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Postponed until the Fall. Registrants have been notified. 05-26-19~tammie

Join us for the special event of an in-depth workshop with visiting instructor Larry Thomas.  Larry is an established artist and experienced teacher, versed in a variety of printmaking methods.  This 4 day workshop will focus on dry point, the most straightforward and simplest method of intaglio printmaking.  

• Participants will be introduced to drawing directly with the etching needle on copper and Plexiglas plates with no intermediate application of wax grounds or caustic acids involved with the process.  
• A wide variety of both dramatic and subtle tonal passages as well as bold and delicate linear expressions are characteristic of this technique. 
• Working proofs of the images will be pulled at various points to provide on-going examples of the different stages of image development.  
• Additive and subtractive methods of drawing on the plate will be explored along with variations of wiping, registration, paper handling, and other related processes of the printmaking studio.  
  

Participants will be encouraged to develop a specific project that reflects the explorations of the workshop.  Classroom discussions and individual conversations will provide direction and clarification of both technical and expressive modes of image making. An introduction to engraving will be included in the workshop for those interested in this specific method of drawing directly on the copper plate with burins and gravers. This is also a process of working without the use of caustic agents and provides a glimpse into the world of a unique and precise linear expression.

Details:

• Registration will close May 31, two weeks prior to the first day of class
• If minimum enrollment has not been reached by this time, this class will be cancelled.
• Prerequisite: None
• A materials fee of $55, included in the price of the class, covers one plexiglass plate, one copper plate, two engraving tools, one sheet of professional grade printmaking paper, and use of the studio etching tools, ink, and student grade print paper.
• Additional plexi ($10/ea) and copper ($20/ea) plates will be available for purchase in the studio
• Additional professional grade printmaking paper is available for purchase in the studio for $5/sheet.
• Feel free to bring a meal or snacks.  Eating is allowed in the common area adjacent to the print studio, and there is a kitchen in which to store and reheat food.

Instructor:

Larry Thomas lives and works in Fort Bragg, California.  He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for many years and held the positions of professor and chair of the printmaking department, dean of academic affairs and interim president prior to retiring in 2005.  

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, SFMoMA, the Oakland Museum of California, the Missoula Museum of Art, the Fresno Museum of Art and in the artists’ books collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Green Library at Stanford among other public and private collections.  His calligraphic work has been featured in multiple issues of both Letter Arts Reviewand Alphabet.  

Thomas is the recipient of two NEA Individual Fellowships, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and of the SFMoMA’s SECA Award.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and a resident artist at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.  He also served on the executive boards of the Alliance of Artist Communities, the Headlands Center for the Arts and on the advisory board of the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.  

See more at www.larrythomas.info