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Stone Lithography

Coleman

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July 3-8

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This workshop offers both introductory and advanced level techniques in the medium of stone lithography. Those enrolled in this course can expect to be exposed to traditional and contemporary applications. We will explore dry and liquid materials, representational and abstract approaches using drawing and painterly methods as well as additive and reductive processes. Prior experience welcome but not necessary.

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Aaron Coleman is a multi-disciplinary artist, Associate Professor and Kenneth E. Tyler Endowed Chair at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University in 2013. Coleman was a co-founder of the Sienna Collective for Students of Color in the Arts at the University of Arizona and in 2021 received the Provost Award for Innovations in Teaching as well as the College of Fine Arts Undergraduate Mentorship Award.

Coleman has exhibited internationally and received numerous awards, scholarships and fellowships for his work in lithography and mezzotint. In 2021 he received the Black Box Press Foundation’s Art as Activism Grant. His work can be found in the collections of The Janet Turner Print Museum, The University of Colorado, Wichita State University, the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan, The Yekaterinburg Museum of Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Ewing Gallery Collection, and The Artist Printmaker and Photographer Research Archive among many other public and private collections.

Book Structures for Print Media

Holland

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July 3-8

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While the fields of printmaking and book arts are closely associated with one another, there is oftentimes a tacit chasm that is experienced by artists on both sides and folded book structures are uniquely situated to provide a traversable passing between the two domains. In this workshop, participants will learn how to make several folded book structures that are conducive to incorporating hand-printed content due to their simple construction and ability to open flat. Using two basic, folded elements—folios and concertinas—we will cover how to construct the Chinatown accordion, the drum leaf binding, the storage book, and the crown book. Through discussions, viewing examples, and producing binding models, participants will gain an understanding of the benefits and creative possibilities that these book structures present to them. Participants can expect to leave with at least four folded book structures and the knowledge to use them to introduce dimensional and narrative qualities to printed media. No prior experience required.

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Kyle Holland is a visual artist who is currently an instructor and studio manager for the MFA Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. He has also been adjunct faculty at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and an instructor at the 2019 Wells Book Arts Summer Institute at Wells College, Aurora, NY. His work was most recently exhibited in Psych Land, a three-person exhibition at FAR Contemporary Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL that traveled to The Hall Gallery in the Windgate Visual Arts Center at Millsaps College, Jackson, MS. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, The Center for Book Arts, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and UC Berkeley among others.

Photopolymer Intaglio

Parrish

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July 3-8

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Photopolymer plates are known for their ability to produce very fine detail, a full range of continuous tone, and the rich, velvety blacks associated with copperplate aquatints. These light-sensitive plates are developed in water making this a less toxic process than traditional intaglio. This process affords artists the flexibility to work with a wide variety of imagery, from traditionally photographic to line art and hand-drawn images with nuanced tone and texture.articipants in this workshop will learn all aspects of the photopolymer process, including relevant Photoshop skills, methods of making transparencies (both hand-drawn and printed), plate exposures, and printing. We will also cover the recently developed direct-to-plate method that eliminates the need for transparencies. Registration methods for multi-plate color printing and experimental printing methods (á la poupée and chine-collé) will be addressed. All levels of experience are welcome.

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Heather Parrish employs printmaking, experimental photography, collage and installation to unsettle simple binaries and foster consideration of complex embodiments of boundaries. Her heightened sensitivity to ‘self and surrounding’ arises from her culturally nomadic childhood growing up as an American in Southeast Asia. Collaboration is a sustaining part of her practice including work with scientists, filmmakers, poets, and activists, bees, microbes, canals, creeks and other flowways. Parrish received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked as a professional collaborating printer at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas, and has exhibited work in the United States and internationally. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.

Wood Engraving

Price

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July 3-8

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Wood engraving creates delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect as stand-alone images, or as illustrations to letterpress holiday cards, artist’s books, or posters. Learn to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover all parts of the process – materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, and proofing. All levels welcome – some drawing experience helpful, but not required.

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Joanne Price (She/ Her) is the founder of Starpointe Studio, specializing in wood engraving, letterpress, and book arts. She is President Emeritus of the Wood Engravers’ Network (2014 – 2020), an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers and has collaborated with letterpress imprints like Larkspur Press illustrating books for authors like Wendell Berry, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank X Walker, and more. Price exhibits nationally and internationally and has aspirations to create a short wordless novel with wood engravings!

Multi-Colored Multiples

Torgerson

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July 3-8

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This workshop will cover the versatile world of screenprinting using photo emulsion stencils. Students will transform hand-drawn imagery into colorful, multi-layer screenprints using traditional and not-so-traditional techniques. Editioning, layering, trapping, color interaction, and multiple means of registration will be showcased. Screenprint monoprints and other ways of playing with stencils will also be explored. Participants will combine these processes with their own imagery to create colorful and complex prints. Perfect for people who love to draw. All levels, no previous experience is required.

