Trace Monotype: The Hard Line

2 sessions

Jun 13

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Jun 14

10:30 am

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5:30 pm

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Description

Monotype is a great way to initiate a printmaking practice: it requires no acid andno carving. Some monotype techniques don’t even require a press. This workshop introduces stencils, ghost printing, and a monotype drawing technique called tracemonotype. Trace Monotype: The Hard Line explores a non-painterly methodology tomaking unique, one-of-a-kind prints: using line, hard edges, transparency, and layered passages of color.Enjoy the visual vocabulary of drawing, printing both by hand and on the press,working intuitively or intentionally, making abstract or representational imagery, todevelop a body of works on Asian paper. Demonstrations include ink modification, trace monotype, stencil printing, counter-proofing, ghost printing, flats, and blend rolls. Create complex, engaging works that can stand on their own or initiate collages, mixed mediaworks, and printstallation.
MGC Members receive a 25% discount toward registration, and non-members receive 14 hours of additional studio time outside of class. Class fee includes materials.

Saturday, Jun 13 10:30am–5:30pm (7hrs)

Sunday, Jun 14 10:30am–5:30pm (7hrs)

Instructor

Sarah Smelser

Sarah Smelser has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center; Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and Tamarind Institute. She has shown her monotypes in solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions, and at numerous art fairs including Art Frankfurt, Estampa Madrid, Affordable Art Fair New York, Art Miami, Art Chicago, EDITION Chicago, Boston Print Fair, Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, EXPO, and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair. She has taught monotype workshops at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Frogman’s Print Workshop, Remarque Print Workshop, Chicago Printmakers Collabortive, Manhattan Graphics Center, and Kala Art Institute.Smelser received her BA from University of California at Santa Cruz, and her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the 2022-24 Harold Boyd Endowed Professor in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.

Contact Details

  • Powerhouse Arts, 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  • 718.522.1400
  • info@powerhousearts.org

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