DeAnn L. Prosia

DeAnn L. Prosia (born March 22, 1963, in Chicago, IL) is an American printmaker, known for her photo-realist architectural line etchings, an intalgio printmaking process that can take her up to 400 hours to complete. Prosia has won over a hundred awards for her artwork and is in private and public collections, such as the Rockwell Museum, the New York Public Library Print Collection, and the Syracuse University Art Collection.

Process Detail of artist DeAnn L. Prosia working on her line etching, "Oasis" Detail of one of DeAnn L. Prosia’s etching plates with a ruler to show the scale of her line work As a printmaker, Prosia utilizes only line work, in the form of cross-hatching, in her etchings to create the structure, tone, texture, and contrast of her highly detailed cityscapes. Line etching is an intalgio printmaking process where acid is used to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal place to create a design. Prosia uses a sharp sewing needle as her scribe, allowing her to build highly detailed imagery with only the use of line.

In the mid-1990s, Prosia left Chicago and spent a year and a half in Erlanger, KY. From there she moved to Monroe, CT, where she became a member of the Silvermine Art Guild and the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) in New York City. In 2002 The Old Print Shop in NYC, began representing her (2002–present).

From 2006–2009, Prosia lived in Mainz, Germany. In 2007, she had her first international solo exhibition, "Etchings of DeAnn Prosia" at Art'N'Act Galerie. Her second international solo exhibition followed in 2009, "Mein Mainz", at Eisenturm Galerie.

From 2019–2021, Prosia served as Vice President of SAGA, and from 2021–2023 she served as President. Some of her most notable accomplishments included securing a member show at The Gallery at The Met Store at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and establishing the annual national juried print exhibition, Mini Gems, in 2022. New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY International Exlibris Centre, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium The American Women Artists Exhibition Award of Excellence, 2016 The Jane Peterson Memorial Award, 2018 Audubon Artists Silver Medal of Honor, 2019 Gold Medal of Honor-The Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 123rd annual Juried Exhibition, The National Arts Club, NYC, 2020 Best in Show, the Anna Hyatt Huntington Horse's Head Award for two-dimensional work, 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award, AWA's Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists, Customs House Museum Exhibition, Clarksville, TN, 2022 The Ernest D. Roth Memorial Etching Award, 2023 Jacob Landau Memorial Award for Printmaking, 2023