Artisan Erik Savage and team will demonstrate a printing technique used by The Alpha Workshops in the production of some of their catalogue of award-winning wallpaper patterns. The team will demo intaglio carving using lightweight foam blocks and will print and embellish a signature Alpha wallpaper. Participants will take away a gorgeous hand-painted greeting card exemplifying these techniques.

Dedicated to creating beauty and changing lives, The Alpha Workshops is the nation’s first nonprofit organization to provide decorative arts education and employment to adults with visible or invisible disabilities and/or other vulnerabilities. It was founded in 1995 in the Chelsea area of Manhattan and modeled on the famed Omega Workshops, the Wiener Werkstätte, the Bauhaus, and the American Arts & Crafts movement. The multi-faceted organization encompasses The Alpha Workshops Studios, an award-winning professional design and decorative arts atelier.

‍Erik Savage joined The Alpha Workshops wallpaper artisan staff in 2012 and became the Production Manager in 2015. He designed many papers in the current collection and has taught the techniques of Alpha's signature folded papers and the traditional stamped patterns of our first collections in our Studio School.