This is a community oriented experience in which each person will be able to carve one or more letters to create a word with the rest of the participants in this workshop. This workshop will cover in depth explanation about mirror image, image transfer, printmaking papers, carving tools, registration, inking, printing by hand and with small personal presses. This beginners linocut printmaking workshop is intended for people with little to no previous experience in printmaking.
This is a linoleum carving and typographic focused workshop. Come prepared with ideas of what you’d like your lettering to look like and potential words for the class to create.
Linoleum carving is a common method used by printers to create illustrations and other shape-based elements in their print projects.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Saturday, May 11, 10am-4pm
PRICE: $150
Class Size: Maximum 8
Instructors: PALOMA NÚÑEZ-REGUEIRO
Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a printmaker living in Ann Arbor, Michigan; she is also a resident artist at Ypsi Alloy Studios. Paloma studied Fine Arts in Mexico at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas, and in the USA at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work is in the Henry Ford Cancer Institute Art Collection and has been published in numerous publications.