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This
annual summer workshop continues to be recognized
as one of the most prestigious printmaking
intensives in the world; drawing professional
artists, educators, and college students
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Participants
are encouraged to observe all areas of
artistic demonstrations taking place,
as well as to concentrate on their own
artistic endeavors. Celebrating its 31st
anniversary, Frogman's
Print Workshops consistently
proves to be an extremely influential
educational, professional and social
experience.
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Session
#1: July 2 - 7, 2012
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WATER-BASED SCREENPRINT
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MELISSA
HARSHMAN
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This
workshop will cover the basics of water-based
screenprinting. We will create simple stencils
with contact paper as well as learn the application
of direct photo emulsion using hand drawn
and digital stencils. Participants are encouraged
to bring any photo copied material or drawings
with them to incorporate into designs. We
will create small limited editions as well
as one-of-a-kind pieces. We will discuss
the history of screenprinting and its application
in contemporary use in posters, fine art
prints, and other printed ephemera. No prior
experience is necessary.
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Melissa
Harshman received her MFA from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. She has been
teaching printmaking at the Lamar Dodd School
of Art since the fall of 1993 and is currently
the Chair of the Printmaking Department.
Harshman has exhibited widely
throughout the United States and abroad.
Recent shows include
a two person exhibition at the Firehouse Gallery
in Louisville, KY as well as the following
group exhibitions: “Pacific Rim International
Print Exhibition” in Christchurch, New
Zealand; “Women's Work: Selected Prints
from the Collection of the Montgomery Museum
of Fine Arts” at the Women’s Museum
in Dallas, TX; “10th Lessedra World Art
Print Annual 2011” in Sofia, Bulgaria;
and the “A4 International Printmakers
Competition” in Cornwell, England.
Harshman was awarded a Senior
Faculty Research Grant from UGA in 2011 entitled “Reconstructing
Mary Cassatt” as well as the Sandy Beaver
Teaching Award. In 2010 she was awarded a Willson
Center Research Fellowship.
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PHOTOPOLYMER
PLATES
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MARY
JONES
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This
course will introduce students to a variety of
photopolymer plates that develop with water.
This nontoxic photographic print medium is suitable
for both intaglio and relief. Students will work
with a wide variety of media, as these plates
can be created from everything from pencil drawings
on vellum to digital imagery output on film.
Of all photographic print mediums, photopolymer
is known for its ability to reproduce the finest
detail, similar to copperplate intaglio. Capable
of producing the velvety blacks associated with
traditional aquatints, polymer plates are particularly
suited to reproducing photographic imagery. These
plates are also capable of deep embossing and
bold effects associated with relief printmaking.
Demonstrations will include combining traditional
and digital images, and producing optimal inkjet
films with some rudimentary Photoshop. Students
will have the opportunity to work with color
by combining photopolymer plates with DASSÔ transfer
film impressions. All levels of experience
are welcome.
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Mary
Jones is Professor of Art & Design at Grand
View University in Des Moines, IA, where she
teaches printmaking, bookbinding, typography
and design. She received her BFA in art history
at the University of Illinois, and her MFA
in printmaking at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Current interests involve combining traditional
and digital print media, and collaborative
projects.
Jones has exhibited broadly in the United States. She has illustrated three books
for children, and has had work published in the PRINT regional annual for several
years. She is a member of the Prairie Book Collaborative in Des Moines. Her work
is represented by Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago, and Tory Folliard Gallery in
Milwaukee.
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MULTIPLE
PLATE INTAGLIO
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ANDREW
KOSTEN
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In
this class we will cover the basics of traditional
multiple plate intaglio using a key image
plate as a foundation for advanced color
image development. The intaglio plate is
a very tactile, workable surface which can
be manipulated in order to achieve a wide
array of aesthetic possibilities. Participants
will begin with a key plate with basic line
etch and aquatint which will then be transferred
onto additional color plates. A number of
methods and techniques will be demonstrated
during the week such as stage line etch,
aquatint, soft ground, subtractive method,
spit bite, and a la poupee. Students of all
levels of experience are welcome to participate.
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After
spending his formative years in Memphis,
TN, Andrew Kosten received a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in painting from Washington University
in St. Louis, MO, in 2001. Upon discovering
the potential of the medium of printmaking,
Mr. Kosten pursued a Master of Fine Arts
in printmaking from the University of South
Dakota in 2005.
Andrew Kosten is currently Assistant Professor
and Printmaking Area Coordinator at the University
of Southern Indiana, where he teaches drawing
and all levels of printmaking; primarily intaglio
and lithography. Andrew has exhibited work
in a number of juried and group exhibitions,
nationally and internationally. Andrew has
received various awards and has works in a
number of public and private collections.
