Instructor: Laura Moriarty
Monday & Tuesday
June 3 - 4
10am - 4pm
2 Sessions

This two-day workshop will be divided evenly between making suminagashi, and then using those paper elements to make layered works on panel with encaustic, using collage techniques. To begin, we will take some time to acknowledge the ancient Japanese tradition of 'ink floating'. Then, we will do some more experimental suminagashi, using a variety of weights of paper that we know will play nicely with wax. In addition to its great integration and adhesive qualities, we will explore the way encaustic can enjoin with the marbleized markings, and see how these two very different processes come together.

Laura Moriarty makes prints, sculptural paintings and installations that resonate with the geologic. Laura’s honors include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, as well as participation in numerous artist residencies including The Cill Rialaig Project in Ireland, and the Baer Art Center in Iceland. Recent exhibitions include Resurfacing, a solo exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum, and Streaming, a site-responsive public art installation at Albany International Airport. She is the author of Table of Contents, an artist’s book published in 2012.