Workshops
Students take a deep-dive with master artists in these hands-on, intensive programs. Workshops are scheduled at regular intervals throughout the year.
Beyond the Print: Experimental Approaches to Relief Printmaking
Dates: Oct. 3 - Oct. 4
Instructor: Marilee Salvator
Location: Groundworks MAIN (3750 Canfield St.)
Cost: $325
Ages: 16+
Move beyond the traditional edition and explore experimental approaches to relief printmaking. Learn techniques for transforming prints into one-of-a-kind artworks, layered compositions, installations and collaborations.
Participants will create relief prints while exploring experimental approaches that move beyond the traditional edition. Demonstrations will include modular collaborative prints, wall chine collé installations, modular print construction, and alternative methods for displaying, layering, and transforming prints. Through these techniques, participants will discover new ways to expand relief printmaking into one-of-a-kind artworks, layered compositions, and larger installations.
Note: We will have a lunch break on Saturday and Sunday; please bring your own brown bag lunch for those days.
About the Instructor: Marilee Salvator
Marilee Salvator is an interdisciplinary artist and Professor of Art at Western Kentucky University. She received a BFA in Printmaking from Illinois State University and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of New Mexico. With over twenty years of teaching experience, she enjoys helping artists expand traditional printmaking through experimentation, material exploration, and creative problem-solving. Her work has been exhibited internationally and combines printmaking, sculpture, and installation.
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3-Day Homemaking Gone Awry: Sewn Glass with Susan Taylor Glasgow
Dates: Oct. 24 - Oct. 25
Instructor: Susan Taylor Glasgow
Location: Groundworks MAIN (3750 Canfield St.)
Cost: $400
Ages: 16+
Susan Taylor Glasgow will share her unique style of sewing glass components together to make complex and exciting objects. In this multi-day workshop, students will learn pattern making, and advanced cutting skills*. We'll work with traditional hand glass cutting tools and also glass saws and Dremels, all while building a 3-dimensional house!
*Students need experience with cutting sheet glass.
Note: We will have a lunch break on Saturday and Sunday; please bring your own brown bag lunch for those days.
About the Instructor: Susan Taylor Glasgow
Glasgow grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in Design. Her sculptures are included in the collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, the Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Münich, Germany, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA and the Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ. Susan Taylor-Glasgow lives and works in Columbia, Missouri.
Each sewn glass sculpture starts out as a flat sheet of glass. In her previous life, Glasgow was a professional dressmaker and seamstress, so had created a comfortable understanding about how to take a flat sheet of material and give it form. In her sculptures, each glass panel is cut from a pattern designed to match the form for which it was made. To establish the three-dimensional shape and holes, each section of the glass is kiln-fired several times. The imagery is embedded into the glass by sandblasting, and then by rubbing glass enamels into the blasted area to create the black and gray photo-like quality. The components are then re-fired to 1250 degrees to melt the enamel into the glass. Once cooled, the sections are finally sewn together. Depending on the complexity of the vessel or sculpture, the entire creative process may take two to four weeks to complete.
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