Mark Pascale is a lithographer who has been active in the Chicago art world for nearly forty years, as a curator, researcher, and professor. Currently, he is Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, and concurrently Senior Lecturer in Print Media, at School of the Art Institute. His recent contributions to the field include the exhibitions and catalog essays for Hairy Who? 1966–1969, Charles White: A Retrospective, Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, and Jasper Johns: Gray, published by and exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, he is working on exhibitions focused on the drawings of Joseph Yoakum, and the woodblock prints of Lygia Pape.