Workshops

We offer a wide range of workshops for all levels, taught by experts in the field. Unless otherwise noted, workshops are for all levels. All workshop fees include materials. Lunch is delivered to the studio and we'll usually make a pot of espresso in the afternoons! Click on a title or scroll down for full descriptions.

 

Viscosity Monotype and Transfer Drawing

with Joyce Silverstone
January 23, 10-5
$130

and again on
January 30, 10-5
$130

Both of these workshops are full - call to be added to the waiting list or sign up for the May 8th workshop.

We will spend one day discovering the atmospheric painterly qualities of
viscosity rolls and the  immediacy of transfer drawn lines. We will have
the presses at Zea Mays to extend the range of possibilities, but this
could all be done in a home studio without a press. Participants will take
their viscosity prints through several states, to create a series of
related prints throughout the day. We will be layering plates and working
directly into prints with simple transfer drawing techniques. Using
water-based inks for their luminous colors, and oil paint to achieve crisp
linear marks, we will explore bringing these two simple printing methods
together. 

Joyce Silverstone studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She was a traveling Scholar and showed her work in NYC and Boston, collected by MIT and the De Cordova Museum. Joyce has been exploring ways of blending printing and painting for 30 years. She has taught image development and printing at Guild Studio School and Snowfarm in Williamsburg, MA. Joyce is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and teaches creative process to students of meditation and self awareness.

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Painterly Monotypes with Mixed Media

with Lynn Peterfreund
February 13/14, 10-5
$275

This workshop is full - call to put your name on the waiting list.

One of a kind prints offer the artist many ways of creating images that combine basic printmaking techniques with more familiar drawing and painting skills. In this workshop, we’ll use oil based inks and a variety of tools to create prints by  rolling out ink, adding and removing it for marks and textures,  and by using stencils and trace methods.  Besides learning how to layer prints to achieve complex value and color relationships, we’ll explore ways of integrating pastels and drawing inks directly onto the print.  Participants can be new to or already skilled in printmaking as the emphasis in this class will be on how to work in an improvisational way to develop images that come from drawing, photos or the imagination.

Lynn Peterfreund has been working as a painter, printmaker and art educator since receiving her MFA in 1980 from Pratt Institute. Her work reflects her interests in both representational and abstract art. Her most recent bodies of work are monotypes and monoprints that employ a vocabulary of forms based on years of working from observation of nature, still life and the figure. The prints emphasize color, composition and personal interpretations of forms and the landscape. Lynn has taught at a variety of institutions over the past thirty years. Her work is included in hundreds of private and corporate collections. Her mural work can be seen in hospitals, schools, bookstores, museums, and homes in western Massachusetts and beyond. http://www.peterfreund.com/lynn/

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Chine Collé Intensive

with Louise Kohrman
March 13/14, 10-6
$275

Chine collé is the process of concurrently printing and mounting a thinner sheet of printing paper onto a thicker backing sheet in order to achieve a luminous printing surface. Gain insight into this process through demonstrations and individual work with the instructor. We will learn how to cook and prepare the wheat paste adhesive, various application methods, dampening techniques, plate and press preparation, printing methods and corrections after printing. We will experiment with the different papers and less traditional techniques such as collage. Some printing experience is recommended. Everyone is asked to bring at least one pre-worked plate to class. 

Louise Kohrman is an artist and printmaker. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and currently lives in Shelburne Falls, MA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from The Rhode Island School of Design, her BA in studio art at Smith College and has completed a printmaking and book arts program in Italy through the University of Georgia. Louise interned at Zea Mays Printmaking as a studio assistant and worked as a printer at Wingate Studio in New Hampshire. She has taught various printmaking classes and workshops at RISD, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CT), The Printed Page (RI), and Zea Mays Printmaking (MA). Her work has been exhibited nationally, including group exhibitions at the New Bedford Art Museum (MA), The Lancaster Art Museum (PA), The RISD Art Museum (RI), The International Print Center New York, and Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA. http://www.louisekohrman.com/

