March 24th - March 27th, 2010
Date: Monday March 22nd, through Friday, March 26th, 2010
Time: Visitors are welcome mornings 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St. )
Semographics Collaboration Projects are week-long team collaborations in the medium of screen-printing and relief involving a group of ten artists who come prepared to collaborate on producing serigraphic monotypes. The artists will commence the production on Monday morning, March 22nd, and continue through Friday, March.26th. In one drying rack, the Neutral Zone, all of the 'in progress' prints. are kept for anyone of the artists to embellish. In another drying rack, the Safe Zone, are impressions that anyone deems potentially 'finished'. Each day, there is a discussion to decide if the images in the safe zone are indeed finished. If there is not a unanimous yes for an image, work continues on the print.
Demonstrator: Tim High, Chair
Assoc. Professor, Printmaking, University of Texas at Austin
Demonstrator: Stephanie Hunder, Chair
Assoc. Professor, Printmaking & Digital Media, Concordia University, Saint Paul MN
Semographics II Artists:
Sandra Fernandez, Austin, TX - (University of Texas at Austin)
Tim High, Austin, TX - (University of Texas at Austin)
Catherine Kernan, Mixit Print Studio, Somerville, Massachusetts.
Stephanie Hunder, St. Paul, MN - (Concordia University, St. Paul, MN)
Brian Johnson, San Marcos, TX - (Texas State University)
Lynwood Kreneck, Lubbock, TX - (Professor Emeritus. Texas Tech University)
Kathryn Maxwell. Tempe, AZ - (Arizona State University - Tempe)
Bradlee Shanks, Tampa, FL - (University of South Florida
Justin Strom, College Park, MD - (University of Maryland - College Park)
Hui-Chu Ying, Akron, OH - (University of Akron)
Democratic Down N’ Dirty DIY Screenprinting
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Location: UArts, Gershman Hall. (401 S. Broad Street)
Bring a shirt! Bring some prints! Screenprint! Wheatpaste! Learn some quick and easy tricks to make your art practice less intimidating, less time consuming and less expensive! Matt Neff from University of Pennsylvania and Greg Pizzoli from The University of the Arts will work with participants to show how using alternative screenprinting techniques and materials can allow for greater experimentation and more fun. Participate by wheat-pasting onto a collaborative print wall. Pick a design and have it printed on tees or bags. Bring a blank tee shirt and a sense of adventure. Let the ink flow and your mind will follow.
Demonstrator: J. Greg Pizzoli
Lecturer, Printmaking/ Book Arts, The University of the Arts
Demonstrator: Matt Neff
Lecturer, Printmaking, Manager, Common Press and Print Shop, University of Pennsylvania
Intaglio: Viscosity Color Printing - Single Plate/ Multiple Colors
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)
This demonstration will pay homage to methods pioneered by Stanley William Hayter. Ink viscosities (degrees or amounts of plate oil) and the use of rollers with different durometers enable multi-color printing from one plate. The printing demonstrations will include a brief discussion on ways of etching the intaglio plate to have a surface configuration that will enable viscosity color printing.
Demonstrator: Tony Rosati
Professor, Printmaking Department, PAFA, Chairperson, Printmaking
Relief: Spooning Large Format Woodcuts
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)
Large format images are possible with most relief printmaking methods, especially woodcuts. Printing by friction or spooning the images is a traditional hand-printing method that can enable the printing of very large images. The method eliminates both the need for a press and the possibility of cracking or breaking the block. Spooning also enables the printing of uneven and unusually shaped matrix surfaces. The demonstration will include both black and white and color spooning methods. The presentation will address a variety of technical concerns associated with spooning with a focus on the array of subtle tonal and chromatic nuances.
Demonstrator: Dan Miller
Professor, Printmaking Department, PAFA, Chairperson, MFA Program
Printing with Pulp: Veil Layers and Editioning
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: UArts, Anderson Hall, Papermaking Studio. (333 South Broad St.)
Papermaking can be an integral part of the printmaking process. Using veil layers of pigmented pulp in conjunction with a variety of stencils and resists, Robin and Tasillo will demonstrate techniques for editioning imagery in handmade paper, resulting in either print editions constructed entirely from pulp or layered papers for printing with other media. Learn registration techniques specific to papermaking and discuss fiber selection and additives for printing on papers with relief, intaglio, non-silver, and digital processes.