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PLATE
LITHOGRAPHY
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BEAUVAIS
LYONS
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This course
will cover a basic understanding of aluminum plate
lithography and its artistic potential using traditional
lithographic drawing materials. Lithographic plates
have tremendous potential based on their tonal
qualities, portability and low cost. Methods covered
will include drawing, transfer methods, processing,
printing, and registration systems. Class participants
will complete two projects, one of which will involve
the production of an accordion book. The class
will be structured to accommodate participants
at all technical levels.
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Beauvais
Lyons is a Chancellor’s Professor and
a James R. Cox Professor at the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville where he has taught
printmaking since 1985. Lyons received his
MFA degree from Arizona State University in
1983 and his BFA degree from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. See his web site
(web.utk.edu/~blyons) for information on his
projects as a fake curator through the Hokes
Archives. Lyons’ solo exhibitions have
been presented at over 60 museums and galleries
in the United States and abroad. His lithographs
are in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum
of American Art, Washington, DC; The Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
In 2002, he received a Fulbright Fellowship
to teach at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznañ,
Poland.
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3-D
RELIEF
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DENNIS
MCNETT
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This
course will instruct students on how to
take relief printmaking outside of the
traditional two-dimensional form and apply
it to three-dimensional surfaces. Each
student will be instructed on building
a small 3-D sculpture or mask out of paper
mache. After which each student will cut
relief blocks (black and white or color)
to create a combination of imagery, textures,
eyes, patterns, horns, ears, scales, etc….
that will be pasted over the surface of
the 3-D object. Each student will complete
at least one unique 3-D object covered
in the raw high energy marks of relief
prints by the end of this course!
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Dennis
McNett has been carving the hell out of surly
block prints for over 16 years. His encouragement
as a young kid came from his blind grandfather,
who told him over and over again that his
drawings were good. Like a billion other
teenaged kids, later influences came from
the raw high-energy images pouring out of
the 80's punk rock and skateboard scene.
Aside from showing his work and curating
shows in New York, Dennis has been fortunate
enough to have created graphics for Anti-Hero
skateboards, Nitro snowboards, and Vans shoes.
His works have been featured in the New York
Times, Juxtapoz magazine, Complex magazine,
and Thrasher magazine. He works from his
Brooklyn studio that overlooks the smoggy
Brooklyn Queens Expressway. He holds an MFA
from Pratt Institute, where he teaches as
an Adjunct Professor at the graduate and
undergraduate level. Dennis has also taught
at Parsons, Rutgers and the Lower Eastside
Print shop.
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MEZZOTINT
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RYAN
O'MALLEY
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This
course will focus on traditional mezzotint
including hands-on demonstrations of the
different approaches for rocking, sharpening
and holding the rocker for preparing grounds.
The qualities of each tool, along with
image transfer, scraping, and burnishing
will also be discussed. Special attention
will be made to the progress of the plate,
wiping techniques, printing pressure, and
ink and paper selection. Ryan will demonstrate
step by step the whole process of mezzotinting,
from the bare copper to the final print
on paper. Alternative techniques for color
printing, chine collé and combination
prints will also be discussed. Discussions
on individual’s aesthetics and conceptual
concerns will continue throughout the week.
Original prints will be available for reference
while demonstrations take place.
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Ryan
O’Malley was born and raised in Laramie,
Wyoming. He attended the University of South
Dakota to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Printmaking, and received his MFA
from Louisiana State University in 2005.
Ryan has since worked as a professional stone
carver in Denver, Colorado and spent two
years as Visiting Assistant Professor of
Art at Davidson College in North Carolina.
After touring extensively with Drive-By Press,
Ryan is currently the Assistant Professor
of Printmaking at Texas A&M University
in Corpus Christi. His work has been included
in numerous national and international exhibitions,
publications, portfolios and collections.
Ryan recently had a series of mezzotints
purchased by the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte,
North Carolina and the Jundt Art Museum in
Spokane, Washington. He recently exhibited
in collaboration with the Dirty Printmakers
of America, the City of Venice and The University
of Ca' Foscari on the occasion of the Venice
Biennale 54th international Arts Exhibition
in June of 2011.
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DIGITAL STIMULATION
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LENORE
THOMAS & JASON RUHL / RED ROCKET GALLERY
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This
course is about maximizing how to combine
digital media with other media. Students
will be familiarized with ways in which emerging
digital media fits into the traditional printmaking
aesthetic (and other art forms too!). Students
will be introduced to computer made transfers,
inkjet printing, digital coatings on traditional
and non-traditional substrates and more.
