Events
Events Search and Views Navigation
April 2022
Encaustic Collagraph Printmaking: Merging of Mediums with Elise Wagner
Learn how to print from the textures of wax. Elise Wagner will guide you through her unique printmaking method she innovated which brings together techniques characteristic to encaustic painting with that of collagraph printmaking. A collagraph is a collaged printing plate where typically various fabrics, organic material, string, or flat objects are inked and printed from. In this class, we replace the collage materials with white encaustic wax and create multiples that can vary in depth, color, paper, plate type,…
Find out more »June 2022
The Viewer Becomes a Traveler: Making Scroll Prints with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone
June 2 - 5 / 10am to 5pm Play, improvise and learn how to print monotype and relief images that move across the page, working either abstractly or figuratively. Draw, compose and collage a series of prints either vertically or horizontally with fluid overlaps to tell a story and create a visual poetic line. Carve and incise plastic plates while exploring monotype inking methods on surfaces that disrupt and enhance the chance for beauty and accident. Techniques demonstrated will include:…
Find out more »The Painted Pot – Guest Artist Workshop with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Bede Clark
This workshop will explore both wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery and drawing/painting on the clay with a focus on building a personal approach to form and imagery. The workshop will be presented as hands-on. Demonstrations, slide lectures and group discussion in this workshop will focus on basic forming and painting skills, but more, we will seek to clarify strategies for creating articulate individual pottery forms. Forms created will be decorated with a direct and simple approach to painting, with a earthenware…
Find out more »Intention and Surprise: Printmaking with Akua Inks with Catherine Kernan
Price: $550 workshop cost includes materials (except paper), and dinner + 3 lunches. Modifying and controlling the viscosities of inks yields results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of the ink interactions allows the development of multi-color prints from a single plate, and naturally leads to sequences of related images Understanding the interaction of inks is fundamental. This three-day intensive workshop will introduce and deepen your understanding of how to mix, modify, and to use Akua inks…
Find out more »Summer Mark-Making Lab with Speedball Professional Artist Network Partner Joyce Silverstone
Summer Mark-Making Lab Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio June 18 + 19 / 10am to 5pm Participants will explore beautiful drypoint mark-making: Scratch, sand, and abrade the surface of a plastic plate to create an image that can be wiped with tarlatan which allows those burrs and kicked up plate material to hold ink. Petg plastic will be the substrate for the drypoints and monotypes, which is a flexible, transparent plastic sheet. We’ll proof and print these plates using Akua Intaglio…
Find out more »July 2022
Solarplate with Dan Welden
Limited to 8 each class Artists wishing to experience high quality and detail with intaglio or relief, Solarplate provides both, and in an environmentally friendly way. You will get to create quality impressions, without the use of nasty acids, grounds or sharp tools on a long lasting plate. Solarplate is such a creative person’s process. It easily allows for drawing and/or painting, photocopy or computer images. Your image is readily transferred to a light sensitized Solarplate that then is developed in…
Find out more »Monoprinting for Printmakers, Painters, and Photographers with Susan Rostow
Art New England / A Mass Art Program Week One: July 10–16, 2022 Art New England will take place at Hamilton College in Clinton, Upstate New York Link to Art New England workshop website https://ane.massart.edu/week_one/monoprinting-for-printmakers-painters-and-photographers/ For more information and registration please contact Jackie Knight jknight@massart.edu This workshop is designed for any artist who wants to learn how to create unique prints without a large investment in equipment. We will be using the handheld Pin Press which offers the mobility that allows you to create prints at home,…
Find out more »CNC Intensive Play with Blocks and Inks with Catherine Kernan
Price:$999 + Tax Turn high contrast images into relief woodcuts without touching a carving tool. Your images will be pre-carved by a CNC machine and ready to use upon arrival. More blocks can be carved during the workshop, and hand carving can be added. We will ink and print the blocks in a wide variety of ways, such as off-setting to plastic or wood for viscosity rolling; lifting ink with the wood block; inserting tissue for a texture layer; and…
Find out more »Direct-to-Plate Photopolymer Gravure with Don Messec
DTP (Direct-to-Plate) produces gravure quality plates to print without the need of a vacuum frame, transparency films, screens or carbon tissue, not even baths of chemicals like multiple baths of Ferric Chloride – just water. There is no longer the need to go through the laborious process of masking, etching, etching again and again, deoxidation of a metal plate – rinse, repeat. And because digital imaging can be exploited to create content, anything can end up in a plate: drawing, photos,…
Find out more »