SummerPrep

Printmaking STudio (New!)

These studio-style classes encourage creativity, craftsmanship, and the joy of seeing each print emerge—similar, yet never exactly the same. Book Arts, Block Printing, and Beautiful Blues may be taken in any sequence, or in conjunction with one another.

Bound to Create: Book Arts
An “art book” reproduces works of art, while an “artist’s book” is a work of art. Book Arts includes papermaking, printmaking, illustration, graphic design, collage, typography, binding, and boxmaking. To make our own artist’s books, we’ll start by choosing a theme—celestial bodies, fruit, letter forms, etc.—and explore it through drawing, relief printmaking, and collage to generate material for “stories.” In the second half of the workshop, we’ll incorporate found or original text, consider sequence and layout, and learn to sew Japanese bindings. Finally, campers will assemble their words and images into one-of-a-kind artist’s books.

Grades: 4 - 8
Session: 1 or 2
Two-period class
Time: Periods 6 AND 7
Tuition: $240, plus $25 activity fee

Block Printing
Explore the possibilities of relief printmaking without a press. First, we’ll develop a “shape vocabulary” from E-Z Cut blocks. We’ll roll these up in black ink, print them using hand-held barens or wooden spoons, then play with colored inks and transparency. Using the same materials and processes, we’ll learn traditional relief printmaking—linocut—by transferring drawings and designs to E-Z Cut blocks, then carving and printing them. Having worked with both graphic (high-contrast) imagery and layered tonal variation, campers will choose which direction to focus on, or experiment with combining the two.

Grades: 4 - 8
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Two-period class
Time: Period 3 AND 4
Tuition: $240, plus $25 activity fee

Beautiful Blues
Create gorgeous blue-scapes or “sun prints.” Cyanotype is an early photographic process famously used for architectural blueprints. We’ll coat paper with a solution of iron salts, then walk the campus to collect treasure: leaves, rocks, cellophane, string, surprises—anything that might block or filter light. We’ll arrange found objects into “negatives” that we’ll expose to UV light and rinse with water to develop images that look like botanical illustrations, textile designs, underwater gardens, and outer space—all in luscious blue and white tones. Campers will take home a portfolio of cyanotype prints.

Grades: 4 - 8
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Two-period class
Time: Period 1 AND 2
Tuition: $240, plus $25 activity fee