Soft & Hard: Pressure Printing and Pochoir Workshop in Cleveland

Soft & Hard: Pressure Printing and Pochoir 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.

Soft & Hard: Pressure Printing and Pochoir Workshop
June 2 - 3 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Instructed by Amy Borezo

In this workshop you will learn two complimentary image-making techniques that you can use both on and off the press. Pressure printing is a process that uses a low relief collage to print from a plexiglas base placed in the bed of a cylinder letterpress. This technique lends itself to creating soft, atmospheric prints. you will create a low-relief collage and pull an edition of 3-5 prints on Saturday. Sunday you will incorporate pochoir into the prints from the first day. Pochoir is a hand-stenciling technique used to create richly colored, hard-edged patterns and images. This intense handcraft was used extensively in the graphic arts of the early 20th century. You will cut their own stencils and make an edition of 3 complete prints that incorporate both techniques. Over the course of the workshop, you will look at numerous examples of pressure printing and pochoir. In the end you will also be able to keep two professional grade Japanese stencil brushes so you can continue to create long after this jam-packed printing weekend.

Amy Borezo received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. While there, she studied Letterpress and the Art of the Book at Brown University with Walter Feldman of the Ziggurat Press and Printmaking with Andrew Raftery. After graduating, she studied bookbinding with Barry Spence and worked for Master Bookbinder Daniel Kelm. Amy opened Shelter Bookworks in 2005, a full service bookbinding and letterpress studio in Orange, Massachusetts. Her limited artist's books are exhibited widely and are in a variety of major institutional and private collections, including Yale, Stanford, Mills College, and Smith College. Her work was recently featured in The Book: A Contemporary View at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Amy also teaches book and print related courses, most recently at Dartmouth College

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This event repeats on various days: