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Flatbed Press: Spring Workshop Schedule is Finally Here!
Screen Printing: April 13, 2013
10:00am - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Angela Morales
Photo-screen printing is the most commonly used serigraph method. Using photo-emulsion to create a detailed stencil, designs can be easily printed in a myriad of colors on paper, cloth, and various other materials. This introductory class includes a demonstration of the full screen printing process, and Angela will work with each participant to complete a small edition of 2-color prints. This class is suitable for all levels of experience.
Tuition: $150
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Intro to Woodcut: April 27-28, 2013
10:00am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Alfonso Huerta Garcia
Learn the technique behind creating bold and dramatic prints in a class suitable for all levels of experience. Instructor will demonstrate design principles, carving techniques, inking and printing. Wood blocks can be printed with traditional or nontoxic water-based ink on a variety of paperweights or cloth. This class will also instruct on how to print your work at home without a press. These easily printed blocks make great cards, logo designs, illustrations, fabric designs and, of course, fine art prints.
Tuition: $200
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Intro to Copperplate Etching: May 18-19, 2013
10:00am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Elvia Perrin
This class covers the basics of line etching techniques, using drypoint and liquid hard ground on copper plates. This method explores the line and all the beautiful qualities of an etched plate. Elvia will demonstrate etching and printing techniques, and work with each individual to create a small edition with imagery of their choice. The intimate class size accommodates any skill level and artistic intent - perfect for beginners to the etching process. For those of you with etching experience, the workshop is an opportunity to expand your intaglio expertise, and access Flatbed's professional print facility!
Tuition: $250
*Does not include plates and paper
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Linoleum Reduction Relief: June 1-2, 2013
10:00am - 4:00 pm
Instructors: Alfonso Huerta Garcia and Angela Morales
A reduction print is a multi-layered print created using only one block - for each color, the block is carved more and more, "reducing" the block until the final state. The block is destroyed in the process, posing an exciting challenge for the printmaker - designing and implementing an image with no do-overs, with an end result that's always somewhat of a surprise! Angela and Alfonso will demonstrate the steps to create a 2-stage reduction print, and guide participants through an 8x10 linocut reduction of their own. This workshop is open to all skill-levels, but students are recommended to have some familiarity with the printmaking process (we suggest attending the Woodcut class in April!).
Tuition: $250
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Artist Books Collaborative: June 8-9 and 15-16, 2013
10:00am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Angela Morales
The Artist Book is an art form all its own, combining the sculptural beauty of the book with the artistry of words and imagery. This 4-day workshop combines two complimentary techniques - printmaking and book-binding. Participants will create a collaborative artist book, and will leave with a hand-bound book containing thematic prints from each of their classmate.
The first weekend (June 8-9) will focus on the printmaking portion of the project: Angela will demonstrate two different techniques to create print matrices (screen printing and linoleum relief), and each student will choose from the two options which technique to use to create their final image. Each student will complete a small edition of prints.
On the second weekend (June 15-16), each student will receive a print from each of their classmates to use for the interior content of their book. Angela will demonstrate the technique for Japanese Stab Binding, and participants will bind their collection of prints into a customized, hand-bound book.
Tuition: $425
Maximum Enrollment: 8
Art | Nature | Italy: July 9-23, 2013
Instructors: Katherine Brimberry and Suzi Davidoff
A limited number of spaces are available for a 2 week intensive drawing and printmaking workshop led by Suzi Davidoff and Katherine Brimberry at La Romita, Umbria, Italy July 9-23, 2013. Class fee includes room, all meals, transportation from Rome and excursions from La Romita.
For more information and to reserve your place, go to our website facebook.com/TheItalianIntensive or call 512 947-1073. Class is limited to 14 participants - please reserve early!
The Italian Intensive, a drawing and printmaking workshop led by Suzi Davidoff and Katherine Brimberry, will offer two weeks of in depth exploration of layered drawing practices and experimental printmaking approaches.
Davidoff, who is well known for her large scale drawings using indigenous minerals and pigments, will lead the participants to successfully combine drawing media to achieve richly layered effects. Davidoff will focus on experimental drawing – with drawing in nature as the main activity. Participants use wet and dry materials combined with collage, earth, plant materials and natural pigments on a variety of paper. The class will emphasize developing a personal vision of the landscape (both natural and man-made) through composition, process and experimentation. Students will work outdoors in the villages and fields surrounding La Romita and refine and develop the drawings in the studio. Be ready to get your hands dirty!
Brimberry, Master Printer at Flatbed Press, will teach non-toxic printmaking methods using water soluble inks and Solarplates, a non-toxic light sensitive etching plate that etches in water. Photo-imagery or drawn imagery can be used to create the etched plates. Techniques such as chine collé, mono-printing, relief rolls and selective inking will be taught as methods to expand how a plate can be printed. Emphasis will be on using printmaking to achieve expressive, varied states of an image.
Both Davidoff and Brimberry are experienced instructors and see the combination of drawing and printmaking in the class as an exciting and productive way for artists to grow and create. Participants will be able work with both artists during the two weeks.
La Romita School of Art: Terni, Italy
La Romita School of Art, situated on a hillside above the city of Terni, Italy, was established as a monastery by the Capuchin Order of Friars Minor in the year 1548. It remained an active monastery until the early 19th century. La Romita was considered a “poor” monastery because the Capuchins, like the Franciscans from whom they evolved, lived primarily from alms and charitable offerings of the communities they served. Church archives show that the Capuchin friars at La Romita at one time produced the coarse-woven woolen cloth used for the Order’s robes. The ancestors of signora Amina Quargnali (the mother of school founders Enza and Paola Quargnali) purchased La Romita a few years after the monks left, and it was used for many years as a guesthouse and summer home. La Romita School of Art first opened in 1966, under the leadership of Enza Quargnali, as the summer art program of Rockford College in Illinois. For almost 50 years artists have stayed at La Romita, painting the landscape, people and towns in the beautiful Umbrian hill country, whose radiant golden light has charmed artists since the days of Perugino and his famous pupil, Rafael. Although there have been many modifications and revisions over the centuries, much of the original structure remains intact. The participants sleep in two ?oors of rooms that open off a gallery aisle. Housing is dorm style, with two people sharing each (large) room. There are single rooms available.
Go to La Romita’s web site for pictures and more information from this last summer’s classes. http://laromita.org
Individual Tutorials
Interested in expanding your knowledge in areas of lithography, etching and relief printing? Would you like to schedule a lesson that works with your schedule? Tutorials can be specialized for each request. These two-to-four hour sessions are available by appointment only and will instructed by one of the accomplished printers here at Flatbed Press.
Two-hour Tutorial: $125 plus materials
Four-hour Tutorial: $250 plus materials
Register now to reserve your spot!
Questions? Contact our Classes Coordinator, Angela Morales, at 512-517-9026 or angela@flatbedpress.com
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