Demonstrations & Workshops

This workshop is designed to introduce monotype, linoleum block printing, drypoint and collagraph. Each week for 30 minutes, the focus will be on the history of each medium along with demonstration. Thereafter, each participant will have the opportunity to work in the new technique and print their work. This workshop is for novice and experienced...more » Introduction to Printmaking with Meaghan Morrow

Intended as a sequel to the previous weekend workshop, deepen and broaden your expectations by pushing the limits of monotype and monoprint using Akua Intaglio inks. A matrix is only the first step in exploiting opportunities for "controlled accidents" and "calculated spontaneity." Learn to place contiguous colors with viscosity rolls, interrupt one layer with another...more » Bending the Rules: Unorthodox Monotype and Monoprint

Have you ever felt inspired by the work of Paul Klee? Does the soft suggestion of ground and form combined with narrative or abstract line drawings speak to you? Learn the techniques that he used, and bring them into your studio – no presses required. Through demonstrations and practice throughout the day, become fluent in...more » Paul Klee / Transfer Drawing

Play and improvise in this workshop as a means to generate ideas, expand visual vocabulary and put to use accumulated printed material. Collage is an art form all on its own, but it can be a vehicle to conduct experiments too. Collage can encourage visual surprise, allowing for chance moments to loosen up any art...more » Improvisation with Monotype Collage

This two-day workshop will walk you through every step of the encaustic collagraph method that Wagner pioneered. The approach taken to printmaking in this workshop is more from a painter's point of view. Here, you will get the chance to break all the rules of encaustic; using significantly less wax and minimal fusing or layering....more » Encaustic Collagraph Monoprinting at Fountainhead Art Space with Elise Wagner

Ron Pokrasso travels the world to teach printmaking. If you want to immerse yourself in ink for a week, or you need to take a giant leap with your artwork, this is the way to do it. This workshop is designed to bring together the contemporary intaglio platemaking process of Solarplate with monotype and collage...more » Solarplate & Monotype Workshops with Ron Pokrasso

Focused on relief monprinting, participants will use relief blocks to explore the unique properties of Akua Inks. The workshop will cover how to modify inks, offset images, use ghost prints and viscosity rolls, as well as registration techniques and chine colle. INSTRUCTOR: CATHERINE KERNAN TUESDAY, APRIL 17 THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 20 from 10AM-4PM CLASS SIZE...more » Relief Monotype with Catherine Kernan