Kenneth Kerslake (1930-2007) was a printmaker and educator who worked mainly in Florida.
Kenneth Kerslake was born in Mount Vernon, New York and went to school at the Pratt Institute in New York City to begin his formal art studies. He transferred from Pratt to the University of Illinois in Champaign in 1953 where he received both a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts. In 1958 he joined the faculty of the University of Florida where he founded its Printmaking Program. In 1956, Kerslake married his wife Sarah "Sally" Allen, and they adopted two children Scott Paul in 1963 and Katharine Rachel in 1964.
Kerslake's first foray into lithography was in 1964 and was based on his paintings created in response to the assassination of President Kennedy. In the 1970s, Kerslake began his work using photograph processes in printmaking. In the late 1980s Kerslake spent the summer teaching with the University of Georgia's Summer Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. In 1990, Kerslake became interested in Vitreography when he was invited to be an artist-in-residence to create in the technique at Littleton Studio in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
His work is found in many museums, including a permanent display at the University of Florida's Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
Kerslake died on January 7th, 2007, in Gainesville, Florida.