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Mezzotint: Engraving Light out of Darkness

with Carol Wax
April 10/11, 10-5
$275

The focus of this two-day workshop is mezzotint engraving, a method for engraving luminous prints with rich tones and dramatic lighting effects without the use of acids or other toxic substances.  It’s the drypoint equivalent of drawing by blackening a white sheet of paper with charcoal and erasing the image areas. In mezzotint, a “rocker” tool churns a copper plate into a black background on which images are drawn with scrapers, burnishers, and various polishing materials. Traditional mezzotint methods presented include the most efficient way to prepare a mezzotint ground, proper care and handling of tools, image-making and printing techniques.  Mezzotint accommodates all artistic styles; one-on-one instruction addresses use of mezzotint and related engraving techniques to enhance one’s imagery and overcome common intaglio problems. Mezzotint rockers are supplied.  Prior printmaking experience is helpful, but not necessary. 

Carol Wax, author of The Mezzotint: History and Technique, is an internationally recognized artist whose award-winning prints are in numerous museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Museum of American Art, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the honors she has received are: two Artist Fellowships and a Concordia Career Advancement grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts; The Louise Nevelson Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. In addition to mezzotint workshops presented throughout the country, she has been on the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and The State University of New York at New Paltz.

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Spit Bite Aquatint

with Anita Hunt
April 24/25, 10-5
$275

Painterly intaglio! This workshop is an update on the traditional method of spit bite, using acrylic resist in place of rosin for the aquatint. The resist is sprayed on the copper plate with an airbrush then ferric chloride is brushed on, dripped on, or applied with a squeeze bottle to create soft tones and painterly marks. We will explore the many possibilities of this beautiful technique through the use of color, transparency and the overprinting of multiple plates. We will experiment with alternative materials for stopping out the plates prior to etching such as markers, litho crayons, and gouache to attain a greater range of tones and marks. Further development of the plates with scraping and burnishing will also be encouraged. All levels of experience are welcome. 

Anita S. Hunt studied art at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been an active printmaker for more than 25 years, frequently exhibiting her work in museums, university art galleries, and art centers throughout New England, at venues such as the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Wheaton College, the Danforth Museum of Art, Vermont College, the Attleboro Arts Museum, and the Newport Art Museum. Her prints and artist's books are regularly included in national and international printmaking biennials. Recent exhibits include: 72nd Midyear Exhibit at theButler Institute of American Art, New Prints 2009/Winter and 2007/Winter at IPCNY, New York, La Biennale d’estampe Internationale Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, Canada (2009, 2007), The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition (2005), The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial (2009, 2005, 2003), Parkside National Small Print Exhibition (2007, 2005, 1995), BIMPE International Print Exhibition (2008, 2006), Delta National Small Prints Exhibit (2008, 2004), International Miniature Print Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (2005), The Minnesota National Print Biennial (2004), and the Janet Turner Print Museum, among many others.
Anita is a member of the Boston Printmakers and the Past President of the Monotype Guild of New England. Her work is held in dozens of private collections and in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), Smith College Museum of Art, Arkansas State University, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Boston Public Library Print Collection.

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Viscosity Monotype and Transfer Drawing

with Joyce Silverstone
May 8, 10-5
$130

We will spend one day discovering the atmospheric painterly qualities of
viscosity rolls and the  immediacy of transfer drawn lines. We will have
the presses at Zea Mays to extend the range of possibilities, but this
could all be done in a home studio without a press. Participants will take
their viscosity prints through several states, to create a series of
related prints throughout the day. We will be layering plates and working
directly into prints with simple transfer drawing techniques. Using
water-based inks for their luminous colors, and oil paint to achieve crisp
linear marks, we will explore bringing these two simple printing methods
together. 

Joyce Silverstone studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She was a traveling Scholar and showed her work in NYC and Boston, collected by MIT and the De Cordova Museum. Joyce has been exploring ways of blending printing and painting for 30 years. She has taught image development and printing at Guild Studio School and Snowfarm in Williamsburg, MA. Joyce is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and teaches creative process to students of meditation and self awareness.

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CANCELLATION POLICY

If a workshop is cancelled because of low enrollment, your registration will be fully refunded.
If you cancel your registration at least two weeks prior to the workshop, you will receive a refund for the total fee minus 10%.
Cancellations within two weeks of the workshop will result in a refund only if someone is found to fill your space.