Make+Take: Plaster Relief Prints
March 26 @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Let’s Make+Take!
Wednesday, March 26, 7-9pm
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About this Workshop:
Learn how to make a relief print using inexpensive and readily available materials in a simple process that you can easily continue experimenting with at home. Plaster as a relief medium allows for very gestural and intuitive work for adults as well as children old enough to safely handle a sharp tool. Easy, and so much fun to do … you’ll be making your own unique printed designs in no time!
Level: Beginner—no experience necessary.
Registration closes March 24, 2025 and all materials are provided.
Sample images by Amy Callner
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes all materials—just come ready to have fun! In addition, you may want to bring the following items for class:
- (optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras!) and/or wear clothes that can get messy
- (optional) Personal mask if you are sensitive to dust. While the plaster “blocks” will be made in advance, there’s always the possibility of
- (optional) Notebook or sketchbook to take notes in
- A small sketch or design idea you’d like to create—3-4” maximum in size.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Amy Callner was born and raised in the Chicago area, and fell in love with printmaking at the age of fifteen. Between then and now, she’s worn a lot of hats. She’s been a community organizer, environmental activist, union researcher, roller derby queen, single parent, partnered parent, teacher, and artist. She has a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has learned and practiced lithography at The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and Anchor Graphics in Chicago, the Printmaking Workshop in New York, and here at Pyramid Atlantic where she was a Printshop Associate for six years. She lives and works just over the DC border in Prince George’s County, Maryland, enjoys a good comic or graphic novel, and doesn’t do decaf. You can learn more about her work at www.amycallner.com.