Piece, Press, Print: Collage-based Etching with PNP Blue
June 23 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$278.00A 3-week In-Studio Workshop!
Sundays, June 23, 30, and July 7, 2-5pm
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About this Workshop:
Calling all collage enthusiasts! Interested in translating your collaged works into print? Looking for a non-drawing intensive print method? In this workshop we will create richly textured intaglio prints from collaged images using printed circuit board transfer film and aquatint etching. Session one will cover scanning and digitally editing collage work for print and the transfer and aquatint process with press n peel blue. During session two we will proof our images, then use these as references for further edits, employing a variety of techniques including aquatint step etching, scraping and burnishing, and/or drypoint. Our final session will be devoted to printing with instruction on various inking techniques and chine-colle. Students will come away with an understanding of the process from start to finish, a series of prints, and an etched 6×8” copper plate that they can continue printing in the future.
Level: Intermediate – Introduction to Printmaking (Relief, Woodcut, Etching) or similar experience printing with a press (6 hours) is required.
Registration closes June 14, 2024. Material fees are included with your registration to cover the supplies provided in class. Students may/will need to gather/purchase additional materials for class (see the materials list below). This list will also be provided with the registration confirmation email.
Sample images by Etai Rogers-Fett
CLASS MATERIALS LIST:
Registration includes a $40 materials fee to cover consumable materials provided in class, including one 6”x8” copper plate, ink, press-and-peel transfer film, tarlatan, glue, and newsprint. Students will need to supply additional materials of their own, including:
- 3-4 sheets BFK Rives Heavyweight, 19”x26”
- Any preferred collaging materials
- 1 black Sharpie marker
- (Optional) Personal apron (we’ll have extras) or wear clothes that can get inky
- (Optional) Notepad of sketchbook for taking notes
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Etai Rogers-Fett (he/him) is a printmaker, judaica artist, and arts educator living on Piscataway land in Maryland. Etai is an artistic associate in the printshop at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and teaches printmaking to youth and adults at various art centers in the DMV area. In his printmaking practice, Etai draws inspiration from Jewish craft traditions of papercutting, manuscript illumination, and calligraphy to create compositions that blend decorative and narrative imagery and explore the expressive potential of Hebrew and Yiddish typography. Etai plays with the genres of Jewish book arts in order to tell the stories of gender expansive identities often deliberately obscured from this historical body of work – weaving together archival research, folktales, and speculative imagining to trace vibrant trans and queer Jewish lineages. See more of Etai’s work on Instagram at @tsukunst.