Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2015 Summer Workshop Catalog 1 | Page 66

John Hitchcock, Chemically Wasted Warhorse (detail) Francisco Souto, Memory Surface Hiroki Morinoue, Sheep (detail) July 20 - 24 August 3 - 7 September 7 - 25 Print Blitz! Alternative methods The Hybrid Print: to screen print tradition & innovation Mokuhanga, the Baren & Printing at Home John Hitchcock Francisco Souto SKILL LEVEL: Open to all SKILL LEVEL: I - II SKILL LEVEL: I – III CONCEPT: Investigate the current trends of print media in contemporary culture and get the tools you need to make your own artistic statement. This workshop focuses on water-based photo screen printing techniques and low-tech stencil printing methods. Technical demonstrations cover beginning photo screen printing processes, one- and two-color registration, a combination of hand dyeing, drawing back into, manipulation of the surface, water soluble markers, and hand-cut and photo stencil methods to create experimental unique prints. CONCEPT: Discover the symbiotic relationship between traditional etching and archival digital printing. Revitalize your vision through the creation of multilayered prints that combine digital abstractions with handmade illusionistic representation. This combination of opposite visual languages creates complex prints, raising important issues concerning printmaking as a process for analysis of contemporary visual options. This workshop creates a place where the real and implied space confront and challenge each other. CONCEPT: The print is in the printing and the printing is in the print. We focus on Mokuhanga (Water-based Japanese Woodblock Printmaking), as in handmade, environmentally friendly, do it at home, in any scale, any time and in any place. The class discipline is to work in a narrative concept, creating a dialog in both storytelling and relationship using color, form and space as a narrative in a diptych or long format. Students compose, and then recompose printed images to a narrative format or an installation piece. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students explore traditional intaglio beyond the basics along with the introduction and refinement of digital printing techniques. Successive demonstration on registration methods, color blending, ink mixing, digital manipulation and digital workflow are introduced, along with large blocks of studio time. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use traditional and modern Mokuhanga (Water-based Japanese Woodblock Printmaking) and its techniques and applications. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use acrylic screen printing ink with a variety of papers, wood and fabric, photo emulsion, drawings and computer-generated graphics as preparatory artwork. Students bring images to print; these should be in black inkjet ink. ACTIVITIES: We begin with examples of hand-pulled screen prints as well as a discussion of finished prints with preparatory artwork. The first technical demonstration covers emulsion application, photo process, and wash out. The week proceeds with lots of studio time. Each day begins with a demonstration and discussion of the previous day’s work. FACULTY: John Hitchcock is an artist and Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Awards include The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, The Jerome Foundation Grant and artist in residence at The American Culture Center, Shanghai, China; Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice, Italy. www.hybridpress.net Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075 Studio Fee: $100  Code: R0806  Enrollment Limit 6 64  andersonranch.org  970/923-3181  ACTIVITIES: We begin by understanding the fundamental differences and the advantages of traditional etching and digital printing techniques. We alternate between demonstration, individual and group critiques and studio days. Discussions on image making and conceptual strategies are geared to individual ideas. FACULTY: Francisco Souto received his M.F.A. from Ohio State University. His work is held in several public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad including the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art and Blanton Museum of Art. He is a Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. www.franciscosouto.com Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075 Studio Fee: $100  Code: R1007  Enrollment Limit 9 [email protected] Hiroki Morinoue ACTIVITIES: We begin with printing exercises during the first three days. We learn carving techniques and refine printing techniques followed with demonstrations and discussion of materials including the baren. We use various types of wood, paper and printing tools. FACULTY: Hiroki Morinoue received his B.F.A. from the California College of the Arts. He began teaching Mokuhanga at the Ranch over 20 years ago and spent two months in Japan in 2012 for an intensive artist-inresidence program sponsored by Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory of Japan. He recently attended the 2nd International Mokuhanga Conference 2014 and Satellite Program in Tokyo. www.donkeymillartcenter.org Tuition: $1600 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $2200 Studio Fee: $200  Code: R1508  Enrollment Limit 9