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Current Exhibitions:
"Footnote"
Special Guest Artist, Lihie Talmor
Winner of the 5th International Print Exhibition
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Stunning prints combining etching and photopolymer processes
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th 5 - 8 pm
Evey Jones
"There are No Maps"
Monotype with silk overlay
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Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th 5 - 8 pm
Upcoming classes
New Directions in Monotype: Creative Techniques for Creative Explorations - April 13th - 14th
$258.90
**1 place remaining**
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Instructor: Mary Sundstrom
Weekend workshop
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, April 13 & 14
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this class, Mary will push you into new directionsto experiment with many different monotype techniques! Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by applying and removing inks with a paintbrush or a roller onto a polymer plate and then printing the image onto paper. Additional layers can be created by applying another element to the plate and passing it through the press one or more times, resulting in rich, layered, complex prints. Inks can be wiped and scratched off, dotted on, applied or blocked with stencils and much more. We invite the experienced and the inexperienced to join us in this creative, wild journey into the nearly infinite possibilities of monotypes…
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Multi-plate Color Gravure - April 27 & 28
$258.90
Instructor: Diane Alire
Class Date: April 27 & 28
Weekend workshop
Multiple Plate Gravure
This workshop provides an exciting opportunity to create beautiful limited edition prints using positive and negative plates, and multiple color plates. Utilizing Photoshop and printmaking you can turn an ordinary color photograph into an “out of this world” image. Gravure was introduced in the 1800’s as a way to reproduce photographic prints and is still used today. Prior knowledge of etching, photography and/or Photoshop is very helpful but not necessary.
This class is open to all, but it is recommended that students take the “Introduction to Gravure” class first.
Class dates: April 27 & 28
Class time: 10 AM - 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $ 240 + tax, includes two small plates, and all printing materials. Additional plates are available for purchase.
Instructor: Diane Alire, MFA
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Carborundum Collagraphs: Creating collagraph plates from digital images - June 15-16
$264.30
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Weekend Workshop
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, June 15-16, 2019
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $245 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn how to use digital images or drawings on polyester film to create a carborundum collagraph. This vastly expands the creative possibilities for carborundum printmaking, in which plates are normally created by painting with acrylic medium and adding carborundum grit.
This technique uses a light-sensitive film adhered to screenprinting mesh (often referred to as “EZ film”). This film is exposed to a positive transparency in a light exposure unit, and any unexposed film is washed out with water. To make the plate, Akua’s Carborundum Gel is pushed through the holes in the exposed mesh onto clear acrylic. Plates are inked up with Akua Intaglio or other suitable ink, and printed on an etching press on dampened paper.
To see this process in action, watch Akua’s video on YouTube and focus on the section titled “Making the Plate” (starts at 1:50):
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
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Photography & Etching as Sites of Interpretation and Deviation - September 13th - 15th
$382.96
Instructor: Lihie Talmor, Winner of the 5th Annual International Print Exhibition
Three-day Workshop
http://www.talmorlihie.com/
Class Date: Friday, Saturday & Sunday September 13th - 15th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: $355.00 + tax
This is a special chance to work with guest teacher Lihie Talmor. Talmor is an Israeli artist who divides her time between Israel and Venezuela and has shown her bold, thought-provoking work throughout the world. This comprehensive two-day workshop, open to artists of all experience levels, will explore how a printed image can shift from the photographic to the graphic mode and what can be gained from their combination. By working with two plates—the first etched from the projection of a photograph and the second made through traditional etching techniques, we will create a composite image that brings together photography’s power to record and etching’s power to invent. Participants should bring a digital file of a photographic image with which they wish to work. Knowledge of copper-plate etching techniques is useful, but not necessary.
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Take the Plunge! Deep Explorations in Ink Interaction: Monotype and Monoprint with Akua Soy-based Inks - August 5th-7th
$496.23
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3-day workshop with Catherine Kernan
Instructor: Catherine Kernan
Class Dates: Monday - Wednesday August 5th-7th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: 460.00 + tax
Through an intensive exploration of inks and ink modifiers, this workshop offers the context, information, and inspiration to create richly layered monotypes and monoprints, both as singles and in series using soy-based Akua inks. This workshop will focus on exploiting the possibilities of viscosity techniques to yield results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of ink interactions and developing multi-color prints from layering inks on a single plate. It will cover many approaches, both traditional and experimental, including: trace transfer, reductive, additive, and viscosity monotype on a variety of matrices. We will explore resists as stencils and add dimension through relief blocks, stamps, texture tools and stencils. No toxic fumes and extended workability of the inks make it a liberating experience.
Artists new to printmaking and Akua Inks, as well as experienced printmakers are welcome. Extensive notes on printmaking topics and techniques will be available for a small additional cost.
Catherine Kernan is a nationally known printmaker specializing in the use of the non-toxic Akua Inks.
Special Opportunity with this class: Extend your experience of Catherine Kernan's workshop with two days of studio time (August 8th and 9th) in our fully equipped studio. $200.00
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New Grounds was one of the first completely non-toxic professional print workshops in the world. In business for more than 20 years, it is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to providing artists with press access, classes, exhibition opportunities and other printmaking related services.
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