Tuesday - Thursday, August 11-13, 2020, 10-5
Wood lithography is a medium for the artist-printmaker who seeks the distinct aesthetic qualities that only it can offer. Learn the history and methods of this young process and experience combining drawn and painterly qualities with woodcut.
Author Archives: Liz Chalfin
Lithography on Wood with Liz Bannish
Photopolymer Intensive with Nancy Diessner
Monday - Sunday, August 3-9, 2020, 10-5
The intersection of printmaking and photography is rich with creative possibilities. This week-long workshop is dedicated to exploring photopolymer intaglio.
Tuesdays with Photopolymer with Nancy Diessner
Tuesdays, May 5-26, 2020, 10-2
On these four Tuesdays in May, we’ll explore some of the technical and expressive possibilities of photopolymer plates. Each week we’ll work with the plates differently, but in ways that will build on each other.
Printed Art Now: Introduction to Metal Salt Etching with Friedhard Kiekeben
Friday-Sunday, June 12-14, 2020, 10-5
Come learn about metal salt etching as applied to aluminum and zinc from the inventor of the process! 2-D, 3-D, constructed, the emphasis is on each participant's creative vision, and realization of a personal project within contemporary art practice utilizing safe mark-making media and resists, metal salt etching, and innovative approaches to printmaking.
Drawing and Drypoint on Copper with Lynn Peterfreund
Wednesday mornings, April 15, 22, 29, 2020, 10-2
This 3-week workshop offers a chance to gain or revive your drawing skills and apply them to making a drypoint on a copper plate. This direct method of working is a beautiful end in itself, or a great first step to learn about intaglio printing.
Collage Plus! with Lynn Peterfreund
Saturday & Sunday, February 8-9, 2020, 10-5
Bring your old, your unresolved, or proof prints and random papers and materials to this workshop for making collage prints. Instruction in both creating dynamic composition through collage and monotype additions will bring these composite prints to life.
Improvisational Printmaking with Beverage Cartons with Angela Zammarelli
Saturday & Sunday, June 27-28, 2020, 10-5
In this two-day workshop we will explore printing techniques using drink cartons as printing plates and a “what’s around the home” approach to creating images.
Advanced Etching Projects with Liz Chalfin
Monday-Friday, July 20-31, 2020, 9-4 with open studio time until 6 PM weekdays and 10-5 weekend
This workshop is designed for artists to conceive, develop and complete an edition of etchings. Artists will work with studio director Liz Chalfin to map out a plan to create a finished intaglio print that may include multiple plates, color printing, chine colle and more.
Summer Monotype – Monoprint with Joyce Silverstone
Monday-Friday, June 22-26, 2020, 10-5
Play and improvise in this workshop as a means of generating ideas and expand your visual vocabulary. This workshop will provide guided experiences in a variety of monotype techniques with the addition of monoprint plates that are carved / incised / built to explore repeatable-but not-necessarily-edition-able plates
Pronto Plate Drawings with Joyce Silverstone
Saturday & Sunday, May 16-17, 2020, 10-5
Pronto Plate Lithography one of the simplest, most direct methods of making prints from drawn-line images, or textural patterns. In this workshop we will explore direct drawing with tools that are oil-loving to create repeatable drawings / marks that can be pushed in surprising directions toward painterly monotype, and layering the drawings with color.
Kitchen Table Monotype with Joyce Silverstone
Saturday, May 9, 2020, 10-5
Does the soft suggestion of ground and form combined with narrative or abstract line drawings speak to you? Learn the techniques that can bring this into your studio - no presses required
Tuesday Morning Monotype – Play with the Plate with Joyce Silverstone
Tuesdays, March 31 – April 28, 2020, 10-3
This workshop is designed for monotype participants who would like to delve a little deeper into mark making and color with the support of an on-going class. Play and improvise in a variety of monotype techniques with the addition of some repeatable images on incised Petg drypoint plates