LETTERPRESS FALL SHORT SESSION
SEPTEMBER 24 – 29, 2023 (four studio days)
Bridget Elmer
Engaging Ephemera
This workshop will explore the letterpress as a tool for creating engaging paper ephemera. We’ll cover the basics of letterpress, printing from handset type, ornaments, and printer’s cuts. Students will also learn one-sheet and accordion book structures that work well on the letterpress, giving them a lot of options to explore. Each student will produce an edition of letterpress-printed ephemera designed to encourage contemplation and inter/action. All levels. Letterpress studio.
Studio artist, printer; co-founder of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts, co-owner of Print St. Pete Community Letterpress (FL), artist member of SPACEcraft (FL); teaching: Ringling College of Art and Design (FL), Colorado College, Florida State University, Ox-Bow (MI); collections: Brooklyn Museum (NY), Tate Britain (London), Yale University (CT), University of California-Los Angeles; published in Adventures in Letterpress (Laurence King) and 500 Handmade Books (Lark Books).
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We are currently accepting scholarship applications for this workshop.
Regular enrollment will begin on May 1.
PRINTMAKING FALL SHORT SESSION
SEPTEMBER 24 – 29, 2023 (four studio days)
Jessica V. Gatlin
Silkscreen Monoprints and Monotypes
Students in this workshop will create a series of quick, spontaneous prints. Using a combination of screenprinting and mixed-media techniques, we’ll build collaborative and individual compositions on the spot, reacting to each previous layer as we go and generating many unique prints. Technical information will include temporary stencils, photo emulsion, found objects, and watercolor/water soluble techniques. We’ll also discuss systems theory and other iterative practices. All levels. Printmaking studio.
Assistant professor at University of Maryland-College Park; other teaching: Ox-Box (MI), Tennessee State University, Penland; residencies: Wassaic Projects (NY), Ox-Bow (MI), A.C.R.E. (WI), Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Poland); exhibitions: COOP Gallery (TN), Co-Prosperity Sphere (IL), Seedspace (TN), The Holland Project (NV).
We are currently accepting scholarship applications for this workshop.
Regular enrollment will begin on May 1.
