Mahlon F. Craft
Biography
Mahlon F. Craft
Mahlon has been in the arts all of his life. His father was a well known Cincinnati Artist and head of the WPA Federal Arts Poject in that city. His mother was the daughter of a concert pianist.
The first ten years of his life were spent in the southwestern Ohio countryside east of Cincinnati. In 1951 his parents moved to the city, where he lived till graduating from art school in 1963. In 1964 he was accepted for graduate work as a student at large at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he met his wife Kinuko. After completing his studies there in 1965, he worked as an Advertising Art Director for a number of different ad agencies till the early seventies, when he left the business to pursue Photography as a Fine Art. This has continued to be a passion of his ever since. In the spring of 1983, they left Chicago to relocate in Norfolk, Connecticut where he now works and lives.
At present, he manages Craft Partners/ Kinuko Y. Craft Arts, which is a business his wife, the Artist Kinuko Y. Craft and him have operated together since 1972. Since that time he has worked as a graphic designer/photographer/author/and fine arts print maker. In 2002 his first written work, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, illustrated by his wife, was published by SeaStar Books. In 2005, they formed Windy Hill Editions, an in house fine arts press devoted to publishing limited editions of Kinuko's art. At that time, he became certified as a master giclée printer by Giclee Printers Europe.
Mahlon F. Craft
