OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

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SUMMER 2008 WORKSHOPS - PRINTMAKING

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

Anne Gilman

Printmaking 08

Mixed Media Monoprints: Jana Harper

June 30 - July 4
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355 + $40 Lab Fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

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In this course we will use a variety of non-traditional methods in order to create a variable edition of monoprints. Techniques will include pronto and sintra plates, stencils, relief, chine collé, and pressure prints on the Vandercook. Students will be encouraged to develop a palette of plates to experiment with. By arranging and rearranging the order in which they are printed and playing with varying layers of transparency we will come away with a suite of 15-30 finished prints. (Students should bring previously developed plates, unfinished prints, and Xeroxes of images they want to work with.)

Jana Harper teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from Arizona State University and was in the Core Student Fellowship Program at the Penland School of Crafts. Jana's prints and book works have been shown locally, nationally, and internationally. She likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.

Mixed Media Intaglio Printmaking: Anne Gilman

July 7 - 11
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355 + $40 lab fee
Pamet Crossing
for academic
credit $430 + lab fee

This workshop offers artists a variety of ways to explore printmaking including editioned, one-of-a-kind and mixed media prints. Techniques covered will range from line etching, and dry-point to the painterly possibilities of prints made from lift-ground and toner wash drawings. Experimentation will be encouraged along with discussions on using technique to strengthen each artist's vision. Group and individualized instruction allow for all levels of experience from beginner to the more advanced printmaker. Optional techniques may include crayon resist drawing, soft ground etching, transfer printmaking processes, chine collé, and surface rubbings. Examples of all processes will be shown to help students decide which technique best suits their way of working.

Anne Gilman has had her work exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Recent exhibitions include "(un)Contained Vessels" at the Center For Book Arts in NYC (2007), "Action/Interaction" at Columbia College in Chicago (2007), "Art that matters: When politics gets personal" at the Lubeznik Center in Michigan City, Indiana (2006), "La Huella Multiple" in Havana (2006), "New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York" in Paris and New York (2005), "The Missing Link" in Berlin (2005), and "Insufficient Protection" (one-person show) in Havana (2004). Current and upcoming exhibitions include "Play" at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn (2007-2008), and a two-person show in Utica, NY (2008). Publications include Gilman's artist book, Bordes deshilachados/Frayed Edges, released by Ediciones Vigia, in Mantazas, Cuba (2001), and the zines Nishtugadacht, Contra el mal de ojo and Don't Lose Heart released by ISCA as part of their book-works series. Her work has been included in Monoprinting, Printmaking For Beginners, and Handmade Prints, all published by A & C Black Ltd, London, and reviewed in Printmaking Today, the New York Times, La Jiribilla, Mural, Público, and El Infomador. Anne Gilman's installations "War ad infinitum" and "All George Bush's horses and all George Bush's men couldn't put the world back together again" were discussed in an interview on Cuban national television following her exhibition in Havana in 2004. In April 2006 she was the subject of an interview, "Artists on Writers," appearing in KGBBarLit online.

Provincetown White Line Woodcut: Ed Crane

July 7 - 11
Mon - Fri
1 - 4PM
5 Sessions $355
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430

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Early twentieth century Provincetown artists invented a unique American art form, and created original works of art that have stood the test of time - and so can you! Essentially using the same basic materials the class will follow in their footsteps (and make a few trails of our own). Beginning with the early Provincetown Printers, we will survey the origin and history of this unique American art form. Step-by-step, the class will review materials and tools, assist in creating images on blocks (or transferring drawings), cutting blocks, registration of prints, printing onto various types of papers, and preserving blocks for future printing.

Ed Crane (BFA, Emerson College) is an artist and an actor. Largely a self-taught visual artist, he began taking classes here at Castle Hill in Truro, continuing on at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Shortly afterwards he had his first solo show at the Provincetown Group Gallery in 1996, and has continuously shown in Provincetown and Truro at several venues including the School House Gallery, Cortland Jessup Gallery and at the Julie Heller Gallery, where he has shown his work for the last five years. He has also shown his work in solo and group shows in Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, and Rockport, Massachusetts, as well as the Sakai Gallery in Osaka, Japan. He studied acting at HB Studios in New York. He appeared in Israel Horvitz's LINE in NYC for 6 months. On the Outer Cape he has performed with the Provincetown Theatre Company, at Payomet Theatre in Truro, and on WOMR. Ed teaches acting in Boston.

