Printmaking Workshops at Asheville BookWorks

Upcoming workshops are listed on this page ordered by start date.

Encaustic: Layering In Clear Beeswax

June 20 – 21, 2013 Thursday & Friday, 10-5

Instructor name: Celia Gray Cost: $227 (including a $10 materials fee)

Class Description: In this class, we will explore the potential of transparent encaustic medium as a binder for layering imagery produced on paper. The first day of this class will be spent generating ideas and producing paper materials for collage using gelatin monoprinting, drawing, and painting. On the second day we will introduce clear encaustic medium as a binder for our materials
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Developing Creative Potential: Wood Engraving and Moku Hanga Relief Printing

June 24 – 30, 2013 Monday 6:30 – 9 PM, Tuesday-Friday 10-9, Saturday-Sunday 10-5

Instructor: Andy Farkas Cost: $575 (including a $40 materials fee)

Description: New class model combining formal instruction with open work hours in the studio for students to practice.  Focus is on developing creativity as well as learning the art and craft of wood engraving
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Letterpress Printing – Intensive

July 13 – 21, 2013  (8 days) S, Su ,M (Tues off) W ,Th ,F ,S and Su 10 am – 5 pm

Instructors: Ele Annand, Laurie Corral and Jessica White $823 (includes a $50 materials fee for ink, solvents and equipment maintenance.)

Description: Three incredible instructors have teamed up and put together a letterpress intensive for students who want to move forward quickly in a letterpress practice and are interested in working independently in the BookWorks letterpress
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Woodcutting: Expressive Steamroller Prints

August 24 – 25, 2013 Saturday and Sunday, 10-5

Instructor: Steve Prince Cost: $312 (not including a $35-$45 materials fee )

Description: What do you get when you mix a steamroller and imagination? A giant, expressive, Avant Garde, 3’ foot x 35’ foot Woodcut Print! In this intense two-weekend hands-on workshop participants will go on a printmaking journey and create original woodcut prints. Students will learn how to construct thematic works and use multiple transfer techniques to place images on the substrate. Use
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Guts of the Book: Drawing/ ScreenPrinting + Folding

Sept. 14 & 15, 2013 Saturday & Sunday, 10 – 5

Instructor: Kreh Mellick and Dana Fehsenfeld Cost: $217 (not including a $20-$40 materials fee to be determined at the end of the class)

Description: This class will be about the guts of the book, fast books, simple stories and making drawing accessible to the bookbinder. Drawing can sometimes seem unattainable, rigorous and daunting, but it is a skill we all have, a muscle sometimes left to collect dust, but longing to make itself
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