Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 57

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
Conceived with the purpose of increasing
year-round access to the Ranch’s talented
artistic

staff,

state-of-the-art

facilities,

and open and supportive community, our
increased artists opportunities include calls
for entries for exhibitions, studio rentals,
private lessons, open studios, equipment
Melissa Bob, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being, Then and Now (detail)

Brad Vetter, The National (detail)

and facility collaboration and rental and
portfolio review. Contact any Artistic Director

August 26 - 30
Fabric: design, dye, print

September 9 - 27
Ink & Letter 

Melissa Bob

Brad Vetter

SKILL LEVEL: II

SKILL LEVEL: III

CONCEPT:  Add fabric to your art vocabulary in
this experimental workshop exploring the fascinating world of fabric design from start to
finish. Utilizing traditional silkscreen and block
printing methods, students compose a design
matrix to be repeated on fabric. Explore color,
tactility, pattern and more through each step
of the process. Students engage the hands-on
experience of creation through fabric preparation, dyebath, printing and stitching fabric.

for more information.

CONCEPT: Today, as words and text boldly infiltrate our daily existence, letterforms oftentimes go unnoticed beyond the function of
being legible, or selling us the things we want.
We are used to their familiarity and forget that
they can build a beautiful relationship within a
space, even when they do not form a word or
phrase to be read. This workshop celebrates
type and explores another way of looking at
text, potentially bridging gaps between fine art
and design.

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Textile dyeing with natural materials, screen printing, block printing
and pattern design.
ACTIVITIES:  Prepare fabric, prepare dyebath,
dye fabric, design patterns for printing, prepare
printing matrices (screen or block), print on fabric and simple sewing.
FACULTY: Melissa Bob, a citizen of the Lummi
Nation in Bellingham, Wash., earned a B.A. in
indigenous art history and printmaking from
The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Her
prints have been collected by the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian, Missoula Art Museum and Spencer Art Museum
at the University of Kansas.

Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1075
Studio Fee: $100 Code: R1313 Enrollment Limit 10

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES:  Letterpress printing,
monotype, hand-setting type and carving letterforms; basic relief printmaking processes;
use of the CNC router.
ACTIVITIES:  Biweekly demos and short lectures of print history, contemporary works,
processes and techniques. Directed study and
work days. Demos build on each other to culminate in a large-scale monoprint project. Students are asked to print small editions for class
exchanges.
FACULTY: Designer, printer and artist extraordinaire, Brad Vetter honed his letterpress skills
during an eight-year tenure at the legendary
Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Tenn. While
teaching scores of interns to love inky fingers
and wooden blocks, he built a resume that
included clients as varied as Anthropologie,
Nike, Arcade Fire and Wilco.

www.bradvetterdesign.com

“Nothing compares
to the intimate class setting
and intense focus of a
weeklong workshop at
the Ranch.”

Tuition: $1600 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $2200
Studio Fee: $200 Code: R1514 Enrollment Limit 10
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