Summer Classes and Workshops at ABRAZOS PRESS
11 Miller St…..Somerville..near Porter Sq… AIR CONDITIONED..!
1. Improvisational Woodcut:
It’s like Jazz, but with sharp tools, wood, paper and ink!
This most ancient of printmaking techniques honors the hand, the mark, and the constructive destruction of wood transformed by carving, scratching and abrading. Each block is a layer of information that can be combined with stencils and masks to yield unique, contemporary results. Students will make a set of plates that can be used alone or in conjunction with one another. We use Shina plywood, a wonderful material that is easy to cut and keeps fine detail. Tool maintenance and sharpening, ink modification, transfer techniques, and printing techniques will be addressed. This is a unique way to work with woodblock that can have the immediacy of collage, yet with the possibility of multiples and work within a series for which printmaking is ideal.
PRINTMAKING CLASSES LIMITED TO 5 participants
4 day intensive Improvisational woodcut workshop- July 8-11 (Sunday-Wednesday)
9:30-4:30
$340.00
B. Thursday Morning Class – Improvisational woodcut
5 sessions (June 14,21,28, July 12, 19) NO CLASSES 4th of July week
9:30-1:00
$250.00
2. Relief and Pronto Plate Extravaganza: The multi- layered print
Polyester plate lithography (pronto plates) are a wonderful addition to any printmaking skill set. The plates can be drawn on with BIC pens and Sharpie markers, painted on with Acrylic floor wax, and afford the integration of text and photographic imagery through their ability to be used with laser printers and copy machines. Add all this to the wonders of woodcut and relief printmaking and become giddy with the endless possibilities for creating truly unique prints. Pronto plates are also a wonderful means of creating text for artist books.
Monday evening class- Relief and Pronto plate Extravaganza
5 sessions: (June 18,25,July 9,16,23)
6:00-9:30 PM
$250.00
3 Day intensive workshop-Relief and Pronto Plate Extravaganza
June 22-24 (Friday-Sunday)
9:30-4:30
$250.00
Bookmaking Bootcamp : 3 day intensive
Books are physical containers for ideas and images. Learn basic sewn and folded book structures that can both organize and sequence other bodies of work. Based on interest and experience participants can expect to make forms as : The Chinese Atlas, Japanese folding screen, Coptic Bound book, Stab Bindings and others.
August 3-5 (Friday-Sunday)
9:30-4:30
$250.00
REGISTRATION: A $50.00 fee to hold a space in workshops should be sent to Annie Silverman.
A materials list will be emailed directly afterwards.
For Annie’s mailing address, confirmation and information: anniesil@earthlink.net, or silverman.annie@gmail.com
Annie Silverman has been a printmaker for 25 years and has concentrated on woodblock printmaking for the past 11 years. She is the owner of ABRAZOS PRESS in Somerville, MA, a teaching and professional studio dedicated to relief printmaking. Annie has been affiliated for over 18 years at Mass Art in Boston where she teaches courses in Artist Books, and Relief Printmaking into Books. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Kyoto, Japan as part of an artist book show created to coincide with the Mokuhanga Conference in June 2011. During the summer of 2010 Annie was an artist- in-residence and teacher at the Graphic Workshop in Næstved, Denmark, where she had a solo exhibition.She was also in residence and teaching at Clo’ Ceardlann, in Donegal, Ireland. Part of her print installation, VANISHING POLLINATORS can be seen at the Boston Public Library in the Mixit 25th Anniversary exhibition until July 31, 2012
