Tuesdays, October 14-November 11, 10 AM-4 PM

Registration Deadline: October 10 (extended!)

with Joyce Silverstone

This workshop is designed for artists with some monotype experience. Bring your ideas and plates to work on during this 5 day weekly workshop with an experimental open laboratory-feel. The intention for these five sessions is to give you supportive assistance where and when you need it. Individual feedback and group sharing will be part of each day, as well as technical help with permanently marked, glued, scratched or smooth plates to develop and deepen your experience making the one-of-a-kind print. Guidance in choosing paper, monoprint techniques and new ways of combining monotype methods may lead to a group demonstration or a one-to-one conversation about your areas of interest.

In this series of classes, participants will be encouraged to explore the additional challenge of considering compositions, accumulations, and extensions of imagery within a scrolling print. Create a pause? Begin some book pages? Experience the flow of visual content by starting with some open edges, overlapping and layering plates, or printing bleed prints. Try new strategies or review and practice techniques within a supportive group of printmakers.

Explore and experiment by delving deeper into what is needed; your interest may include drypoint mark-making or creating a relief plate or adding texture and tone with a carborundum collagraph. We will look at examples of these types of plates and prints and then bring the experience of the group to push the possibilities of each of these techniques in our “print lab”. Methods that are needed by all multi-plate printers will be covered as needed; for example, chine collé techniques, registration options, and stencil-making and printing.

The real advantage of the weekly class schedule is having time to work between classes, absorb the workshop information and take it into a daily practice.

Materials fee not included, participants will be billed at the end of the workshop based on the amount of paper and plates they use.

Joyce Silverstone is a graduate and traveling fellow of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is a core faculty member and mentor at Zea Mays Printmaking and teaches throughout New England. Her current body of work and her workshop teaching centers around layered multiple plate printing using monotype inking methods.