Creative Printing Strategies

About this event

Saturday-Sunday, December 5-6, 10 AM-5 PM

with Liz Chalfin

Not every print in an edition needs to look the same. Celebrate the variable edition! Bring your etching, drypoint, photopolymer, and/or collagraph plates for a weekend of play and discovery. We’ll explore a variety of different printing strategies that can dramatically change an image, including ink modifications, a la poupeé inking, printing on thin papers, waxing, layering and more! Rather than editioning your intaglio plates, this workshop will focus on the myriad different directions you can push an image through creative printing.

The workshop will begin with a sharing of prints and discussion of the plates people bring and different approaches one can take to alter an image through printing. The instructor will work with each artist individually to plan out a series of experiments then demonstrate various approaches to printing. Participants will leave the workshop with a series of varied prints from the same plate and the excitement to continue to ink and print creatively.

About the Instructor

Liz Chalfin is founder and director of Zea Mays Printmaking and the studio’s resident artist. Liz has been involved in printmaking for the past 40 years. She teaches workshops at Zea Mays Printmaking, supervises the research at the studio and takes the message and methods of safer printmaking on the road to conferences, schools and studios around the world through lectures, demonstrations and workshops. Her prints and artist’s books are exhibited internationally and are in numerous public and private collections including the New York Public Library, Smith College Museum of Art, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Hood Museum, The Boston Public Library, The Portland Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Museo Internacional de Gravura, Alijo, Portugal, San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana.