Instructor: Andrew Eckhardt
Monday - Friday
August 17 - 21
9am - 12pm
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
This course will introduce artists to the production and printing of photolithographic plates. Photolitho is a versatile and intoxicating medium in which source imagery of almost any kind is exposed to a light sensitive lithographic plate. In this medium, artists can work with, and combine, photography, drawing, painting, and digital imagery. Hand drawn and digitally produced imagery can be combined, remixed and layered in order to create unique and inimitable visual qualities. Once our imagery is exposed to the plate the printing possibilities become endless! Playing with colour, transparency, and layering allow us to create rich and complicated images on paper. Students will be able to create multiple photolitho plates that we can layer over one another. No experience is required to explore the wonderful world of photolithography. In this workshop photographers, painters, drawers, and printmakers will all be able to push their own personal imagery to a new and exciting place.
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Andrew Eckhardt is an artist and collaborative printmaker based in Sandwich, MA. Originally from Australia, they have been based in New England for over a decade. They received their MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and completed the printer training program at Tamarind Institute. As such, collaboration is a core tenet of their practice and teaching ethos. Their work uses printmaking, drawing and photography to explore quiet intimacy through portraiture. They have exhibited nationally and their work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library and RISD Library special collections. They teach printmaking and drawing at MassArt, RISD, and SMFA at Tufts University.