Printmaking & Book Arts - Summer 2012
Materials list will be sent for these classes. Specialized materials (wood, copper) will be sold in class.
Frances Jetter
Solarplate Etching - Dan Welden
June 18 - 21
Monday-Thursday
10am-4pm
4 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$550
Developed by master printmaker Dan Welden, Solarplate etching utilizes UV light and water instead of traditional grounds and acids. The Solarplate is the original light-sensitized polymer printing plate that yields all kinds of relief and intaglio images, including drawings and paintings on acetate, and digital prints and photographs on transparent film. Artists can also paint directly on the Solarplate and create a matrix capable of yielding many impressions. Participants will be able to produce several 8 x 10 inch images during this enthusiastic workshop. Larger plates may be made available with prior request. Printmaking experience is preferred but not essential.
Dan Welden, printmaker and painter, and one of the original 'Pioneers of Alternative Printmaking," has had more than 70 international solo exhibitions and has been the recipient of many residencies and grants, bringing his art and process around the world. He has collaborated with and/or printed for many prominent artists including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, and Kurt Vonnegut. Welden is responsible for the discovery and development of the Solarplate process and is co-author with Pauline Muir of Printmaking in the Sun.
Intensive Relief Class - Justin Sanz
July 2 - 6
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
From Durer to Baskin, Hokusai to Frankenthaler, relief prints have taken on many forms, captivating artists for centuries. Relief Printing Intensive is for artists who wish to begin by exploring the basics of relief printing and then learning more advanced techniques of multi-color printing. In this course you will learn how to utilize hand carved wood and linoleum to generate images with volume and depth, proper carving techniques, registration, and printing with the etching press. All levels welcome.
Justin Sanz is a Brooklyn-based artist and collaborative printer who exhibits locally and internationally. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress and New York Public Library. Sanz also works as a studio technician for artist Malcolm Morley, and as a workshop technician and educator at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and The Lower Eastside Printshop.
Mixed-Media Printmaking - Sarah Riley
July 9-13
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
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Experiment with mat-board collagraphs, Plexi-plate drypoints, monoprinting from plastic sheets, using stencils and chine collé. Add whatever (watercolor, colored pencil, India ink, etc.) to complete your exploration. This workshop will use inexpensive materials for plates and get into viscosity printing and simple registration techniques for multiple plates. Prior printmaking experience is helpful but not required.
Sarah Riley, an internationally exhibited printmaker and painter, creates artwork drawn from myth, literature and personal history. Her printmaking studies began at Virginia Commonwealth University with British printmaker, Norman Ackroyd. She studied painting with Theresa Pollock, a student of Hans Hoffman. Sarah has taught printmaking, drawing, design and painting at colleges and universities for over 25 years. She is a professor of art and head of printmaking at Southeast Missouri State University. Her recent book on printmaking, Practical Mixed-Media Printmaking (Dec. 2011), was published by A&C Black, London. Recent exhibitions include a 2012 group show at Viridian Artists, NYC. On Cape Cod she has shown mixed and new media prints at Cove Gallery in Wellfleet and in the 2010 New Media Exhibition at PAAM. Her work is represented in numerous corporate, private and public collections.
Book signing will take place at Castle Hill on June 21, 2012 4 – 6 in conjunction with the members show.
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Storytelling & Artist’s Book - Frances Jetter
July 9 – 13
Monday – Friday
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Your images (and text, if any) will be made into a bound artist’s book to tell a story, which could be based on a memory from long ago, a short piece from a favorite author, or a retelling of a nursery rhyme. Three book forms will be demonstrated. We will review basics of making a book, from rough sketches through book dummy, finished drawings or prints, to completed book. You will be involved in making each of your 6-10 images function as a separate piece of art, as well as part of a cohesive whole. Work will consist of development of characters, mood, color, texture, pacing and overall design and layout. Use of reference will be discussed, as well as what kind of book structure would work best with your story. The aim will be to produce an object with drama, individuality, and wit. Please bring numerous rough sketches with you, and your preferred materials for making your pictures.
