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Deb Oden, Branch (detail) Laura Berman, Starburst Elizabeth Ferrill, Motel #8 June 1 - 5 June 8 - 12 June 15 - 19 more art faster plates in motion Portfolio Intensive: Shapeshifting: Monotypes: stencils, blends & transfers Deb Oden Laura Berman SKILL LEVEL: Open to all SKILL LEVEL: I SKILL LEVEL: Open to all CONCEPT: Challenge the notion of artistic limits to awe-inspiring results. This workshop is structured as a print intensive with a highly exploratory focus, taking risks in making and yielding wonderful results. No printmaking experience is needed, but the class is not for the faint of heart. Do you want a brilliant body of work at the end of a one-week intensive? Can you work in ways that challenge your normal methods? Then come ready to work fearlessly, with intention and dedication and leave the workshop in a braver place than you began. CONCEPT: Explore the art of experimental printmaking through immersion. This course explores experimental printmaking with an emphasis on shaped plates, pattern and layering of imagery. Students are immersed in this mix to create a unique series of layered and lyrical prints that defy a beginning or end point. This workshop encourages open-ended exploration and improvisation with various printmaking media. CONCEPT: Monotypes are often described as “painterly prints,” but using mylar to make hand-cut stencils can yield a more graphic, clean-edged effect. This workshop is open to painters and printmakers alike who are intrigued by the process of creating one-of-a-kind prints. Stencil methods are introduced as well as mark-making processes, background blends, gum Arabic transfers and other fascinating monotype techniques. Students have the opportunity to translate drawings, paintings and photographs into the print form using Plexiglas plates as a printing surface. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students begin with etching techniques utilizing alcohol-based markers and spray paints as stop outs and stencils with aquatints. We use relief techniques for building fields of color and pronto-plate lithography for adding specifics to the vast monoprint body of work we create. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students explore monoprint, drypoint on plastic plates, collagraph, stencil and direct printing techniques. Plate-making and printing demonstrations occur daily with an emphasis on traditional as well as non-traditional possibilities. The workshop also explores advanced color mixing, layering of imagery and transparency in inks. ACTIVITIES: We spend our mornings demonstrating print processes while afternoons are dedicated to intensive work sessions. The last two days are spent putting together the various processes and materials into a cohesive body of monoprints. Emphasis is placed on combining drawings from nature with presourced materials. ACTIVITIES: We begin with studio demonstrations of distinct printmaking techniques: additive and reductive monoprint, drypoint, stencil techniques, collagraph, and direct printing techniques, color mixing, transparency and printing in layers. Daily class time includes studio demonstrations, time for experimenting and time for individual focused exploration with instructor support. Group discussions are held during the second half of the week. FACULTY: Deb Oden’s work has been exhibited in France, China, Thailand, Egypt, Poland, Austria and Romania. Her prints are collected at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Hallmark Global Services, and the Kohler Art Library. She teaches printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design. www.lifesizepress.virb.com FACULTY: Laura Berman is a full Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she has taught in the Printmaking Department since 2002. She received her B.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her M.F.A. from Tulane University. Together with her husband, she runs Matfield Outpost, a family-friendly artist’s retreat in Matfield Green, KS. www.laurabermanprojects.com Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075 Studio Fee: $100  Code: R0101  Enrollment Limit 9 Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075 Studio Fee: $100  Code: R0202  Enrollment Limit 9 62  andersonranch.org  970/923-3181  [email protected] Elizabeth Ferrill MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students participat e in the inking of plates, printing, press use, paper handling and monotype processes including stencils, blends and image layering. ACTIVITIES: We engage in demonstrations, participate in individual and group feedback, have group discussion and ample studio time. FACULTY: Elizabeth Ferrill received her M.F.A. from RISD. She has had solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. She was an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. From 2009 to 2012 Elizabeth was the Studio Coordinator of painting and printmaking at Anderson Ranch. Elizabeth teaches printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. www.elizabethferrill.com Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075 Studio Fee: $100  Code: R0303  Enrollment Limit 9