Workshops

Integrating Mind, Body, and Art, a Color Woodblock Printmaking Retreat

June 4 - 6, 2027, at the Rowe Center, Rowe, MA.

Email Matt of your interest.

The class of June, 2025 was a very special experience and Matt and Jane are looking forward to facilitating a similar workshop for 2027.

 



Describe a bit more?
During this retreat we'll do carved and printed using the Japanese technique (the hanga method). Focus was on the communicative potential of making art as a group. To help that to work, we pursued activities during the weekend to build meaning around our group project.
We pursued a goal: the completion of a batch of prints that participants divvied up and took home.

The Japanese hanga method?

Hanga is printing by hand with wood and water. It was the printing method used to make the ukiyo-e and shin hanga prints of Japan. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was done collaboratively by a team. Materials are non-toxic (just rice paste, water, and pigments), printing is with brushes and a hand-held baren instead of a press.