Frances Jetter’s relief prints focus on pPlitical and social subjects. Since 1976, her prints have illustrated articles in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, the Village Voice, and books for the Franklin Library, ads for Audubon, and book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan and others. A solo exhibit of her recent artist’s book on torture, “Cry Uncle,” was shown at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Smilow Gallery, and Parsons School of Design before traveling to City College of New York. Her relief prints are included in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts and the New York Public Library Print Collection. Her artist’s books are in libraries including the University of Washington Library, in Seattle, the New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, California, Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library, Stanford, California, and Williams College’s Chapin Library in Williamstown, MA and other special collections. She has received many grants and fellowships and has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1979. Her work can be viewed at www.francesjetter.com
Beginning Silkscreen - Vicky Tomayko
July 16-20
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Learn water-based, silkscreen printing you can do at home with simple equipment. Put your own art on your band poster, t-shirts, or curtains. Methods demonstrated will include hand cut stencils, drawn and painted images, the photo silkscreen process, and how to register multiple colors. Workshop participants will need to bring the fabrics or papers they wish to print on.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker living in Truro, MA. Her work may be viewed at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown or at vickytomayko.com. Tomayko teaches printmaking, and textile arts at Cape Cod Community College. Her awards include a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, and two Ford Foundation Grants. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Basel, Venice, Istanbul, and Melbourne.
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Etching: Generating Momentum in Your Practice - Shelley Thorstensen
July 23-27
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Whether this is your first stop discovering printmaking or you are a veteran, this class is designed to activate and accelerate momentum in your entire art-making practice. The workshop is designed for both artists working in other print, painting, or drawing media who are interested in the possibility of incorporating some level of print into their work and for artist/printmakers who work primarily on an etching press. This is a low-stress, high reward workshop, including a series of demonstrations of ways to use color and printing, such as stencils, a la poupee, chine colle, viscosity, multiple plates, relief and collage and how to easily and seamlessly incorporate them into your work. Have no fear, this class will help you discover what aspects are unique to you and how to explore, expand and deepen your practice. Shelley will work with you individually to discover what aspects are vital to your work and how to successfully mobilize your vision. This is precise yet juicy printmaking tailored to the needs of each artist. Bring drawings, ideas, prints in progress or just yourself and we’ll take it from there.
Shelley Thorstensen teaches printmaking and drawing at Tyler School of Art and is currently the president of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA), the oldest juried member printmaker organization in the United States (100 years old in 2015). Recent solo shows include This is the Smoke from when the Horses Left (Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia in 2011), Counterpoint – The Leap from Vision to Print (Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill PA in 2010), The Preponderance of Evidence (The Print Center, Philadelphia in 2009).She has an undergraduate degree in Experimental Studies from Syracuse University, School of Visual & Performing Arts, and a graduate degree in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art / Temple University. Her work can be seen at Dolan/Maxwell in Philadelphia (dolanmaxwell.com) and at PrintmakersOpenForum.org
The Transferred Image: Printmaking and Beyond - Dorothy Cochran
July 30 – August 3
Monday-Friday
9am - 12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
This is an experimental media and print class for artists to explore transferring ink and paint from one surface to another. Beginning with gelatin plates used as a matrix for monoprints, participants will cumulatively build a repertoire of techniques to be used in mixed media art works with a printmaking basis. Learn to transfer digital inkjet and laser images with acrylic gels and gesso, explore gampi silk tissue for photographic transfers, experiment with various papers, boards and substrates and these are just a few of the possibilities. Strategies for moving beyond technique to practice will be discussed and critiqued. Artists interested in printmaking, collage, book arts, and encaustic painting are welcome. Individual projects will be encouraged.
Dorothy Cochran has an M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts, and exhibits her prints nationally. A two-time recipient of a NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship, she has taught at Columbia University, CUNY and is a faculty member at The Montclair Art Museum. She is a popular workshop teacher in printmaking and artist books acknowledged for her expertise and broad command of multiple print methods. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library and represented in both corporate and private collections.. Recent exhibitions include the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, the Art Museum of Southwest University in Minnesota and Franklin54 Gallery in New York City. In June of 2011 she was a panelist at the Fifth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA. For further information, see www.dorothycochran.com.
