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To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

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SUMMER 2010 WORKSHOPS - PRINTMAKING

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Anne Gilman

Frances Jetter

Printmaking 2010

Take Off with Solar Plates Master Class
Dan Welden
June 21 – 24
Mon – Thursday
4 Sessions
10 – 4pm *This is an all day workshop with instructor

$550 + $40 lab fee

Using Welden’s original Solarplates technique as a monoprinting vehicle, artists will have the opportunity to create images and to make multiple 'unique' impressions, in the process exploring color, texture, line and form. Large plates, (up to 18X24 inches) will be emphasized as will multi-color images and fresh drawing and painting techniques. Solar plates will be available for purchase in class.

Dan Welden will demonstrate both relief and intaglio methods, and students will be encouraged to explore embossment as well as a dynamic use of color. Participants may work on multiple plates and many images, or concentrate on a series of works from a single image. Welden will also demonstrate his unique approach of "reworking" impressions with painterly and graphic techniques. Printmaking experience is most helpful.

Dan Welden has been pioneering safer alternative printmaking techniques since the early 70's when he developed Solarplates. He is co-author of "Printmaking in the Sun", and director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, NY, where he has collaborated with artists including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl and Dan Flavin. He has been the recipient of numerous international printmaking grants extending from Belgium to New Zealand. He was invited to juror unclear – sole judge or member of a panel? the international Printmaking Biennal in Italy in 2008. His teaching techniques are designed to elicit the "spontaneity of the person with direct and simple techniques."

There will be a beginner Solar Plate offered at the Fine Arts Work Center from June 14 - 18.

Monotype from the Landscape - Observation and Imagination Eileen Wagner

June 28 - July 2
Mon - Fri
9 - 12

$380 + $40 lab fee

Students begin this class by investigating the landscape, "taking visual notes," using a mixture 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 2 days outside in the natural beauty of the outer Cape, 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 with the landscape imagery they created while outside. Thru the discovery of the variety of creative possibilities inherent in monotype, they will go on to 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 5 day workshop is suitable for both the beginner as well as the advanced art student and will culminate in creating a range of work.

Eileen Wagner is an art educator, painter and printmaker, who works both abstractly and directly from the landscape. She has been working in this manner for a number of years, and 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 from Massachusetts College of Art, and will exhibit her MSAE thesis work (Masters of Science of Art Education) at MassArt this August. She has exhibited widely in the New England area, and is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA. You can view her work at www.eileenwagner.com

THE MARY LOU FRIEDMAN CHAIR HONORS:

Storytelling with Linocut Frances Jetter
June 28 – July 2
Mon – Fri
1 – 4 pm

$380

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In this workshop you’ll put together a series of 6-10 images to tell a story. This could be a retelling of a nursery rhyme, a short piece from a favorite author, or a memoir about a family member. We’ll start with rough sketches, and discuss how each image functions as a separate piece of art, as well as part of a cohesive whole, how the pictures might be adjusted to communicate more eloquently, and where the words, if any, fit in. Then drawings, on tracing paper will be transferred to the linoleum for cutting. Although linoleum carving is a simple and direct method of printmaking, it can be extremely nuanced, with one’s personal way of making marks emphasized, and with possibility of great detail. The paper chosen to print on can also alter the feeling of the piece, which can look strong, or moody, or humorous. We’ll end the workshop with a discussion of the finished prints. Both traditional and experimental approaches are welcome.

Since 1974, Frances Jetter’s prints on political and social subject matter have illustrated articles in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The Progressive. She illustrated books for the Franklin Library, ads for Audubon, and book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan and others. Shows include NYU Broadway Windows, Art of the Times (x Four) at the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University, Art of Democracy; Art and Empire at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, and solo print shows at Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Her work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, and The New York Public Library Print Collection.
She received a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2003.
She is on the Illustrator's Advisory Board of the Norman Rockwell Museum, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1979.

Japanese Techniques in Woodblock Printmaking

Daniel Heyman

July 5 - 9
Mon – Fri
1 - 4 pm
$380 + material fee

Printmaking doesn't get any more elegant than hand-printed Japanese woodblocks prints. But it doesn't get any more fun either, as you will experience in this fast paced course. Japanese printmakers believe that they only create half an image; the other half is brought to them by the wood itself. In this course, we learn all the basic steps of Japanese watercolor woodblock printmaking, or mucha hanga. Starting with their own full color designs, students will learn to transfer an image to the woodblocks, make color separations, carve printing blocks, ink blocks for a full range of color possibilities (a whole world of discovery in itself), and pull print after print in perfect registration. As an added benefit, this method of making prints needs no press, and involves no toxic materials, making it easy to continue making prints anywhere after your week at Castle Hill. Note: There will be a materials fee that will cover the cost of a full starter set of materials including all shina woodblocks, kozo printing paper. Special Japanese brushes as well as printing barrens and carving tools will be lent by the instructor.