Demonstrator: Mary Tasillo
Papermaker, Book Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Demonstrator: Erin Tohill Robin
Papermaker, Printmaker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Printing and Binding an Offset Artist’s Book
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: UArts, Anderson Hall, 9th floor, Borowsky Center for Publication Arts & 6th floor bindery. (333 S. Broad St.)
Following the tradition of Eugene Feldmen who used the press as his "paintbrush", Master Printer Lori Spencer will demonstrate the art of printing on the KORS Heidelberg Offset press in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts. Professor Spencer will produce printed sheets that can become a book or a book-like structure. Every round of demonstration will add a new color/layer/image to the printed sheets. Participants have the opportunity to take a sheet "hot off the press" and proceed to a bindery demonstration that will walk them through folding the sheet into a book.
Demonstrator: Lori Spencer
Chair, Printmaking, Master Printer, the Borowsky Center, The University of the Arts
Demonstrator: Amanda D'Amico
Supervisor of the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, The University of the Arts
Lithography: Electric Press and Large Format Printing Techniques
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)
Demonstrations will employ the Tackach 3450 motorized lithography press and will detail the ease of printing as well as the accuracy and elimination of possible hand-crank marks in ink film. The presentation will include a technique that combines the use of a leather roller with a large diameter composition roller for image maintenance and printing efficiency. The use of a punch/button print registration system with aluminum plates and the use of the push bar to prevent “push” in the ink film will also be shown. Other specifics are associated with the safety and operational functions of the press.
Demonstrator: Ron Wyffels
Associate Professor, Printmaking Department, PAFA
The Drum Leaf or How To Make an Artist’s Book That Accommodates (Nearly) Every Print Technique Ever
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)
The Drum Leaf is a binding that requires no sewing and only minimal glue yet creates a tight, reliable book. Unlike the concertina, pamphlet or stab-binding, the Drum Leaf adheres to a format that resembles a traditional codex. The end result allows for every folio to open as a full-page spread. It presents a page structure that is malleable, and allows for foldouts and pop-ups. The Demonstration will include a brief history of the binding and its variations, a discussion on its suitability to all (or nearly all) traditional and contemporary print techniques, and an extensive hands-on demonstration of the binding.
Demonstrator: Joseph Lappie
Visiting Assistant Professor in Book Arts & Printmaking at St. Ambrose University
EXPERIMENTAL BROADSIDES ON THE VANDERCOOK PRESS
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: UArts, Anderson Hall, room 605, Letterpress studio. (333 South Broad St.)
Using the theme Building Community this demonstration will utilize The University of the Arts' extensive collection of antique wood type to print broadsides on a Vandercook proofing press. There will be a brief discussion around the historical significance of humorous and nonsensical broadsides as a tool for delivering information. We will take an experimental approach when working on press using various images and substrates. Antique photo copperplates, pressure prints, type and ornaments will be layered onto paper, chipboard, fabric, and canvas. The goal will be for Everyone to participate, and to leave with a print. (or two).
Demonstrator: Bobby Rosenstock
Resides in Marietta, Ohio where he runs his letterpress shop, Just A Jar Press
Demonstrator: Erin Sweeney
Resides in Peterborough, New Hampshire where she offers workshops in her studio at Lovely in the Home Press
Animated Prints
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: UArts, Anderson Hall, 5th floor printmaking studios. (333 South Broad St.)
This demonstration will offer the audience the opportunity to experience monotype as animation. While an exchange animation instructor at the University of the Arts in the spring of 2009 Ms. Fouquet studied etching and monotype in the Printmaking studios and used her prints to create animations. She also encouraged animation and printmaking majors to collaborate. Professor Fouquet will share with the participants several examples of professional and student printmaking/ animation projects and will demonstrate some of the techniques she uses in her own work.
Demonstrator: Claire Fouquet
animation instructor, EESI, France
Japanese Stab Binding
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM & 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Moore College of Art & Design, Binding: Room 234. (20th Street & the Parkway)
The Japanese (stab) binding is one of the most elegant yet misunderstood bindings. This demonstration will look at the structure in detail, discussing techniques and materials needed to achieve the inherent grace of this binding. We will also discuss the relationship between content and structure as it relates to artist's books.