Print Projects - Anne Gilman
Aug 6 – 9
Monday – Thursday
9am – 1pm
4 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Printmaking offers an opportunity to have an image created and then re-worked and printed as a variation. Picasso made many prints by changing and redrawing on his plates to make new images. Each different "state" became its own finished image. In this class you will learn how to use etching to create many related images and explore variations on a theme. You will end up with a suite of related prints! (The instructor will give you several themes to choose from or you can choose your own.) This class is suitable for students at any level of experience from beginner to advanced. Techniques will include line etching, open bite, soft ground, dry point, chine colle, and experimental techniques with litho crayon and wash.
Anne Gilman is a Brooklyn based artist who does large installation drawings and artist book projects. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Latin America, Europe and the United States including Mexico, Havana, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York. Publications include Gilman’s artist book, Bordes deshilachados/Frayed Edges, released by Ediciones Vigia, in Matanzas, Cuba, and the zines Nishtugadacht, Contra el mal de ojo and Don’t Lose Heart. Her work is in public and private collections in London, Spain, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States and she has been the subject of interviews on Cuban national television during a solo exhibition in Havana. A survey of her work from the last ten years, Observations, errors, and corrections, was held this past fall at Mansfield University. She will be an upcoming, featured artist at the Center For Book Arts with her project The Jolly Balance in April and her next solo show, Paper Line Edit opens March 3rd at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Anne was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship from the Edward Albee Foundation and she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for December 2011 – January 2012.
Paper Cuts - Julie Friedman
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
In this workshop you will learn about the timeless craft of paper cutting which has its roots in China, Jewish art, European folk art and now in the contemporary art world. We will create intricate cuttings of your own design from a single sheet of paper, or, if you’re lacking inspiration, templates will be on hand to get the creative juices flowing. You will then use the cuttings as a piece of art, a greeting card, a stencil to use in printmaking or as pages in an artist book. Utilizing the concept of positive and negative space you will create designs both simple and complex. The images you make can be adapted from drawings, paintings and especially photographs. You’ll leave with at least one finished paper cut per day of your own design and creation, complete with mounting card stock, plus tips for permanent mounting, framing and other ‘next steps’ for your artwork.
Julie Friedman studied with book artist Walter Hamady while getting her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has a B.A. in Interior design and B.F.A. in Printmaking from Kent State University. She works in multiple media (paper cutting, painting, drawing, printmaking, artist books). She is an adjunct professor at Kent State University. She is also the director of Gallery West at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. Friedman exhibits her artwork locally and across the country. She has received an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant and a 3-month summer residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA through the generosity of the Ohio Arts Council. www.juliefriedmanart.net.
Monotype from the Landscape: Observation and Imagination
- Eileen Wagner
August 20-24
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Students begin this class by investigating the landscape, "taking visual notes," using a combination of drawing, painting and/or photography. Concepts such as movement and balance in composition, properties of color and light, visual texture, and atmospheric perspective will be discussed. After working two days outside in nature, students will bring their ideas into the print studio to develop them into a series of monotypes. Monoprinting is an immediate and spontaneous process, which combines aspects of drawing, painting, printmaking and collage in a single medium. Many techniques will be demonstrated, and students will be encouraged to experiment. They will begin printing using the landscape imagery they encountered while outside. Through the discovery of a variety of creative processes inherent in monotype, they will then develop new imagery altogether. Group and individual critiques of work in progress will aid students in learning techniques and developing their own visual vocabulary. This intensive workshop is suitable for both the beginner as well as the advanced art student.
Eileen Wagner is an art educator, painter and printmaker, who has been working both abstractly and directly from the landscape for a number of years. She travels widely to seek in nature new shapes, forms, color and atmosphere. She has attended artist residencies in many places including California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Ireland, Austria and Italy. She has a BFA in Painting and an MSAE (Masters of Science of Art Education) from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited widely in the New England area, and is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA. www.eileenwagner.com
Workshops Summer 2012
This year over a hundred workshops are being offered in all disciplines.
About Us
A location, nestled in the dunes of Truro and within walking distance to Cape Cod bay, provides an inspirational and meditative backdrop that enhances the workshop experience.
A distinguished faculty that consists of prominent artists in the fields of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewelry and writing.
A student body consists of both working artists and art students who hail from all over the US and Canada. Today Castle Hill celebrates its 40th year Anniversary.