Daniel Heyman a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania has received numerous awards including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Reynolds International Fellowship, an Independence Foundation Grant; an AMJ Foundation Grant, three RISD Professional Development Grants, and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, and the Nagasawa Art Park in Awajishima, Japan. His work is in many public and private collections, including the Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, and the New York Public Library. He currently teaches printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, and Swarthmore College.

Etching and Mixed Media Anne Gilman
July 12 - 16
Mon – Fri
9am - noon

$380 + $40 lab fee

SOLD OUT

This workshop offers artists a variety of ways to explore printmaking including editioned, one-of-a-kind, and mixed media prints. The class will cover techniques ranging from line etching and drypoint to the painterly possibilities of prints made from lift-ground and toner wash drawings. Group and individualized instruction allow for all levels of experience from beginner to the more advanced printmaker. Optional techniques may include crayon resist drawing, soft ground etching, transfer printmaking processes, chine collé, and surface rubbings.

Etching plates will be sold in class.

Anne Gilman’s work has been shown internationally: recent exhibitions include "Work by Anne Gilman + Janelle Iglesias" at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY; "(un)Contained Vessels" at the Center For Book Arts in NYC; and "Action/Interaction" at Columbia College in Chicago. Her 6-panel woodcut "When things go awry" will be included in the upcoming exhibitions "Pratt Prints" at Gallery Gravura Brasileira and Belas Artes University Gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2009). Confusing- one or both of these shows is now up or has already come down, it seems. Her work has been reviewed in Printmaking Today, the New York Times, La Jiribilla, and Mural. Her work can be seen through the Drawing Center's online viewing program and in the flat-files at Kentler International Drawing Space. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

The Provincetown Print Bill Evaul
July 26 - 30
Mon – Fri
9 - 12
5 Sessions $380 + materials fee

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This workshop is an in-depth exploration of the white-line color woodcut including all the basics from conceptualization through drawing, carving and printing. Simultaneously, we will consider the history of invention in printmaking with an eye towards an integrative approach.

Bill Evaul is a painter and printmaker who studied at Syracuse University, the Whitney Museum and Pratt Institute with George McNeil and Jacob Landau. He received two Fellowships with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 1979 he re-discovered the Provincetown Print and has been living on the Outer Cape ever since, giving lectures, leading workshops and producing woodcuts. www.evaul.com

The Artist Book – Printed and Stitched Dorothy Cochran
August 2 - 5
Mon – Thurs
4 Sessions
9am – 1pm
4 Sessions
$380 + $40 lab fee

An exciting adventure into both print and artist book creation, begins with a simple theme chosen by the artist. This idea is then transformed into easy printmaking plates choosing from monoprint, woodcut/linoleum or collagraph techniques. Plates are inked in relief and/or intaglio methods, printed on folio sheets of rag paper and sewn into an accordion fold. Front and back covers supporting the pages and fold are embellished with decorated papers. Participants in this class will experience both printmaking and simple book construction to create a personal artistic statement.

Dorothy Cochran has an MFA 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 and CUNY, and has collaborated on printmaking projects with Bob Blackburn, John Ross and Kathy Caraccio. She is a popular workshop teacher in printmaking and artist books. 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 several corporations. Her etchings were exhibited in 2008 at Franklin54 Gallery in New York City. She exhibits in Wellfleet and Truro in the summer. For further information, see www.dorothycochran.com .

Color Relief Printmaking Julie Friedman
August 9 - 13
Mon – Fri
1 – 4 pm

$380 + $40 lab fee

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This workshop is an introduction to relief printing using an especially soft linoleum product that cuts and prints effortlessly. Students will discover a simple way to create multiple images for cards and gifts as well as fine art. Beginners will learn basic technical skills related to both color and black-and-white printing while advanced students will be taught more complex techniques. Using the printing press or a wooden spoon, participants can print one-of-a-kind images or whole editions of prints. We will touch on processes such as color reduction prints, chine colle and monoprinting in conjunction with straight linocuts.

Julie Friedman holds a BA and BFA from Kent State University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in creating artist books but also loves printmaking and drawing. She has shown her work in juried exhibits across the country, and received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship grant in 2003 and a three-month summer residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2004. For over a decade, she has been an adjunct professor of art at Kent State University and Cuyahoga Community College among others. Her artist books are represented by Vamp & Tramp Booksellers in Alabama. See more work at www.juliefriedman.net

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