Plate Lithography: Melissa Haviland

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355 + lab fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430
+ materials

Register
This summer spend an intense week learning Plate Lithography. Lithography is a rich, drawing-based printmaking technique. A mixture of meditation and magic, this technique allows you to bring another life to your drawings in the form of fine art prints. You will learn to draw on and process lithographic plates, treat the inks and papers, and to print the plates with an intaglio/relief press, a specialized process. Each student will receive an exchange portfolio of prints at the close of the course. This course is perfect for beginning printmakers who love to draw.

Melissa Haviland received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BFA from Illinois State University. Between undergraduate and graduate school she was an intern at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. Currently she is teaching at Ohio University in Athens. Melissa has been an art educator for five years, teaching at a variety of institutions. Melissa has shown in solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally. Her artwork is an examination of her roles as a woman in American society. She celebrates and explores ritual and pattern in cultural practices to highlight them, to expose her frustrations with the pre-written scripts within them. Though she is, by nature, a printmaker (i.e. she craves the multiple, process and organization), she creates work from textiles, food-especially sweets, performance, sculptural or drawing materials, as well as ink and paper. See Melissa's work at www.melissahaviland.com

Vitreography: The Art of Printing from Glass: Judith O’Rourke

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $355
+ lab fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430 + Lab Fee

Master Printer from Littleton Studios, Judith O'Rourke, will teach this Introduction to Vitreography, two different methods of printing from glass plates. Students will create an intaglio print by abrading the glass surface with diamond points, honing tools and etching paste. In another printing process, students will create a form of waterless lithography on glass using water-soluble drawing and painting materials. Students can then combine both techniques within the same print.

Judith O’Rourke has been master printer at Littleton Studios for eighteen years. Her job involves collaborating with artists from the United States and abroad to produce vitreograph prints. She has worked with artists as varied as glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, Janus Press founder Claire Van Vliet, Czech glass master Stanislav Libensky, Italian abstractionist Emilio Vedova,Wisconsin surrealist John Wilde, and the founder of Littleton Studios, Harvey Littleton. O'Rourke has a bachelor of science in art from Southern Connecticut University and a Master of Fine Art degree from University of Texas-Austin. She also studied intaglio printing in Florence, Italy. O'Rourke began exhibiting her work has an impressive record of 100 exhibitions, including 11 solo shows. Her work is included in numberous collections, among them the University of Texas-Austin, Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; Old Dominion University, Norfolk,Virginia; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Japanese Woodcut: Daniel Heyman

July 21 - 25
Mon – Fri
9am – noon
5 Sessions $355
+ $70 Materials fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430
+ Materials fee

Japanese woodcut daniel heyman
Printmaking doesn't get any more elegant than hand-printed Japanese woodblocks prints. But it doesn't get any more fun either, as you will experience in this fast paced course. Japanese printmakers believe that they only create half an image; the other half is brought to them by the wood itself. In this course, we learn all the basic steps of Japanese watercolor woodblock printmaking, or mucha hanga. Starting with their own full color designs, students will learn to transfer an image to the woodblocks, make color separations, carve printing blocks, ink blocks for a full range of color possibilities (a whole world of discovery in itself), and pull print after print in perfect registration. As an added benefit, this method of making prints needs no press, and involves no toxic materials, making it easy to continue making prints anywhere after your week at Castle Hill. Note: There will be a materials fee that will cover the cost of woodblocks and ample Japanese washi printing paper. Carving tools, an inking brush, and a Japanese barren will be available for use for each student.

Daniel Heyman was educated in Art and French at Dartmouth College, and received a Dartmouth-Reynolds International Fellowship in 1986 to conduct research and paint in France where he lived for two years. He earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and has been a resident artist at Millay, MacDowell, and Yaddo art colonies. As an invited artist-resident at the Nagasawa Art Park on Awaji Island in Japan, and in a studio surrounded by bamboo forests and rice paddies, Heyman was trained by Japanese master craftsmen in the art of Japanese woodblock printmaking in 2002. His work is in many public collections including the Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He has taught at a variety of university art schools since the mid 1990's, and currently teaches printmaking at Swarthmore College and the Rhode Island School of Design. Mike Millard of Boston's The Phoenix noted about Heyman's work, "His paintings and prints are suffused with a quiet dignity and pained outrage."