Demonstrator: Tara O'Brien
Director of Conservation, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Adjunct Lecturer, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
Demonstrator: Melanie Mowinski
Book Artist
Non-Toxic Electro-Etching
Using Traditional and Digital Intaglio Techniques
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St. )
Pussycat Press master printers Mike McMann and Jason Scuilla will demonstrate an electrolytic etching system using readily available, inexpensive equipment, a non-toxic solution and low voltage electricity. Electro-etching is the safe removal of metal from the exposed plate surface. Building on the research of Nik Semenoff, Cedric Green, and Stanley William Hayter, the two printers will explore the pos¬sibilities of various traditional and contemporary intaglio techniques including, conventional and acrylic grounds, open-bite, aquatint, and digital applications. The session will include a discussion of equipment and setup options as the participants are taken through this innovative plate making process.
Demonstrator: Jason Scuilla
Assitant Professor of Art, Kansas State University
Demonstrator: Mike McMann
Assistant Professor of Art, Kansas State Universit
The Hectograph Revisited / Gelatin Printing
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Rm. 250, Litho Room. (2001 N. 13th St. )
Gelatin printing was the Hectograph of the mid 1900s, used by teachers to make copies. Today it is a printmaking plate with no press needed. It is versatile, and uses a full complement of print language and color. Materials clean up with water and archival printmaking papers are used. Demonstrators will print from clear gelatin with a prior embedded image. Demo participants have the opportunity to respond to the embedded image, work on the gelatin surface, make their own mark, ( or more appropriately, Remarque) and pull and take a print away with them.
Demonstrator: Shelley Thorstensen
Adjunct / Printmaking Mulhenberg College, Allentown PA
Demonstrator: Wendy Osterweil
Assistant Professor in the Art and Art Education Department at Tyler School of Art/Temple University
Japanese Style Water-Based Printing (Moku Hanga)
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM & 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: Moore College of Art & Design, Room 610, the print shop. (20th Street & the Parkway)
Become acquainted with the tools and materials associated with the traditional Japanese techniques of carving and printing. Participants will have the opportunity to watch a demonstration that will introduce kento registration and a traditional carving sequence. Observe water-based inking and hand printing of multiple blocks using a baren. An international exhibition of exchange prints in this technique will be on display along with examples of other work in this technique.
Demonstrator: Katie Baldwin
Pirntmaker and Book Artist, Faculty, Moore College of Art
Demonstrator: Daniel Heyman
Artist who teaches printmaking at RISD, Princeton University and Swarthmore College
Alternative Approach Relief Printing,Etching Studio
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Etching Studio. (2001 N. 13th St. )
This demonstration will focus on Alternative Approaches to Relief Printmaking, using uneven pressure to produce beautiful, spontaneous, and multi-layered prints. A process relief” will be the core of this demonstration. This process, using matrices carved out of mat board produces soft, diffused images that are very different from the graphic marks that relief printmaking is known for. Participants will discover a range of possibilities while learning how to approach relief printmaking from a fresh, new perspective to compose rich, layered prints.
Demonstrator: Monika Meler
Printmaking area head & assistant professor of art, Wichita State University in Kansas
The Monolith Meets the Microchip: Stone Lithography Becomes Digital Lithography
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM (continuous on the hour and half hour)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St. )
For the first time since lithography was invented in 1798, the artist may now personally coat a lithographic stone with a high quality positive photo coating to combine hand drawing with digital images. Delicate graphite drawings on Mylar, reticulated wash drawings on film, four color separations and Adobe Photoshop generated film positives can be exposed to the stone. Artists may add hand drawing at any time to the 'photo' images using traditional drawing materials. The developer is aqueous based and simple to use. Dwight Pogue and Mark Zunino look forward to showing printmakers how to use low-tech to produce high definition digital lithographs.
Demonstrator: Dwight Pogue
Art Department, Smith College, Massachusetts
Demonstrator: Mark Zunino
"SHOW N' TELL" - SEMOGRAPHICS II Monotypes
SEMOGRAPHICS II: Team Presentation, Leonard Lehrer, moderator
Date: Friday, March 26th, 2010
Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St. )
The Semiographics team with Leonard Lehrer will make themselves available for a Show N Tell presentation on the resulting prints of the five day monoprint marathon.