Norway to France and Germany, and has received grants to live in Greece, Turkey, and Mexico. He lectured and critiqued at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and participated in Harvard’s Design Discovery Program for more than a dozen years. Other guest artist invitations include the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; the Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI; Parsons School of Design, NY; Auburn University, AL; and both Temple University’s and Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute’s programs in Rome. In 1996 he received RISD’s John R. Frazier Award for excellence in teaching.
Thomas Lyon Mills lives in Providence, RI with his wife, the artist Susan Werner.
To learn more about Tom’s work, visit thomaslyonmills.com
His recent monograph Arcana is available at Paper Nautilus Books: rb.gy…
For questions, please contact Kasey Ramirez, ksramirez@hartford.edu.
