Instructor: Stephanie Stigliano
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
June 17 - 21
9am- 1pm
4 sessions
Open Studio: Mon - Tue & Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
Imagine putting an inked collage through the press; that is collograph printing. In carborundum collograph you make your own printing plate by mixing the sand with acrylic gel medium and painting it onto plastic or cardboard. The gritty mixture accepts ink very well. This method provides a variety of magical effects, high contrast or shades of gray. You can achieve the softness of an aquatint etching or the graphic impact of a relief print; you can use a brush to achieve gestural marks or to soften the edges of forms. With sharp tools you can scrape into the plate to add detailed lines similar to drypoint. We will experiment with other monotype methods, too. During the workshop you will build a colorful series of related prints. Beginners and experienced artists are welcome.
The prints and artist books of Stephanie Stigliano are in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts. Her books were included in Building Books, exhibited at the University of Southern Maine in Portland and Art and Poetic Text at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Yarmouth, MA. She exhibited her prints at Íslensk Grafík, Reykjavik, Iceland. At the Edge of the Ocean, a collaboration among Stigliano, nine other artists, and one poet, was recently exhibited at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. Four Women for Freedom, her collaboration with three other artists, was exhibited in 2023 at the 30th anniversary of the Book Arts Museum in Łodz, Poland and is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. She is a professor at Boston College where she teaches Making Prints/Making Books. A longtime member of The Boston Printmakers, she has served on the board and as editor of The Quarterly and Member News. She is a co-founder of New England Book Artists.
http://stephaniemahanstigliano.com
@stephaniestigliano