May 31 - June 1, 2024: Innovative Collagraph Printmaking Using Recycled Materials w/Gláucia Mir
TIME: 10:00 to 3:00 both days - with a 1/2 hour lunch break.
This 2 day printmaking workshop will be taught by Guest Artist & Printmaker Gláucia Mir. To learn about Gláucia and her printmaking please scroll to the Bio at the bottom of this listing.
Explore innovative printmaking techniques in this workshop that utilizes recycled materials. You will be introduced to Collagraph and Tetra Pak printmaking. Both use readily available and low tech materials and yield amazing results!
Day 1
Delve into collagraphs and ‘build’ a printing plate or two, using materials in a collage like process.
Learn how textures are built up, or taken away, and how that translates in the printing process.
Learn to print your collograph plate using both a press and by hand.
Day 2
Work with a Tetra Pak plate and create imagery with our shop tools.
Discover the many options cartons from beverage and soup packages offer as a printmaking plate.
Explore the different ways to print your Tetra Pak plate on both a press and by hand.
In this workshop you will:
Learn to create innovative printing plates.
Learn both additive and reductive processes in plate making and ink application.
Learn to use a professional press and print successfully by hand in an Eco and budget friendly manner.
Suitable for all levels of learners.
Class limited to 8 students.
Class held at Asheville Print Studio: Riverview Station - Studio #108, 191 Lyman Street, River Arts District, Asheville, NC
CLASS FEE: $300.00 All materials are included.
GLÁUCIA MIR
Brazillian born mixed media artist Gláucia Mir fell in love with printmaking 6 years ago. Gláucia explores the juxtaposition of city and country, as well as the ways different media play together, letting serendipity and the process of artmaking surprise her.
You can often find Gláucia at local coffee shops, drinking a cortado and urban sketching her food, and the people and places around her. In addition to this daily drawing practice, Gláucia is an arts educator who has taught a wide range of mediums to creatives of all ages.
Gláucia spent her childhood in São Paulo, Brazil and her teens and twenties in New York City. She studied illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology and grew a passion for art and the city. Later, while living in Bucks County, PA, she developed a love of the countryside. Gláucia spent time in Florida raising her boys, and earned a Masters in Art Education from the University of Florida. She now calls Black Mountain, NC home.
To learn more about the artist and their printmaking CLICK HERE.