What a Relief : An Exploration of Printmaking on Edge Workshop in Cleveland

What a Relief : An Exploration of Printmaking on Edge Workshop

Space is limited and early registration is required. You must be registered in order to take this workshop. You can register online at http://morganconservatory.org/workshops2012.htm or by phone at 216-361-9255. Contact Program Coordinator Lauren Sammon at Lsammon@MorganConservatory.org with any questions.

Instructed by Claudio Orso. The structure of this workshop is to challenge you to explore your personal sketches through the stylistic lens of relief prints carved in Shina plywood, wax plates and other alternative materials. This workshop will push you beyond your comfort zone to graphically embrace working with the illusion of grayscale value. Content can be based on landscapes, portraits or objects, but you must bring ideas and sketches to the class so that they can be explored, deconstructed and reconstituted throughout this process. You will creatively use the etching presses, brayers, rubbing spoons, chisels, gouges, knives and electric tools. You will also have free reign to integrate your block with type through the use of lo-tech poster presses and the expansive collection of metal and wooden type the Morgan has to offer. This workshop offers you technical processes, access to equipment, constructive critique and an environment where exploration is the name of the game.

Claudio Orso is a printmaker and ceramic sculptor from Turin, Italy, and he has been living in Ohio for the last ten years. He has exhibited across the US, and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 2004, after which he completed his Master of Fine Arts at Bowling Green State. Zygote Press has been his artistic home, and he has worked there as contract printer and assistant with some of the foreign visiting artists. He was one of two Ohio artists chosen by the OAC in 2007 for the cultural exchange with the city of Dresden, GER. Early participant to the Ohio Board of Education-sponsored Reggio Emilia study group, he taught art to a very wide range of audiences and academic level, and has a very strong commitment to art practice as a service for the community: throughout his years in Oberlin he volunteered many sessions in public schools teaching art fundamentals; he created with the help of the Nord Family Foundation ArtZreach, a project of art practice and education at the Lorain County Juvenile Detention Home.

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This event repeats on various days: