Tuesday-Thursday, August 26-28, 10 AM-5 PM

with Margo Temple and Liz Chalfin

If you’re already familiar with photopolymer intaglio printmaking and are curious about expanding your approach, this workshop is for you. Over the course of three days, we will explore ways to disrupt the traditional work flow and introduce creative opportunities for using this flexible intaglio process.

Using either photographs or drawings as a starting point, we’ll experiment with disrupting the film positives, altering the exposed plates and expanding the printing techniques to include stencils, surface rolls, multi-plate printing, chine collé, and a la poupée inking.

This is an opportunity to take your photopolymer etchings into new creative territory!

Participants should be comfortable working independently in the darkroom, have a basic understanding of manipulating images in Photoshop and familiarity with photopolymer intaglio processes, including inking, wiping, and printing intaglio plates.

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

About the Instructors

Margo Temple is originally from the Chicago area and relocated to Western Massachusetts in 2009. She graduated from Bucknell University in 1991 and continued her education studying ecology at Binghamton University (MA 1995). Her creative life has included floral design, graphic design, photography, and printmaking. She has been part of the Zea Mays Printmaking community since 2014 and has completed ZMP’s mentorship program studying with Nancy Diessner, interned with the studio, and completed the Green Printmaking Certificate. Her current practice involves combining photography and drawing through polymer intaglio printmaking.

Liz Chalfin is founder and director of Zea Mays Printmaking.  Liz has been involved in printmaking for the past 45 years as an educator and researcher.  Her own art practice involves printmaking, drawing, collage and artist’s books. Her work is in numerous international public and private collections. View her work at www.lizchalfin.com.

This workshop is currently full. Fill out the form below to be placed on the waiting list.