THE 2023 CREATIVE AGING COLLAGRAPH WORKSHOP IS FULL.
Saltgrass Printmakers will be hosting a six-week printmaking class for 55+ individuals interested in learning about collagraph printmaking.
With the generous support of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums’ Creative Aging Program, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the e.a. michelson philanthropy organization, Saltgrass Printmakers can off this class free of charge. See all the details below!
We had a blast last year!!
Contact Stefanie Dykes at stefanie.dykes822@gmail.com to register for the class.
Printscape – Collagraph Printmaking
Instructor: Stefanie Dykes
Dates and Location:
This six-week course will meet at Saltgrass Printmakers, 412 South 700 West, #110, Salt Lake City Utah, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
The class will start March 25th, 2023, and continues consecutive Saturdays, April 1-29, May 6, 2023.
Saltgrass will host a culminating Artists’ Reception on Saturday, May 13th at Saltgrass Printmakers.
Class limited to eight participants.
Class Description:
Collagraph prints are created from common materials found at a hardware store, in your junk drawer or discovered during a walk in your neighborhood. Students in this course will use various techniques to build up textured surfaces with common materials. We will be exploring form, texture and composition as well as developing a conceptual approach to our prints.
Conceptually, students will be combining the idea of topophilia or the ‘love of place’ with the physical attributes of collagraph printmaking to create what I am calling a “Printscape.” W.H. Auden defined topophilia as ‘a landscape infused with a sense of history.’ We spend time reflecting on our unique definitions of place. To kick start the creative process, students will explore surfaces and textures through a frottage collage exercise.
Collagraph matrices have a topographical quality that we use to reference a place. I am constantly surprised by their ability to retain creases, folds, peaks, and valleys, to record the mark of the artist like a riverbed, and to hold impressions of objects.
Let’s take the theme of topophilia (‘the love of place’) and combine it with the collagraph printmaking technique that so often reads as a landscape and can carry physical details, memories, or emotions.
This process is inventive and inspiring! The workshop is geared for beginning students, but experienced artists can join us as well.