Critical evaluation and aesthetic understanding
of artwork produced will be expected. Students
should come prepared with digital imagery
but also be willing to investigate and find
new imagery during the class. Students will
be encouraged to experiment and push the
boundaries of what printmaking is and can
be.
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Lenore
Thomas is a visual artist who grew up in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Her artwork has been
shown in group and solo exhibitions nationally
and internationally including New York City,
Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Estonia,
China, Argentina, and Malaysia. Her artwork is
represented by and can be seen at Markel Fine
Arts in New York City and Fresh Paint in Los
Angeles. Thomas received her
MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a BA in Religious Studies and a BA in Fine
Arts from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
She is currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Studio Arts at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jason Ruhl received his MFA from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his
BFA from Minnesota
State University, Mankato. His work has been
shown in group exhibitions nationally and internationally
in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Venice, and
Berlin, among others. He currently resides in
Madison, Wisconsin, where as a Master Printer
at Tandem Press he assists artists
with incorporating digital techniques
into traditional printmaking.
Lenore
and Jason met in graduate school at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and have been long-time
collaborators ever since. They are also Co-founders
/ Co-directors of Red Rocket
Gallery;
a virtual gallery space
focused on showing the work of emerging artists.
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Session
#2: July 9 - 14, 2012
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STONE
LITHOGRAPHY
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MICHAEL
BARNES
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Through
lecture and demonstration this course will
cover basic theory and current processing
methods used in stone lithography. It is
intended that the procedural discussions
will include a range of traditional techniques
including crayon, tusche wash, flats, precision
deletions, tone rolls, positive and negative
line engraving, and considerations pertinent
to multiple color printing. We anticipate
that each student in the course will have
the opportunity to draw, process, and print
an edition of his / her own during the workshop.
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Michael
Barnes received his BFA from Alma College,
Michigan in 1991 and his MFA from the University
of Iowa in 1996, both with a focus on Printmaking.
His work has been presented in numerous solo
and group exhibitions throughout the country
in both commercial galleries and in university
settings. He is currently represented by
Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington
and Cervini Haas Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Additionally, his work has been exhibited
in over 100 competitive group exhibitions,
including exhibitions in Wales, Poland, Taiwan,
Estonia, Japan, Romania, Finland, and the
Republic of Macedonia.
Michael
has received numerous awards, including an
Illinois Arts Council Grant and an honorable
mention for the Carmen Arozena International
print award in Spain. His work is included
in many collections, including the Museum
of Fine Art, Boston; The Royal Museum of
Art, Antwerp, Belgium; the City of Vaasa,
Finland; The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North
Dakota; and many university and private collections.
He has also participated in a number of residencies
- at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium;
The Bemis Center of Contemporary Art in Omaha,
Nebraska; the Plains Art Museum in Fargo,
North Dakota; and Anchor Graphics in Chicago.
Michael
is currently an Associate Professor in the
Printmaking program at Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb, Illinois where he has
taught since 1998 and has taught summer courses
at the Santa Reparata International School
of Art in Florence, Italy.
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COLOR-FUL
INTAGLIO
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MATTHEW
EGAN
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The Color-ful
Intaglio course will investigate multi-plate
color intaglio techniques exploring imagery
and content through a process that combines
traditional etching methods with vast potential
of photo-etching making use digital colorization,
digital collage, and inkjet films. Each participant
will generate and manipulate their own color-ful
multi-plate intaglio achieved through the combination
of traditional and digital etching techniques.
The first
of several plates will take advantage of your
inspired drawing and will be transferred and
executed as a stage-bite line etch. This plate
will serve as the key and inform the subsequent
plates as well as generating opportunities
for aquatints, soft-grounds, and various methods
of altering the image through process and techniques.
The drawn
and etched plate will serve as the key image,
imported and manipulated digitally serving
to inform colorization techniques using software
and digital drawing tablets. Through the digital
process, methods of building color, collage,
and image manipulation will be investigated.
We will deal with color separations to generate
inkjet films for use in exposing pre-sensitized
zinc plates. The photo-etching process will
build the brilliant colors developed digitally
as the plates are printed in sequence and in
register with the line etching to generate
a multi-plate intaglio.
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Matthew
Egan teaches and practices traditional and
digitally assisted printmaking techniques in
lithography, screen-printing, and etching in
Greenville, North Carolina; where he is currently
serving as an Associate Professor in the School
of Art and Design at East Carolina University.