Daniel Heyman will discuss his own work making portraits of Iraqi torture victims as personal political statements and as part of a long tradition of print makers who chose to record the wars of their times in their art as part of the Tuesday Evening Series on July 22 at 8pm at the Wellfleet Public Library.
www.danielheyman.com

Carborundum Collograph: Dorothy Cochran

July 28 -August 1
Mon – Thurs
9am - 1pm
4 Sessions $355
+$35 lab fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

Carborundum offers the experienced and novice artist/printmaker easy access to printmaking. It is non-toxic and uses platemaking materials that are widely available and inexpensive. This painterly approach uses the paste method (a mixture of carborundum grits and polymer medium) on plexiglass and other plastic substrates for rich, velvety blacks and subtle tonal areas that simulate aquatint. Combining other collagraph techniques such as glue, gesso and fabric, yields a rich mixed media surface from which to print. Linear elements can be added with a drypoint scribe or machine tools such as an electric engraver or Dremel. Guided experiments using single and multiple color plates, relief rolling, ghosting and monoprinting will be part of the workshop experience.

Dorothy Cochran has an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and exhibits her prints nationally. A two time recipient of a NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship, she has taught at Columbia and CUNY and has collaborated on printmaking projects with Bob Blackburn, John Ross and Kathy Caraccio. Her work is in the collections of MOMA. the National Gallery, the New York Public Library and many corporations. A recent solo exhibition took place at Uma Gallery on 57th Street New York City. See Dorothy’s work at www.dorothycochran.com

Clay Printing: Mitch Lyons

August 11 - 15
Mon – Fri
12:30 - 4:30pm
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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Printing with colored clay is a new and revolutionary printing process that uses colored clay slips applied to a wet slab of clay (printing plate), rolled with a wooden rolling pin(press) which removes a thin layer of clay from the matrix (clay monoprint). Many monoprints can be pulled from the slab without recharging the plate. Mitch will demonstrate his unique printing process, and show slides of the (history) of clayprinting during the 5-day workshop. This awesome process will liberate your senses, while developing your ability to make strong intuitive decisions about your work. Get ready to combine clay and print in a very unique way.

Mitch Lyons received his B.F.A. degree in Graphics from the University of the Arts and his M.F.A. in Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. After some years of research, be began to combine his two interests - clay and printmaking. His work can be found in numerous collections throughout the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, American University, West Chester University, West Bend Museum, and the Noyes Museum of Art as well as in many corporate and private collections. He has led over 100 workshops in schools and art centers across the country, including Alfred University, University of Delaware, University of Florida in Gainesville, Touchstone, Peter's Valley and Haystack in Maine. www.mitchlyons.com

Reduction Woodcut Master Class: Don Gorvett

August 11 - 15
Monday - Friday
9am - Noon (Instruction)
Open studio,
Noon - 4pm
5 sessions $400 + $35 Lab fee
Pamet Crossing
for academic
credit $475 + lab fee

The workshop will focus on the design and creation of a multicolor woodcut. Through a series of lectures and demonstrations, participants will explore image planning, block cutting, registration and printing techniques. Personal approaches to design, color planning, and printing variation will be an integral part of the process.

Don Gorvett is a graduate of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and has been a long time resident of Gloucester, MA. He currently resides in Ogunquit, ME and operates Piscataqua Fine Arts Gallery and Printmaking Studio on Ceres Street in Portsmouth, NH. He is also a board member of the Boston Printmakers. He is widely recognized for his work in the reduction woodcut technique, and has exhibited his prints regionally, nationally, and internationally. His work may be found in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, the Currier Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and the Cape Ann Historical Museum. He is represented locally by Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown.

Landscape Painting into Monotype: Eileen Wagner

August 18 - 22
Mon – Fri
9am - Noon
5 sessions, $355
$35 Lab Fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

In this class, students begin by painting outside in the landscape, "plein aire". Concepts such as composition, color, layering paint and atmospheric perspective will be discussed. After 2 days outside, students will then bring their visual ideas from the landscape into the studio to work on monoprints. The landscapes will be a starting point from which to work on the immediate and spontaneous medium of monoprinting. Several monoprinting techniques will be introduced, and students will be encouraged to experiment with the medium. They can work with the landscape subject matter developed outside, or create new imagery altogether. Group and individual critiques of work in progress will aid students in learning techniques and developing their own visual vocabulary. This intensive 5 day workshop is suitable for both the beginner as well as the advanced art student and will culminate in creating a range of work.

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