Dean Jackson Meeker
American,
(1920–2002)
Dean Jackson Meeker was an American printmaker. Meeker's teaching career began in 1946 with his appointment as instructor in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and in 1950 he was promoted to assistant professor. In 1949 he began teaching the silkscreen process and his experiments in silkscreen led to his development of using a combination of polymer plate intaglios and screen printing. To achieve this he had to develop the “Meeker” press to print the high relief plates and his first successful serigraphy-polymer intaglio print was published in 1961. Meeker continued to teach drawing, painting and printmaking at Madison until 1992.