Prior to his current appointment, he lived
in the United Arab Emirates for five years,
teaching printmaking and drawing to students
representing 79 countries in the School of
Architecture and Design at American University
of Sharjah. Egan was born in Newmarket, Ontario,
Canada. Under the tutelage of Professor Daniel
W. Dingler, Egan earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from the University of Windsor
in 1997, majoring in printmaking and minoring
in Multi-Media. He received a Masters of Fine
Arts degree in Printmaking and Drawing in 2000
from the University of South Dakota mentored
by the Frogman, Professor Lloyd Menard.
Egan’s
work tends to have a dark yet playful quality,
with a little bit of satire. The compositions
are comprised of collaged elements derived
from drawings, sketches, and photographs to
generate fictitious moments and fabricated
realities based on the world which we live.
Egan’s prints, drawings, and high-relief
handmade paper casts have been exhibited in
national and international juried and invitational
exhibitions in North America, the Middle East
and Europe. Most recently, Egan has been working
on a suite of prints entitled the “Book
Pages of James O’Ganolley”, a portfolio
of color prints combining traditional and digital
printmaking techniques.
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RELIEF
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AMAZING HANCOCK BROTHERS
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This
course will be a bare-knuckle,
no nonsense relief class. Students
will learn how to cut wood, linoleum
and other materials. They’ll
also learn how to sharpen those
dull tools; transfer images to
the block, apply ink and print.
We will work in black and white
and some color. Printing on alternative
materials and collaboratively
will also be addressed. This
will be a good experience to
print like you live, HARD AND
FAST!
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Charles
and John S. Hancock: also known as the Amazing
Hancock Bros. to some. They are masters of
low-tech printmaking and other mixed-media
printing. Self proclaimed les enfants terribles
of the central Texas art world, the Brothers
Amazing put a few miles on’em since making
that claim.
Lamenting
lost youth, alienation, deformity, victimization,
revenge and their growing megalomania, they
are expressionist. Yes. Surrealist? Perhaps.
Whatever all that means it equates to MONSTERS!
MONSTERS? Yes, the black and white static riddled
grey of sub-standard 50’s B-horror films
had a profound effect on their formative years,
long before they knew what the hell a woodcut
was and long before art history surveys in
college. Monsters, zombies, spooks and scary
faces documented and doodled in the margins
of bibles and math textbooks still influences
their work today.
John and
Charles, self-proclaimed masters of all (or
damn near all) print media, are also card-carrying
members of the internationally known “Dirty
Printmakers of America”. They particularly
excel in woodcuts and screenprints, or mixed-media
variants of either. The Brothers also double-team
on mixed-media prints, where genre and identity
blur. Of special note is that they use exotic
materials such as mattress covers, plastic,
metal flashing, soiled Little Mermaid bed sheets,
recycled materials or whatever else is handy
to print on; even a good piece of Arches buff
rag paper.
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PHOTOGRAVURE
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ELLIE
HONL
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This course
provides an introduction to one of the most
beautiful photographic techniques using printmaking
methods. In photogravure, a photographic image
is etched into a piece of copper which can
then be printed with printer’s ink on
cotton rag paper. Photogravure prints have
an almost three dimensional, sculptural quality,
with rich, velvety blacks and a superb tonality
range. Emerging in the late 19th century, it
was one of the first successful techniques
for editioning photographic images. Artists
such as Edward S. Curtis and Alfred Stieglitz
used photogravure to edition some of their
most important works. Because of its unique
beauty, it has recently made a comeback and
has been used by artists such as Judy Pfaff,
Jim Dine, and Chuck Close.
This workshop
is structured to give participants a hands-on,
detailed, step-by-step experience of the process.
Students will learn about the history, relevance,
and unique aesthetic of the medium. They will
create digital positives from photographic
images using Photoshop. They will also learn
how to sensitize emulsion, prepare copper plates,
develop and etch the images, and print their
final copper plates. Participants will then
progress to experimenting with color, paper,
and manipulation of the copper plate by scraping,
scratching, and sanding.
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Ellie Honl
received her BA in studio art from St. Olaf
College in Northfield, MN in 2003, and her
MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa
in 2008. Since her graduation, she has been
a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and at the University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she has taught
all print media. Currently, she is a Visiting
Assistant Professor in Printmaking at Arizona
State University in Tempe. Her work has been
exhibited in numerous solo, juried, and invitational
exhibitions around the country. Ellie’s
continuing research involving photogravure
centers around its unique ability to be dramatically
altered through surface reduction and addition.
To learn more visit www.elliehonl.com.