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Originally from the northern woods of Minnesota, Tonja Torgerson received her BFA from the University of Minnesota and MFA in Printmaking at Syracuse University. Her artwork is regularly exhibited nationally and internationally; and is included in private and museum collections, including the Weisman Art Museum and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Torgerson has been a resident artist at West Virginia Wesleyan College, the Lawrence Arts Center, Fogo Island, AIR: Artist Image Resource of Pittsburgh, and New York Mills, Minnesota. She is a Lecturer of Printmaking at Indiana University.  Her work deals with illness, identity, and the complex role of the body.

Mezzotint: Beyond the Black Background

Wohletz

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July 3-8

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Mezzotint is a form of intaglio printmaking in which the artist works reductively to reveal the light from a field of black. From pure whites to velvety blacks, mezzotint offers an unparalleled range of tones within the art of printmaking. In this course we will cover the basics as well as explore unique possibilities within the medium of Mezzotint. Demonstrations will include the creation of mezzotint rockering jigs, tool care, preparing copper plates, rocking, image making and printing techniques. Additionally, we will discuss registration and the use of mezzotint in combination with a variety of other print processes, as well as full color mezzotint utilizing multiple plates.

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Erin Wohletz is the professor of printmaking at the University of South Dakota. Originally from Las Vegas they received their MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and their BFA in Printmaking and Painting from the University of Nevada, Reno. Erin Wohletz has participated in over seventy exhibitions across the United States including; Unfinished/ New Prints at IPCNY and a solo exhibition at Northwest Arts Center in 2022. Wohletz has also been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in San Francisco California and Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor, Ireland. Wohletz curated an exhibition of ornithological lithographs by Elizabeth Gould titled ‘Between the Hand and Sky, The Art of Elizabeth Gould’ for the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture in 2021 and they run the website TheFutureIsQueer.com, an online exhibition and index of over one hundred international LGBTQ+ printmakers.

Intaglio

Bowman

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July 10-15

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This workshop will explore line etching, drypoint, soft ground and aquatint used in layered methods to take advantage of the tactile qualities inherent in the intaglio print. Various approaches to color printing including color mixing, ink modification, stenciled surface rolls, and multiple plate registration will be covered. Copper plates etched with ferric chloride will be used. Students may produce editions or monoprint variations. Appropriate for both beginners and advanced intaglio artists.

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Kevin Bowman was born and raised in Hartford City, Indiana. He attended Ball State University, where he received a BFA in Printmaking in 1994, and the University of South Dakota, where he received his MFA in Printmaking in 2002. Following completion of his graduate work he joined the Art Department at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, where he taught printmaking, drawing, foundations, design, and digital imaging for fifteen years. From 2006 to 2017, he served as the director and curator of Arts Visalia, a non-profit visual arts center.  Bowman is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Printmaking at Montgomery College in Silver Spring, MD.

Mokuhanga

Brodbeck

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July 10-15

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At the onset of this mokuhanga workshop, participants will make a two-color print from prepared blocks using; water-based pigments, kento registration, and pressing with a baren – all hallmarks of this Japanese woodblock printmaking process dating back to the 17^th century. We will then move into designing, carving and printing our own designs with thorough demonstrations of each step along the way including bokashi (color gradation). Examples of color layering and other printing techniques unique to the process will also be shown. At the workshops’ closing, we will have the option of exchanging prints with one another.

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Mary Brodbeck received her BFA from Michigan State University in Industrial design in 1982 and worked as a furniture designer for a dozen years – many of her designs hold US patents – before shifting to image making in the 1990’s. She studied Japanese woodblock printmaking in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka on a Japanese government BUNKA-Cho Fellowship in 1998 and obtained her MFA from Western Michigan University 1999. Her place-based woodblock prints have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the United States and can be found in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Muskegon Museum of Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, and in many other public and private holdings worldwide. Mary continues to make her colorful woodblock prints from adventures during her explorations and travels. Her home base is Kalamazoo, Michigan.

A Mask of Your Spiritual Self

Reinaldo Gil Zambrano

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July 10-15

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Participants will be introduced to relief printmaking by designing unique mask prints inspired by iconography from their personal experiences and life. Then, motivated by the “Dancing Devil of Corpus Christi” Venezuelan annual celebration, students will draw, carve, and print original symmetrical/ asymmetrical mask designs on paper.

Using the principle of multiples, students will be exposed to the process of wall installation by repetition, creating a wall composition in the form of paste-up in collaboration with their classmates. Prints will be altered using acrylic paint washes and cutouts.

