FALL PRINTMAKING CLASSES at ABRAZOS PRESS starting in early October..Come and get inky!
annie silverman
FALL into PRINTMAKING! Classes starting THE First week of October
Scroll down to see basic info for classes and workshops, registration information, and Annie Silverman’s bio.
CLASSES
THE LAYERED PRINT (Live in the Layers, not in the litter — inspired by a Stanley Kunitz poem!)
DATES: 9 tuesday evenings — October 6, 13, 20, 27,November 3,10,17.December1,8
TIME: 6:00–9:30 PM
Cost: $585 (PLUS $15 MATERIALS FEE)
Join Annie as she demonstrates methods for creating richly layered prints using intricate palettes of textures and colors. Several relief printmaking techniques will be taught. Along with simple collagraph plates, printing from TETRA PAKS (the silver inside of oat milk or chicken soup boxes!) the use of stencils and masks, chine collé: simultaneous collage and printmaking will be taught. Woodcut or linoleum carving can also occur. This is truly a MIXED MEDIA printmaking experience. Students can try various techniques. Annie will demonstrate the range of choices and show prints created with these techniques and people can choose what is the most compelling. It’s a very individualized setting, so with patience, everyone might very well be doing different things!
IMPROVISATIONAL WOODCUT — like Jazz, but with sharp tools and ink and !!!!options for Layered Print techniques (see above descriptioN)
9 sessions
DATES:THURSDAY MORNINGS — October 8,15,22,29,November 5,12,19,December 3,10
TIME: 10:00 am – 1:30 pm
Cost: $595
Improvisational woodcut: The most ancient printmaking technique honors the hand, the mark and the constructive/destruction of wood. Transformation occurs as wood block surfaces are carved, scratched or abraded. Each block becomes a layer of information that can be combined with other blocks, stencils and masks to yield unique, contemporary results. Tool maintenance and sharpening, ink application and modification, image transfer and other techniques will be addressed. Improvisational woodcut can have the immediacy of collage, yet with the possibility of work in a series, for which printmaking is ideal. Students will need to have woodcut tools and can buy wood in class at cost from instructor.
BASIC INFO FOR CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
Class Size: Classes are limited to 4 people. Beginners welcome!
Transportation: There is ample parking at the Miller St. Studio building where ABRAZOS PRESS is located. The studio is also a 10 minute walk from the Porter Sq. T station on the Red Line.
Registration:
To secure your spot, send an email of intent to silverm...@gmail.com and mail a $50.00 deposit t to Annie Silverman to:
Annie Silverman ABRAZOS PRESS 11 MILLER ST. Somerville, MA 02143
* I also have electronic transfer through ZELLE (ANN SILVERMAN) AND PAYPAL (617-519-8970 or silverm...@gmail.com)
Questions?
Please contact me at silverm...@gmail.com with your questions.
ABOUT ANNIE SILVERMAN
Annie Silverman is an experienced teacher and print maker who is the proprietor of Abrazos Press in Somerville, MA. Her books and prints have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally,most recently in Havana,Cuba, and Northampton,MA. Her work is in the the collection of the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library and the De Cordova Museum. She was a part-time lecturer in Artists’ Books and Printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design for over 15 years. In 2022 and 2023 her work was included in THE PAPER BOAT FLOTILLA, a project from the Los Angeles Printmaking Society that traveled to the Venice Bienniale and to Havana, Cuba. In May 2019 Annie taught Master Classes in polyester plate lithography in Denmark. Her work was included in the Boston Printmakers NORTH AMERICAN Biennial Exhibition in, 2023, 2019, and 2017. During the first summer of COVID in 2020, Annie was in NEW YORK CITY ‘S International Print Center’s Summer Show. Also during Covid Annie participated in the international Phoenix Art and culture project (www.visionlabcollective.com), and the Marking Lives COVID project, which was exhibited at the BROAD INSTITUTE at MIT in Cambridge, MA. She was recently interviewed for the podcast, FAINHOUSE RADIO, and her episode 18 can be found on INSTAGRAM on FAIN HOUSE radio.
Over the past few years she has written articles for PRESSING MATTERS, a British Printmaking Publication and has had her prints published in THE HAND MAGAZINE.
