Printmaking Workshop
with LISA MACKIE
Saturday & Sunday, August 8-9, 9 am – 5 pm
STUDIO 7
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts
181 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT
Silk Collagraph Prints with Akua Inks in the Style of Emily Mason
Join Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts on Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9, 9am-5pm at Studio 7 for a Workshop on Making Silk Collagraph Prints with Akua Inks in the Style of Emily Mason. Lisa Mackie was Emily Mason’s favorite printer. They worked together for many years. Mackie was responsible for Mason creating some of her most experimental, iconic monotypes and monoprints. The Akua printmaking inks are soy based and can be washed off with water and soap for easy clean up. This is a great substitute for traditional oil-based printmaking inks. The intense colors wipe smoothly like oil base creating deep rich values and plate tones. Akua etching inks are ideal for Intaglio/Etching, Monotype, Gel and Collagraph printmaking. Bring your drawings, collages, prints, photo ideas, etc.
On the second day we will explore printing the prepared painted surface. Working from dark to light using using a range of rollers and wiping tools we can create subtle tones and blended colors/values à la Emily Mason’s rich and chine colléd collage monoprints. Often, by staying with the same plate and reactivating the ghost image, amazing second prints will result. The class will have the opportunity to view work by Emily Mason and Lisa Mackie as well as other artists working in these types of printmaking techniques. Much more information will be presented that will inform the student’s future prints.
Layered Prints: Collagraphs, Found Objects and Chine Collé
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 8-9, 9-5, with a lunch break
Location: Studio 7, 181 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont, downstairs from Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts
Cost: $300 for 2 days and $25 for materials
Contact: Call 802.251.8290 for more information and to reserve your space by July 31.
If Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts cancels a workshop, participants will receive a full refund. Decisions to cancel a workshop will be made no later than one week before the workshop date.
Students may cancel up to one week before the workshop date for full refund minus $30 administration fee. If a participant cancels less that one week before the workshop date, there will be no refund.
Emily Mason, Untitled Abstraction, 1992, silk collagraph monoprint with chine collé and acrylic on paper
Helen Schmidt
Lisa Mackie is the proprietor of Lisa H. Mackie Studios, an open, contract, fine art print shop established in NYC, 1990. Lisa is a Master Printer with 40 years experience in lithography, intagilo etching, silkscreen, monotyupe/print, multiplate color printmaking, photo/print processes including Solar Plates, photo litho, Pronto Plate and printing from a Xerox Copy, also Western and Asian paper-making.
She has a BFA and MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. Her clients include artists such as Marylyn Dintenfass, Amy Ernst, Grace Hartigan, Katherine Kadish, Wolf Kahn, Sol Lewitt, Emily Mason and Marianne Weil. Lisa’s New York City print Studio is sunny and fully equipped with a 36×60 Charles Brand Etching Press, Asian Papermaking facilities, and plate and stone lithography.
Her Studio is very private, and completely catered to your artistic and printmaking desires. Artist residency and private lesson are are also available.
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts curates a diverse collection of innovative works that stimulate the seasoned collector and aesthetic explorer.