Instructor: Ruth Trevarrow
September 16 - 20
Monday - Friday
9am - 12pm
5 Sessions

Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm

Relief Printing for Everyone is a week-long class of printmaking techniques you can use at home or in the field. You’ll learn to translate drawings or photographs into line art, transfer art onto a block, carve the block, and print. Through demonstrations, individual practice, and collaborative experiments we will carve three to four blocks using a variety of materials.

We’ll also experiment with different technical approaches like reduction prints and overlapping of transparent inks. You’ll learn about materials, tools, techniques, and artists’ best practices. At the close of the class, you will have made several prints and, most importantly, will be able to continue making prints at home with a few simple tools and without needing a press or studio. The class provides an introduction for those new to relief printmaking and more in-depth instruction for those with some experience.

Ruth Trevarrow has been a printmaker since youth. She has shown widely in group and solo exhibitions in the Washington, DC area. Her most recent exhibition was titled Woodcuts with Joan Mayfield (@mayfieldjoan33), sculptor, at the Athenaeum (Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association). Her most recent print commissions were completed in 2021 for The Potomac Conservancy and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church(fourteen Stations of the Cross.) Ruth’s latest artist’s residency was a collaborative project with Roman printmakers, funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. As a screen-printer and traveling registrar at the Smithsonian Institution, she has taught workshops and classes for museum professionals and the general public over the last two decades.