Collagraph: Relief printing with improvised forms

In this workshop we will explore how to make prints in relief using inventively any shape that can be glued on a board, inked and pressed on paper. From different stashes of objects and cardboard forms, the students will choose and fashion some to glue on a plate. The tactile assembling of forms to create a printing matrix stimulates at all grade levels the open-ended reflection over what makes a relief print, a patter, a texture; objects from daily use and creative scavenging become images and narratives when composed, inked, and printed. Reflection skills mix with craftmanship to produce always engaging and oftentimes genius compositions.

Program Artist:

Claudio Orso-Giacone