Flora Botanica - Relief Printmaking Immersion

With Annie Silverman
4 days: Tuesday - Friday
May 7 - 10th
10 - 4 PM
6 participants maximum
Cost: $550

Join Annie Silverman, an ardent gardener and relief (mostly woodcut) printmaker in a 4-day exploration where over- arching visual themes will be taken from Nature’s patterns and packages within the plant kingdom. From observational drawings of plant structure through jewelers’ loupes to the creation of compositions that include segments of plants or seed pods as design motifs, participants will enlarge their skills for generating images and translating them into prints.

Using a variety of relief techniques as woodcut, trace monotypes, stencils and masks and simple collograph plates, vocabularies of printmaking matrices will be created that can be used in conjunction with each other to create new gardens of possibilities. If there is interest and need, basic relief printmaking techniques like image transfer onto blocks, tool sharpening, quick and dirty layering and color additions with acetate will be addressed. *Materials list will be sent to participants after registration

Annie Silverman is the proprietor and lead teacher at ABRAZOS PRESS, a professional and teaching print shop in Somerville, MA. She was part-time Faculty at Mass College of Art in Artists’ Books, Printmaking and Papermaking for over 20 years, and for the past 16 years has been teaching at ABRAZO PRESS and other studios as Zea Mays Print Studio in Florence, MA, and Two Rivers Print studio in White River Junction, VT. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in The Loft Gallery in Havana, Cuba, as part of the Paper Boat Flotilla, a collaborative printmaking project with Cuban and American printmakers. Annie wrote an article about this experience, which currently appears in the British printmaking magazine PRESSING MATTERS, issue 25. (www.pressingmattersmag.com) Her work was included in this year’s Mass College of Art’s Auction, and is also in the collections of The Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Public Library, the De Cordova Museum, and in the private collection of Jaune Quick-To -See-Smith, the first Native American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York. www.anniesilverman.com www.abrazospress.com @abrazos.press

All levels welcome. Free parking is provided.

Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio
27 Dunstan Street
West Newton, MA 02465
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