Summer Workshop - Etching without Acid: Monoprint & Drypoint

June 6 – June 29

Etching without Acid:
Monoprint & Drypoint 
Mon/Wed, 1:30pm–4:00pm
VPA 3rd floor MFA area
Riley Brewster

Students will use printmaking as a means of furthering and extending their examination of form and space in nature through directly observed drawing into the more layered and indirect methods of monoprint and drypoint printing. Those participants who are only enrolled in the afternoon class, will be expected to bring their own source material/subject matter to the learning of these printing processes.

Materials: Most of the supplies needed for printing (steel scribes, brayers, inks, solvents, blotters, blankets, newsprint) will be provided. Students will be expected to supply the printing papers as needed as well as zinc etching plates as they are needed- these can be purchased at a bulk rate by the class.

Brewster is offering a 2nd workshop "Drawing from Nature". These two classes are designed as a single and a continuous unit, with each class investigating different processes to express a deepening and a growing relation to a single source. While each workshop may be enrolled in separately, the participation in both will offer a greater reward as well as a DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION of $625.00 for both workshops.

Riley Brewster is a painter who lives in New Haven, Connecticut. He was educated at Bowdoin College, in Maine, and received his MFA in Painting, from Yale University. Brewster has taught at, Hampshire College, The New York Studio School, Dartmouth University, Bowdoin College and The University of Washington, among other institutions. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States- principally on both the East and the West coasts.

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