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Instructor: Leslie Giuliani
Monday - Tuesday
June 7 - 8
10am - 4pm
2 sessions on campus

Collagraph - Monotype - Paper Lithography - Relief - Stencils - Masks - Gel Press - Pigment Sticks with Encaustic

In this Workshop, I will go over each method of printmaking and the materials needed for creating repeatable matrices. I will also cover aspects of color mixing and layering to get a luminous, multi-layered print. I will show how two-sided prints can be turned into artist books though various construction methods. Artists will take a day learning the printmaking techniques and creating plates. The following day will be dedicated to printing and/or book construction. We will work on Encaustiflex of varying weights, depending on the chosen process.

Colorful and intricately designed with imagery that combines the light-hearted and the darkly primal characterize Leslie Giuliani's artwork. Her work features a range of old and new textile techniques combining digital embroidery, hand embroidery, digital textile printing, sewing and rug hooking embellished with encaustic painting. Her drawings are interpreted through digital programming and sewing processes. She also uses the homely craft of rug hooking in a nontraditional way. The colors and loops of the cut wool strips become textural building blocks in the design and composition. Giuliani’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. She was a recipient in 2008 of an Artist Fellowship Grant for Craft from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and her work is included in the collections of the state of Connecticut and the Housatonic Museum of Art. She teaches encaustic painting and rug hooking and has written articles on rug hooking for Rug Hooking and Hand/Eye magazines.