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Printmaking News Archive
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Steamroller Printing!!!We'll be printing in the parking lot of Saltgrass Printmakers on Saturday August 16th by driving over the plates with a steamroller! Participants will carve their woodcuts into plywood, we'll ink those up, put the paper on, and use the steamroller as the press. It should be great fun! Spectators, cheerleaders, gawkers, and printmakers are all welcome! Where: Saltgrass Printmakers 2126 S. 1000 E. SLC When: Saturday, August 16th, starting at noon How: Large relief prints made using a steamroller as a press Who: Saltgrass members and anyone else who wants to carve a plate. That means you! What: We'll provide the paper, ink, and steamroller. You provide a carved woodcut plate. Details: The steamroller will be around 34" wide so that's the critical
Here's a link to a 15 Bytes article about the event
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August 2007 Visiting Artist Workshop |
Visiting artist Bill Hosterman, an assistant professor of art from Grand Valley State College in Michigan will be here in early August to do a workshop on his "drypoint lithography" process. | |
July 2007 Saltgrass Amity Art Foundation Fellowships |
In conjunction with the Amity Art Foundation, Saltgrass is pleased to announce the Saltgrass Amity Art Foundation Fellowships. These two fellowships are funded by the Amity Art Foundation and provide for a month of Saltgrass membership, supplies, and individual instruction for emerging local print artists. Our first two recipients are Laura Decker and Tia Sheppard. Welcome!
Watch for news about next years Fellowships and application procedures. These should be available around January 2008. |
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May 2007 Visiting Artist in Residence |
Erik Waterkotte, assistant professor of art at Minnesota State University, Mankato will be Saltgrass Printmaker's first visiting artist in residence. Erik will offer a master class showing off his great mixed-media techniques. He'll also be printing in the shop for two weeks at the end of May. Stop by and say Hi! |
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April 11, 14, 21, 2007 Press & Peel Etching class with Chad Tolley |
Our old buddy Chad has returned from Oregon with his MFA in printmaking, and with lots of great new ideas. This class will be about a fascinating new etching technique that Chad has been working with. Don't miss it! | |
March 21-25, 2007 SGC Printmaking Conference in Kansas City, MO |
This is THE national printmaking conference. This year Saltgrass founders Sandy, Stefanie, and Erik are organizing a panel/event to try to get other non-profit and open-access print studios collaborating. See http://sgc.kcai.edu/index.html for details of the conference, and http://sgc.kcai.edu/panels.html for details of the panel. The panel is on Thursday afternoon of the conference. If you're headed to SGC, we hope you'll join us! |
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Friday March 2, 2007 A Show of Hands opening Exhibit through April 13, 2007 |
At the Finch Lane Gallery in Reservoir Park - A Show of Hands featuring 25 Utah printmakers including Saltgrass founders Sandy Brunvand and Stefanie Dykes. This is a wonderful printmaking/bookmaking project organized by Jennifer Watson, Laurie Mackay and others at BYU. The Art Barn web site is http://www.slcgov.com/arts/pages/vizarts.htm |
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Wed, Feb 28, 2007 Coaster exchange gathering |
Printmakers involved in our first original printed coaster exchange will gather at the Pub (Desert Edge Brewery) in Trolly Square at 7:00 to enjoy our fine-art coasters. | |
Feb 16 - March 9 2007 Utah Arts Festival gallery show |
The Utah Arts Festival Gallery, in the new ArtSpace, has a show featuring works on paper by former invited artists to the Utah Arts Festival. Sandy Brunvand has a number of works in this show that involve assemblages of prints, waxed papers, and staples. See http://www.uaf.org/galleryuaf.htm for more details |
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June 16, 2006 Show runs |
Saltgrass co-founder Sandy Brunvand has a show opening at Art Access. This show will feature paintings and mixed-media works on paper which include prints. |
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| June 17, 2006 10:00am-noon |
David Crown will demonstrate mezzotint printing at Saltgrass. See the classes page for more info |
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July, 2006 Opening reception |
Saltgrass Printmakers show at the Salt Lake Public LIbrary gallery. This show will focus on printmaking processes. It will feature a number of area printmakers and a variety of processes. It will also include tools and materials used in each of the processes so that you can see how prints of different types are made. |
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| July 10,11,12, 2006 | Special 3-day Solarplate Workshop with Dan Welden Dan Welden is the artist who originated the non-toxic Solarplate printmaking technique. Come learn about these exciting techniques, both relief and intaglio, that use photopolymer plates as printing matrices. This will be Dan's first ever workshop in the Salt Lake area. Click here for more details. Cost for the 3-day workshop is $280 |
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| September 20-24 | MAPC printmaking conference in Athens, Ohio Too much printmaking fun! |
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October, 2006 |
Saltgrass co-founder Stefanie Dykes, and Veera Kasicharernvat are having a show of their prints at the Patrick Moore Gallery. More details TBA. |
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Ongoing |
We've had some great visits recently from art classes from the University of Utah (Maureen O'Hara Ure's class) and SLCC (Allen Bishop's class). We enjoy showing off the shop, talking about printmaking, showing prints in our gallery, and helping students understand prints. If you'd like to schedule a studio tour, give us a call! |
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