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Workshops
Introduction to Japanese Color Woodblock Printmaking
The Japanese developed a woodblock printing method using water as a medium, brushes to apply colors to the blocks, and use of a hand-held baren instead of a press to transfer colors from multiple carved blocks to printing papers. This is a low carbon-footprint, non-toxic printing method with a fascinating history.
The workshop is organized to offer a comprehensive introduction to the tools, techniques, and materials involved in this art form. Everyone completes a multi-color print and engages with aspects of design, carving, and printing. The workshop includes a sharing of tricks and techniques that may be adapted to other art-making approaches (watercolor painting, western-style printmaking).
All experience levels are welcome. Each 3-day workshop is taught in six three-hour sessions. To find out more, and to see prints made by past class participants, visit the Studio, or send me a note.
June 1 - 3, 2024, at the Rowe Center, Rowe, MA.
Tuition is $625 including a studio materials fee. Meal and lodging options are offered by the Rowe Center.
Interested to know more? Send me a note!
Limited to 6 participants. This workshop has one space available.
To find out more,
June 15 - 17, 2024, at the Cotton Free Library, Weybridge, VT.
I look forward to again sharing my woodblock workshop in this unique and well set-up space in June. The Cotton Free Library, with counters located below large windows (six total, one for each student), seems made for teaching hanga woodblock classes. Three doors down the street from our house in the Quaker Village area of Weybridge (10 minutes north of Middlebury), the library looks out over the dramatic Twin Bridges area of the Otter Creek River.
Tuition is $625 including studio materials fee. Meal and lodging options are available. Interested to know more? Send me a note!
Limited to 6 participants. 3 spaces left.
To find out more.
June 29 - July 1, 2024, at the Cotton Free Library, Weybridge, VT.
Same course description as June 15 - 17 workshop above.
Tuition is $625 including studio materials fee. Meal and lodging options are available. Interested to know more? Send me a note!
Limited to 6 participants. 3 spaces left.
To find out more.
Talks
September 10, 2024, 3:30 pm, at Brookhaven Residence, Lexington, MA
"Kunisada: Art within Art" , an exhibit of Talk with Taylor McNeil
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April 6, 1 - 3 pm, at the MBFA gallery, 1 Main St., Lyme, NH
Matt will be set up with his bench and a project, showing how to print with brushes and baren. He will also come prepared to talk on one or more of 3 topics:
"A Short History of the moku-hanga Printing Tradition"
"Which Part Art and Which Part Craft?"
"The Energy Theory of Color"
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