Derek Cracco is Associate Professor of printmaking and computer graphics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received a BFA degree from Louisiana State University in 1996 and an MFA from Syracuse University in 1999. Cracco has participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including Digital Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NY; The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts Juried Annual, in Loveladies, New Jersey; Wrong Time, Wrong Place, at T.E.N.T. Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Risky Business at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY. Cracco has been recognized for his innovative combination of traditional printmaking processes and computer graphics. His work has been purchased by several museums and by many private collections throughout the country and abroad.