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Complementary Opposites: Relief
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| Printmaking in Woodcut and Collagraph
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Sat. and Sun.,
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August 27 - 28,
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10 am - 4 pm
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Claudio Orso-Giacone
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| Complementary Opposites: Relief Printmaking in Woodcut and Collagraph |
Instructor: Claudio Orso-Giacone |
| August 27 - 28 |
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Tuition: $175.00 |
- Workshop Description
- Instructor Information
- Class Supplies
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This workshop is as an occasion to explore the visual vocabulary of surface prints, both in the old form of relief carving and in the open lexicon of collaged-material platemaking. A collagraph is a relief print pulled from a "plate" that is made by placing textured materials on a surface. Materials to make a collograph plate can include cardboard, paper, plastic bags, or other materials which are placed on a surface then coated with a thin layer of protective sealant. In these two days of intensive carving, forming, gluing and proofing you will work your drawings and projects to the final printing stage on artist-quality paper. This is a wonderful opportunity to experiment with different dimensional printing techniques with renowned local printmaker and papermaker Claudio Orso.
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Claudio Orso is a printmaker and ceramic sculptor from Turin, Italy, and he has been living in Ohio for the last ten years. He has exhibited across the United States, and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 2004, after which he completed his Master of Fine Arts at Bowling Green State. Zygote Press has been his artistic home, and he has worked there as contract printer and assistant with some of the foreign visiting artists. He was one of two Ohio artists chosen by the OAC in 2007 for the cultural exchange with the city of Dresden, Germany. Early participant to the Ohio Board of Education-sponsored Reggio Emilia study group, he taught art to a very wide range of audiences and academic level, and has a very strong commitment to art practice as a service for the community. Throughout his years in Oberlin he volunteered many sessions in public schools teaching art fundamentals, With the the help of the Nord Family Foundation ArtZreach he created a project of art practice and education at the Lorain County Juvenile Detention Home and he started and laid the foundations for the Big Parade. Orso was one of the first resident artists at the Morgan Conservatory and Art of Papermaking in Cleveland and continues to work on developing the practice of papermaking as a pedagogical tool. He is married to artist and Oberlin College Cinema Studies Chair Rian Brown and they have Paolo and Arturo to keep a generational mirror on them. His website is .
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Student Material List:
- Lunch and beverage
- Drawings
- Drawing materials (pens, pencils, markers, etc.)
- Large Glue Gun with Glue Sticks
- Exacto Knife with Blades
- Materials for creating textured surfaces such as adhesive tapes, fabrics, cheesecloth, plant material, aluminum foil, very thin found objects
Optional:
- An apron to protect your clothing from ink
- Rubber or latex gloves to protect your hands from ink
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