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Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaker originally from Caracas, Venezuela and currently based in Spokane, WA. RGZ is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Gonzaga University as well as an artist member at the Saranac Art Projects, co-founder of the Spokane Print & Publishing Center, and Spanish host for Hello Print Friend.

His desire to promote the printmaking practice has guided him towards the development of projects such as “First Vandal Steam Roller Project” and “The Ink Rally” where large carved pieces were printed on fabric using an asphalt roller with the help of many printmaking enthusiasts. RGZ has been collaborating with local non-profits in the development of the Spokane Print Fest, an event that celebrates all things print-related where local universities, students, artists, instructors, and professors offer live printing demos and exhibit artwork in the pursuit of promoting accessible printmaking to the rest of the community. These projects have worked as communal developers and forces of integration between the academic, artistic, and larger communities in the Northwest

Monotype / Monoprint

Heinrich Toh

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July 10-15

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This hands-on workshop balances process, play and content by building rich layers of color, composition and imagery. For printmakers, photographers, or mixed media artists wanting to create one off pieces, participants will discover applications for monotypes and delve into the versatile process of Paper Lithography, the transfer of imagery by inking Xeroxed/photo copies as a plate, printed on an etching press. The potential qualities inherent in this versatile process allows participants to explore and further challenge the use of imagery from their own photographs and drawings to the next level. Participants can experiment working from a photographic, painterly or collage approach with the goal of creating the layered monoprint with numerous possibilities. The class will also explore applications for monotypes with a variety of materials and methods to create depth and space between backgrounds and foregrounds with texture, mark making and brushstrokes to create dialog and narrative in your work.

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Heinrich Toh is a studio artist and educator based in Kansas City, MO. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and the La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore where he grew up. Toh has taught numerous workshops at art centers and institutions the past 16 years. His work is in public and private collections that include the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, the Truman Medical Center, the Loews Kansas City Convention Center Hotel, the University Hospital of Cleveland, and the Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, TX. He has exhibited internationally and extensively in the United States including exhibitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, the Wing Luke Asian Museum, and the Bellevue Art Museum. Toh has won numerous awards for excellence in printmaking over the past 20 years. His work explores the evolution of identity, memories of past and present, and the definition of home.

Metal Engraving

Yamamoto

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July 10-15

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This workshop is a comprehensive introduction to the art of engraving. We will be focusing on in-depth understanding of the tools, sharpening, and physical mark-making of the unique craft of metal engraving.  The essential idea for this activity is to skate through on the surface of the plate and then swim into copper metal.  First, participants will practice carving on Lexan plastic to grasp the variety of expressive lines made by engraving tools, then participants will move on to the copper plate and to complete image-making and printing. This course is open to all levels.

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Koichi Yamamoto was born in Osaka, Japan and grew up in Dayton, Wyoming.  His experience in northern Wyoming formed his interest in the natural sciences and art.  He completed his BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland then moved to Krakow, Poland to produce lithographs.  Yamamoto later studied burin copper engravings at Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.  While in Europe he also worked as a textile designer in Fredericia, Denmark.  Upon his return to North America, Yamamoto completed his MFA at the University of Alberta.  He has taught at Utah State University and the University of Delaware and is currently a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Yamamoto is an artist who merges the traditional and contemporary by creating unique and innovative approaches to the language of printmaking. He has worked with meticulous copper engravings to large-scale monotypes.  Yamamoto’s prints explore fluid dynamics and most recently he has been focusing on making and flying kites.

Positive Plate Lithography

Younce

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July 10-15

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This Positive (Photo) Plate Lithography intensive will be focused on hybrid-imaging. Learn to combine traditional hand-drawn techniques with digitally output transparencies to create imagery like no other medium can! We will explore the differences between mylar types and utilize them to our advantage. Students will design, expose, develop, and print 2-3 multi color plates. Master Lithographers and Beginners alike are welcome! Explore what makes Plate Lithography so versatile and how it so easily lends itself to building up multiple color layers. Participants are encouraged to bring source imagery and/or preliminary sketches in order to dive right in to the project.

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Elizabeth Jean Younce (b. 1993 Newport, RI) is a visual artist working primarily in printmaking and illustration. Specifically, through the mediums of lithography and graphite her work functions as a psychological investigation of the flora and fauna inhabiting our world. While primarily (and proudly) a printmaker, Younce has produced her prints in conjunction with installation, sculpture, bookbinding, found object, drawing, and painting. In addition to her Fine Art studio practice, Younce is also the owner of Mustard Beetle where she sells mainly screenprints, relief prints, and giclée prints, on paper and on fabric. Because of Mustard Beetle, Younce is able to simultaneously function as a Fine Artist and a Commercial Illustrator.

Younce received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and her BFA in Illustration and Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in 2015. She has master-printing experience from Gemini G.E.L. and Tandem Press. Younce currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where she is pursuing her fine art as well as her small business.