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HIPS
RELIEF ENGRAVING
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JOHANNA
MUELLER
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Participants
will learn to carve High Impact Poly Styrene
(or HIPS for short) using traditional
wood engraving techniques and new techniques
special to this amazing material. HIPS is
a dense plastic material, carved in relief
with traditional wood engraving burins or
metal gravers. It is an inexpensive material,
great for students and experimentation! Participants
will be engaged from start to finish, as
they will learn how to prep the plate, transfer
image to the plate, composition and design
for engraving, carving techniques, as well
as inking, paper usage, and editioning techniques.
Each participant
will have a chance to carve a few images
for themselves on any theme to
get to know the material. All students are
invited to participate in the “Tinylicious
Portfolio,” in an attempt to make the
smallest portfolio exchange ever. We will be
carving 1.5” x 1.5” postage stamp
size plate and creating a custom mini-box to
house the portfolio. So get ready to make some
tiny art and enjoy every square inch!
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Having
earned a BFA in printmaking from Metropolitan
State College of Denver in 2004 and an
MFA from George Mason University in 2009,
Johanna actively shows her work at galleries
and other venues nationwide and internationally,
and has been an artist in residence at
Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO. She has
an extended education in letterpress
as an intern at Hatch Show Print, the
nation’s oldest surviving letterpress
facility, printing show posters for country
music artists. She has been a visiting
artist and guest lecturer at universities
and colleges throughout the United States,
speaking about the mythology behind her
work as well as the business of art.
While based in Denver, she has converted
an Airstream trailer into a mobile print
shop, Feverish Art: Mobile Editions,
which she tours across the country during
summer months, stopping at galleries,
boutiques, and universities. To view
more information and images please visit
her website: www.johannamuellerprints.com.
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COLLAGRAPH
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TRACY
OTTEN
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Collagraph
is a collage based printmaking technique
where printable matrices are created by adhering
various materials to a substrate. Variation
in the surface quality of these glued materials
yields a wide range of color, shape, value
and texture that produces the unique richness
characteristic of collagraph prints. The
process has great potential for experimentation
and innovation through the repurposing of
everyday materials such as tape, spackle,
wallpaper, leaves, art papers and fabric
scraps. This course will introduce students
to a variety of techniques for working with
the collagraph process including additive
and subtractive approaches to matrix construction
as well as intaglio and relief printing possibilities.
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Tracy
Otten is an associate professor at the University
of Minnesota- Morris, where she teaches printmaking
and foundation courses. She earned a Bachelor
of Science degree in Psychology, Sociology
and Art from North Dakota State University,
Fargo, ND. Otten did graduate work at Palackeho
Univerzita, Olomouc, Czech Republic and at
the University of South Dakota where she
completed an MFA in Printmaking. Her prints
and mixed media collages have been shown
in over 100 regional, national and international
exhibitions, including 13 solo exhibitions.
Her work is also included in the permanent
collection of 40 universities and museums.
Otten has been the recipient of grants and
awards through the Lake Region Arts Council,
the University of Minnesota, the Plains Art
Museum and the Nebraska Fine Arts Council
One Percent for the Arts.
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INSIDE
THE BOX
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Do
you need more than a singular image to express
your ideas?
Take your 2-D images and ideas into the 3rd
dimension with INSIDE THE BOX: An Integrated
Mixed Media Sculptural Book and Printmaking
Workshop.
INISIDE THE BOX
is a fast paced sculptural artist book and
print workshop packed with
technical and conceptual tools to expand the
possibilities of your 2-D marks. We will cover
a variety of print, book structure, and mixed
media techniques suited for incorporation in
each student’s unique handmade book /
box structure. Students will leave the course
with one of a kind sculptural pieces, and boundless
new ideas for expanding their artistic vocabulary.
We will explore
the integration of printing and mixed media
within sculptural artists’ books;
most specifically, the box. Each student will
bring 2 boxes: tins, drawers, cupboards, wood
boxes, containers, etc. which will be the framework
for their individual pieces. We will then explore
together, print, text, drawing, surface treatment
and construction techniques to create unique
one of a kind sculptural artist books.
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Raised
on a secluded ranch in rural central Idaho,
Cerese Vaden’s early life was an anachronism.
Butter churning, making bread, gathering
eggs and feeding bum lambs were among the
weekly chores. Avid reading and family trips
across the country allowed her to recognize
the microcosm she lived in, but not until
post graduate school did she learn to truly
appreciate that microcosm. Jobs in house
painting, cake decorating, floral design,
greenhouse gardening and advertising supported
her educational and artistic pursuits. Her
longest lasting and current job (as an Associate
Professor at the University of Arizona) came
shortly after pursuing an MFA in studio art.
She misses the butter churning, and even the
bum lambs.
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